Things That Left Me Shook Week 15
Sorry for my long hiatus, the stress of trying to make sure Iwon’t be thrown into debt collection again combined with fighting to be able to come back to Tulane has left me drained, and honestly I just couldn’t handle talking about how messed up our society is with climate change while also juggling that. Have no fear though, because Tulane will let me back next semester even if it kills me. I am going to use this as an opportunity to talk about this weeks readings. This week was all about indigenous folk and their relationship with climate change, the military, and activism. I gotta say the article that was most intriguing to me was the Winona La Duke. The military is always an interesting thing to look at, and I was surprised that Indigenous men have the highest rate of service. On the surface this didn’t make much sense, but when you dig deeper it makes a ton of sense. The military has always targeted marginalized groups and one of the most marginalized groups in the history of North America is Indigenous folk. One article that did not shock me, however was the article by Cherry Foytlan on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Companies have been using the imminent domain clause of the United States Constitution to grab POC and indigenous land since the creation of the Constitution. The arguement of permanent jobs v temporary jobs is a classic arguement too of course. I will say though, that I did not realize how problematic the Army Corps of Engineers were until this article. I really enjoyed the article on tanning Rock and thought that the different viginettes were a good way to portray important information.
The readings this week made me revisit my lack of knowledge on Indigenous folk which is really embarrassing because my father does work on a reservation, and I should definitely know more than what I do. I also think that is complete bullshit that we aren’t taught more about indigenous history in class, also that NOLA 300 didn’t mention anything about the people who lived here before Bienville and Iberville founded the colony of New Orleans back in 1718. I was actually listening to a podcast about it while I was studying for the NOLA tourguide test and was shocked by what I learned. I was also displeased with how the official tour guide book portrayed indigenous folk and their struggle with the colonizers. It was vey problematic and treated the colonizers like they were 100% in the right for their treatment and that the indigenous folk were ouster’s who could not reason.
Key Words
1) Kin~ human and non human species
2) Imminent Domain~ an antiquated constitutional ammendment that allows for companies and the government to sieze property for a fraction of its worth
3) Language Revitalization~ Teaching younger generations about a languge in order to make the language seem stronger and give people in that community a sense of belonging.
The readings this week made me revisit my lack of knowledge on Indigenous folk which is really embarrassing because my father does work on a reservation, and I should definitely know more than what I do. I also think that is complete bullshit that we aren’t taught more about indigenous history in class, also that NOLA 300 didn’t mention anything about the people who lived here before Bienville and Iberville founded the colony of New Orleans back in 1718. I was actually listening to a podcast about it while I was studying for the NOLA tourguide test and was shocked by what I learned. I was also displeased with how the official tour guide book portrayed indigenous folk and their struggle with the colonizers. It was vey problematic and treated the colonizers like they were 100% in the right for their treatment and that the indigenous folk were ouster’s who could not reason.
Key Words
1) Kin~ human and non human species
2) Imminent Domain~ an antiquated constitutional ammendment that allows for companies and the government to sieze property for a fraction of its worth
3) Language Revitalization~ Teaching younger generations about a languge in order to make the language seem stronger and give people in that community a sense of belonging.
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