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The Origin of American Authoritarianism | Episode 6

The Origin of American Authoritarianism | Episode 6

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We’ve all been told our founders created a democracy. Rebecca
talks with Maggie Blackhawk (Ojibwe) about why that's only half
the story. Because our founders also wanted an empire. And so,
they built both: a democracy that gave its citizens a voice and a
vote; and an empire that controlled the lives and lands of people
who had no say. That playbook never went away. Today, when our
government wants to annex Greenland, deny citizenship to people
born here, or put migrants in detention camps, it uses laws first
passed to colonize Indigenous nations to do so.

Resources:

- July 31, join First America, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the
Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Red Media, and the Lindy
Waters III Foundation for an evening celebrating Indigenous
futurism, storytelling, and the release of "From the Heart of Our
Nations"

- Get "From the Heart of Our Nations," a collection of short
stories from First America's Indigenous youth writing workshop,
here

- Dig further into Maggie Blackhawk's scholarship here

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