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Contention 1: Abjection and Loss

Legal framing and stereotypes force American Indians to internalize two equally dangerous representations – those of the "noble savage" and "fierce savage" who owns casinos and plays fast and loose with the law – these images pre-frame decision making vis-a-vie American Indians.

Tsosie 10
(Rebecca – (Yaqui) Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law, Arizona State University; "Indians %26 Energy"; ed Sherry L. Smith and Brian Frehner; School for Advanced Research Press. P. 263-4)

Speaking at a conference on cultural sovereignty at the Arizona State¶ University College of
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develop will¶ determine our collective destiny on the lands that sustain us.

Self-determined energy policy is critical to the operation of sovereign states. Indian nations must have the decision-making power to build non-Western forms of development that balance cultural preservation with economic development. This presents an opportunity for resistance to the calcified notions of identity by demonstrating an identity outside of the dangerous binary.

Tsosie 10
(Rebecca – (Yaqui) Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law, Arizona State University; "Indians %26 Energy"; ed Sherry L. Smith and Brian Frehner; School for Advanced Research Press. P. 276-8)

For this reason, some commentators believe that tribal economic¶ development is necessarily at
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to illuminate the¶ human rights consequences of domestic and international energy policy.

That dual characterization of the Indian as provided two sets of violent encounters with the Indian other. The "noble savage" is the abject which the American subject defines itself in opposition to. Encounters with the abject have historically necessitated its elimination. Encounters with the "fierce savage" mandate domination and slavery to contain it.

Aldama 1
(Arturo J. – Prof Ethnic Studies University of Colorado Boulder; "Disrupting Savagism; Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Sel-Representation"; Duke UP; p. 14-6)
By contrast, the Dominican bishop of Chiapas, Bartolome de Las Casas,¶ a
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century (an issue¶ I discuss in greater detail in chapter 4).

The condition of utopian projects is failure: to compensate our psyches must produce a scapegoat to blame our failure to reach utopia. All excesses and failures condense into the image of the scapegoat. For our psyches to be satisfied the scapegoat must be eliminated necessitating genocide. The "greedy casino owner" image is where the excesses of American capitalism and colonialism can be dumped onto American Indians.

Stavrakakis 99 ~[Yannis, Teaching Fellow in the Dept of Govt at the Univ of Essex %26 Dir of the MA Prog in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Lacan and the Political, 99-105~]
Our age is clearly an age of social fragmentation, political disenchantment and open cynicism
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never actually filled in 99 different ways (seminar of 21 November 1962). 

Contention 2: Domestic Dependent Nations

The status of Indian Tribes as domestic dependent nations codifies the dual character of the American subject: one that is colonial through the continuing legacy of manifest destiny and one that is anti-colonial as a product of revolution.

Bergland 2k 
(Renee L. – prof English Simmons College; "The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects"; Dartmouth UP; p. 12-4)
One scholar who does share my fascination with the compelling pleasures of hauntedness is Julia
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Fiedler tells us, "all of us seem men possessed."20¶

The dual character of the American subject has created a fantasy of rationality and superiority over the abject Indian. This fantasy is unstable and relies on a national obsession with symbolic Indians which don’t exist.

Bergland 2k 
(Renee L. – prof English Simmons College; "The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects"; Dartmouth UP; p. 14-6)
While Fiedler describes Americans as men in love with their own madness (which takes
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which American subjects continually return to the Native American figures who haunt them. 

This makes extinction inevitable – nuclear technology has enabled the conditions for our unconscious death drive to break through the cracks in our fantasy and punish those who have broken it – this coupled with the breakdown of the fantasy rationality which sustains belief in deterrence makes nuclear use inevitable.

Themi 8 ~[Themi Deakin University 2008 Tim Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 4.1-2http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/96/192-http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/96/192~]
For to circle in too close to the Thing which is ethically forbidden by our
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return, as return of excess, are yielding our most tragic problems.

Plan

Thus, we affirm ending restrictions that allow the Secretary of the Interior to block production of wind and/or solar energy in Tribal Energy Resource Agreements.

Solvency

We don’t pretend that the plan ends the only restriction on tribal sovereignty – but energy development and control is a major component of that – easing TERA restrictions makes it an agreement between two sovereigns.

Hendershot 8—a columnist for the Smoky Mountain News and a freelance writer living in the mountains of Western North Carolina next to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Qualla Boundary (Don, Between Two Sovereigns, http://www.drinkerbiddle.com/Templates/media/files/news/2008/paul-moorehead-talks-tera-with-native-american-journal.pdf)

TERAs were devised to cut through the red tape and streamline the process by which
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local sovereign, the Indian tribe itself. In the old days, these

Advocating for Native renewable energy development is necessary to create epistemological fissures that can begin to rectify historical traumas of energy exploitation

Powell and Curley 9—Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Appalachian State—AND—Researcher, Diné Policy Institute, Navajo Nation (Dana and Andrew, K’e, Hozhó, and Non-governmental Politics on the Navajo Nation: Ontologies of Difference Manifest in Environmental Activism, http://www.ram-wan.net/documents/05_e_Journal/journal-4/5-powell.pdf)FLD=Fundamental-http://www.ram-wan.net/documents/05_e_Journal/journal-4/5-powell.pdf)FLD=Fundamental Laws of the Dine

In this paper, we explore how non-governmental political action on the Navajo
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such as the debate over existing and proposed development projects. And the sides

In order to form ethical relations with the other we must form relations with the other within us. For the American psyche this entails understanding how it is constituted based on the contradicting colonial impulses and how this has grafted the Indians into the American identity and territory.

Oliver 93
(Kelly— Vanderbilt; "Reading Kristeva: unraveling the double-bind" p. 149-50)
Strangers to Ourselves is about how we can live with difference. As early as
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which the other name is our radical strangeness." (1989, 290)

Prefer our method—it’s historically accurate in the context of politics—analyzing the social without desire produces serial policy failure because it doesn’t account for ethical forms of violence

McGowan 4 ~[Todd, Assoc Prof in Film Studies @ UVM, "The End of Dissatisfaction?" p 4-6~]

Psychoanalysis, however, calls into question the idea that we primarily act on behalf
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past, to traditional values, will necessarily be mediated by the present.

And, tying to the particularities of the status quo as they occur in with regards to Indians to the universal of ideology allows us to interrogate the point at which ideological lines meet, creating an opportunity to untie the ideological knot

Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1999
(Slavoj, The Ticklish Subject, page 175-176, gjm)
Ridiculous as this notion of the ’typical’ may sound, there is a grain of
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reason, psychoanalysis actually does cure by addressing the sinthome. . . .

The defining of an American subject in opposition to the abject "noble savage" writes more than just Indians into oppression. The constitution of the American subject ensures that it will only ever be white and male.

Bergland 2k 
(Renee L. – prof English Simmons College; "The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects"; Dartmouth UP; p. 16-7
For the most part, The National Uncanny focuses on ghosts of Native Americans.
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and obsession. This is the dynamic that pushes America’s noncitizens into uncanniness.