Jack D. Forbes
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Oct 26, 2026
Samantha FeyHOST
The talk eventually died down until years later when more sheep were found dead.
Samantha FeyHOST
So authorities exhumed the bodies and found strange things.
Samantha FeyHOST
Nails seemed to have grown on one hand but not the other.
Samantha FeyHOST
One woman who died pale and gaunt appeared plump and healthy when they unearthed her grave.
Kent BlansettGUEST
So like the students from San Francisco State knew the students from Berkeley because the Indian community was very closely tied through the Indian Center and other institutions.
Kent BlansettGUEST
And out of this, Jack Forbes, who was Lenape and Powhatan descent, he was running this, what was called Far Out Labs is what the students called it, but it was at the Far West Laboratory.
Kent BlansettGUEST
And he was a historian, got his degree in the 1950s.
Kent BlansettGUEST
And he was talking about, you know, liberation kind of theology.
Miguel ConnerHOST
And that is with Wetiko, the disease of consumption.
Miguel ConnerHOST
In his 1978 book, Columbus and Other Cannibals, Native American scholar and activist Jack D. Forbes uses Cree Wetiko, also Wendigo or Wentiko, for greed, consumption, and exploitation.
Miguel ConnerHOST
The Wetiko is, well, Forbes defines Wetiko as the consuming of another's life or one's private pursuit of profit.
Miguel ConnerHOST
A mental virus, one person or culture preys on another's energy, freedoms, and lives.
Kurly TlapoyawaHOST
Descendants of early Spanish colonists who reject such an alliance with the Indian natives of the Americas also reject the most obvious claim to the retribution for the misdeeds committed by the Anglos who stole the land.
Ruben Arellano TlakatekatlHOST
That knowledgeable Native Americans recognize such Chicano claims is evident from the following statement made in 1973 by Jack D. Forbes, a Native American scholar.
Kurly TlapoyawaHOST
The Aztecas del Norte, an Azteca is a person of Aztlán or the Southwest, compose the largest single tribe or nation of Anishinaabeg Indians found in the United States today.
Kurly TlapoyawaHOST
Some call themselves Chicanos and see themselves as people whose true homeland is Aztlán.
Ruben Arellano TlakatekatlHOST
And that's basically the period between 1848 and leading up into the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Ruben Arellano TlakatekatlHOST
So now what we're going to do is transition to what I have to say about this in my dissertation.
Ruben Arellano TlakatekatlHOST
And it's an adaptation that is based partly on Chavez's work, but it's also based on the work that Jack D. Forbes did, which influenced Chavez.
Ruben Arellano TlakatekatlHOST
And I should also mention that Chavez was possibly the first and one of the few Chicanos that read Forbes' ideas of Chicanos being indigenous and applied it to his scholarship.
Philip McKenzieHOST
You, you use this, this language when you talk about this sort of parasitic relationship that these, these kind of big empires all have in common.
Philip McKenzieHOST
And it reminded me of, um, a book that I've mentioned on this show before, um, Columbus & Other Cannibals by, by Jack D. Forbes, where he kind of describes, Indigenous writer, and he kind of describes the introduction of Europeans to North America and South America as being cannibals, right? Like they, they have no-- not in the actuality that they ate human flesh, but in the sense that they have this rapacious appetite that does not allow for the moderation of any instinct other than devouring everything in its sight, right? And when you, when you were talking about these sort of parasitic societies, that book just, again, it was a put down moment, right? Where I had to kind of go back to the shelf back here and kind of find that book and kind of flip through it a little bit to kind of hear, to kind of get re- reacquaint myself with his analysis, his thinking.
Philip McKenzieHOST
And he's not, he's just one that I have on my shelf, right? There's many others we can, uh, we can kind of pull, so I'm not trying to make it seem like it's the only one.
Philip McKenzieHOST
The way in which we perceive these things, but I think that language is, is very particular language to use.