{"id":1604,"date":"2019-10-14T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2019-10-13T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T01:39:10","slug":"why-we-honor-indigenous-peoples-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2019\/10\/14\/why-we-honor-indigenous-peoples-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Honor Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1607\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1607\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2017\/10\/5189045616_77254c533f_z-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2017\/10\/5189045616_77254c533f_z-1.jpg 485w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2017\/10\/5189045616_77254c533f_z-1-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dishchii&#8217; Bikoh&#8217; Apache Group from Cibecue, Arizona, demonstrates the Apache Crown Dance. Photo by Grand Canyon National Park, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Originally posted October 9, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent years, \u00a0an <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4968067\/indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day-cities\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">increasing number of Americans<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are celebrating Indigenous People&#8217;s Day to honor those who suffered at the hands of explorers like Christopher Columbus. Social science research helps us understand the underlying gender and racial components of colonial settlement in the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In what is now the United States, Andrea Smith argues that sexual conquest &#8212; the rape of native women &#8212; was closely tied to the conquest of land. Europeans perceived the indigenous people that inhabited the Americas as uncivilized. Ideas of white civility deemed native women as hypersexual and uncontrollable, unlike white women, whose perceived purity they could not match. These ideas of native women\u2019s sexuality allowed for European males to rape native women without consequence. <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrea_Smith_(academic)\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrea Smith<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 2003 \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialequitytools.org\/resourcefiles\/NotIndianTradition.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hypatia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 18(2): 70-85.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.ku.edu\/joane-nagel\">Joane Nagel<\/a>. 2003. <a href=\"http:\/\/global.oup.com\/ushe\/product\/race-ethnicity-and-sexuality-9780195127478\"><i>Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers<\/i><\/a>. New York: Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ideas about native men\u2019s and women\u2019s \u00a0inferiority were also important for white men\u2019s identities. In the U.S., white settlers believed themselves to be superior to indigenous peoples, bringing enlightenment to an empty wilderness. White, male identity was thus closely tied to the control of land and ownership of property. \u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu\/people\/faculty-profile\/evelyn-nakano-glenn-1\">Evelyn Nakano Glenn.<\/a> 2015. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/settler-colonialism-structure-framework-comparative-studies-us-race-and-gender-formation\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Settler Colonialism as Structure: A framework for Comparative Studies of US Race and Gender Formation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sociology of Race and Ethnicity<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1(1): 54-74.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colonizers viewed land as a metaphor for women\u2019s subjugation. Land &#8211; similar to women &#8211; was something to be taken and possessed by European men. For example, Europeans who colonized parts of Africa referred to the continent as \u201cvirgin land.\u201d Just as virginity was used to describe young women who are perceived as pure and untainted by sex, referring to unconquered land as \u201cvirgin\u201d reflects the European\u2019s beliefs that it was also pure, untainted, and ripe for European colonization. <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/english.wisc.edu\/amcclintock\/\">Anne McClintock<\/a>. 1995. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Imperial-Leather-Sexuality-Colonial-Contest\/dp\/0415908906\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. New York: Routledge.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted October 9, 2017 In recent years, \u00a0an increasing number of Americans are celebrating Indigenous People&#8217;s Day to honor those who suffered at the hands of explorers like Christopher Columbus. Social science research helps us understand the underlying gender and racial components of colonial settlement in the United States. 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