The structure is one of perpetual disappearance of Indigenous bodies for perpetual territorial acquisition, to use Patrick Wolfe’s phrase. I experience it as a gendered structure and a series of complex and overlapping processes that work together as a cohort to maintain the structure. I certainly do not experience it as a historical incident that has unfortunate consequences in the present. I understand settler colonialism’s present structure as one that is formed and maintained by a series of processes for the purposes of dispossessing, that create scaffolding within which my relationship to the state is contained. I am interested in freedom, not survival, and as kwe, I understand my freedom is dependent upon the destruction of settler colonialism.
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