Settler Colonial Sovereignty: Visions of Improvement and Indigenous Erasure Tlingit Fleeing a breakup

Fleeing a breakup

but when family tragedy strikes

especially those interested in Native customs and art

" — Attorney Kathryn Holt Richardson

Before they will shut their eyes

Settler Colonial Sovereignty: Visions of Improvement and Indigenous Erasure Tlingit Fleeing a breakupKnowledge production in the Anglosphere depends on the erasure of non Western ways of knowing especially ways of knowing oneself, the lands and waters, and the relationships between these entities. In settler colonial states those in power seldom question this erasure, despite the ongoing presence and power of Indigenous nations. In this groundbreaking work, Liam Midzain Gobin illuminates how the logic of improvement animates this epistemological