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Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.

But people who are moderately uncertain of their economic future, who live in less-productive territories and have to rely on multiple sources of income (like the Kachin in Burma or most middle-class families with two income earners), maintain numerous weak ties with a wider variety of people. They often learn two or more languages or dialects, bec

A silversmith named Sequoyah designed a syllabary, turning Cherokee into a written language. It caught on quickly with help from the tribe’s newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, published in both English and Cherokee. In 1827 the Cherokee Nation adopted a constitution, modeled on the U.S. Constitution. Voters elected a mixed-race, wealthy, Christian pr

not ethnological,

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The way I say “My people” and My People know who they are even if we’ve never met, or even if we’ve never spoken, or even if all we have is the shared lineage of coming from a people who came from a people who came from a people who didn’t intend to come here but built the here once they arrived.

Despite over 130 tribal nations already having language to describe gender and sexual orientation that falls outside Eurocentric heteronormative perspectives, berdache continues to be used

Goodley’s adoption of the postmodern knowledge and political principles—he understands scientific discourses as oppressive and no more rigorous than other ways of knowing—is clear when he likens science to colonialism, We know that colonial knowledges are constructed as neutral and universal through the mobilisation of associated discourses such as