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This is very interesting. hiring Herring was not exclusively, or even primarily, a practical move intended to provide water for the city. It was intended to position Winnipeg within the power-rankings of settler society, concerned with industrialization, modernity, etc. How much of industrial 'progress' is entirely perceptual, concerned with appearances, illusory
ThisIndigenous knowledgedidnottransferconsistentlytothenewcomers.
How could it? the settler mode of development is contradictory to this kind of low-impact, contextual support of water needs.
“water.men”whodrewwaterfromwellsorfromtheRedRi
Thecity’snameisfamouslyderivedfromtheCreenameWin-nipi,ormurkywater.
Murky water- Indigenous people already recognized the necessary relationship between the river and themselves. Long before Winnipeg's municipal water system turned this relationship into a problem
hat Shoal Lake 40’s status as a community with ;able water can be tied directly to the building of snag mkdesigned to bring drinkable water to the city of Winni ceathis an especially telling example of the ways that sober: aism has worked.
Shoal Lake 40 lacks water because of construction of aqueduct for Winnipeg- the needs of urban settlers are placed above those of Indigenous people
Why, then, is the State Department, where human relationships are primary, notthe appropriate place for negotiating relations with Indigenous nations?
Reminds me of our conversation about the dioramas- Indigenous people are placed in the same space of scholarly analysis as animals, plants, the environment, etc. in the natural history museum. It seems that this is central to the ongoing justification of settler colonialism- that Indigenous people are merely part of the environment, and therefore are open to exploitation just as natural resources are
The UN’sinability to prevent its member states and others from resorting to violence showsa weak center, one that cannot hold.
The premise of the UN is to keep its member states from performing violence on each other- it is a global mediator between opposing parties. The fact that it cannot accomplish this goal is indicative of the failure of the post-WWII peace
thehuman experience
the experience of the enlightenment- of scientific progress, rationalism, democracy or republicanism, etc. This constitutes a one-world-world, which seeks to absorb or destroy other worlds. The experience of the enlightenment sees other world-experiences as mutually exclusive with itself