Audra Simpson

Whither settler colonialism

On 11 June 2008 the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper issued a well-publicized statement in which he televised, documented, discussed, and presumably felt an apology to those who attended In...

The ruse of consent and the anatomy of ‘refusal’: cases from indigenous North America and Australia

ABSTRACT This article takes the notion of ‘refusal’ to be an alternative to recognition politics in settler colonial society. This is argued as alternative with recourse to ethnographic examples that highlight the way in which ‘consent’ operates as a technique of recognition and simultaneous dispossession in historical cases from Indigenous North America and Australia. Attention is paid to the ways in which Indigenous life in these cases refused, did not consent to, and still refuses to be folded into a larger encompassing colonising and settler colonial narratives of acceptance, and in this, a governmental fait accompli. It is those narratives that inform the apprehension and at times, the ethnography and governance of Indigenous life and are pushed back upon in order to document, reread, theorise and enact ways out of the notion of a fixed past and settled present.

Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The Six Nations Since 1800 (review)

Restoring the Balance is an ambitious project that seeks to correct the marginalization of Native women both within their own communities as well as in the larger settler society. Its expansive reach ensures that it will speak to scholars, activists, service providers, and policy analysts from diverse fi elds of work. This book is an important contribution to the burgeoning fi elds of Native feminism and Native women’s studies.