Tournament: greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: holy cross tl | Judge: fakorede
Our assertion of our Native American legacy is the process of decolonizing our community. Learning from the relationship to land is a crucial education that must resonate throughout the community.
Lyons, 2K (Ojibwe/Mdewakanton Dakota) PH.D in rhetoric from Miami University, He holds a joint appointment in the departments of American Culture and English Language and Literature @ University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous articles on Native American studies. (Scott Richard, Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?, February, College Composition and Communication © 2000 National Council of Teachers of English)
The discourse mystifies the violence that occurs against Native populations everyday.
Churchill 96 (Ward Churchill, Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado Boulder, Masters in Communication at Sangamon State, From a Native Son, pp. 520-30, 1996)
Rifkin 9 (Mark Rifkin, Assistant Professor in the English Department of University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His research focuses on U.S. imperial and racial formations, particularly in the nineteenth century. Previously, he has taught at Skidmore College, University of Chicago, Fordham University, and the University of Pennsylvania, and his articles have appeared in American Quarterly, American Literature, American Indian Quarterly, boundary 2, GLQ, differences, Arizona Quarterly, and Cultural Critique., “Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space” Copyright a 2009 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016)
Maldonado-Toress 8 Nelson Maldonado-Torres is an associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers. Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, p. 217-21. 2008.
Meister, 11 (Robert Meister, prof of Social and Political Thought @ UC Santa Cruz, After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights, p. google books, note: ev is gender-modified)
