(Re)Making Native Space

Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3775413
AutoresSarah Hunt/tłaliłila’ogwa (0009-0006-6578-6288, University of Victoria, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen115
Número9
Páginas1-15
Fecha de publicación2025-07-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnnals of the American Association of Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2469-4452 • E-ISSN: 2469-4460
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/24694452.2025.2510701
OpenAlexW4412395672
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas36

Revisiting Cole Harris’s Making Native Space, this article responds to Harris’s assertion that settler attitudes toward Indigenous people were not gendered but that, rather, it was the civilization–savagery paradigm that conditioned Indigenous dispossession. Revisiting the same colonial archive of British Columbia through the dual lenses of legal geography and Indigenous feminism, the article examines available evidence about Indigenous women’s role in land governance in British Columbia. Although fragmented and partial, due to the historical and colonial devaluation of Indigenous women’s knowledge, evidence is available on the specific forms of land governance throughout northern, interior, and coastal regions of British Columbia, forming what might be considered property relations in colonial terms. Through a rereading of the archive with knowledge of Indigenous gender and legal relations, it is argued that settlers were able to suppress the legal nature of women’s land governance practices through colonial understandings of Indigenous women as racial and gendered subjects who were already always deterritorialized, incapable of forming territorial expressions of authority. The suppression of Indigenous women’s authority is continued in settler-colonial paradigms that separate traditional ecological knowledge from realms of law or governance and that deny gender as a structural component of settler colonialism

Colonialism · Economic geography · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Territoriality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies