What are some ways that you have seen colonial thought in academia misrepresent indigenious people? by John Finnegan https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d en-us 2022-03-29 17:29:20 UTC 2022-04-12 16:38:11 UTC hello@padlet.com Depicting Native Americans as “savage” (in films especially) https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141121671 2022-04-12 16:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141121671 https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141121705 How the story of Christopher Columbus was incorrectly taught in schools ]]> 2022-04-12 16:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141121705 https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141122146 in elementary school I was taught that treaties and relocating of indigenous people within America was something that they benefited from ]]> 2022-04-12 16:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141122146 https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141122590 Maybe the pilgrims and indian thanksgiving story we were told in elementary school ]]> 2022-04-12 16:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141122590 https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141122639 making indigenous culture a “theme” for parties or an excuse to wear their dress/physical appearance customs ]]> 2022-04-12 16:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141122639 Lumping people together as Native Americans even though there are many tribes https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141123001 2022-04-12 16:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141123001 https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141123227 Some professors here are *guilty* of having discussions ABOUT indigenous people without doing enough to include them in the conversation. A lot of the material we study are think-pieces from non-indigenous scholars]]> 2022-04-12 16:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141123227 https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141123291 I feel like when it comes to conversations about climate change, academics tends to ignore a lot of the efforts that indigenous communities have taken part of. Indigenous peoples protect about 80% of the earths biodiversity]]> 2022-04-12 16:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141123291 https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141124323 the way indigenious histories are mistaught in school and many histories are not even discussed when not in relation to western peoples]]> 2022-04-12 16:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141124323 https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141124690 I was taught that native americans were happy that the pilgrims came and were able to educate them. We also rarely learn anything about indigenous cultures in contexts or situations that do not involve a western european party]]> 2022-04-12 16:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141124690 imahar https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141125031 Only teaching an extremely watered down version of Columbus//colonization. ]]> 2022-04-12 16:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141125031 https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141125211 There was a book I read called Black, White, Brown that exposes the traditional white rhetoric of how we communicate with people of color as well as individuals who identify as queer. She points out the disregard for certain words or phrases that are offensive because they are not outwardly spoken about. ]]> 2022-04-12 16:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jfinnegan6/jb8n0uziqo0m9z2d/wish/2141125211