Entangled with/in empire: Indigenous nations, settler preservations, and the return of buffalo to Banff National Park
This thesis mobilizes the concept of “colonial entanglement” to emphasize the deep complexity and unpredictability of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships within what is now known as the Banff-Bow Valley. Responding to various literatures—including Indigenous Studies, Settler Colonial Studies...
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ftuvicpubl:oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/12476 2023-05-15T17:14:01+02:00 Entangled with/in empire: Indigenous nations, settler preservations, and the return of buffalo to Banff National Park Kramer, Brydon Glezos, Simon 2020 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12476 English en eng http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12476 Available to the World Wide Web Colonial Entanglement Settler colonialism Indigenous Nationhood Capitalism Imperialism White Supremacy Heteroatriarchy Felt Theory Banff National Park Buffalo Nature parks Property Subject formation Dispossession Logics of Containment Breakage Parallax Enduring Indigeneity Countersovereignty Colonial (un)knowing Thesis 2020 ftuvicpubl 2022-05-19T06:13:31Z This thesis mobilizes the concept of “colonial entanglement” to emphasize the deep complexity and unpredictability of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships within what is now known as the Banff-Bow Valley. Responding to various literatures—including Indigenous Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, Political Theory, and Canadian Politics—I posit that the concept of colonial entanglements offers a parallax view of contexts, such as the Banff-Bow Valley, and events like the Buffalo Reintroduction Project. Not only does such a concept reveal how Indigenous nations— both human and non-human—are targeted by the racializing and gendered entanglements of colonizing regimes that seek to break up and replace them, but it also shows how these nations continue to persist and resist despite colonizing efforts to achieve otherwise. In other words, colonial entanglements compel one to also consider how nations like the Ĩyãħé Nakoda also exert influence on other Indigenous and non-Indigenous life in the Banff-Bow Valley—albeit, in different ways and to different degrees. After unpacking the concept in the first chapter, I use colonial entanglement to show how colonizing regimes and their expansionist modes of relationship react to the Indigenous nations they become entangled with. Using the signing of Treaty 7 and the establishment of a national park in Banff, I reveal how the Canadian state seeks to erect colonizing regimes of property that cater to capital as they transit the Banff-Bow Valley by ‘breaking up’ and ‘breaking from’ Indigenous nations and their expansive modes of relationship. Next, I consider how such reactionary violence is continually justified and legitimated through the articulation and reiteration of state of nature fictions that rely on notions of wilderness and tropes of Indigeneity to delegitimize the enduring presence of Indigenous nations. Specifically, I look at the Indian Act, the prohibition of hunting in the Park, and the Banff Indian Days festival to show how state of nature fictions articulate ... Thesis Nakoda University of Victoria (Canada): UVicDSpace Indian |
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Colonial Entanglement Settler colonialism Indigenous Nationhood Capitalism Imperialism White Supremacy Heteroatriarchy Felt Theory Banff National Park Buffalo Nature parks Property Subject formation Dispossession Logics of Containment Breakage Parallax Enduring Indigeneity Countersovereignty Colonial (un)knowing |
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Colonial Entanglement Settler colonialism Indigenous Nationhood Capitalism Imperialism White Supremacy Heteroatriarchy Felt Theory Banff National Park Buffalo Nature parks Property Subject formation Dispossession Logics of Containment Breakage Parallax Enduring Indigeneity Countersovereignty Colonial (un)knowing Kramer, Brydon Entangled with/in empire: Indigenous nations, settler preservations, and the return of buffalo to Banff National Park |
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Colonial Entanglement Settler colonialism Indigenous Nationhood Capitalism Imperialism White Supremacy Heteroatriarchy Felt Theory Banff National Park Buffalo Nature parks Property Subject formation Dispossession Logics of Containment Breakage Parallax Enduring Indigeneity Countersovereignty Colonial (un)knowing |
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This thesis mobilizes the concept of “colonial entanglement” to emphasize the deep complexity and unpredictability of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships within what is now known as the Banff-Bow Valley. Responding to various literatures—including Indigenous Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, Political Theory, and Canadian Politics—I posit that the concept of colonial entanglements offers a parallax view of contexts, such as the Banff-Bow Valley, and events like the Buffalo Reintroduction Project. Not only does such a concept reveal how Indigenous nations— both human and non-human—are targeted by the racializing and gendered entanglements of colonizing regimes that seek to break up and replace them, but it also shows how these nations continue to persist and resist despite colonizing efforts to achieve otherwise. In other words, colonial entanglements compel one to also consider how nations like the Ĩyãħé Nakoda also exert influence on other Indigenous and non-Indigenous life in the Banff-Bow Valley—albeit, in different ways and to different degrees. After unpacking the concept in the first chapter, I use colonial entanglement to show how colonizing regimes and their expansionist modes of relationship react to the Indigenous nations they become entangled with. Using the signing of Treaty 7 and the establishment of a national park in Banff, I reveal how the Canadian state seeks to erect colonizing regimes of property that cater to capital as they transit the Banff-Bow Valley by ‘breaking up’ and ‘breaking from’ Indigenous nations and their expansive modes of relationship. Next, I consider how such reactionary violence is continually justified and legitimated through the articulation and reiteration of state of nature fictions that rely on notions of wilderness and tropes of Indigeneity to delegitimize the enduring presence of Indigenous nations. Specifically, I look at the Indian Act, the prohibition of hunting in the Park, and the Banff Indian Days festival to show how state of nature fictions articulate ... |
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