Overlaid settler landscapes make settlers unable to perceive Indigenous presence.
Evidence
Vicious sedimentation refers to how constant ascriptions of settler ecologies onto Indigenous ecologies fortify settler ignorance against Indigenous peoples over time. … When settlers even walk onto an Indigenous jurisdiction or nearby a sacred site, there is a good chance that they experience no awareness of any diff erence from their own lives. From the soils and hydrology to the fl ora and fauna, all they can see are settler ways of life. — Kyle Whyte, Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and…, 83
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the coined term ‘vicious sedimentation’ — the compounding of environmental erasure that naturalizes settler ignorance.
- XREF: Pairs with Reading the Landscape’s land-use history and with Goeman’s ‘settler grammars of place’ in the next paragraphs — the invisibility-of-Indigenous-presence mechanism. — connects to: Allies’ narrow environmental framing preserves the land structures causing injustice — Kyle Whyte, Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and…, 91; Settler colonialism is ecological domination that rebuilds Indigenous homelands into settler ecologies. — Kyle Whyte, Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and…, 65; Settler occupation can never be complete against a place’s deep local historicity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1850 (+3 more)
Related
- Allies’ narrow environmental framing preserves the land structures causing injustice (similarity 0.78)
- Colonial maps erased native settlement to designate empty Lockean land (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Settler occupation can never be complete against a place’s deep local historicity
#corroborates(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1850 - Settler occupation is inherently ahistorical and thus never complete
#expands(0.85) - Centering settler interiority depends on rendering the native as negligible.
#expands(0.82) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1173 - European maps ignored Native settlements in favor of colonial ones.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1354