Thou Shalt Forget. Indigenous Sovereignty, Resistance and the Production of Cultural Oblivion in Canada, Pierrot Ross-Tremblay. University of London Press, London, 2019, 312 p.

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Isabelle St-Amand
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Sovereignty

THE INTERPRETATION OF ISLAM WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE INDIGENOUS MALAYA

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Datuk Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wan Ahmad Fauzi Wan Husain
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Public Prosecutor ◽  
The Public ◽  
Accurate Interpretation ◽  
Federal Constitution ◽  
Indigenous Sovereignty

This article attempts to explore the Islamic interpretation within the legal framework of the Malayan indigenous sovereignty. The position of Islam within the country’s legal framework became important when the Court’s decision in Che Omar Che Soh vs the Public Prosecutor, made the sovereignty of the Malay Rulers as a parameter in interpreting Islam within the context of Article 3 of the Federal Constitution. This is a qualitative study applying the legal history design. The findings showed the indigenous sovereignty was sourced from the Islamic teachings which had not been dissolved despite the introduction of the doctrine of advice by the British. Besides, the agreement made between the Malay Rulers and the British retained the indigenous sovereignty despite of various policies introduced by the British throughout their interference in Malaya which was subjected to the old Malayan Constitution. In conclusion, the accurate interpretation of Islam should be based on the al-Qur'an and al-Sunnah because it is in line with the principle of the indigenous sovereignty inherited from the Malay Sultanate of Malacca.

Dreams of a Black Commons on Turtle Island

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 454-473
Author(s):  
Rachel Zellars
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Wild Mushrooms ◽  
Black Migration ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Indigenous Sovereignty ◽  
Black Land ◽  
The Human Condition

This essay opens with a discussion of the Black commons and the possibility it offers for visioning coherence between Black land relationality and Indigenous sovereignty. Two sites of history – Black slavery and Black migration prior to the twentieth century – present illuminations and challenges to Black and Indigenous relations on Turtle Island, as they expose the “antagonisms history has left us” (Byrd, 2019a, p. 342), and the ways antiblackness is produced as a return to what is deemed impossible, unimaginable, or unforgivable about Black life.While the full histories are well beyond the scope of this paper, I highlight the violent impossibilities and afterlives produced and sustained by both – those that deserve care and attention within a “new relationality,” as Tiffany King has named, between Black and Indigenous peoples. At the end of the essay, I return briefly to Anna Tsing’s spiritual science of foraging wild mushrooms. Her allegory about the human condition offers a bridge, I conclude, between the emancipatory dreams of Black freedom and Indigenous sovereignty.  

scholarly journals “Indigenous sovereignty” and right to self-determination in international law: a critical appraisal

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Rashwet Shrinkhal
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Indigenous Sovereignty

It is worth recalling that the struggle of indigenous peoples to be recognised as “peoples” in true sense was at the forefront of their journey from an object to subject of international law. One of the most pressing concerns in their struggle was crafting their own sovereign space. The article aims to embrace and comprehend the concept of “indigenous sovereignty.” It argues that indigenous sovereignty may not have fixed contour, but it essentially confronts the idea of “empire of uniformity.” It is a source from which right to self-determination stems out and challenges the political and moral authority of States controlling indigenous population within their territory.

scholarly journals Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler Amnesia: Robert Houle’s Premises for Self Rule

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy A. Ernst
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Sovereignty ◽  
Self Rule ◽  
Peuples Autochtones

Le modernisme en art est souvent considéré comme un développement spécifiquement occidental. Robert Houle, l’artiste, écrivain et commissaire d’exposition d’origine Saulteaux, a cependant toujours soutenu que sa propre pratique est moderniste et qu’elle suit une filiation esthétique autochtone. Cet article s’intéresse particulièrement à une oeuvre produite par Houle en 1994, Premises for Self Rule, dans laquelle l’artiste a juxtaposé des textes de législation coloniale à des panneaux peints en monochrome et des cartes postales trouvées en archives. Il propose qu’à travers cette stratégie de rapprochement, l’artiste fusionne la tradition de la peinture de parflèche à l’esthétique moderniste, remettant ainsi en lumière la négociation interculturelle, l’amnésie coloniale, ainsi que les écarts qui séparent les épistémologies et traditions artistiques des peuples autochtones et allochtones.

scholarly journals Transnational Modernity/Coloniality: Linking Punjab’s Canal Colonies, Migration, and Settler Colonialism for Critical Solidarities in Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-370
Author(s):  
Jaspreet Ranauta
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Colonial Policies ◽  
Indigenous Sovereignty ◽  
Transnational Modernity

This paper offers a transnational analytical framework to inform contemporary anti-racist solidarity building in what is now called Canada by engaging with migration, colonialism, and indigeneity. In particular, I trace the historical entanglements of modernity/coloniality from the British Empire’s Canal Colonies project in Punjab to colonial policies in what is now called British Columbia while centring land and Indigenous sovereignty.

scholarly journals First occupants: the erosion of indigenous sovereignty through legal narratives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor MacLean
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Court System ◽  
Land Claim ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Indigenous Sovereignty

Land claim cases within Canada have yielded mostly small wins for Indigenous nations. While certain cases represent success in reinstating rights to cultural practices, granting certain levels of autonomy, and acknowledging rights to land use for culturally relevant activities, overriding sovereignty rests with Canada. Even land claim cases deemed successful are still adjudicated within the Canadian court system, and it is the nation-state of Canada that determines the validity of Indigenous claims to traditional territories. In this paper, I explore the discursive and narrative devices utilized within judicial rulings that uphold Crown sovereignty and deny Indigenous sovereignty. I argue that Indigenous sovereignty is undermined in legal discourse through the use of concealed narrative acts, which serve to sterilize racialized legal doctrines and distort the social and political history of relations between Indigenous nations and the Crown.

Critical Security Studies

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Chris Hendershot ◽  
David Mutimer
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indigenous Sovereignty

This chapter intends to provoke the present in order to motivate an unsettling and un-settled future for Critical Security Studies (CSS). To be unsettling CSS must (continue to) commit to unconventional inquisitiveness through refusing discipline and embracing reflexive accountability. To be un-settled, CSS must do the serious work of decolonizing. The need to decolonize as an effort to support indigenous sovereignty may create the unsettling possibility that CSS does not have a future. To imagine that CSS has no future is to take reflexive account of the colonial complicities of Anglo-European scholarship, while becoming open to fostering more meaningful collaborations with Indigenous people. Being unsettled and becoming un-settled must be a collaborative effort among all knowledge producers in order to critically confront the past, present, and future problems of doing and thinking (through) security.

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