Clear-Cutting and Colonialism

The Ethnopolitical Dynamics of Indigenous Environmental Activism in Northwestern Ontario

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ID2736385
AutoresAnna Willow (0000-0002-3626-7749, autor correspondente), Anna J Willow
Ano2009
Volume56
Fascículo1
Páginas35-67
Data de publicação2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnohistory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00141801-2008-035
OpenAlexW1963866941
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas29

Since December 2002 members of Grassy Narrows First Nation have maintained a blockade to slow the pace of clear-cut logging in their traditional territory. This article situates contemporary anti-clear-cutting activism at Grassy Narrows in its ethnohistorical and ethnopolitical context. It considers the blockade not as a manifestation of inherent indigenous environmentality but as a complex phenomenon predicated on Anishinaabe people's desires for self-determination, recognition of rights, and the power to decide what takes place on land they perceive as theirs. More broadly, it suggests that acknowledging indigenous environmental activism as a fundamentally political project challenges stereotypical images of ecological nobility and, concurrently, calls into question mainstream conceptions of a just modern society that has long since done away with colonialism

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