The Origin of American Authoritarianism | Episode 6
2026-07-27 · 47 min · episode 6 · 7 entities
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We’ve all been told our founders created a democracy. Rebecca talks with Maggie Blackhawk (Ojibwe) about why that's only half the story. Because our founders also wanted an empire. And so, they built both: a democracy that gave its citizens a voice and a vote; and an empire that controlled the lives and lands of people who had no say. That playbook never went away. Today, when our government wants to annex Greenland, deny citizenship to people born here, or put migrants in detention camps, it uses laws first passed to colonize Indigenous nations to do so.
Resources:
- July 31, join First America, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Red Media, and the Lindy Waters III Foundation for an evening celebrating Indigenous futurism, storytelling, and the release of "From the Heart of Our Nations"
- Get "From the Heart of Our Nations," a collection of short stories from First America's Indigenous youth writing workshop, here
- Dig further into Maggie Blackhawk's scholarship here
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