The One Story That Real Indians Have Cards
摘要
Select Indian co-optees have always received US status markers, splitting Indians into “Hang-around-the-Forts” and Die Hards. Discussion organizes around Václav Havel’s 1990 analysis of how invaders undermine Others’ sovereignty, through artificial groupings, impaired self-definition, and instilled apathy, leading to co-creation of oppression. The 1905 Dawes Policy of Shrinkage continues through updated US regulatory diction for colonial lines of demarcation in racial quantums and old missionary and military rolls. Simultaneously inspiring and rejecting DNA racism today, Indian status markers of “color” co-opt the Indigenous one-third who hold US “recognition” to denigrate the two-thirds who do not.