It’s such an outdated, dangerous idea, you know? Indians were here, but now they’re gone. There’s this Australian historian, Patrick Wolfe, who says settler colonialism is a structure, not an event. It’s ongoing, and part of what keeps it that way is the idea that Indigenous people aren’t here anymore. When they’re very much here. If you want to fight colonization, you can start by telling the stories of the people we’ve been taught to believe went extinct long ago.
