Resistance and Reinscription: Revitalizing Mi'kmaq Culture in Newfoundland - A Grounded Theory Discursive Analysis of Oppression and Resistance ...

• Main Author: Butler, Charles WIlliam James
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2014
• Subjects: Anthropology > Cultural; History > Canadian; Native American Studies; Assimilation; Prescribed Consciousness; Reinscription; Resistance; Indigenous; Oppression; Marginalization; Mi’kmaq; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/27643; https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/11023/1382

This dissertation utilizes a grounded theory methodology to explore the intersection between Indigenous and multi-cultural societies. It focusses on an Indigenous people who have long been framed as fully assimilated into white society. It critiques how Canada purports to be a multi-cultural mosaic in a post-colonial state and argues that these concepts fail to account for the presence of Indigenous peoples, their interactions with the dominant settler society and the fact that the Indian Act represents the ongoing colonization of Indigenous people. Further, it argues that discussions of the place of Indigenous people in Canada often work from the assumption that in order to survive and to prosper, Indigenous people must abandon many of the key cultural practices that differentiate their worldview from that of the settlers. That is, they must choose to be assimilated and to become hyphenated-Canadians. This thesis examines how Mi’kmaq in Newfoundland are revitalizing their Indigenous culture through ...