Crospollination: Indigeneity Across Borders

 

Workgroup: Sylvia Richardson, Sarah Campbell, Brandon Fischer, Jorge Luis Morejon.

 Indigeneity Across Borders

THE CO-CREATION & RECUPERATION OF INDIGENOUS IDENTITIES AND BELONGING IN THE SHADOW OF VIOLENCE

Objectification - Vulnerability - Policing - Surveillance - Appropriation - Struggle

Co-creation - Generativity - Resilience - Reciprocity - Making - Tending - Remaining

El proceso: Amazando ideas y incuerporando caminos

Spoken and Slide: We would like to pay respect to the indigenous land on which we stand, that of the Tonkawa, the Comanche, and the Lipan Apaches.

The following will be a ritual intervention connecting the past, the present, and the future of indigeneities across borders.

Slide: We’re all indigenous to some land, somewhere, but there are different ways that indigeneity is understood, is practiced, is politicized, and refuted.

Each of the participants on stage embody and live different forms of identification with indigeneity.

Slide: We are constantly crossing borders of being indigenous, of not being indigenous, of being undocumented, infantilized, unmodern, but yet worthy, present, and ever changing.

Slide: The labels we call those we do not recognize: illegal, vagrant, loser, mojado, they dismember our humanity. They also disfigure our humanity. In this land of marginality, what is to marginalize? Who is marginalized? Where are at the margins of visibility?

Slide: We do not reside in a post-colonial period. There is no “post.” We endure ongoing processes of coloniality that are deeply historical.

Slide: When we talk about borders, we are talking about the borders as they are currently established. These borders are artificial.

Slide: What are the borders we are talking about? What enforces their legitimacy?

Slide: We know the effects of financial liberalization, neoliberalism, colonization, and the treaty of the white man.

Slide: We know the role of the nation-state, global and local systems of control, surveillance, and appropriation.

Slide: Why do people migrate?

Slide: How do people migrate?

When our bodies become forms of currency, we have already been revoked of our indigeneity.

Moving through the power - knowledge relationship; power as the object that we hold, knowledge

Slide: Indigeneity is defined by the stories we tell. Within