Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law. Natsu Taylor Saito

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СКАЧАТЬ Throughout the occupation, the pipeline owners also deployed private contractors from TigerSwan, a mercenary firm employed by the US government in global counterterrorism missions. A TigerSwan assessment, written after the water protectors had been removed, compared the water protectors to “jihadist insurgents” and concluded that “aggressive intelligence preparation of the battlefield and active coordination between intelligence and security elements are now a proven method of defeating pipeline insurgencies.”150 In a very literal sense, the “Indian Wars” are not over.

      American Indians and other Indigenous peoples under the United States’ purported jurisdiction have not disappeared, but continue to survive and resist after more than five centuries of colonization. Currently, the federal government recognizes some 566 Indian nations,151 and about 5.4 million people, or 2 percent of the total population, identify as American Indian or Alaska Native, with almost half that number identifying exclusively as such.152 Nearly one-third of this population is under the age of eighteen, as compared to about a quarter of the population as a whole,153 indicating that the Indigenous population is rebounding, to some extent, from the sterilization programs and slow death measures imposed upon it over the past several generations. This does not mean, however, that settler society has come to terms with the fact of Indigenous existence. Instead, it continues to use every means available to it to deny, suppress, and subvert the sovereignty of Indigenous nations and their peoples’ right to self-determination.

      Indigenous peoples’ claims to their traditional lands are consistently disregarded. This cannot be dismissed as “a phenomenon of the past” because, as law professor Joseph Singer observes, “the law continues to confer—and withhold—property rights in a way that provides less protection” for American Indian nations than non-Indian individuals or entities.154 Today, American Indian nations hold approximately fifty million acres of land—about 2 percent of the country’s continental land base155—but their control over even these lands and resources remains subject to the absolute, plenary power of the federal government. The meager revenues they generate are held “in trust” by the government, which has so grossly mismanaged them that it cannot account for perhaps $140 billion of individual Indian trust monies.156

      American Indians and Alaska Natives, like African Americans, are approximately three times more likely to be killed by law enforcement officials than their White counterparts.157 They are subjected to violent assault, rape, and murder at levels that far exceed the general population, and have less police protection than other demographic groups.158 Today American Indians and Alaska Natives are the poorest “racial group” in the United States.159 They have higher rates of unemployment and incarceration than other demographic subgroups, less education, poorer health, and lower life expectancies, are subject to higher levels of violence on a daily basis, and have by far the highest suicide rate.160 These are conditions common to colonized peoples, and directly attributable to the strategies of dispossession and elimination by which the American settler state has appropriated and maintained control of its territorial base.

      The continued colonization of the lands appropriated by the United States, and the concomitant dispossession of the peoples indigenous to those lands, is foundational to any analysis of, or attempt to address, racial injustice in America for at least two reasons. First, until underlying Indigenous claims are addressed, claims by other peoples to an “equal right” to the fruits of that colonization legitimize the genocidal policies and practices upon which the wealth of America is built. As Singer observes, “If those who benefit from this history of injustice claim a vested right to its benefits, they should be aware that what they claim is a right to the benefits of a system of racial hierarchy.”161

      Second, other manifestations of racial hierarchy cannot be effectively dismantled until colonial occupation and appropriation are addressed. If land is the fundamental prerequisite of the settler colonial state, and the settlers’ claims to that land rest squarely—still—on the racialization of its original owners as savage and subhuman, those in power cannot, and will not, abandon hierarchical racialization within American society, for that would undermine the basis for the state’s claimed prerogative to defend its “territorial integrity.”162

      This chapter has focused on the desire for land as the primary driving force of settler colonial societies and, therefore, has emphasized strategies employed to eliminate, or “disappear,” the original owners of the land. Historically, as the colonizers consolidated their territorial control, they enlisted labor to render “their” lands profitable, a process that, from the beginning, included the enslaved labor of both American Indian and African peoples. Enslaved Africans, of course, were also colonized Indigenous peoples, and many people ultimately classified as “Black” were of American Indian as well as African descent. But settler priorities were most effectively realized by eliminating as many American Indians as possible while encouraging the expansion of a subjugated Afrodescendant population. It is in this sense that Patrick Wolfe says “the two societies, Red and Black, were of antithetical but complementary value to White society.”163 “The outcome was a triangular transcontinental relationship in which the labour of enslaved Africans was mixed with the land of dispossessed Americans to produce European property.”164 This process and its contemporary consequences are the subjects of the next two chapters.

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