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Phenomenology of Spirit
(Hegel),
16
,
27
,
38
,
40
,
43
,
48
,
134

Philips, Ann,
20

The
Philosophy of Right
(Hegel),
190n15

“Political Development in the Northwest Territories” (Canada),
71–72

Posluns, Michael,
1
,
68–69

postcolonialism,
44
,
45

Prazniak, Roxann,
98–99

“Priorities of the North” (GNWT),
70–71

Prospero and Caliban
(Mannoni),
214n47

Prudhoe Bay, Alaska,
56–57
,
59

Public Government for the People of the North,
73–75

Quebec: and Charlottetown Accord,
20
; First Nations blockades in,
21
,
116
,
117
,
118
; James Bay hydroelectric project,
6
; and Meech Lake Accord,
89–90
,
115
; Quiet Revolution,
193n85

Quebecois,
30

racism: anti-black,
137–38
,
140
,
145–46
; anti-racist,
114
,
137
; anti-Semitic,
134–36
,
140
; cultural,
146–47
,
215n85
; Dene Nation accused of,
70

“Racism and Culture” (Fanon),
146

Rae, Bob,
164

Rawls, John,
110

Razack, Sherene,
174–75

recognition: anti-essentialist critique of,
20–24
,
36
,
79–103
; asymmetrical exchanges of,
15
,
25
,
30
,
139
; bestowed vs. won,
38–39
; Hegel’s concept of,
27–29
; in identity formation,
17
,
44
; in Indigenous struggles,
1–3
,
151
; left-materialist challenge to,
18–20
,
51–52
; neocolonial function,
3
,
42–43
,
151
,
152
,
156
; power relations and,
189n68
; reconciliation politics and,
106–7
,
111
,
119
; Sartre’s perspective on,
134
; self-,
43–44
,
48
,
114–15
,
131
,
140–41
,
153
; viewed as social status,
36
; vs. redistribution,
18–19
,
34–35
,
52

reconciliation politics,
22
,
105–9
,
111
,
118–20
,
187n53

Red Power activism,
4
,
193n85
. See also Indigenous movement

Resentment in History
(Ferro),
105

Resentment’s Virtue
(Brudholm),
107–8

residential schools,
105
,
112
,
121
,
124–25
,
126–27

resource extraction: Aboriginal “rights” and,
41
,
72–73
; Bill C-45 and,
160
; in the Denendeh proposal,
74
; First Nations resistance against,
6
,
57–58
,
59
,
170
; in the vicinity of First Nation communities,
13
,
56–57

ressentiment,
108
,
110–12
,
114–15
,
126

Ritchie, Roland (Justice),
86

Robinson, Raymond,
164

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),
70

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP): establishment,
21–22
,
115
,
118–20
,
167
,
181n4
; 1996
Report,
1–2
,
21
,
108
,
118–19
; use of “recognition” language,
182n8

Sahtu Dene,
6
,
54
,
76

Sartre, Jean-Paul: on anti-Semitism,
133–36
; existential ethics,
213n15
; Fanon and,
23
,
27
,
141
,
215n71
; on internalized colonialism,
113
; on negritude,
131
,
136–39
,
213n33
,
215n71

Schaap, Andrew,
106

Senghor, Léopold,
136–37
,
143
,
147–48
,
212n4

settler-colonialism: the city in,
174–76
; critical frameworks for,
148
,
151
; dual structure of,
32
,
33
; as a form of governmentality,
156
; and imperialism,
184n28
; multiple axes of exploitation,
14–15
,
94–95
,
96
,
172
; normative status and legitimacy,
36–37
,
91–92
,
97–98
,
99–102
; patriarchal nature of,
96
,
101–2
,
157
,
177
; perpetually acquisitive nature,
125
,
152
; productive character,
152
; proposed transformation,
171
,
179
; “psychological-economic structure,”
113
; reconciliation politics and,
22
,
106–7
,
108–9
,
120–21
,
124
,
187n53
; as structured dispossession,
6–7
; “the commons” in,
12
; UN study on techniques of,
66–67
. See also Canada; colonized subjects

Simpson, Leanne,
148
,
154–56
,
157–58
,
162
,
170

Smith, Adam,
7
,
9
,
110

Smith, Andrea,
9
,
157

Smith, Neil,
175

socialism,
12

Solomon, Robert,
105
,
110

South Africa,
107–8

Spence, Theresa (Chief),
128
,
160
,
163

Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy,
4
,
5
,
58
,
95
,
161
,
163
,
179

Supreme Court of Canada: Calder decision (1973),
5
,
58
; Lavell and Bédard cases,
85
,
86
; on “reconciliation,”
124
; refusal to recognize Aboriginal rights,
41
;
terra nullius
thesis,
100

Sûreté du Québec (SQ),
116

Tanzania,
68

Taylor, Charles: on dialogical nature of life,
17
; failure to confront dual structure of colonialism,
33
,
35
; on recognition and misrecognition,
29–31
,
40
,
193n85

Temagami First Nation,
117
,
167

A
Theory of Justice
(Rawls),
110

This Is Not a Peace Pipe
(Turner),
45
,
178

Thunder in My Soul
(Monture),
101

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
(Nietzsche),
111

Tlicho Agreement (2003),
122

Tlicho Dene,
54
,
76

Tobique, New Brunswick,
86

transitional justice,
106
,
107–8
,
121

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC),
126–27

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa,
107–8

T’Seleie, Frank (Chief),
76–77

Tully, James,
189n68

Turner, Dale,
45–46
,
107
,
178

Turner, Lou,
38

Turner, Terrance,
81

United Nations: Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
164
; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
74
,
87
; study on Indigenous populations,
66–67

United States,
37
,
56–57
,
200n86

United Steelworkers of America,
69

Usher, Peter,
59

A View of the Art of Colonization
(Wakefield),
10

violence: “cleansing” value,
47
; in colonialism,
15
,
16
,
113
,
188n59
; Indigenous youth and,
118
; in neoliberalism,
9
; as “psychotherapy of the oppressed,”
44–45
;
ressentiment
and,
108
,
112
; state responsibility for,
120
; in transition to capitalism,
7
; against women,
177–78

Wagamese, Richard,
111–12

Wah-Shee, James,
68

Wakefield, Edward G.,
10

Wasáse
(Alfred),
51
,
151
,
154
,
157

Weledeh Dene,
19
,
54
,
61
,
76

“West Indians and Africans” (Fanon),
144–46

White Paper (1969),
4
,
5
,
58
,
95
,
161
,
163
,
179

Widdowson, Frances,
51

Wilson, Nina,
128
,
160

Wolfe, Patrick,
7
,
125

women: Charter of Rights and Freedoms and,
159
; in Idle No More movement,
128
,
176–77
; and the Indian Act,
4
,
80
,
83–96
; Indigenous feminism,
157–58
; Indigenous governance principles and,
172
; as leaders of direct action,
117
,
167
; misrecognition and,
189n68
; as victims of violence,
164
,
167
,
177

World Health Organization,
215n85

The
Wretched of the Earth
(Fanon): analysis of misrecognition,
31
; articulation of colonialism in,
16
; on cultural self-affirmation,
147
,
153
; influence on Charles Taylor,
33
; Sartre’s preface to,
113
; violence in,
44–45
. See also Fanon, Frantz

Yellowknife,
55–56

Yellowknives Dene,
19
,
54
,
61
,
76

Young, Robert,
26
,
44

Yukon,
78

Glen Sean Coulthard
(Yellowknives Dene) is an assistant professor in the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.

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