Abstracts
Abstract
During the turn of the twentieth century, the land continued to provide the practical, historical, and spiritual basis of distinct cultural practices for Aboriginal peoples in eastern Canada. This was also a time of direct and often intense cultural assaults on Indigenous traditions by state conservation practices and discourses on game preservation. An analysis of historic Aboriginal assertions of sovereignty and effective control in eastern Canada during this period provides an important context that links the current day neo-liberal discourse on “minority rights” and the resulting paradigm of domestication with the Canadian state’s historic policies of aggressive civilization. This analysis ultimately argues that the historic and ongoing project of nation building in Canada is grounded in a complex nation-to-nation framework, with a long history of international diplomacy and good-governance practices that include the involvement of Aboriginal peoples in seeking positive and practical resolutions to their struggles with the state over their land and resource rights.
Résumé
Au tournant du vingtième siècle, le territoire est demeuré pour les Autochtones le socle concret, historique et spirituel de leurs pratiques culturelles distinctes dans l'Est du Canada. Cette période a également été celle où les traditions autochtones ont été attaquées directement et souvent très durement par les pratiques de conservation préconisées par l'État et les discours relatifs à la préservation du gibier. L'analyse des affirmations historiques de souveraineté et de maîtrise effective des Autochtones dans l'Est du Canada au cours de cette période fournit un éclairage important sur le contexte reliant le discours néolibéral actuel relatif aux « droits des minorités » et le paradigme qui en résulte : la domination par des politiques classiques de l'État canadien axées sur une stratégie agressive de civilisation. Finalement, l'auteure soutient que le projet historique d'édification de la nation qui se poursuit au Canada se fonde sur un cadre complexe de relations de nation à nation. Ce cadre repose sur une longue histoire de diplomatie internationale et de pratiques de bonne gouvernance qui comprend la participation des Autochtones à la recherche de solutions favorables et concrètes aux luttes qu'ils ont menées contre l'État pour leurs droits relatifs aux terres et aux ressources.
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