Settler Colonialism
Settler colonialism is not an event, but ____
A structure
What is the meaning of terra nullius?
Unpopulated land
When did the Genocide Convention go into effect in the US
1988
Romanticizing settler sovereignty is a way of erasing ____.
Colonialism and Indigenous nations.
What kind of nation does the United States imagine itself as?
A nation of immigrants
Who was Patrick Wolfe?
He’s an anthropologist and historian.
What two commodities made up the most significant part of the US economic base?
land and slaves
Which of the following acts are considered genocide by the UN Genocide Convention? (give response at letters)
a. Killing members of the group
b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
c. Deliberately inflicting on the group the conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births from within the group
e. Forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group
a b c d e
(All of the above)
What deep psychosis is revealed through US settler colonialism
settler self-indigenization
What two critiques does historian Michael Witgen give about imagining the United States as a nation of immigrants?
“To imagine the United States as a nation of immigrants, devoid of an indigenous population, is not only a form of erasure” but “it is also historically inaccurate”
____ was the inherent overall policy of the United States from its founding.
Genocide
The ____ privatized nearly 300 million acres taken from Indigenous collective estates.
The Homestead Act of 1862
____ is genocidal and can be carried out without death.
Forced assimilation
What books were the basis for the coalescence of US American settler nationalism
Leatherstocking Tales and The Last of the Mohicans
Distinguishing between immigrants and settlers is important because “immigrants ___ existing politics whereas settlers ___ new ones”
join and create
The fiscal-military settler state involved both ethnic cleansing and ____ producing racial capitalism.
Chattel slavery
The ____ was created during the War of Independence by the Continental Congress and reenacted at independence by the US Congress in 1789.
The Northwest Ordinance
According to the UN Genocide Convention, what intent must be evident for the actions it lists to be considered genocide?
“the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”
The ____ settlers in the Appalachians became the mythologized settler archetype identified with Daniel Boone, claiming to be the original settlers, a ____ process.
Scots Irish and self-indigenizing
“The history of genocide and colonialism is “important and needs to be widely aired and discussed, included in public school texts and particularly in US law schools, in order for citizens to ____”
“comprehend the present and develop knowledge and skills to deconstruct the fiscal-military state”
“ ____ is the icon of settler colonialism”
Daniel Boone
What federal holiday and doctrine disregards colonization?
Columbus Day and the Doctrine of Discovery
How many years did it take for the US to ratify the Convention?
40 years
The recent white nationalist takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was a part of which larger movement?
The Sagebrush Rebellion
Why is J.D. Vance’s use of “deeply attracted to the Appalachian Mountains” in reference to the first wave of Scots-Irish settlers inappropriate?
It is an “inappropriate conceptualization of the genocidal settler invasion of the agricultural homelands of several Indigenous nations, particularly the Cherokee”