INDG 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Settler Colonialism, Multiculturalism In Canada, Kinship
9 Jun 2018
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Friday April 6th - Indigenous youth, nationhood, and decolonization
• Reflection Audra Simpson due Sunday
• Final paper due Friday the 13th
Readings
• Foundational works to course: Audra Simpson, and Allyship is not a metaphor (à la
Tuck)
Audra Simpson: Mohawk Interruptus
• Anthropological framework is colonial = incompatible with self determination of
Indigenous peoples
-reification
- uses refusal to show how efforts are on terms of indigenous people
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- “in divided unity” by Theresa McCarthy applies ideas of Simpson on ground level
- embedded sovereignty, refusal, other claims are contemporary
- de-pathologizes moments of crisis within Mohawk community as political moments in
reaction to hundreds of years of settler policy. She focuses on community narratives and
diff of citizenship
- upholding of J treaty and border stories - “words are pronounced properly but listener
doesn’t hear them.”
- settler state wants to frame Indigenous peoples as a minority, wants to encourage
indigenous people to forget that they are sovereign states.
- strength as people coming from refusal to participate
- blood quantum used to reframe Indigenous people as racialized minority: used as tool of
removal of sovereignty
- static notion of culture used to recognize legitimate trade. Notion of static culture is used
to define who is Mohawk
-political activism occurring outside of discussion of constitutional rights
-Academy and activism can coexist.
Turning gaze back onto canon, settler colonialism. Occurring alongside community
activism. Someone’s work in academy and use of western theory for own purposes doesn’t
discredit their work in nations, communities
• Historical context of membership:
State turning Indigeneity into a minority?
• Frames existence of Indigenous people around the state
-state treats racialized minorities as group that needs multicultural legislation to frame
them within group
-but indigenous people have law that exists beyond the state
- Canadian multiculturalism aims to uphold culture without sovereignty. Culture is
inherently about sovereignty.
- Racialized minorities existing on state’s terms.
- Canada frames minorities hyper culturally
- Kinship networks
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Document Summary
Friday april 6th - indigenous youth, nationhood, and decolonization: reflection audra simpson due sunday, final paper due friday the 13th. Readings: foundational works to course: audra simpson, and allyship is not a metaphor ( la. Audra simpson: mohawk interruptus: anthropological framework is colonial = incompatible with self determination of. Uses refusal to show how efforts are on terms of indigenous people. In divided unity by theresa mccarthy applies ideas of simpson on ground level. Embedded sovereignty, refusal, other claims are contemporary. De-pathologizes moments of crisis within mohawk community as political moments in reaction to hundreds of years of settler policy. She focuses on community narratives and diff of citizenship. Upholding of j treaty and border stories - words are pronounced properly but listener doesn"t hear them. Settler state wants to frame indigenous peoples as a minority, wants to encourage indigenous people to forget that they are sovereign states. Strength as people coming from refusal to participate.
