ABSTRACT
The major objective of the symposium is to attempt to survey the rich field of Indigenous studies since Strange Multiplicity in 1995. Strange Multiplicity is a story of Indigenous peoples of America prior to European settlement; of an early period of treaty relationships, of the gradual dispossession, internal colonisation, cultural genocide, and assimilation of Indigenous peoples by the settler states erected over their traditional territories or lifeworlds. Parallel to Indigenous people, Adorno and Horkheimer argued that modern relations of the domination of nature went along with dominating social systems. Indigenous people could see what is wrong with the settlers’ system because they have often generated vicious and unsustainable relationships to their ecosystems and to each other.
