Glen Coulthard on Indigenous peoples and righteous resentment:

'... What is treated in the Canadian discourse of reconciliation as an unhealthy and debilitating incapacity to forgive and move on is actually a sign of our critical consciousness... 1/4

'... Of our sense of justice and injustice, and of our awareness and unwillingness to reconcile ourselves with a structural and symbolic violence that is still very much present in our lives. 2/4

'Viewed in this light, I suggest that Indigenous peoples individual and collective resentment - expressed as an angry and vigilant unwillingness to forgive - ought to be seen as an affective indication that we care deeply about ourselves... 3/4

'... About our land and cultural communities, and about the rights and obligations we hold as First Peoples.'

From Red Skin, White Masks (p.126).

Think about that next time some lil James Cook stan tells you to get over it. 4/4

My eloquent note to self on this passage

This is a very good chapter, all on resentment, anger, and the expectation on Indigenous people to always forgive. I'm gonna struggle not to dump pages of this straight into my thesis.