Résumés
Abstract
Indigenous spirituality is often appropriated and deployed in support of white settler values that possess and dispossess Indigenous knowledges, materiality, and socio-political relations. As Kim TallBear explains, this settler property regime maintains a colonial exceptionalism that justifies settler naturalization to Indigenous territories. Indigenous spirituality/religion represents situated knowledges and socio-political relations that cannot be abstracted from collective and co-constitutive relations. LeBlanc and Gareau turn to their respective communities to articulate how relations are central to understanding Indigenous spirituality/religion. LeBlanc employs Savage (Tracy) Bear’s eroticanalysis to see Mi’kmaq women’s spiritual/religious relations in the settler archives as well as situate herself in these relations through photographic self-portraiture. Gareau unpacks the spiritual/religious relations of the Métis fiddle in Maria Campbell’s Road Allowance story of “La Beau Sha Shoo” where a Métis fiddler dies and goes to heaven to drink and visit with Jesus. Throughout, spirituality/religion represents the self-determination of separate but related collective and co-constitutive nations/peoples.
Keywords:
- Indigenous spirituality/religion,
- white possessiveness,
- eroticanalysis,
- Indigenous feminisms,
- research creation,
- self-portraiture,
- archives,
- nationhood/peoplehood,
- kinship governance,
- Mi’kmaq Nation,
- Métis Nation
Résumé
La spiritualité autochtone est souvent détournée et déployée pour soutenir les valeurs des colons blancs qui possèdent et dépossèdent les savoirs, la matérialité et les relations sociopolitiques autochtones. Comme l’explique Kim TallBear, ce régime de propriété des colons maintient un exceptionnalisme colonial qui justifie la naturalisation des territoires autochtones par les colons. La spiritualité/religion autochtone représente des connaissances et des relations sociopolitiques situées qui ne peuvent être abstraites des relations collectives et co-constitutives. LeBlanc et Gareau se tournent vers leurs communautés respectives pour expliquer comment les relations sont essentielles à la compréhension de la spiritualité/religion autochtone. LeBlanc utilise l’analyse érotique de Savage (Tracy) Bear pour voir les relations spirituelles/religieuses des femmes mi’kmaq dans les archives des colons et pour se situer elle-même dans ces relations par le biais de l’autoportrait photographique. Gareau décortique les relations spirituelles/religieuses du violon métis dans l’histoire de Maria Campbell intitulée « La Beau Sha Shoo », où un violoniste métis meurt et va au ciel pour boire et rendre visite à Jésus. Dans l’ensemble, la spiritualité/religion représente l’autodétermination de nations/peuples distincts mais apparentés, collectifs et co-constitutifs.
Mots-clés :
- spiritualité et religion autochtone,
- possessivité blanche,
- analyse érotique,
- féminismes autochtones,
- création de recherche,
- autoportrait,
- archives,
- nation/peuple,
- gouvernance de la parenté,
- nation mi’kmaq,
- nation métisse
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