Dr. Kim Tallbear Flashcards
Was colonization a straightforward single group process?
No
It was driven by many Institutions all at once
What is the allotment era and policy?
Splitting up of Indigenous land and giving their property away as private property
What was the goal of the allotment era on Indigenous people? (What did the settlers want with them)
They had the idea that most Indigenous people had died and there was excess land
Wanted to turn Indigenous people into property owning citizens
- give ___ amount of acres for each actor in a nuclear family (ex. 40 for man, 20 for woman, 10 per child)
After everyone has gotten their “share” can sell the rest to settlers
What does this do to the Indigenous family structure?
Dissolving Indigenous kinship relations that don’t occur in heteronormative nuclear families
How is the idea of marriage shaped in this time?
Civilized discourse going on rn
Western ppl married for love, arranged marriages were from “less evolved cultures”
Which three central institutions pushed the idea of heteronormative marriage?
-The Church
-The State
-Science (ideology of Individualism)
What is the culture shift from sufficiency to constant growth?
Sufficiency: we cultivated what we needed at that was it
Now: constant need to grow the GDP
What did her tribe practice in marriage?
Non-monogamous marriages
Men sometimes had multiple wife’s (ex. Married their wives sisters)
Explain the roles in marriage in non monogamous relationships?
We don’t know how much a wife was wed to notion of sex
Now: think of marriage as being:
-companionship
-co parent children
-financial partnership
-sexual needs
All that in one role of wife and husband
We’re Indigenous peoples gender binary?
No, more then two
These people were targeted
In her tribe, have a name (wink- tay) that aren’t mappable to LGBTQ or trans
-occupy different gender role then sex they were born into
How is Indigenous culture more focused on caretaking (application with marriage)
Ex. If have to look over many relatives, might take multiple wives to split tasks
How does she say modern couples are “unsustainable” ?
Couple is expected to stay together at all costs
Have terms like “broken or failed family” to demean those who don’t stay together
Don’t have as much extended family around to rely on
Why is our permiating heteronormative version of marriage harmful
We don’t see there are other options
Since this form of marriage is expected, some marriages fail because people aren’t aware of other forms of marriage
