Rhetorical Counterinsurgency: The FBI and the American Indian Movement

Kelly, Casey Ryan

doi:10.1080/15362426.2007.10557283

Advances in the History of Rhetoric

2007

DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2007.10557283

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Rhetorical Counterinsurgency: The FBI and the American Indian Movement

Casey Ryan Kelly

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Détournement, Decolonization, and the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969–1971)

Kelly

2014

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

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On November 20, 1969, eighty-nine American Indians calling themselves the "Indians of All Tribes" (IOAT) invaded Alcatraz Island. The group's founding proclamation was addressed to "the Great White Father and All His People," and declared "We, the Native Americans, reclaim the land known as Alcatraz Island in the name of all American Indians by right of discovery" (2). Tongue in cheek, the IOAT offered to purchase Alcatraz Island for "twenty-four dollars in glass beads and red clothe." In this essay, I illustrate how the IOAT engaged in a rhetoric of détournement, or a subversive misappropriation of dominant discourse that disassembles and imitates texts until they clearly display their oppressive qualities. I argue that the Proclamation established a textual framework that calls for a skeptical and irreverent reading of dominant discourse. I conclude that strategic détournements suture dominant discourses to the moniker of colonialism and invite sympathetic audiences to engage in decolonization.

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Détournement, Decolonization, and the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969–1971)

Kelly

2014

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American Indian Permission for Mascots: Resistance or Complicity within Rhetorical Colonialism?

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2015

Rhetoric and Public Affairs

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In 2005 the National Collegiate Athletic Association banned the use of American Indian symbols such as mascots, nicknames, and imagery in postseason sporting events. However, several universities successfully appealed this decision by demonstrating permission from eponymous American Indian nations. The focus of this essay is on the rhetorical implications of this permission argument within American Indian rhetoric about American Indian mascots, nicknames, and imagery. Drawing from the lens of rhetorical colonialism and an examination of the University of Utah Utes, I reveal how American Indian permission for mascots can be seen as upholding rather than challenging the system of colonialism through a form of self-colonization.

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Rhetorical Counterinsurgency: The FBI and the American Indian Movement

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Détournement, Decolonization, and the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969–1971)

Détournement, Decolonization, and the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969–1971)

American Indian Permission for Mascots: Resistance or Complicity within Rhetorical Colonialism?

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