Immigrant and Indigene
Chapter 2 considers ways in which both Indigenous people and Japanese migrants responded to the shifting legal, cultural and legal landscape that followed the formal incorporation of the north Pacific borderlands by Canada and the United States. At times, members of both groups engaged in complex ac...
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crunivncaropr:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469641140.003.0003 2024-06-09T07:50:11+00:00 Immigrant and Indigene Geiger, Andrea 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469641140.003.0003 unknown University of North Carolina Press Converging Empires page 55-87 ISBN 9781469641140 9781469667850 book-chapter 2022 crunivncaropr https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469641140.003.0003 2024-05-14T13:13:07Z Chapter 2 considers ways in which both Indigenous people and Japanese migrants responded to the shifting legal, cultural and legal landscape that followed the formal incorporation of the north Pacific borderlands by Canada and the United States. At times, members of both groups engaged in complex acts of repositioning that took into account ways in which race-based legal restrictions in Canada and the US structured constraint or opportunity within their own borders. Examples include the Tsimishian who relocated to from Metlakatla, B.C. to New Metlakatla, Alaska in response to the B.C. government’s refusal to recognize Aboriginal title in B.C., only to be caught in the gap between ‘immigrant’ and ‘indigene’ in the United States. Also a telling example is that of Jujiro Wada, a Japanese immigrant with ties to both Alaska and the Yukon, who was forced to redefine himself on each side of the US-Canada border given the differing sets of racial barriers Japanese immigrants confronted in each. While Japanese immigrants shared certain attitudes with their Euro-American and -Canadian neighbors, viewing the land as empty and open to settlement, their encounters with Indigenous people were also shaped by perceptions of indigeneity rooted in Japanese history and culture. Book Part Alaska Yukon UNC Press (The University of North Carolina) Canada Metlakatla ENVELOPE(-130.444,-130.444,54.337,54.337) Pacific Yukon 55 87 |
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Chapter 2 considers ways in which both Indigenous people and Japanese migrants responded to the shifting legal, cultural and legal landscape that followed the formal incorporation of the north Pacific borderlands by Canada and the United States. At times, members of both groups engaged in complex acts of repositioning that took into account ways in which race-based legal restrictions in Canada and the US structured constraint or opportunity within their own borders. Examples include the Tsimishian who relocated to from Metlakatla, B.C. to New Metlakatla, Alaska in response to the B.C. government’s refusal to recognize Aboriginal title in B.C., only to be caught in the gap between ‘immigrant’ and ‘indigene’ in the United States. Also a telling example is that of Jujiro Wada, a Japanese immigrant with ties to both Alaska and the Yukon, who was forced to redefine himself on each side of the US-Canada border given the differing sets of racial barriers Japanese immigrants confronted in each. While Japanese immigrants shared certain attitudes with their Euro-American and -Canadian neighbors, viewing the land as empty and open to settlement, their encounters with Indigenous people were also shaped by perceptions of indigeneity rooted in Japanese history and culture. |
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