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Dammed by the State: Indian Fishing and the Geographies of Settler Colonialism in the Columbia River Basin

Abstract

This project investigates the potential of Indigenous fishing in the Columbia River Basin to challenge the genocidal hegemony of the settler state, and advocates for fishing as a decolonial praxis that can disrupt the logics of recognition and interpellation that rest on a rights-based framework for understanding Indian sovereignty. Ongoing practices of Indian food production affirm not only the existence of Indigenous peoples but also the permanence of indigeneity in ways that pre-exist and supercede the settler state.

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