By Johnny Hawke Settler societies have long perfected the art of elevating select figures—often from marginalized communities—while leaving intact the systems that dispossess, erase, and extract from Indigenous peoples. Celebrity worship—whether of Obama, Bad Bunny, or Billie Eilish—functions similarly to what Indigenous scholars identify as performative reconciliation . The dominant culture celebrates symbolic diversity, radical aesthetics, or “woke” branding, while pipelines are approved,...

By Johnny Hawke Top Left: Land Claim Lawyers for Chippewa Tri Council and Robinson Huron Treaty. Ian Johnson, Top Right, Allan Pratt., Bottom Left David Nahwehgabow, Bottom Right, Diane Corbiere Allan Pratt and Ian Johnson, Lead Negotiators and Lawyer for Beausoleil First Nation, Chippewas of Rama and Georgina Island sued these First Nations for a 13 Million Dollar Bonus in 2012 regarding their successful negotiations with Canada and Ontario regarding the Coldwater Narrows Experiment "Claim."...