Don't Define Me
These 3 "Aboriginal Peoples” have rights enshrined within the Canadian Constitution under section 35.
Inuit, First Nations & Métis
Robin Wall Kimmerer proposes THESE alliterative guiding principles for restoring our relationships with more-than-human beings & the natural world.
The Honourable Harvest
Name the non-legally binding document with the following quote: "Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development."
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
THIS federal government agency has long been held responsible for fisheries regulation and mismanagement by Coastal Indigenous communities.
Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)
This Aboriginal Title court case was undertaken by the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en peoples in the 1990s - resulting in a landmark Supreme Court decision.
Delgamuuk
Adam Barker provides a (non-comprehensive) definition of Settler Canadians which includes: most peoples who occupy lands previously stolen or in the process of being taken from their Indigenous inhabitants or who are otherwise members of the “Settler society,” which is founded on co-opted lands and resources. However, THESE non-Indigenous Peoples in Canada are not considered Settlers.
People who have come over not of their own will or seeking to benefit from settler society e.g. descendants of enslaved people
Non comprehensive also re: hybrid identities
Keys to the Barker Settler definition: (1) non-Indigenous is not enough; (2) they or their ancestors sought to benefit from the SC system; (3) currently occupy lands previously stolen or in the process of being taken from their Indigenous inhabitants.
Vanessa Watts describes THIS theoretical understanding of the world via physical embodiment, whereby it is "necessary to tease out what the land’s intentions might be, and how she tries to speak through us.”
Place-Thought
"If your life sucks, you suck" is a quote by THIS person who exhibits a tribal capitalism meets bootstraps capitalism mindset
Chief Clarence Louie - Osoyoos Indian Band
Much of Atleo's article on capitalism is spent in dialogue with THIS Chippewa scholar regarding whether Indigenous communities can survive this encounter with capitalism.
Duane Champagne
THIS Stó꞉lō author describes in-depth his family connections to the waters which define his territory, concluding: "All those things, those are all ours, and we have to take care of them because nobody else can take care of them but us. So to me, that's our Aboriginal right and title."
Albert "Sonny" Naxaxalhts’I McHalsie
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission published its Final Report, including 94 specific recommendations known as THESE.
Calls to Action
THESE agreements (when honoured) and THIS state where multiple systems of law govern actions in one place - are both examples of Relational Sovereignty.
Treaty Relationships
Legal Pluralism - Multiple systems of law governing actions in one place
In her R.A.C.E. keynote, Audra Simpson says “Indian women disappear because they have been conflated with land. Because they are thus desirable, disposable, and thus contaminating to white settler social order they must be rendered without bodily integrity.” What topic is she addressing though the symbolic comparison of Settler State violence against both Indigenous bodies and land?
Missing & murdered Indigenous women, girls, and LGBTQ2S people
THIS economic approach to development prioritizes the export of raw materials or resources, such as fur, timber, fish, and oil from a resource rich ‘hinterland’ to an industrial ‘heartland’ (think Canada to Europe in the 1800s).
Staples Theory
(Remember think everyday "staples")
THIS governance organization's agreements and self-assessment of THIS proposed mine cover categories of collaboration, co-governance, and autonomous governance on the Resource Decision Participation Spectrum. (need both)
Stk’emlu’psemc te Secwepemc (SSN) - including the Tk’emlu’ps te Secwepemc Indian Band and Skeetchestn Indian Band, which is part of the Secwepemc Nation.
Ajax Mine
Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation owning Canoe Creek Hydro, Haa-ak-suuk Creek & Winchie Creek Hydro and the Navajo voting in favour of extending their coal mine’s production life are both examples of THIS form of political power.
Energy Sovereignty
John Mohawk's talk on "Native American pragmatism" highlights the survival of Indigenous Peoples and the value of their knowledge systems. In fact, it is THIS trait which he believes to be "humanity's greatest strength."
Adaptability
This Anishinaabe author says, “Our knowledge comes from the land, and the destruction of the environment is a colonial manifestation and a direct attack on Indigenous Knowledge and Indigenous nationhood.”
Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
THIS model of forestry with an appropriately euro-centric moniker became the global standard for large extraction, emphasizing the need to impose 'order' on 'disorderly' nature.
The German Forest
This was the nickname of the 1993 conflict in Clayoquot Sound over old growth logging.
The War in the Woods
According to Michelle Daigle, constraining Indigenous self-determination within colonial territorial boundaries as opposed to Indigenous relational networks is an example of THIS.
The Spatial Politics of Recognition
Indigenous knowledge systems often frame their relationship to animals lands and waters as not resources but THIS.
Relations and/or nations with agency
Glen Coulthard writes, "For Indigenous nations to live, capitalism must die. And for capitalism to die, we must actively participate in the construction of" THESE options.
Indigenous alternatives
According to Lynne Davis, Heiltsuk relationships with environmental activists often unfolded through stages of confrontation, learning, alliance building, and shifting terrains. However, the relationships might offer THESE four things of value which made the networking worth it for the Heiltsuk.
Environmental groups offer four things that are of value to the Heiltsuk: money, contacts, political mobilization, and professional expertise.
THIS nation is asserting their energy sovereignty through hydro projects like Canoe Creek Hydro, Haa-ak-suuk Creek Hydro, and Winchie Creek Hydro.
Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation