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Indigenous
Peoples Specialty Group |
Title: | The Colonial Present I: Reclaiming Sovereignty and Identity | ||||||||||
Description: | This first of five sessions on the "Colonial Present" brings together scholars who work on the "postcolonial" and on "indigenous geography" to discuss the relationship between indigenous and post-colonial studies. This session examines the current exercise of power in settler societies over indigenous sovereignty and identity. The first paper takes as its starting point that the discipline is constructed within a colonial present, as a relic of disciplinary formation in a colonial past, and considers how through exploring alternative geographies, the discipline may have the potential to decolonize itself. The second paper considers how while knowledges of Indigenous peoples have been marginalized in academia, the validity of various forms of Indigenous knowledge are slowly gaining recognition within various disciplines—including Geography. The paper will review the relationship of indigenous knowledge to Geography, and then pursue the primary issue of indigenous sovereignty and identity in settler societies. The third paper will explore the position of second-tier or "sub-imperial" powers within the resurgent American imperium, in the lengthening shadow of 9/11 and a perpetual Global War on Terror. The fourth paper follows with an examination of reconciliation in Canada, both in a broader context and in the particular case of British Columbia, focusing on the language and symbolism of reconciliation and on what reconciliation might look like on the ground. The final paper will examine how the use of GIS is or is not contributing to self-determination, specifically in the land management activities of three northern Minnesota Ojibwe tribes. | ||||||||||
Anticipated Attendance: | 100 | ||||||||||
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Sponsorships: | Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group |