FEMST 60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Squaw, Native American Rights Fund, Sanford B. Dole
Document Summary
Indigenous folks being erased- the white squaw portraying native woman but she"s white; indian mascots; pocahontas; gauchos: objectification and dehumanization that legitimize oppression are racialized, gendered and classed, native feminism different pov from white feminist pov. American indian feminist sovereignty projects (smith- reading: native women activists challenge colonialism and sexism. Protesting colonial policies & gender violence kill the indian not the man is like killing the indian out of the man and keeping the. Boarding school healing clip: native american rights fund, americans took natives away from families to boarding schools to. Americanize/assimilate them; took away navajo identities, made them feel powerless and lonely: to heal, coalition trying to tell story & find resources. Hawaii: overthrow of hawaiian kingdom in 1893, unlawful annexation by u. s in 1898, sanford dole first governor of hawaii after overthrown- white male. The committee of safety: traitors, pretended to be working for hawaii. Conspired against hawaii- voluntary treaty to help america annex hawaii.
