Dec 8, 2020
Massasoit statue. Chief of Wampanoag. Father of Metacom (King Phillip). Native man who who sent Squanto to live with colonist and made pacts with Plimoth folk and other colonists.
The dominant conception of white-native diplomacy holds that those who negotiate with the White will be guaranteed security and land. This is perhaps one of the most charlatan utterances made from white male businessmen (i.e class enemies, imperialists and thieves). I couldn’t have come up with a greater lie than this. Thank God for western epistemology for creating this socio-political/inherently-colonial puzzle of land acquisition and subjection.