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Grounded Authority : The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State /

"Since Justin Trudeau's election in 2015, Canada has been hailed internationally as embarking on a truly progressive, post-postcolonial era--including an improved relationship between the state and its Indigenous peoples. Shiri Pasternak corrects this misconception, showing that colonialis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pasternak, Shiri (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Jurisdiction on indigenous land
  • Flipping the terms of recognition: a methodology
  • How did colonialism fail to dispossess?
  • Jurisdiction from the ground up: a legal order of care
  • Property as a technique of jurisdiction: traplines and tenure
  • "They're clear-cutting our way of life"
  • The trilateral agreement is born
  • Coup d'État in fourth-world Canada
  • The government must fall
  • Security, critical infrastructure, and the geography of indigenous lands
  • Conclusion. a land claim is Canada's claim: against extinguishment.