PS 2A03 (2010) Lecture 13: Respect & Recognition — treaties and conflict in Canada

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Monday November 29 2010Lecture 13: Respect and recognition: treaties and conflict in Canada

PS 2A03: Conflict TransformationDr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

Critical IssuesRespect and recognition

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Outline

Respect and

recognition

Just terms

Reconciliation

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Approaching The Spirit of Haida Gwai in the right spiritdoes not consist of recognising it as something already

familiar to us in terms drawn from our own traditionsand thoughts. This imperial attitude is to be abjured.Rather, recognition involves acknowledging it in termsand traditions, as it wants to be and it speaks to us.

James Tully (1995)

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The first and often overlooked step on any inquiry into

justice is to investigate if the language in which theenquiry proceeds is in itself just: that is, capable ofrendering the speakers their due.

James Tully (1995)

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The question of a just response to indigenous peoples

claims to land ought not to be focused exclusively ondistribution of property within the state but on thelegitimacy of the states sovereignty.

Sue Dodds (1998)

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Summary

Terms most familiar Reconciliation to or

with?

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Citations & further reading

Dodds, S. 1998. 'Justice and Indigenous Land Rights', Inquiry, 41(2): 187-205.

Linden, S. B. 2007. The Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry, Toronto: Ontario ProvincialGovernment.

Moreton-Robinson, A. 1999. Unmasking whiteness: A Goori Jundal's look at someduggai business, in B. McKay (ed.) Unmasking whiteness: Race relations andreconciliation, Nathan, Queensland: Queensland Studies Centre, Griffith University:28-36.

Nicoll, F. 1993. 'The Art of Reconciliation: Art, Aboriginality and the State',Meanjin, 54(4): 705-718.

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Citations & further reading

Nicoll, F. 2002. 'De-facing Terra Nullius and Facing the Public Secret of IndigenousSovereignty in Australia', borderlands e-journal. 1(2).http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol1no2_2002/nicoll_defacing.html

Salter, C. 2009. Contested Grounds: incommensurability and the paradigms ofwhiteness in B. Baird and D.W. Riggs (eds.) The Racial Politics of Bodies, Nations andKnowledges, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 72-92

Smart, B. 1986. The Politics of Truth and the Problem of Hegemony, in D.C. Hoy(ed.) Foucault: A Critical Reader, Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell Ltd: 157-174

Tully, J. 1995. Strange multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an age of diversity, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.

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Image sources

Dave Boldingers Cartoons & Stuff http://www.dbaldinger.com/opinion_cartoons/second_page/dear_world.html

ames Garvin Ellis. Rodney Powell (standing) talks with other sit-in participants at Walgreens drugstore in Nashville,Tennessee, Friday March 25, 1960 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sit-ins

Marc Riboud.Jan Rose Kasmir, protest against the Vietnam War outside the Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, Saturday,21 October 21, 1967 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rose_Kasmir

Shaney Komulainen. Canadian soldier Patrick Cloutier and Saskatchewan Native Brad Laroque alias 'Freddy Kruger'come face to face in a tense standoff at the Kahnesatake reserve in Oka, Quebec, Saturday September 1, 1990 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis

Bill Reid (1995) The Spirit of Haida Gwaii (JVancouver International Airport), Photo taken by Reinhard Kraasch,August 2009, available online at Wikimedia Commons

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RK_0908_9604_Spirit_of_Haida_Gwaii_the_Jade_Canoe.jpg

Maps: Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), BC http://www.vancouverisland.com/maps/?id=11Paul Mannix, Uluru at sunset , 23 July 2002, Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Mannix_-_Uluru_(Ayers_Rock)_at_sunset,_Uluru-Kata_Tjuta_National_Park,_Australia_(by-sa).jpg

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Image sources

Pepe , Mt Uluru 23 October 2010, Lets Go Downunder with Pepe.http://pepengaussie.blogspot.com/2010/10/mt-uluro.html

Mervyn Bishop, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into hand of traditional landowner Vincent Lingiari,Northern Territory, 1975 http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=2554

Thomas Ridout survey of 1821 Haldimand Proclamation, Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldimand_Proclamation

Map of the Haldimand Tract, Six Nations of the Grand River, http://www.sixnations.ca/Maps.htm

David Maracle, SIx Nations Land reclamation, Caledonia, http://www.turtleisland.org/news/news-sixnations.htm

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PS 2A03 (2010) Lecture 13: Respect & Recognition — treaties and conflict in Canada