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The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era

Colonialism

The story tells us Europeans came to Turtle Island and colonized the original inhabitants— that they destroyed our culture— eradicated our language— removed us from the land and dispossessed us of our relationship with the Creator. The colonization story informs most of what people have to say about Indigenous Peoples. It is our rallying cry. It is what we resist.

- From The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era, pg. 26

Colonialism

Colonialism: Historic Timeline of Key Events 

  • Pre-Columbian (Before 1492) Indigenous peoples inhabit North America 
  • 1492: Columbus to the Americas
  • 1500s: Spanish, French, English Explorers
  • 1607: Jamestown
  • 1619: First African Slaves to Virginia Colony
  • 1754-1763: The French and Indian War
  • 1775-1783: The American Revolutionary War
  • 1792:  Captain Vancouver enters the Salish Sea
  • 1833: Hudson’s Bay Trading Company
  • 1851: Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851 and 1868)
  • 1850: Donation Land Claims Act
  • 1855:-59: Treaties of the Puget Sound
  • 1870s-1930s: Indian Boarding Schools
  • 1887: Dawes Act 
  • 1924: Indian Citizenship Act
  • 1930: Food Distribution on Indian Reservations
  • 1934: Indian Reorganization Act
  • 1960s: Fish Wars
  • 1974: - The Boldt Decision (U.S. v. Washington)
  • 1978: American Indian Religious Freedom Act

-(timeline sources cited below)


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"Revitalizing Ancestral Food Ways with Valerie Segrest." Youtube, uploaded by
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     Accessed 11 June 2024.  (Timeline of events)

"U.S. History Primary Source Timeline." Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
     classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/
     colonial-settlement-1600-1763/. Accessed 11 June 2024. (Timeline of events)

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"Settler colonialism refers to a history in which settlers drove indigenous populations from the land in order to construct their own ethnic and religious national communities. Settler colonies pursued policies of elimination rather than exploitation as they pushed indigenous populations further into the interior. Invariably, indigenous resistance produced often-indiscriminate violence and removal policies justified through tropes of racial superiority and national destiny." 

-From America in the World, 1776 to the Present (cited & linked below)


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Hixson, Walter L. "Colonialism." America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History, edited by Edward J. Blum, vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2016, pp. 232-234. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3630800127/GVRL?u=aubu98092&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=54499de7. Accessed 6 June 2024.

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Johnson, Harold R.. The Power of Story : On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era, Biblioasis, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/greenriver-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7021674.