New Relationships on the Northwest Frontier: Episodes in the Gitxsan and Witsuwit'en Encounter with Colonial Power

• Main Author: McCreary, Tyler Allan
• Other Authors: Wood, Patricia Katharine
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Geography; Native American studies; Law; Indigenous peoples; Aboriginal peoples; First Nations peoples; Colonialism; Settler colonialism; Foucault; Power; Resistance; Reconciliation; Sovereignty; Discipline; Governmentality; Regulation; Ontological politics; Aboriginal law; Aboriginal title; Aboriginal traditional knowledge; Traditional use; Traditional knowledge; Traditional ecological knowledge; Resource governance; Environmental governance; Pipelines; Energy; Education; Aboriginal education; Indigenous education; Vocational education; Industry education; Mining education; Canada; British Columbia; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/29817

This dissertation examines relationships between colonialism and Indigenous peoples that shape the development of extractive resources in Gitxsan and Witsuwit’en territories in Northwest British Columbia, Canada. I argue colonialism and Indigeneity are co-constituted. Theoretically, this dissertatio...