Indigenous Internationalism: What Should We Do Next?

• Main Author: Jull, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Internationalism; Indigenous self-determination; 370103 Race and Ethnic Relations; 379902 Aboriginal Studies; Canada; Greenland; Indian; inuit
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:11139/jull270299.pdf; https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:11139

Indigenous internationalism is one of the startling achievements of the 20th century. It arrived at the very end of a millennium which began with the travels and settlements of Erik the Red, his friends, and family in Greenland and mainland North America, c. 1000 AD. Although the Inuit of Greenland and Canada and the Algonquian Indian nations drove away those first visitors, by warfare or attrition, aggressive Europeans exploiting the environment and ethnocentrically claiming a right to dominate, dispossess, or disperse 'natives' became a habit in all parts of the world. Now, a thousand years after that first contact, we find Nordic, Anglophone, and Francophone governments in those same regions handing back substantial territory and governing powers to Inuit and Indian peoples.