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As Introduced by Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill
Presented by:
Cassidi Kennedy
Settler Colonialism is often thought of as an event in American history, however it is actually a construct that still influences Indigenous peoples.
Heteropatriarchy refers to the male/female binary of colonial standards which differentiates a woman and a man based on European notions of gender roles and ideologies.
The American ideology regarding colonialism as an event of the past has negatively affected Indigenous sovereignty, relation to land, indigenous feminism, academic and public representations, appropriation, and imposed gender roles.
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Misrepresentations in media, film, academia, literature, and television as a result of conditioned colonialism and misinformation.
Indigenous representation in the video game Killer Instinct
Ashinaabe writer Ali Nahdee created the Aila Test to determine the quality of indigenous representations, particularly for women
The Criteria:
1.) Is she an Indigenous woman and a main character?
2.) Who does not fall in love with a white man?
3.) And does not end up murdered or raped at any point?
*The Aila Test helps to identify positive representations of Indigenous women.
* Video game Assassins Creed consulted Mohawk tribal member Thomas Deer to adequately portray Indigenous representation.
* Pictured to the right is the movie Rhymes for Young Ghouls which appropriately depicts contemporary Indigenous reawlities without exploiting the culture.
T.V. show
Yellowstone
Paramount Network features a popular television series called Yellowstone where the emphasis is on a land battle between ranchers and Indigenous peoples.
Crow Nation chairsman AJ Not Afraid allowed the filming to take place on his reservation and praised the show for its accurate and honest depiction of contemporary Native Americans.
Additionally, the show consulted composer Brian Tyler, who perfomed in a Native music group to further add to the authenticity of the shows portrayal of contemporary Indigenous culture.
An Indigenous musical group
Braiding Sweetgrass
Kimmerer addresses solutions to the issue of problematizing settler colonialism and heteropatriarchy in her book.
"The concept of Indian giver--misinterpretation between an Indigenous culture operating in a gift eceonomy and a colonial structure predicated on the concept of private property" (27).
"The powers of assimilation did their work as my chance of hearing that language, and yours too, was washed from the mouths of children in government boarding schools where speaking your Native tongue was forbidden" (49).
"European languages often assign gender to nouns, but Potawatomi does not divide the world into masculine and feminine" (53).
Indigenous Representation in Politics
Continuing to portray accurate representations of contemporary Indigenous cultures, specifically Indigenous women refuses erasure, deconstructs heteropaternalism and settler colonialism, and leads the path for new and accurate academia as opposed to the colonized versions that have been perpetuated for years.
Positive representation is accessible--as illustrated by the TikTok app which reaches all demographics, and the more that it is utilized, the more settler colonialism takes a back seat regarding contemporary Native affairs.
Recognizing the issues is just the first step, implementing accurate Native depictions and working socially is how we overcome the colonial narratives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R77FsSUG-o4
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/09/07/a-federal-court-has-ruled-blood-cannot-determine-tribal-citizenship-heres-why-that-matters/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aDBiAIFDeA
https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-interview-the-aila-test-evaluates-representation-of-indigenous-women-in-media
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/yellowstone-premiere-kevin-costner-native-american-1202842506/
Arvin, Maile, et al. “Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy.” Feminist Formations, vol. 25, no. 1, 2013, pp. 8–34. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43860665. Accessed 4 May 2021.
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