Dear readers and listeners, it’s been a while since I’ve posted here. It was a fall semester of teaching students at the University of Alberta who understandably struggle with this world, have fascinating insights, and 50% can’t get their schoolwork done because of the distractions of a world in crisis. I also had multiple talks and consultations to help battle rampant self-indigenization (more colloquially known as pretendianism) across Canada and the USA. Intellectual battle against those with delusions that they are us has turned in the past four years into my main body of academic research. I co-edited a special issue of the journal Genealogy this past fall, (Un)Settling Genealogies: Self-Indigenization in Media, Arts, Politics, and Academia. There are two more articles to come, including a substantive introduction to the topic by me and my co-editor, Northeastern University Distinguished Visiting Professor and citizen of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota, Dr. Gordon Henry. Post-US presidential election, a deeper form of self-indigenization that we’ve been subject to since at least the Revolutionary War era—that is, white supremacist settlers believing they have “homeland” claims to stolen lands—proceeds apace with great zeal...
