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SUMMARY:Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization
DESCRIPTION:A Hybrid Symposium \nWed\, Mar 18 – Thu\, Mar 19\, 2026 | All day \nThis 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. \nThe 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 claims to appropriate Indigenous resources and opportunities\, and to seize governance of institutions. We see an obviously violent example of self-Indigenization in the Department of “Homeland Security” whose agents seize governance of these lands\, terrorize\, imprison\, and threaten to exile. As multiple forms of self-Indigenization converge\, not all are grasped as violent\, yet they combine to further colonial extraction. \nExtractive self-Indigenization\, including Indigenous ethnic fraud\, not only targets American Indians\, but also First Nations\, Métis\, and Inuit in Canada; and global Indigenous communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand\, Australia\, Mexico\, and elsewhere. This symposium will bring participants together to engage in critical discussions\, learn from one another\, and discuss actionable strategies to disrupt this global problem.
URL:https://kimtallbear.com/event/holding-our-ground-voices-and-strategies-against-self-indigenization/
LOCATION:McNamara Alumni Center\, 200 SE Oak St\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55455\, United States
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