‘The depth of the plough’: white settler tautologies and pioneer lies

Anti‐Indigenous policy formation : Settler colonialism and neoliberal political advocacy

“…Our content analysis of the CTF demonstrates what Indigenous and critical observers have been saying for some time: it has had a demonstrable effect on Indigenous‐settler relations in Canada by providing, what we have shown in our data, hundreds of stories, ‘factoids’, and myths, and tautologies that punctuate the settler political imagination (Mackey, 2016; Pedri‐Spade, 2016; Wysote & Morton, 2020) in relation to Indigenous peoples and Canada. This ranges from tax myths that settlers conceptualize as biopolitical attacks on themselves as taxpayers (forthcoming), to their aggressive pursuit of the abolition of the Indian Act , a goal that would effectively privatize reserve lands (Fabris, 2018; Schmidt, 2018) and make First Nations people into Canadians.…”

“…The role of some advocacy groups has been examined in studies that have involved the relationship between Indigenous nations, environment (Preston, 2017; Tindall, Howe & Maboulès, 2021) and capital (Carroll, 2017; Carroll et al, 2019; Pasternak, 2015). The work we do here identifies how settler political advocacy groups are important because of how they operate in a web of governments (federal, provincial, and municipal) hostile to Indigenous nations (Coulthard, 2014; Simpson, 2008; Willmott, 2020), with citizens often skeptical of Indigenous rights and life (Denis, 2015; Mackey, 2016; Pedri‐Spade, 2016; Wysote & Morton, 2019) and mobilize in a political field that views Indigeneity as something to be eliminated (Benton‐Connell & Cochrane, 2020; Lawrence, 2003; Palmater, 2011), possessed (Pasternak, 2015; Schmidt, 2018), policed (Crosby & Monaghan, 2018) or ignored.…”

Investigating representations of indigenous peoples and indigenous knowledge in zoos

“…The North American landscape was irrevocably altered by European colonialism (Whitney, 1996). From the introduction of earthworms in Eastern Canada, to the vast deforestation of the Midwest, to the near extinction of American Bison, almost all aspects of North American ecology were permanently transformed by White Settlers (Bonan, 1999;Hubbard, 2014;Posthumus, 2016;Whitney, 1996;Wysote & Morton, 2019). Therefore, it is impossible to give an accurate account of North American ecological history without discussing the impacts of settler colonialism upon this continent.…”