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Let's Change The Subject: Grounding Social Change In Indigenous History And Philosophy, Robert M. Ruehl
Let's Change The Subject: Grounding Social Change In Indigenous History And Philosophy, Robert M. Ruehl
Philosophy and Classical Studies Faculty/Staff Publications
This article urges altering the discourse around social change. Too often it is antagonistic and negative; it also overlooks continuing colonizing practices and how injustices to Indigenous peoples have helped to shape past and current injustices toward other groups. First, the article foregrounds the religio-political ideology of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and the boarding-school experience to remind readers about the broader criminal history of the United States toward Indigenous nations and peoples and how colonization is not a thing of the past. Any call for social change should remember this. Second, the article looks at three dimensions of Indigenous …