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Native Literature, Sisseton Wahpeton College: Settler Alienation Syndrome

[TIMELESS] - And now your brilliant, erudite Native Literature professor goes bonkers, asking why the Ch’mokmanuk have a weird tendency to name geologic features in the Americas after the devil! Devil’s Bathtub, Devil’s Canyon, Devil’s Den, Devil’s Eye, etc. etc. WHY? He coins the term “Settler Alienation Syndrome,” described as _the psychological and spiritual dislocation colonizers experienced in Indigenous Homelands. It builds upon what literary critic Northrop Frye described as the “Garrison Mentality,” a common colonizer mindset that views the natural world as a “hostile wilderness.” Colonizers felt (and many of their descendants still feel) like aliens in this “New World,” projecting their own fear of the unknown onto the landscape and effectively erasing original sacred Indigenous names and spiritual connections. Prof. Singingeagle also tells two related personal stories about his undergraduate days at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), of often being the only Indian in class and being made to feel like an “Affirmative Action case.”