Glen Coulthard on Indigenous peoples and righteous resentment:

& #39;... 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

& #39;... 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

& #39;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

& #39;... About our land and cultural communities, and about the rights and obligations we hold as First Peoples.& #39;

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 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">

This is a very good chapter, all on resentment, anger, and the expectation on Indigenous people to always forgive. I& #39;m gonna struggle not to dump pages of this straight into my thesis.