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Week 18: watch an indigenous television show.

Time for Reservation Dogs.

Ongoing proof that shame is a great way to get things done.

The trash talk in ancient Greek warfare was top notch. Going to incorporate "pestilent creature" into my daily burns.

Week 10: Support the Renaming of Colonial Memorializations

*Read sitting across the street from Toronto Metropolitan University*

Falling behind!
Week 9: Support an Indigenous Musician.

You can't go wrong with Halluci Nation. Intrigued by iskwē, and indigenousmusic.ca seems to be great.

This is really two books in one (the literary history of Timbuktu, and Malian political unrest) and it's making discussion of each one worse

"She's not a lunatic, she's from New York."

Great stuff.

I'm... a little lost. 70 pages about ancient books, and now 70 pages about Malian and Libyan regional politics. Bring it home, Joshua.

Week 6 - Write a land acknowledgment:

Avoid recitation and rote memorization of generic acknowledgements. Instead:

- Write one from scratch before you intend to deliver it.
-List ways the land has benefitted you.
-If possible, list ways in which you will give back to the land.
-Acknowledge if land is ceded territory or treaty land.
-Use words from the language of those people who inhabited the land before you.

Like Lord Of The Rings, but make it sex work.

Chapter 5, his most compelling so far, deals with "the lived experience of the black man."

The writing is quite philosophical, and often times uses poetry, so it flew over my head frequently. This quote, however, sticks:

"The crippled soldier from the Pacific war tells my brother: 'Get used to your color the way I got used to my stump. We are both casualties.'"

The only thing better than books is books about books.

I really struggled with the actual analysis of this chapter; heavy reliance on psychoanalysis and the meaning of dreams, in prose that's in a style my brain isn't made for. That being said, he reminds us to not be distracted by an oppressor tying their oppression to faults in the oppressed. Colonialism/racism is the same everywhere; it is violence from the oppressor. The victim does not change that one bit.

Week 5: Research Indigenous Place Names

Toronto:

-Originally "Tkaronto" (Mohawk) referring to "where there are trees standing in water," a channel of water between Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching where saplings were placed in the river creating fish weirs.
-The alternative interpretation, derived from "Toronton" (Huron) referring to "meeting place," has now been shown to derive from a colonial interpretation error.

Week 5: Research Indigenous Place Names

Toronto:

-Originally "Tkaronto" (Mohawk) referring to "where there are trees standing in water," a channel of water between Lakes Simcoe and Couchiching where saplings were placed in the river creating fish weirs.
-The alternative interpretation, derived from "Toronton" (Huron) referring to "meeting place," has now been shown to derive from a colonial interpretation error.

I, too, would start jerking minotaurs off if I had to give up my Tropicana and give Galen Weston even more money by settling for President's Choice. We are all Violet.