To experience the community lands in the current period is to merely peer through and above the narrow gaps of thick steel bars. Indigenous peoples are being prevented access and movement to, from and across customary lands, and cultural property by U.S. legislation. Indigenous peoples’ concerted efforts to challenge the legality of U.S. deathscapes and settler ecologies/economies of war: “i.e.: a technology-saturated ‘roof’ of militarized airspace, filled with satellites, space debris plummeting down and being vaporated by NASA Space Engineers in Florida stadium lights, and agents stalking indigenous women under cover, in the dark, infrared radar, watch towers, drones, unmanned spy aircraft, and cyber information sharing crackdowns, spearheaded through the “Virtual Border Neighborhood Watch Program”, “border radio interoperability”, the “Texas Data Exchange” programs, and “K-9 units” [1] demands a critical genocide analysis in the conte...

Currently revising Chapter 3, a good thing Professor Shepherd nudged me to slow down and 'do' the Anglo-American early-to-late modern build-up of narratives which supported hyper-sovereignty, i.e. the power to kill without end. Currently reviewing Mbembe's work which will support my thesis (forthcoming in my dissertation!, sorry, can't share yet, though after May will link the diss here, so thanks and be patient!) Blue Skies in Pullman--believe it or NOT! I'm outa here!