Dressed in a strange fantasy: The Dialectics of Seeing and the Secret Passages of Desire

What is the weight of forgetting? How do we trace the proliferations of disavowal within settler colonialism, the ways in which legacies of mutuality and need give way to fantasies of categorical in dependence and self-sufficiency? By what monstrous dialectic must the formation of the self through the refusal of the other unfold as aimlessly destructive hatred? In chapter 1, I explore the settler disavowal of Indigenous sovereignty and the associated obligations of kinship through a consideration of Makataimeshekiakiak’s burial and the violation of his remains. I read Makataimeshekiakiak’s burial as part of the composition of Sauk sovereignty as geophysical narrative,