When Indigenous peoples use the term nationhood, we aren't talking about nation states. We are talking about formations that respected and worked with different sovereignties over shared time and space. Giving up what you can so others might live. Again, this ethic of care.
It's the nation state as a delivery system for racial capitalism that's the problem. Racial capitalism requires borders and enclosures and vio-lence. It requires heteropatriarchy and transphobia.
It is possible to make worlds that connect to other worlds, places where self-determination doesn't threaten the very viability of the planet where we can live and work together. It is possible to make Nishnaabeg places where we govern ourselves without the sort of borders. It is possible for living things to move and migrate without destroying Nishnaabeg homelands. There are lots of people from different moments and intellectual traditions dreaming and thinking about this. There are people in every part of the world coming together and building pieces of this with each other. Indigenous peoples on every content hold communal experiences and theory about how to live and live well without police, prisons and armies, in societies where violence is unthinkable, without enclosures.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, interviewed by Matt Hern and Am Johal in O My Friends, There is no Friend
