3:31am September 25, 2014

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To argue on behalf of indigenous nationhood within the dominant Western paradigm is self-defeating. To frame the struggle to achieve justice in terms of indigenous “claims” against the state is implicitly to accept the fiction of state.

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The mythology of the state is hegemonic, and the struggle for justice would be better served by undermining the myth of state sovereignty than by carving out a small and dependent space for indigenous peoples within it.

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Taiaiake Alfred, Kahnawake

If you don’t have a copy of Taiaiake Alfred’s ‘Peace, Power, Righteousness - an Indigenous Manifesto’, you need to head to your local bookshop asap. This book is mind-blowing and a great help in forming one’s own thoughts and theories on decolonisation.

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