ETH STD 101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Native American Studies, Bakken Pipeline
18 Nov 2020
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Prologue & interlude from there there , by tommy orange. Defamiliarizes & reappropriates this famous line about oakland. Meant to acknowledge what is no longer there. There there kind of becomes an affirmation. Many events that crystalize these are tragic events. Christian chen"s murder that sort of brough together the asian american community. Maya lin"s experience crystalizes discrimination against asian american. What is illuminated is the marginalization of that group of how it is pressurized & immobilized = eruption of culture. Familiarize self with space you exist in. Learning to push against walls of place you live in. Coerced movement is a theme in native american studies (crystalized by the. Movement from tribal territory -- uprooted & displaced. Not just for natives, but bipoc as well. Ex: children don"t know why powwows exist. Powwows are way to acknowledge existence & survival. Formed historical consciousness of what it means to be indigenous.
