SOSA 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Piikani Nation, Settler Colonialism, Cultural Relativism

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Sociol & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1002
• Professor: Brian Noble

Document Summary

Treaty ecologies: with persons, peoples, animals and the land. Being in treaty" with animals; mentioned in both the video return to the source , and the article t reaty ecologies. Treaty is the idea of being able to love one another. Builds from stories from piikani and ktunaxa people on following deer", establishing what is called treaty ecologies across their territories. Piikani transfer ceremonies- relations among intimates and polities. Following deer- relations among animals and persons, and between peoples. Moving the relation from intimate to living together. The double register of decolonization: treaty ecologies vs colonality. Coloniality: the modern opposition of the relation between a self and another. The tendency of a self in an encounter to impose boundary coordinates (territory, knowledges, categories, normative practices, and, ways of life- of an other who have had prior, principle relations with those things.