Erasure No More: Canada's First Nation's Resurgence of Land-Based Practices

• Main Author: Renteria, Tonalla
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ CSUMB 2020
• Subjects: Indigenous; resurgence; First Nations; land based practices; Soverignty; futurism; settler colonialism
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/caps_thes_all/863; https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/context/caps_thes_all/article/1889/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf

Resurgence is the 21st century revitalization of traditional practices and governance to create an alternative future for Indigenous communities as articulated by North American Indigenous scholars: Leanne Simpson, Glen Coulthard, Taiaike Alfred, and Jeff Corntassel. Theoretical works and findings of Resurgence were a response to the settler-colonial narrative of dispossession policies directed at the removal of Indigenous communities from their land. In response, Indigenous scholars have used Resurgence to showcase alternatives to protecting Indigenous land rights and cultural practices. This is being done through a national liberation and the rejuvenation of cultural values, practices, language, and art. This paper shows an array of Indigenous Resurgence land-based practices that have variations from traditional to more contemporary innovative examples of Resurgence. This is the beauty of Indigenous Resurgence, because it shows the power of the indigenous collective to adapt, readjust, and prevail in contemporary times. Not only this but it shows the strength within these communities that their cultural identity will not be erased.