They *say* "we all love the eagles," but they care about them only as a kind of decorative campus feature -- not as living persons with whom we share a habitat, and to whom we have a responsibility. The hypocrisy inherent in this exchange makes me so angry. At the same time the university is engaged in an Indigenous Strategic Plan and organizing activities for Truth and Reconciliation Day, they actually only do so as performative acts; in reality, they only pay lip service to Indigenous ways of knowing, Indigenous community members, and other-than-human persons.
They *say* "we all love the eagles," but they care about them only as a kind of decorative campus feature -- not as living persons with whom we share a habitat, and to whom we have a responsibility. The hypocrisy inherent in this exchange makes me so angry. At the same time the university is engaged in an Indigenous Strategic Plan and organizing activities for Truth and Reconciliation Day, they actually only do so as performative acts; in reality, they only pay lip service to Indigenous ways of knowing, Indigenous community members, and other-than-human persons.