{"id":24327,"date":"2021-02-03T08:54:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T08:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=132699"},"modified":"2021-02-03T08:54:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T08:54:37","slug":"the-resilience-doctrine-indigenous-nations-understand-disaster-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/03\/the-resilience-doctrine-indigenous-nations-understand-disaster-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Resilience Doctrine: Indigenous Nations Understand Disaster Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"
Part 3 of a 4-part Primer on Disaster Collectivism \u00a0in the Climate and Pandemic Crises.<\/em><\/p>\n From the perspectives of Indigenous nations, the crises of 2020 have not been something entirely new, or even a significant historical departure from \u201cnormal.\u201d Having previously experienced the ravages of violent colonialism, pandemics, environmental catastrophe, and forced assimilation, the current era has long been a dystopia for Native peoples. The Dakota scholar Kim TallBear described 2020 not as an unprecedented apocalypse, or an exception to normalized \u201cprogress\u201d in the settler colonial empire, but rather as “a sharpening of the already present<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Ann Marie Chischilly, the Din\u00e9 executive director of the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, pointed to previous Indigenous experience with environmental disruptions and pandemics when she said \u201cResilience is in our DNA.\u201d This meeting of history and present-day realities enables Indigenous peoples to have deeper perspectives on existential crises, and to envision and create innovative paths out of these crises.<\/p>\n\n