American Indian anti-imperialism
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Letters from the American Empire: November 2, 2026
There is much talk of U.S. midterm elections. Such a relentless white noise, so calculated that all other conversation, like stopping the slaughter of Palestinians, seems like an inconvenient distraction rather than the actual topic at hand...
Letters from the American Empire: October 30, 2026
In opening pages of To You We Shall Return, Lakota storyteller Joseph Marshall describes a giant with an insatiable hunger. He consumed the earth and all its living creatures. A single fist clutched a giant buffalo; a single gulp swallowed...
Letters from the American Empire: October 12, 2026
The African revolutionary Amílcar Cabral once asked his counterparts throughout the world at late-night strategy sessions: How did they wage successful armed struggle? The common strategy, they responded, was to wage a guerrilla war by taki...
At the Edge of Empire: The Mississippi River, Settler Colonialism, and the Oceti Sakowin
On October 6, I presented a talk at the 2026 Nobel Conference hosted at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. The theme of the conference was the Mississippi River. My talk centered the enduring legacy of militarism, settler coloniali...
Fraud: The case of Ward Churchill w/ Nick Estes
In this episode of Red Scare, Sina and I discuss my recent article, “Ward Churchill: Free Speech Warrior or Pretendian?” We dive deep into the harms of Pretendianism and what it means for modern Indigenous sovereignty.
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