The Illusion of Inclusion

Co-optation via participation in state governmental institutions offers indigenous peoples the illusion of inclusion. What is needed today is a de-occupation of settler institutions and values fromindigenous homelands. According to Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) scholar Taiaiake Alfred, “Delegitimizing the regime is the most fundamentally radical act one can perform.”

[ Quoted from To Be Ungovernable by Jeff Corntassel]