Eve Tuck Quotes

Eve Tuck is an award-winning Unangax̂ scholar in the field of Indigenous studies and educational research.

Tuck is the associate professor of critical race and indigenous studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Wikipedia

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Eve Tuck Quotes

“The pursuit of critical consciousness, the pursuit of social justice through a critical enlightenment, can also be settler moves to innocence - diversions, distractions, which relieve the settler of feelings of guilt or responsibility, and conceal the need to give up land or power or privilege.”

Eve Tuck

Source: "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor", p. 21

Feeling , Justice

“Settlers are not immigrants. Immigrants are beholden to the Indigenous laws and epistemologies of the lands they migrate to. Settlers become the law, supplanting Indigenous laws and epistemologies. Therefore, settler nations are not immigrant nations.”

Eve Tuck

Source: "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor", p. 6

Law

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