Hope for Indigenous Identity: How We Contribute to the Erasure of our Nation’s History
Publication Date
2022
Start Date
20-8-2022 9:20 AM
End Date
20-8-2022 9:45 AM
Moderator
Samira Ugas
Description
The claiming of Indigenous artifacts by non-Indigenous peoples is unjust and enables the erasure of a nation’s identity – specifically the United States and its history. I will discuss the illegal registration of intellectual property – artifacts – belonging to Indigenous people and how this denies the existence of entire nations. In accordance with this, I will explain the significance of “bearing false witness” in this nature ruins civility from the roots.
Hope for Indigenous Identity: How We Contribute to the Erasure of our Nation’s History
The claiming of Indigenous artifacts by non-Indigenous peoples is unjust and enables the erasure of a nation’s identity – specifically the United States and its history. I will discuss the illegal registration of intellectual property – artifacts – belonging to Indigenous people and how this denies the existence of entire nations. In accordance with this, I will explain the significance of “bearing false witness” in this nature ruins civility from the roots.