#PodcastReflection

[dystopediapod]

Sometimes the scariest dystopias are the ones that feel like utopias.

The more comfort, control, and convenience we have - the more we have to lose. And sometimes, the greatest threat isn’t from outside, but from within. We’re hardwired to take the path of least resistance.

The most alarming thing about The Machine Stops is how humanity sleepwalks into extinction - not through violence, but through dependence. Through apathy.

"Something good enough had long since been accepted by our race."

This week on Dystopedia, we unpacked the eerie brilliance of E.M. Forster’s 1909 warning.

Next week, we shift gears - but not themes. A future controlled by corporations, privatized everything, and the illusion of justice. RoboCop (1987) is up next. And trust us, the satire hits way too close to home.

[reviewthatreview]

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[hist2000indigenousresistance]

All My Relations Episode 3

I was listening to “Native Mascots, Really Still?” and something stood out to me. When talking about the people who support the football team from Washington, and it’s racist mascot and racist name, Matika said: “they’re not thinking of us as real people.” 

That reminded me of the Myths from All the Real Indians Died off, particularly in how the myths are self-serving, how the myths that settlers create then go on to benefit settlers. It disparages nation people, dehumanizes them to the point where then people think its fine to have racist mascots because they don’t know any Native people. 

A thought popped into my head that it’s part of a settler move to innocence, too. That the dehuman portrayal of Native people makes their issues less real, less important and overall just less in the eyes of the settler. Because the way the identity is portrayed affects a lot of things. Like how Muscogee nation had to spend their time trying to prove that they ran a capable reservation.

One thing that is interesting to me in regard to the “debate” over native mascots, is that when Native people are getting hurt, both mentally and physically, to the point that it leads to so many children dead because of suicide on Matika’s reservation, the reaction of the sports fans is to say ‘this isn’t hurting you.’ It makes me really upset to think that people have such a reaction, that they can’t even respond with empathy to native people, or even consider their claims of hurt to be true. 

I guess that plays back into the dehumanization of Native people through mascots. If you aren’t going to consider that native people are people, then you probably wouldn’t consider that they feel pain and that they are being hurt by these portrayals.

So it’s self-serving all over again.

One of these days, I hope things change, and it’ll be because of activists like Amanda Blackwell and scientists like Stephanie Fryberg, which say loudly and scientifically the things that lots of native people are saying. That Native mascots hurt people, that they should not be in place, because “Really, still?” 

[patelris]

This Land Podcast Episode 8

[dystopediapod]

“They’ll fix you. They fix everything.” But what if the system is the problem?

We spent this week with RoboCop—a film that dressed like a blockbuster but spoke like a prophet. It asked:

What happens when law enforcement becomes a product?

What if profit matters more than people?

What if media turns suffering into noise?

And the worst part? It doesn’t feel like satire anymore.

Next Thursday, we trade boardrooms for barricades. From neoliberal collapse to viral apocalypse, we head into 28 Days Later. Different crisis. Same rot underneath.

[dystopediapod]

Snake was cool. The world was cooler. But rewatching Escape from New York made us realise something -style can’t always cover up missed potential. Still, there’s something magnetic about Carpenter’s vision. That gritty, decaying version of New York feels closer than ever.

Why did this film resonate despite its flaws? Why does Snake still feel iconic, even when the story stumbles?

This week’s episode is out now - wherever you get your podcasts. Let us know what you think.  You gonna kill me now, Snake?

[reviewthatreview]

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[hist2000indigenousresistance]

AMR ep7: Native Appropriations

 I had heard a lot of these concepts surrounding Native Appropriations before. Ones that I feel are important, but I appreciated having them laid out and connected to other important topics. The idea of power as being a key important part of appropriating other cultures is something that I’ve heard before, but less so have I concretely connected it to settler colonialism.

I connected it better when Adrienne read a quote from Ijeoma Oluo

When well-meaning white people say, “Help me define cultural appropriation so I know what to do and not to do,” what they are actually saying, even if they aren’t aware, is, “Help me understand how to continue in this system of privilege and oppression without feeling bad.���

-Ijeoma Oluo: When We’re Talking about Cultural Appropriation We’re Missing the Point

To me this connected cultural appropriation and the power dynamics of settler colonialism to “settler moves to innocence” from Decolonization is Not A Metaphor. It’s a way for settlers trying to rid themselves of settler guilt, without actually putting in any work to help native people. Allowing issues that affect Native people to persist without being effected, something that native people don’t have the privilege to do.

Something that I thought connected this well to Episode 3: Native Mascots, Really Still? and More Than A Word was that when talking about Native Appropriations in native communities, Adrienne was met with the response of “Why does this matter.” I think there was a similar response portrayed in the issue around Native sports mascots. Where people wanted to address the “real issues” that were faced by native communities: the issues that were life-threatening or bigger issues. Just like in the mascot issue, the issue of Native Appropriations is very tied to the big issues.

I thought that one connection that was made was particularly insightful to me. The appropriation of native cultures and “playing Indian” for Halloween costumes led to the sexualization of those costumes, and the sexualization of Native women that is contributing to the high violence, sexual assault and epidemic of missing and murdered native women. Its kind of shocking that something that settlers do so thoughtlessly has such withstanding impacts.

People ask why Native Appropriations matter and the above example is a good reason. But I also think that it doesn’t have to be that big. It doesn’t have to directly be contributing to native people's deaths to be harmful and bad, and something that shouldn’t be done. Because taking culture, ignoring protocol around sacred things, stealing, is bad even if it wasn’t a part of the larger settler-colonial structure.

But it is. And that has to be acknowledged to. All these actions have consequences, ripple effects, the commodification and push of native identities to the past, that “destroys support for real issues” in Matika’s words. All these little issues are connected to big issues. “the way that we see ourselves, and the way that others see us, affects the ways that we treat one another." 

[patelris]

“This Land” Podcast Episode 4 

[hist2000indigenousresistance]

This Land Episode 1

This past June I stumbled upon this podcast. I was immidietly drawn into the way Rebecca Nagle portrayed all the information and the complexities of the case.

The podcast and the case itself deals with a lot of the issues that we've already talked about in class, even in the first episode. It addressed the complexities of Indian Law that we found out about in A Broken Trust, the United State's long history of disregarding treaties from Our History is the Future and several myths from All the Real Indians Dies off, including the myth of the vanishing native.

Overall, I think one of my favorite things about the podcast is the fact that it showcases a place where Native people are still fighting to get their land back, one that has the very real possibility of them winning.

It's very interesting to be how a case that on one hand is about one issue - a single man and whether or not he gets the death penalty - can be about so much more than that.

The first time I listened to this episode I had a much different reaction than the second time. And that's because I knew about Carpenter v Murphy this time around. Most of the facts presented in this episode were still pretty fresh in my memory, so I wasn't surprised by the information like I was the first time around.

This time, I've also lost the sense of urgency that I felt. Nagle originally aired the podcast after the oral arguments and before the decision was to be announced, while planning to have a decision occur while the podcast was being released. The sense of urgency is not really there because we are still so far out of a decision.

Since the podcast aired, the case has been renamed as Sharp v. Murphy (this has no bearing on the case itself) which caused me a good moment of confusion when I was looking it up again. The case hadn't been set for reargument yet. The case won't be heard until, at the earliest February. The fate of this case is still very much in the air, just as much if not more than when Nagle first published her podcast. Regardless, I'm still rooting for the tribes to get their land back.

[patelris]

This Land Podcast Episode 2 “The Tribe”

[hist2000indigenousresistance]

Food sovereignty: AMR ep2

At the 1491s event last Friday, one of the members brought up the topic of food when talking to the native people from Alaska. "An apple costs $3 up there" he said, then commenting on how some non-native people don't want the indigenous people to hunt seal or whale, for ""environmental"" reasons. Instead of their traditional foods that they've always eaten, they're just supposed to buy overpriced produce because of the "save the whales" campaign?

In the podcast description it meantions how "colonialism destoryed [native] food systems, sometimes on purpose and sometimes as a byproduct of other colonial policies." Things like the US military killing the Bison in order to starve and deplete the food supply of the indigenous people who relied on it.

The idea of food sovereignty reminds me a lot of food justice, but I think food sovereignty is even more important because it's adapted to indigenous people. With indigenous nations creating and mostly reviving their own food systems.

One thing that I remember being briefly mentioned in the "All the real Indians" book was the fish-in that happened in the Pacific Northwest which made the government respect the treaties and allow the tribes to fish in their old hunting and fishing grounds.

There was a lot about the Pacific Northwest and coastal Natives, which I think Valerie refered to as the Coast Salish tribes. I loved learning that the word 'potluck' actually comes from the word potlutch. And I also really liked the idea. That the most important thing you can do is not to get food, but to share it.

Recently I've heard people talk about food deserts, especially in regards to urban areas like Boston, where in some places grocery stores, or olds that serve healthy cheep food being inaccessible. But Valerie brought up a really great point, there is food in places like the desert. Just because there isn't a grocery store in the middle of the desert doesn't mean there isn't food. And in between the Alaskan grocery stores selling $3 apples are spaces with traditional foods, traditional hunting grounds.

Connecting to food for some indigenous people might be planting fruit trees or going out into a desert and gathering food, or fishing for salmon, or just ordering wild rice from a native nation to be shipped to you, or supporting local food systems. One important thing that I took away from this is just how much food matters in your diet and your mentality. Cooking traditional foods connects you to the people who cooked those foods before you. As Valerie said, when you're trying to learn about your culture, food is an easy place to start.

[patelris]

All my Relations Episode 2 Podcast Reflection

[hist2000indigenousresistance]

This Land ep8: The Next Battleground

I’m glad that I saw Dawnland before I listened to this episode. I think that I’ve had a profoundly different experience and interaction with the episode, because of Dawnland’s portrayal of the trauma and the bad things that native communities that have suffered because of non-compliance with ICWA.

Honestly, I don’t know much about Adoption practices, but to me, it doesn’t make much sense that Michelle wouldn’t be placed with any of the relatives that actually wanted her. I assume that it has something to do with discrimination, and whatever social worker that was assigned to her thinking that it would be better to place her into a white home with two parent-age people than for her to be emersed in her culture. 

It pisses me off so much that Lisa Blatt equated the importance of allowing native children to remain in touch with their culture, with some kind of discrimination. I can’t speak for other people, but for me, feeling un-moored in my culture is a horrible thing, and I understand that the erasure, the questioning, the isolation from the culture that would come with being adopted by a white couple, would do more harm than good. 

The fact that people think ICWA is about race is definitely a misunderstanding about how Indian sovereignty works. It reminds me of the myth that “Indians are wards of the state” because that myth, removes their sovereignty. To be honest, I hadn’t really made the connection that ICWA was about political affiliation and that it’s more of a matter of citizenship than anything else, until I listened to this podcast. But it makes sense. Other countries can probably put in place laws around international adoptions, Native nations having the same in regards to the United States makes sense. 

When I first heard about this case, I was just thinking about the children, who would be allowed to legally be removed from their families and their cultures if ICWA was stuck down. But this episode really opened my eyes about the other devastating impacts across Indian country than a decision to strike down ICWA could make. 

[hist2000indigenousresistance]

This Land ep7: Still Bleeding

The title of this podcast episode has bothered me for a while, it’s part of the reason I never listened to it before now. All the other episodes start with ‘the’ ‘the treaty’ ‘the tribe’ ‘the opposition’. In all of this, “Still Bleeding” seems out of place. And the subject matter seems out of place too. To me, it seems like Rebecca Nagle was planning on having another episode here, one that was entirely reliant upon the supreme court having a decision. An episode that tackled what the decision would actually mean for the tribe, and for Indian Country. The kind of episode that I’d still really like to hear, whenever the supreme court decision ever comes out. 

But instead of that episode, we got Still Bleeding, which by itself is a really interesting episode. It’s interesting it connects the vanishing Indian, to the government process that created the myth, through the bureaucracy. “The process was meant to take our land, but it took so much more” said Rebecca Nagle.

In my final project interviews, the topic of language was brought up as something that was being lost, and while that's true, it can also be revived and revitalized. At the national day of mourning, a group of Crow citizens talked about the importance of language revitalization.

As someone who’s father never taught me his first language. I understand the loss of culture that comes with not having your language. It's like there is something missing, it makes it harder to connect with others who share the same culture, it makes it harder to connect with your relatives. It makes you feel more like an outsider, and more like maybe you don’t really belong to that culture. 

The experience of young Cherokee people not learning their language isn’t the same as not being taught Spanish. For starters, Spanish isn’t dying out. But I can reminisce over the lack of connection. 

Still Bleeding also made me think about how technology has aided in people learning languages. Nagle could practice her Cherokee by calling and talking to native Cherokee speakers, and the really popular company, Duolingo, even offers courses in ‘Ōlelo Hawai’i and Diné Bizaad.

I understand that all these things are connected, the supreme court case’s decision and establishment of sovereign rights has an effect on the Cherokee (and presumable Muscogee) community, language, and culture, but I wonder if the Supreme Court realizes the effect that every decision about Indian Country has on the actual people who live there.