#1546 Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize: A story of colonialism, cultural renaissance and modernity
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 4 March 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 3/4/2023
Today, we tell a story of colonialism, dispossession and cultural renaissance as a lens through which to understand alienation, a primary condition of modernity
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The annexation of Hawaii
The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii - TED-Ed - Air Date 2-17-22
U.S. Apology Bill to Hawaiian People - EarthWorldSolutions - Air Date 11-02-12
Ch. 2: Scottish clearances and economic displacement
The Highland Clearances of Scotland - Pilgrim Kat - Air Date 1-22-23
Why Can’t Hawaiians Afford To Live In Hawaii? - AJ+ - Air Date 1-20-22
Ch. 3: White people, Indians and Highlanders
White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America (Affiliate link)
Ch. 4: Cultural and linguistic erasure
The Banning of the Hawaiian Language - Noʻeau Woo-O'Brien - Air Date 12-07-19
Aloha Aina - Indigenous Life in Hawaii - Captain Potter - Air Date 11-26-21
Two Worlds - weRnative - Air Date 11-22-19
Ch. 5: Red Power, the American Indian Movement and the Siege of Wounded Knee
What is the Red Power Movement? - Fusion - Air Date 6-2-17
Wounded Knee siege - Witness History - Air Date 2-27-23
Ch. 6: Cultural renaissance of Hokulea
Papa Mau: The Wayfinder - OiwiTV - Air Date 4-14-17
Ch. 7: Cultural renaissance of GalGael
Birdman of Pollok/Curaidh na Coille - BBC - Air Date 12-28-19
The Highland Clearances of Scotland - Pilgrim Kat - Air Date 1-22-23
The Fight To Take Back Hawaii - Foreign Correspondent - Air Date 5-11-22
Hawaiian Language Ban - Barry Shell - Air Date 5-17-08
Ch. 8: re-Indigenization in Scotland
Alastair McIntosh - The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - Air Date 1-3-23
Ch. 9: Connecting with Aina in Hawaii
Aloha Aina - Indigenous Life in Hawaii - Captain Potter - Air Date 11-26-21
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on the single story of the values that drove colonialism and continue to shape our world
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard (https://theobard.bandcamp.com/track/this-fickle-world)
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of the Left podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm doing something a little bit different today because I want to tell you a story that |
| 0:11.4 | I've been mulling over for a while. |
| 0:13.2 | And when I say that I have a story, a singular story, I mean that and I have chosen my words |
| 0:18.3 | carefully. |
| 0:19.3 | At times it's going to sound like I'm telling different stories from different parts |
| 0:22.6 | of the world, but I think it's very important to understand them as a single story. |
| 0:28.8 | This is a story about indigenous peoples, but it's not a tragedy. |
| 0:33.1 | It's a story about colonization and dispossession, but also about rebirth and recapturing what |
| 0:38.8 | was lost. |
| 0:39.8 | And to me, it's also a story about the alienation that I believe is endemic to society today, |
| 0:45.8 | widespread loneliness, disillusionment, and a general sense across the political spectrum |
| 0:50.9 | that society is headed in the wrong direction. |
| 0:53.4 | I think all of these are the natural results of the inhuman structures of our society. |
| 1:00.3 | And the path that this story takes, I think, shows that and also points to some solutions. |
| 1:07.1 | As I'm recording, this past week was the 50th anniversary of the siege at Wounded |
| 1:11.7 | Knee in 1973 when Native peoples took a stand against systemic injustice in the same place |
| 1:18.0 | where their ancestors had been massacred by the federal government of the United States |
| 1:22.4 | in 1890. |
| 1:24.9 | That will be part of this story, but it is not where we're starting. |
| 1:28.3 | Today, we begin with the annexation of Hawaii by the United States. |
| 1:33.9 | It was January 16, 1895. |
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