I've been watching some hashtags and not saying much at all... But I want to offer some thoughts on indigeneity, in no particular order.
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This recognition happens despite different notions of... everything: from what indigeneity is, to concepts of time, to... yeah, everything.
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So what makes someone indigenous? Surely, lineage is the common denominator. Or you would think.
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I'm going to offer that blackness suspends that denominator when it comes to lineage as a marker of ones indigenousness.
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All those people who were enslaved and brought over to the U.S.... Were they indigenous? Or does their blackness suspend that?
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More to the point: are the descendants of indigenous enslaved Africans eligible to be recognized as indigenous?
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Indigenous peoples from the Americas—who weren't enslaved coming here, but arrived as immigrants or refugees—get recognition, right?
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(And by recognition, I'm not talking about federal recognition—I mean recognition from fellow indigenous peoples in the U.S.)
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But why is it impossible to extend that kind of recognition for the descendants of indigenous enslaved Africans?
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Gotta get back to work, but these are
#IndigenousThings I've been thinking about...
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