ABSTRACT
While they may have a great deal to tell us about our current crises, the voices of indigenous peoples are still far from being heard by those at the center of power. At the dawn of the new millennium we witnessed a reassertion of US imperial ambitions. In response to the events of 11 September 2001, the United States National Security Strategy of 2002 stated that the United States was engaged in a war against evil that demanded a full spectrum global response to any imminent threat – in other words preparing through the projection of military power for a seemingly endless state of crisis and emergency (Bush 2002). Besides its military component, the National Security Strategy called for the promotion of a neoliberal global economy and westernstyle democracies, goals designed to further consolidate the world in the image of the West and thus defeat fundamentalisms emanating from forces of irrationality located outside “civilization’s” boundaries. In short, the early 2000s were marked by a new stage in US global reach – evidence of imperial pretensions was everywhere (J. A. Tickner 2006, 384).
