Settler

So the question is not only why they left, it is why their presence became the problem.

One commenter rejects Settler as too wholesome, saying, they are land thieves, like that is not a vocabulary dispute.

It changes the moral frame from people living in a disputed place to people allegedly committing a crime.

Yeah, exactly.

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we got that going for us, which is nice.

But so the colonial government falls... to this guy named George Percy, who is one of the OG guys from the original Settlers.

And Powhatan and Opachek and I decide that their strategy is to go, we're going to starve them out.

They never decide to storm Jamestown, first of all, because it's just stupid, because they don't have the ability, being that they only have arrows and no armor, they'll never be able to get in.

We'll say a little bit more about that in a minute.

But when we sort of talk about being settlers on Turtle Island, and Turtle Island is a way of naming or talking about North America that draws from many different Indigenous creation stories, I think mostly or more specifically Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe stories.

And so when we talk about being here on this continent as settlers, That is the kind of history, which I've just given a very broad, simple overview of.

But those are the kind of processes through which we came to be on this land.

There are different ways that people came to be on this land, right? Through chattel slavery, through climate displacement and other forms of displacement due to war, due to other kinds of political violence, due to a loss of or like possibility of creating a livelihood in many cases because of the actions of colonial governments, including Canadian and U.S.

And others are part of teachings and practices that have existed between Indigenous nations before the Europeans arrived that they were then invited into.

So, for example, in the area where I live, the Dish with One Spoon Treaty is an agreement between Indigenous nations who live around the Great Lakes about how to share the land in a good way.

And settlers were invited into that agreement.

You're reading them, you're listening to them, you're thinking about them.

In this case, Settler seems to me is very likely to be at least a package deal and maybe an anti-concept.

Because a settler can be somebody who does homesteading.

who go somewhere in homesteads, and that's a legitimate process.

to understand here that all of this stuff There's an epistemology, there's a conceptual epistemology that's seriously involved in all this stuff, and it's leftist ideology.

The whole notion of settler is a shortened version, I think, of settler colonialists, which is a big deal in left-wing epistemology and politics these days.

Settler colonialists are people like people who came from Europe, Jews who came from Europe and land in Palestine, Palestine, you know.

And it's evil by nature.