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This round, this space, is a setting in which you should deploy Red Pedagogy – that is, an educational praxis which foregrounds Native intellectualism. Red pedagogy allows us to create a decolonized democratic space and activate our political agency

Grande 8 (Sandy, Associate Professor of Education at Connecticut College, Ph.D., Kent State University, Fellow in the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, member of the EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council’s Indigenous People’s Work Group, “Red Pedagogy” in Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, pg. 242-3, og)

From the standpoint …. hopeful spirit of indigeneity.

US Indian energy policy is historically paternalistic –

Voggesser 12 (Garritt, National Director for Tribal Partnerships, National Wildlife Foundation, “The Evolution of Federal Energy Policy” in Indian and Energy, pg. 66-68, og)

More than a decade …… energy¶ resource development.3 9

Current federal policy is still paternalistic

Indian Country Today 11 (“Rep. Young and Tribes Protest BIA’s Tight Restrictions on Energy Development”, http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/04/05/tribes-strike-bias-big-daddy-approach-to-energy-development-26718 , Acc: 8/15/12, og)

Tribal leaders and lawmakers …. told the Great Falls Tribune.

Paternalism allows for US violence against the Native other under the guise of benevolence

Black 7 (Jason Edward, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at University of Alabama, Ph.D, “Remembrances of Removal: Native Resistance to Allotment and the Unmasking of Paternal Benevolence”, Southern Communication Journal, 72: 2, pp. 185-203, og)

Paternalism, another nineteenth-century ….. and benevolent desires.

Paternalism should be rejected – Clyde Warrior, founder of the National Indian Youth Council speaks in 1967 -

Warrior 67 (Clyde, member of the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, founder of the National Indian Youth Council, “We Are Not Free”, originally published in “Red Power”, http://melanconent.com/lib/oc/wearenotfree.html, Acc: 9/8/12, og)

We are not free. ….. what is best for themselves.