The Relationship between Marxism and Indigenous Struggles and Implications of the Theoretical Framework for International Indigenous Struggles
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Glen Coulthard’s masterly work, Red Skin, White Masks, raises the theoretical work of Indigenous scholarship in North America to a new level, bringing Marxism into the mix in looking at the political-economic effects of settler-colonialism on Indigenous peoples in North America. He charts a way forward for Indigenous activism outside the state, eschewing the politics of recognition. In addition to assessing Coulthard’s perspective on Marxism, this paper poses questions about privileging Indigenous social movements without addressing the national question and without including the role of the robust international Indigenous movement that has entered its fortieth year.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 173.
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Coulthard 2014, p. xi.
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Coulthard 2014, pp. 8–9.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 12.
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See Saldaña-Portillo 2003. Saldaña-Portillo focuses on Central American nationalist revolutions and their development schemes for Indigenous peoples.
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See Dunbar-Ortiz 2005, pp. 32–3; Bobb 2012.
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See Becker 2008; Dunbar-Ortiz 2009. A number of Native individuals were also active in communist parties in Canada and the United States, although there is little documentation. One interesting article: Balthaser 2014.
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Bonfil Batalla (ed.) 1981, p. 58; see also Reinaga 1972.
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Dunbar-Ortiz 2007a.
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Weiss 1984.
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Lenin 1977.
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Weiss 1984, p. 13.
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Smith 2011.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 66.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 64.
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See Prashad 2007.
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Beverly 2011, p. 37; Chakrabarty 2000, p. 95.
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Rabasa 2010, p. 251.
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Beverly 2011, pp. 41–2.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 58.
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United Nations 2008.
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See Dunbar-Ortiz 1984, pp. 27–72; Willensem-Díaz 2009, pp. 10–16.
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See Erakat 2014. See also Anaya 2009, pp. 184–99; and Graham and Wiessner 2011.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 6.
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See Schulte-Tenckhoff 2012, p. 65. See also Alfonso Martínez 1999.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 159.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 166.
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Coulthard 2014, p. 179.
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Simpson 2014, pp. 1–2.
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Christie 2011, p. 344.
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Vizenor (ed.) 2008, p. 1.
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The Relationship between Marxism and Indigenous Struggles and Implications of the Theoretical Framework for International Indigenous Struggles
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Glen Coulthard’s masterly work, Red Skin, White Masks, raises the theoretical work of Indigenous scholarship in North America to a new level, bringing Marxism into the mix in looking at the political-economic effects of settler-colonialism on Indigenous peoples in North America. He charts a way forward for Indigenous activism outside the state, eschewing the politics of recognition. In addition to assessing Coulthard’s perspective on Marxism, this paper poses questions about privileging Indigenous social movements without addressing the national question and without including the role of the robust international Indigenous movement that has entered its fortieth year.
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