The Military Industrial Complex
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.55016/h5wa8r35Mots-clés :
Settler Colonialism, Racism, Community Activism, Indigenous Worldviews, military industrial complex, Native HawaiianRésumé
Space and time are Western constructs in which Kānaka Maoli are confined to understanding the way in which the world operates. When individuals from Hawaiʻi enlist in the military industrial complex, Xtorically, there’s a sense of safety, through being part of an entity that inserts domination and power. Xtory is a term I introduced and defined at a conference in 2022 related to Indigenous Peoples and the “history” surrounding our Peoples as the Western world extracts, exploits, and erases our stories. These same stories become the ways in which the military industrial complex is complicit in the process of assimilation and elimination of Kānaka Maoli identity that leaves enlisted soldiers and their families in the space of the in-between. This poem is about existing in many silos such as time and space, in a matrix of safety, and the constructs of the Black/white binary (Gines, 2013) and the ways Kānaka Maoli overcome these Western constructs by returning to our lands and listening or hearing the voices of our ancestors across time spans.
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