What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks.
The essays in this collection centre the work of Indigenous communities, knowledge, and strategies for resurgence and, where appropriate, reconciliation. The book challenges narrow interpretations of indigeneity and resurgence, asking readers to take up a critical analysis of how settler colonial and heteronormative framings have infiltrated our own ways of relating to our selves, one another, and to place. The authors seek to (re)claim Indigenous relationships to the political and offer critical self-reflection to ensure Indigenous resurgence efforts do not reproduce the very conditions and contexts from which liberation is sought.
Illuminating the interconnectivity between and across life in all its forms, this important collection calls on readers to think expansively and critically about Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation.
Artist Statement
Lianne Marie Leda Charlie
Introduction: Generating a Critical Resurgence Together
Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark
Part 1: Realizing Resurgence Together
1. Beyond the Grammar of Settler Apologies
Mishuana Goeman
2. Spirit and Matter: Resurgence as Rising and (Re)creation as Ethos
Dian Million
3. Removing Weeds so Natives Can Grow: A Metaphor Reconsidered
Hōkūlani K. Aikau
4. (Ad)dressing Wounds: Expansive Kinship Inside and Out
Dallas Hunt
Part 2: Claiming Our Relationships to the Political
5. Beyond Rights and Wrongs: Towards Resurgence of a Treaty-Based Ethic of Relationality
Gina Starblanket
6. Thawing the Frozen Rights Theory: On Rejecting Interpretations of Reconciliation and Resurgence That Define Indigenous Peoples as Frozen in a Pre-colonial Past
Aimée Craft
7. Nêhiyaw Hunting Pedagogies and Revitalizing Indigenous Laws
Darcy Lindberg
Part 3: Narrating Reconciliation and Resurgence
8. Thinking through Resurgence Together: A Conversation between Sarah Hunt/Tłaliłila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Sarah Hunt/Tłaliłila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
9. Truth-Telling amidst Reconciliation Discourses: How Stories Reshape Our Relationships
Jeff Corntassel
10. Political Action in the Time of Reconciliation
Corey Snelgrove and Matthew Wildcat
Part 4: Reconciling Lands, Bodies, and Gender
11. Body Land, Water, and Resurgence in Oaxaca
Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
12. To Respect Indigenous Territorial Protocol: Hosting the Olympic Games on Indigenous Lands in Settler Colonial Canada
Christine O’Bonsawin
13. “Descendants of the Original Lords of the Soil”: Gender, Kinship, and an Indignant Model of Métis Nationhood
Daniel Voth
14. Red Utopia
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Contributors
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