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Amber will discuss the disenfranchisement of Blackness from Indigeneity as an attempt to render those racialized as Black (globally) incapable, even ineligible of being connected to land and place. She will explore how excluding Blackness from Indigeneity is also an attempt at dehumanizing Blackness and deeming it unqualified to relate to the Land, thereby voiding any legitimate claims of stewardship and of belonging. Ultimately, this racialized dispossession is in pursuit of negating any ancestral ties that can or do exist between Blackness and the Land in an effort to legitimize the attempted domestication and exploitation of both Black Indigenous peoples of the world and the Land!
With the passing of the Civilization Act Fund of 1819, the U.S. federal government and Protestant missionary societies aligned to radically reorient Chickasaw relationships with place at boarding schools within their national borders in what are now the states of Mississippi and Alabama.
In this seminar, we examine the historical processes which help create and conflate concepts like Indigeneity and race, and migration and diasporas. Speakers will present for 10-15 minutes followed by a roundtable discussion with participants.
