I’d really like to be happy about this (old) article, but it’s telling that even a story on how Indigenous perspectives and knowledge are valid... is written about us, not by us. Typical settler colonial hubris. This is not what decolonization looks likehttps://e360.yale.edu/features/native-knowledge-what-ecologists-are-learning-from-indigenous-people …
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Fellow academics I would appreciate I’d appreciate if you would boost that tweet, it’s a good thing for everyone to consider.
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And look, I don’t wanna be like that about it, you know? I got sent the article by a friend and wanted to love it because I want Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous cultures and Indigenous people and our ways of knowing — all across the planet — to have a stunning resurgence.
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But an article about us, not by us, that reads like a trip to the zoo? That slants towards the idea that “Indigenous people have more than their share of land”? Are you joking? Is this an effort to break hearts and turn the academy against us even as it turns towards us?
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I don’t want to read that. It’s not right to write it, unjust to imply it, ahistorical to connect THOSE dots in THAT way. Hire Indigenous writers. Hire Indigenous scientists. Hire Indigenous editors. Listen to us, dammit. Not to someone who once interviewed one of us.
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Don’t think it’s okay to parachute in to interview some elders (who? They have NAMES.) and then get some publications out of it. In a week where my work with Indigenous human data has been called Novelty Science, when I have been called a Novelty Scientist... This is not okay.
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We are not a Novelty, our presence on our homelands is ancient, our sovereignty is valid, our claims legitimate, and our demands reasonable. Our minds are brilliant and our hearts are kind and our traditions are wise and our cultures persist in the face of centuries of genocide.
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Thank you. And thank you for noticing. I felt like the rhythm was really ...good.
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Don't pay attention to that person who says they're not white, yet names themselves a snowflake, who probably claims a 1/4 European descent and thus is basically "European". Their whole page is a mess.
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