This vs That
According to Bruce Braun, many non-Indigenous activists involved in Calyquot Sound protests simplified environmental issues down to THIS binary (not associated with Indigenous worldviews).
Pristine Nature vs. Destructive Humanity
THIS is an idea or group of ideas that fueled European expansion and domination of Indigenous peoples and lands around the world. According to Linda Tuhiwai Smith, this term has been used to refer to economic expansion, subjugation of others, a particular spirit which may be realized in many forms, and a discursive field of knowledge.
Imperialism
THIS film focuses on Indigenous-Settler relations around forestry and a specific Gitxsan logging blockade in the early 1990s. Covers the events leading up to the Delgammukw case.
Blockade (1993) dir. Nettie Wild
As succinctly defined by Atleo et al. (2022), which type of agreement is privately negotiated and legally enforceable agreements that establish formal relationships between Indigenous nations and industry proponents.
Impact Benefit Agreements
THIS organization published Stolen Lands, Broken Promises: Researching the Indian Land Question.
Think: relatively short (but also long) timeline
The Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC)
John Mohawk describes the relationship between humans and plants as THIS kind, where both have agency, obligations to each other, and have fed and shaped each other over time.
Reciprocal Relationship
The Haudenosaunee Peoples negotiated THIS famous treaty with the Dutch, based on the concept of mutual non-interference.
The Kaswentha ("Two Row Wampum")
One of the more moving quotes from THIS film about Port Radium, NWT and the varied impacts Dene people feel to this day:
"We think about that. It came from our land to be used to make other people suffer." - Alfred Taniton
A Moral Awakening: The legacy of the atom bomb
These 3 tenets define neoliberal capitalism.
Individuality
Profit maximization
Market dominance
THIS was the English name for the large freshwater lake which existed in the Lower Mainland and was drained in the 1920s to enable agricultural development.
Sumas Lake
According to Dr. Vanessa Watts, Indigenous Origin Stories are less fiction and more THIS.
Histories that actually happened
From 1927 to 1951, an amendment to the Indian Act (s.141) meant Indigenous people were prevented from doing THIS to pursue Crown clarification on matters of sovereignty and title.
Hire a Lawyer
THIS film seen in class highlighted the often hidden history of Stanley Park, which was once home to Indigenous villages and destroyed by arson.
BC: An Untold History
In the Boron & Markey case study of the SSN response to the proposed Ajax mine, the Participation Agreement falls under THIS category of the Participation Spectrum for Resource Decision-Making.
Co-Governance
THIS was the primary purpose of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Document the history and impacts of the Indian Residential School system
In discussing reconciliation in Canada, Avigail Eisenberg writes about the differences between "interactional injustice" and THIS kind.
Structural Justice
THIS Indigenous organization, initially formed in 1890 and reformed in 1907 lobbied for territorial ownership of the Nass Valley through political means and the Canadian courts, which ultimately led to the signing of the first ‘Modern Treaty’ in BC which became law in 2000.
Nisga’a Land Committee
The short film Invasion (2019) highlights the struggle of Wet'sewet’en land defenders in asserting their rights against THIS major resource project.
Coastal GasLink Pipeline
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was passed in 2007 and includes THIS often abbreviated principle, which comes into play during major project consultations.
FPIC (Free, prior, and informed consent)
The creation of THIS dam flooded 1700+ square kilometres of land, dispossessing and displacing Indigenous communities including Kwadacha, Tsay Keh Dene and McLeod Lake Nations, and significantly impacting (or outright drowning) ecosystems.
WAC Bennett Dam
THESE are geographic areas that have been permanently damaged by, or are disproportionately exposed to extreme industrial pollution and hazardous, environmental, or nuclear waste. Communities that live nearby are considered disposable in the pursuit of industrial, economic, or national security interests.
Sacrifice Zones
While there are many perspectives on reconciliation from those fighting for Indigenous self-determination, many draw from THESE two opposing responses.
Embrace & Rejection
BONUS: THIS Alanis Obomsawin 1993 film on the 1990 Oka Crisis is one of your TAs favourite films about Indigenous resistance. Watch it free at NFB.ca :)
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
THIS Glen Coulthard quote encapsulates the idea that true self-determination includes the ability to refuse, and that refusal may in actuality be the same as choosing to enact Indigenous traditions, ideas, ways of being, and economic alternatives.
“When Indigenous Peoples say ‘no’, they are also saying ‘yes’"
In the Atleo et al. media analysis case study of Indigenous stances on TMX, THIS is the shared goal which leaders holding a wide variety of positions all share - and which is further exhibited through their respect for each other's differing stances.
Self-determination!