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It is the responsibility of settlers to tie their politics to place as the baseline for decolonization. Thus, the ROTB is to center indigenous demands – anything else is a settler move to innocence attempting to move the discussion away from indigenous plight
Sium et al 12 Aman Sium, Chandni Desai, Eric Ritskes, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Sium identifies as being Tigrinya, indigenous, African, and Eritrean, Ritskes is Zhaganash, Towards the ‘tangible unknown’: Decolonization and the Indigenous future, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education andamp; Society ¶ Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, pp. I-XIII, JKS, Recut VM
Settler colonialism is not a one-off event but an ongoing structure of dispossession that requires the elimination of Indigenous life. This is marked by ontological violence reasserted each day of occupation. Tuck and Yang 12 Eve Tuck, Unangax, State University of New York at New Paltz K. Wayne Yang University of California, San Diego, Decolonization is not a metaphor, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education andamp; Society Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, pp. 1-40 JJ
This structure of technologies renders indigenous land and life infinitely
fungible, causing genocidal violence on a mass scale.
Paperson 17 la, also K. Wayne Yang, an associate professor of ethnic studies at
the University of California, San Diego. “A Third University Is Possible” June 2017
Extraterrestrial colonialism is naturalized through the discourse of public ownership – the resolution’s call to condemn the doctrine of private appropriation is an implicit call to recenter the settler public as the legitimate and rightful owners of space and place. Lister 18, research assistant @ Dine College (Majerle, “‘The Only Way to Save the Land is to Give It Back’: A Critique of Settler Conservationism,” http://therednation.org/the-only-way-to-save-the-land-is-to-give-it-back-a- critique-of-settler-conservationism/)
Thus, the only alternative is one of decolonization. Tuck and Yang 12 Eve Tuck, Unangax, State University of New York at New Paltz K. Wayne Yang University of California, San Diego, Decolonization is not a metaphor, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education andamp; Society Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, pp. 1-40, VM