Not an Indigenous Identity Problem: Pretendianism, Whiteness, and Genocide

UCR Arts 3824 Main Street, Riverside, United States

Kim TallBear rejects the idea that self-indigenization, also sometimes referred to as “pretendianism,” is a problem of “Indigenous identity. In this talk, Kim TallBear rejects the idea that self-indigenization, also sometimes referred to as “pretendianism,” is a problem of “Indigenous identity.” Instead, Dr. TallBear turns her critical gaze onto settler-colonial society. What is their problem? Why [...]