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Affirmation as Denial: The Case of the Post-Colonial with Ward Churchill
Date: February, 2007
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Location: Fredericton, NB
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Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Band Cherokee) is one of the most outspoken of Native American activists and scholars in North America and a leading analyst of indigenous issues. Until recently, he was a Professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado. He is also co-director of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement and vice chair of the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council.
Churchill's many books include Marxism and Native Americans, Fantasies of the Master Race, Struggle for the Land, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, From A Native Son, Critical Issues in Native North America, The COINTELPRO Papers, Indians R Us?, Agents of Repression, Since Predator Came, and A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas.
In his lectures and numerous published works, Churchill explores the themes of genocide in the Americas, racism, historical and legal (re)interpretation of conquest and colonization, environmental destruction of Indian lands, government repression of political movements, literary and cinematic criticism, and indigenist alternatives to the status quo.
Churchill is also a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, has served as a delegate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations (as a Justice/Rapporteur for the for the 1993 International People's Tribunal on the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians), and as an advocate/prosecutor of the First Nations International Tribunal for the Chiefs of Ontario.
Ward Churchill was recently fired in retaliation for the exercise of his First Amendment-protected speech and in violation of the doctrine of Academic Freedom. An investigation into Professor Churchill’s scholarship was initiated and pursued in response to the political outcry over his statements linking U.S. policy to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
His talk, “Affirmation as Denial: The Case of the Post-Colonial” was given in Halifax and Fredericton for the launch of Hoping Against Hope?
Recorded by Pierre Loiselle and transcribed by Karen Stote.
Cover photo of Anti-Canada Day protest, Montreal 2005 by Dru Oja Jay
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