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Nick Estes converses with Kim TallBear about the symposium addressing self-Indigenization and its implications.

TRN Podcast Nick Estes live in conversation with Kim TallBear about the conference they organized, Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization . You can watch the individual panels that were livestreamed on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKWiQX270BMoLRv25dDskRfsJ2pptPf3Z Conference description: "This two-day, hybrid symposium will convene leading experts, community members, and "first responders" to the global issue of self-Indigenization, particularly in the form of "Indigenous ethnic fraud," or "pretendianism," as it is referred to in North America. The symposium will be held in Minneapolis, on the traditional homelands of the Dakota people, who were imprisoned and eventually exiled in 1863 to aid settler appropriation of "Minnesota," a word also taken from the Dakota. On top of seizing land, US citizens have for centuries "played Indian" via sports mascots and appropriating Native nation names and iconography in scouting and in industries including the military. In the twenty-first century, we see ballooning numbers of US citizens make mythological claims to belong to Native lineages and nations . Some capitalize on those…

People in this episode

Host: Nick Estes

Guest: Kim TallBear

Topics covered

• self-Indigenization
• Indigenous ethnic fraud
• pretendianism
• cultural appropriation
• Indigenous rights
• community strategies

Keywords

• self-Indigenization
• Indigenous ethnic fraud
• pretendianism
• cultural appropriation
• Dakota
• Minneapolis
• symposium
• community
• Indigenous rights

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Department of Homeland Security

Places: Minneapolis, Dakota

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