Critical Issues

Respect and recognition

Monday November 29 2010

Lecture 13: Respect and recognition: treaties and conflict in Canada

PS 2A03: Conflict Transformation

Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

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• Respect and • Just terms

recognition
• Reconciliation

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Approaching The Spirit of Haida Gwai in the right spirit
does not consist of recognising it as something already
familiar to us in terms drawn from our own traditions
and thoughts. This imperial attitude is to be abjured.
Rather, recognition involves acknowledging it in terms
and traditions, as it wants to be and it speaks to us.
James Tully (1995)

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The first and often overlooked step on any inquiry into
justice is to investigate if the language in which the
enquiry proceeds is in itself just: that is, capable of
rendering the speakers their due.
James Tully (1995)

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The question of a just response to indigenous people’s
claims to land ought not to be focused exclusively on
distribution of property within the state but on the
legitimacy of the state’s sovereignty.

Sue Dodds (1998)

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 Summary

• Terms most familiar • Reconciliation to or

with?

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 Citations & further reading
Dodds, S. 1998. 'Justice and Indigenous Land Rights', Inquiry, 41(2): 187-205.

Linden, S. B. 2007. The Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry, Toronto: Ontario Provincial
Government.

Moreton-Robinson, A. 1999. Unmasking whiteness: A Goori Jundal's look at some

duggai business, in B. McKay (ed.) Unmasking whiteness: Race relations and
reconciliation, Nathan, Queensland: Queensland Studies Centre, Griffith University:
28-36.

Nicoll, F. 1993. 'The Art of Reconciliation: Art, Aboriginality and the State', Meanjin, 54
(4): 705-718.

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 Citations & further reading
Nicoll, F. 2002. 'De-facing Terra Nullius and Facing the Public Secret of Indigenous
Sovereignty in Australia', borderlands e-journal. 1(2).
http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol1no2_2002/nicoll_defacing.html

Salter, C. 2009. ‘Contested Grounds: incommensurability and the paradigms of

whiteness’ in B. Baird and D.W. Riggs (eds.) The Racial Politics of Bodies, Nations and
Knowledges, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 72-92

Smart, B. 1986. ‘The Politics of Truth and the Problem of Hegemony’, in D.C. Hoy
(ed.) Foucault: A Critical Reader, Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell Ltd: 157-174

Tully, J. 1995. Strange multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an age of diversity, Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

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 Image sources
Dave Boldingers Cartoons & Stuff —
http://www.dbaldinger.com/opinion_cartoons/second_page/dear_world.html

James Garvin Ellis. Rodney Powell (standing) talks with other sit-in participants at Walgreens drugstore in Nashville,
Tennessee, Friday March 25, 1960 — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sit-ins

Marc Riboud. Jan Rose Kasmir, protest against the Vietnam War outside the Pentagon, Arlington County,Virginia, Saturday,
21 October 21, 1967 — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rose_Kasmir

Shaney Komulainen. Canadian soldier Patrick Cloutier and Saskatchewan Native Brad Laroque alias 'Freddy Kruger'
come face to face in a tense standoff at the Kahnesatake reserve in Oka, Quebec, Saturday September 1, 1990 —
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis

Bill Reid (1995) The Spirit of Haida Gwaii (JVancouver International Airport), Photo taken by Reinhard Kraasch,
August 2009, available online at Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RK_0908_9604_Spirit_of_Haida_Gwaii_the_Jade_Canoe.jpg

Maps: Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), BC — http://www.vancouverisland.com/maps/?id=11

Paul Mannix, Uluru at sunset , 23 July 2002, Wikimedia Commons — http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

File:Paul_Mannix_-_Uluru_(Ayers_Rock)_at_sunset,_Uluru-Kata_Tjuta_National_Park,_Australia_(by-sa).jpg

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 Image sources
Pepe , ‘Mt Uluru’ 23 October 2010, Let’s Go Downunder with Pepe.
http://pepengaussie.blogspot.com/2010/10/mt-uluro.html

Mervyn Bishop, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into hand of traditional landowner Vincent Lingiari,
Northern Territory, 1975 — http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=2554

Thomas Ridout survey of 1821 ‘Haldimand Proclamation’, Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldimand_Proclamation

Map of the Haldimand Tract, Six Nations of the Grand River, http://www.sixnations.ca/Maps.htm

David Maracle, SIx Nations Land reclamation, Caledonia, http://www.turtleisland.org/news/news-sixnations.htm

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