Just to reiterate footnote number 8 in my dissertation: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/42946/Byler_washington_0250E_19242.pdf https://twitter.com/IAF__FAI/status/1292190573017755648

1. It is important to note that according to J. Kēhaulani Kauanui the concept “settler-colonialism” was first used as a scholarly framework to describe the processes of Israeli colonization of Palestine in the 1960s.

2. It was used to describe when a settler-population began to dispossess and restrict the movements of a native group, Palestinians, while at the same time occupying their land.

3. Settler-colonialism is used to describe the large-scale migration of a settler population with the goal of capturing resources and control over land.

4. This term stands in distinction to “franchise colonialism” / “exploitation colonialism” in which a native population is used as the primary labor force to extract resources for the colonizer.

5. India, as a British colony, is often used as an example of the latter type of colonization. See J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, "‘A structure, not an event:’ Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity," Lateral 5.1 (2016).

6. Settler colonies are defined by the occupation and possession of the land of Indigenous people. The colonizers want both the land (oil, natural gas, coal) and, in some cases, the labor (plantations, industrial farms) of the colonized.

7. It is operationalized by a relationship of institutionalized domination--through education, finance, religious, policing and prison systems; and justified by a process of racism and dehumanization--placing people in categories such as "terrorists" or "savages."

8. The process of eliminating and replacing Indigenous epistemes is accomplished in part by placing children in residential schools, criminalizing their religious practice and language use, and desecrating their sacred lands.

9. All of these processes of occupation, dispossession and domination are currently ongoing in the Uyghur region, a space the size of Alaska with an Indigenous population of 13.5 million Uyghurs and Kazakhs.