American Indian anti-imperialism
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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.
Ward Churchill: Free Speech Warrior or Pretendian?
Screenshot of the New York Times obituary of Ward Churchill, published August 12, 2026
The New York Times obituary headline for Ward Churchill states what was most noteworthy about the controversial academic. It makes explicit reference to...
Letters from the American Empire: September 17, 2026
Last week marked a quarter century since September 11, 2001. The attacks on the United States precipitated what the Indian Marxist Aijaz Ahmad called in an eponymous essay and book, “the imperialism of our time.” In his 2004 essay, he sough...
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