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Settler Colonialism - Coggle Diagram
Settler Colonialism
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Land acknowlegments
To heal people from the genocide, California Indigenous communities need land reparations.
Land appropriation and the removal of California Indigenous people from their traditional homelands.
Genocide and Ecocide
Separating California Indigenous people from their non-human relations, sacred sites, and cultural practices.
Settler colonial ecology controls land through the construction of their own properties. INdigenous land is then transformed for America's economic sake.
Violence against Indigenous bodies has been paralleled as violence against the natural world and non-human kin
Land is the living entity that enables Indigenous life, therefore, the dispossession or contamination of those lands threatens Indigenous life
"Americanized" Education
The glorification of a constructed "California Story" - a fabricated narrative of nineteenth century California histor
The legacy of the Gold Rush - American colonialism that degrades Indigenous lands and bodies as "wastelands". "The Gold Rush resulted in massacres, slavery, and the environmental raping of the land" (Lowry).
Skewed public curriculum
In response to the widespread fabrication of history, California Indigenous people continue to share their stories and create educational materials that counteract this fabricated history.