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So excited to "see" some of my favorite people today https://twitter.com/IAmDylanLewis/status/1306669027411009556
My ability to live tweet has diminished over the years, so my tweets will be fragmented, focused on just a few of the many amazing points being made. #antiracismUMD #CLCS_UMD
Opening by @TitaChico1 Before the land acknowledge, a #BlackLivesMatter 
statement, including the still under-discussed murder of #RichardCollinsIII near UMD just a week before he would have graduated from HBCU @BowieState https://theundefeated.com/features/rotc-army-officer-murder-richard-w-collins-university-of-maryland/
statement, including the still under-discussed murder of #RichardCollinsIII near UMD just a week before he would have graduated from HBCU @BowieState https://theundefeated.com/features/rotc-army-officer-murder-richard-w-collins-university-of-maryland/
More recent pieces on the murder of #RichardCollinsIII by @ArmyTimes https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/12/19/maryland-man-guilty-in-fatal-stabbing-of-newly-commissioned-2nd-lieutenant/; @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-u-md-student-convicted-of-first-degree-murder-in-killing-of-black-army-lieutenant/2019/12/18/eac1c714-2129-11ea-9c2b-060477c13959_story.html; @wamu885 https://wamu.org/story/20/02/11/family-of-murdered-bowie-state-student-urges-change-to-maryland-hate-crime-law/
From @wamu885news @kojoshow interviews Collins's parents. In response to the trial, the MD legislature expanded the def of hate crimes: the judge dropped the hate crime charge against the alt-right white supremacist-affiliated killer https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2020-06-11/a-conversation-with-the-parents-of-2nd-lieutenant-richard-collins-iii #RichardCollinsIII
A few of the amazing points coming up: how do we frame our ideas of periodization & geography? Has the #C18 really ended, whose land are you on, how do our scholarly practices of collections, analysis, etc fit into/perpetuate settler colonial violence?
Can colonized/colonizing disciplines resituate themselves within an indigenous context? What does it mean to "decolonize" the classroom or university? How do we go beyond polite gestures of political goodwill? Why would we expect settler institutions to give up power?
Fabulous @aurorabrowne @BaronessShow shout out by @londonmikmaq to the skit satirizing land acknowledgements & empty settler gestures towards indigenous groups: https://broadview.org/baroness-von-sketch-land-acknowledgment/
"Academic Land Acknowledgment for Settler Scholars" @zugenia @asecsgrad, which references @tuckeve & #KWayneYang's "Decolonization is not a Metaphor" https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630/15554
What do we mean by "Texts"? What fundamental conceptual work needs to happen for indigenous studies not just to be an add on in *English* Departments?
From #braidingSweetgrass: “Sweetgrass is best planted not by seed, but by putting roots directly in the ground. Thus the plant is passed from hand to earth to hand across years and generations. Its favored habitat is sunny, well-watered meadows. It thrives along disturbed edges.”
"Reading the land as a text ... read the place where they are at.. rather than decolonizing but re- indigenizing" @MeganPeiser
