Description
A history of Canada’s conquest of the Indigenous community of Kahnawà:ke.
Canadian settlers expropriated Indigenous lands through the combined might of force and law. Tracing settler efforts to dispossess the Kahnawà:ke nation, The Laws and the Land emphasizes the violent ways settler law clashed with Indigenous law during a series of asymmetrical bouts over land use. Daniel Rück describes the contested path from land-sharing to the colonial imposition of private property as nothing less than an invasion, spearheaded by bureaucrats, politicians, and entrepreneurs. This meticulously researched story of Canadian conquest is deeply connected to larger issues of membership in Indigenous nations, communal versus individual property rights, governance, and inequality. Daniel Rück is assistant professor of history and Indigenous studies at the University of Ottawa.
IntroductionPart 1: Historical Erasures and Re-inscriptions of White Fantasies1 Emerging from the Whiteout: Colonization, Assimilation, Historical Erasure, and Okanagan-Syilx Resistance and Transforming Praxis in the Okanagan Valley / Bill Cohen and Natalie A. Chambers2 Niggertoe Mountain: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies / Daniel Keyes3 Nkwala: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies with the Indigenous / Daniel Keyes4 The Rhetoric of Absence: Susan Allison’s Racial Melancholia / Janet MacArthur5 Camp Road / Audrey KobayashiPart 2: Revealing and Challenging Contemporary White Fantasies6 Mapping White Consumer Culture: Kelowna’s Tourist Maps 1983–1999 / Jon Corbett and Donna M. Senese7 Fantasies of Encore Whiteness in the Central Okanagan Valley / Luis L.M. Aguiar8 White Supremacy, Surveillance, and Urban Aboriginal Women in the Kelowna, BC, Housing Market / Sheila Lewis and Lawrence D. Berg9 “The Jamaicans are here and working”: Race and Community Responses / Carl E. James10 Okanagan in Print: Exalting Typographical Heimlich Fantasies of Entrepreneurial Whiteness / Daniel Keyes11 Emplacing and Displacing Whiteness in Kelowna: Aporetic Urbanization and the Limits of Modern Politics / Delacey Tedesco12 The Imaginary of Redneck Okanagan Whiteness: A Sketch / Stephen SvensonContributors; Index
