By Shiri Pasternak

ISBN-10: 0816698325

ISBN-13: 9780816698325

ISBN-10: 0816698341

ISBN-13: 9780816698349

Since Justin Trudeau’s election in 2015, Canada has been hailed the world over as embarking on a really innovative, post-postcolonial era—including a more robust courting among the nation and its Indigenous peoples. Shiri Pasternak corrects this false impression, exhibiting that colonialism is especially a lot alive in Canada. From the viewpoint of Indigenous legislations and jurisdiction, she tells the tale of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, in western Quebec, and their tireless resistance to federal land claims policy. 

Grounded Authority chronicles the band’s ongoing makes an attempt to revive complete governance over its lands and average assets via an contract signed via settler governments nearly 3 many years ago—an contract the kingdom refuses to totally enforce. Pasternak argues that the state’s aversion to spotting Algonquin jurisdiction stems from its target of perfecting its sovereignty through exchanging the inherent jurisdiction of Indigenous peoples with its personal, delegated authority. From police brutality and fabricated sexual abuse circumstances to an intervention into and overthrow of a typical executive, Pasternak presents a compelling, richly exact account of hardly ever documented coercive mechanisms hired to strength Indigenous groups into compliance with federal policy.

A rigorous account of the great fight fought through the Algonquins to keep up accountability over their territory, Grounded Authority offers a robust substitute version to at least one nation’s land claims coverage and a necessary contribution to present debates within the examine of colonialism and Indigenous peoples in North the United States and globally.

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