Racism, Sovereignty, and Thanksgiving

Abstract

We exist in a significant geo-political nexus in history of global development.  As African nations and Indigenous peoples around the world begin to kinetically resist neo-colonial trajectories, the west determines to redirect/impose past suppressions onto new targeted geographies. This paper will survey developments from 15^th and 16^th Century Papal Bulls through, government legislation and policy developments including the American Indian removal act of 1830, Berlin Conference of 1884-85, the Morgenthau Plan, late 20^th Century Neo-Colonial exploitation and continuing early 21^st Century attempts at reinscription. Within this context, the piece will conclude with a brief discussion of Larissa FastHorse’s the Thanksgiving Play as a response to the American holiday as against the backdrop of history.