Being Indigenous: Resurgences against Contemporary Colonialism
2005/01/01 by Taiaiake Alfred, Jeff Corntassel · 1,056 citations
Social Sciences · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Colonialism #Disconnection #Ecology #Elite #Ethnology #Indigenous #Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights #Law #Multinational corporation #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Sociology #State (computer science)
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.2005.00166.x
published in Government and Opposition 40(4), 597-614 (Cambridge University Press)
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Abstract
Abstract In this article, we discuss strategies for resisting further encroachment on Indigenous existences by Settler societies and states – and as well multinational corporations and other elite organizations controlled by state powers and other elements of the imperial institutional network; and we focus on how Indigenous communities can regenerate themselves to resist the effects of the contemporary colonial assault and regenerate politically and culturally. We ask the fundamental question: how can we resist further dispossession and disconnection when the effects of colonial assaults on our own existences are so pronounced and still so present in the lives of all Indigenous peoples?
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