Mashkiig: An Anishinaabe (post)Apocalypse - Endnotes
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[2]. Dillon, Grace. Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. 2012: 8-9.
[3]. Wolf Lake near Chicago is called Mawi’igan (He/she Weeps Lake).
[4]. DOJ guidelines. https://www.justice.gov/otj/native-american-policies.
[5]. Simpson, Audra. Hohawk Interruptus. Duke University Press, 2014:11
[6]. Erdrich, Heid E., Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 2012: 119.
[7]. Megan Bang, Lawrence Curley, Adam Kessel, Ananda Marin, Eli S. Suzukovich III & George Strack (2014) Muskrat theories, tobacco in the streets, and living Chicago as Indigenous land, Environmental Education Research, 20:1, 37-55.
[8]. Tuck, E., and W. K. Yang. 2012. “Decolonization is not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1 (1):6
[10]. U.S. Constitution, Article VI, paragraph 2.
[11]. Deloria Jr., Vine. Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties.
[12]. Dillon, Grace. Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. 2012: 10.
[13]. Mark Rifkin. Beyond Settler Time. Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2017)
[14]. Other lands adjacent to the future canal were made available for sale in the present and purchased by east coast speculators, who bought and sold parcels many times over.
[15]. For a more detailed interpretation of financialization and the canal in the settlement of Chicago, see Rozalinda Borcilă, Creation Stories, So-called Chicago, in IDEA Arts+Society, #53 Cluj, 2019 also online http://borcila.com/writing/creation-stories-so-called-chicago/
[16]. Jodi A. Byrd. The Transit of Empire. Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011), xv
[17]. Manu Karuka, Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019), xii.
[18]. Manu Vimalassery, Juliana Hu Pegues, and Alyosha Goldstein, ”Colonial Unknowing and Relations of Study,” Theory & Event 20, no. 4 (2017), 1042
[19]. Cook County Forest Preserve. “Natural and Cultural Resources Master Plan”, 2015
[20]. The Wilderness Act, US Congress (Pub. L. 88-577) 1965 . “An Act to establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the permanent good of the whole people, and for other purposes”. Available online https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/88/s4/text
[21]. Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (New York: Verso Book, 2019), 248. Estes is Kul Wicasa, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate (the Great Sioux Nation or the Nation of the Seven Council Fires).
[22]. Cited in Rosalyn R. Lapier and David R M Beck. City Indian. Native American Activism in Chicago. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2015), 98
[23]. Chi-Nations Youth Council workshop, Chicago, 2016
[24]. Andrea Carlson. “The Earth is our Mothership” in Live Long and Prosper: Science Fiction in Contemporary Native Art. Exhibition catalogue, Institute for American Indian Arts, 2020
[25]. Rozalinda Borcilă, Nicholas Brown with Lance Foster. Meskonsing-Kansan. 2019. available at https://www.academia.edu/40579768/Meskonsing-Kansan see also https://medium.com/anthropocenedrift
[26]. Ann Vileisis, Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History Of America's Wetlands. (Island Press, Washington, D.C. and Covelo, CA, 1997), 7
[27]. Hugh Prince. Wetlands of the American Midwest. A Historical geography of Changing Attitudes. (University of Chicago Press, 1997), 290
[28]. Morgan M Robinson. “The neoliberalization of ecosystem services: wetland mitigation banking and problems in environmental governance”. Geoforum Volume 35, Issue 3, May 2004. 361-373
[29]. Sean Sullivan. “Banking Nature? The Spectacular Financialisation of Environmental Conservation”. Antipode, Volume 45, Issue 1. January 2013
[30]. a series of articles published by the research blog Wrong Kind of Green traces the role of conservation NGOs in developing the architecture for the financialization of nature and the systematic sabotage of Indigenous and anti-colonial political struggles. See http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/02/03/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-house-is-on-fire-the-90-trillion-dollar-rescue/