Aidan Gardiner
HIS 390
2/26/2024
I am studying how non-intersectional activism affects indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwest because I want to find out how non-intersectional activism affects indigenous groups in North America and what the consequences are, in order to understand how to combat this unhelpful and ethnocentric form of activism. Non-intersectional activism creates harmful effects and damages the already tense relationship of the indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest with the local settler population. This form of activism is ethnocentric and does not take a humanistic approach to understand indigenous culture and the relationship the indigenous nations have with the environment. Several of the sources from JSTOR include Exercising Cultural Self-Determination: The Makah Indian Tribe Goes Whaling and the Makah Tribe website . These resources are helpful as they give insight into the Makah Tribes' views on the significance of whale hunting.
I think after reading instead of focusing on non-intersectional activism I might shift towards a more Native Rights focus instead of the conflict between activists and Native Tribes. A lot of what I read from the tribes, from their websites, focused on their campaigns for more security for their rights and the honoring of the laws passed to give protection to the indigenous groups. The secondary sources that I have focused primarily on giving context to the history of Indigenous rights and culture in the Pacific Northwest. I have learned a lot more about how the Indigenous rights of self-determination have been infringed. I had a hard time finding peer-reviewed articles that acted as primary sources, so I had to expand my net to non-peer-reviewed articles. I have a lot more questions specifically about what can be done to return the land and food-gathering rights to the Indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest. 