Sand Creek Meets #blacklivesmatter: Decolonial Collective Remembrance

• In Event: 34.024 - Curriculum of Conquest and Borders: Land-Based Violences and Land-Based Relationships

Abstract

Settler colonial and anti-black mappings of space and time have positioned Native and Black peoples to always diverge. Both the elimination of the Native and the enslavement of the Black are key components to achieving progress and humanity under these conditions. This orchestrated divergence is foundational to ensuring the future of the settler colonial anti-black project of the United States. This article analyzes an encounter between Indigenous event of remembrance and Black movement of remembrance. Each group refused to forget the violence the state continually brought upon them. I use this meeting in real space and time to work the complexity of the theory and illustrate its material consequences. Lastly, I reflect on the potentiality illuminated from this unexpected meeting.

Author

• Sara Chase, Berkeley University of California