INTRODUCTION
1. Stephen Greenblatt, Marvellous Possessions; The Wonder of the New World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 3–4.
2. Ibid., 4.
3. Ibid, 152.
4. Michael Asch, Home and Native Land (Toronto: Methuen, 1984), 94.
5. Ibid.
6. Marshall Sahlins, Islands of History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
7. Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, vol. 2, trans. Quintin Hoare (New York: Verso, 1991), 46.
8. Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia, trans. E.F.N. Jephcott (New York: Verso, 1991), 103.
9. Fredric Jameson, Late Marxism (New York: Verso, 1990), 26-27.
10. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991), 334.
11. Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 65.
12. Michael Taussig, The Nervous System (New York: Routledge, 1992), 5.
13. Jacques Derrida, Spectres of Marx, trans. Peggy Kamuf (New York: Routledge, 1994), 135.
14. Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 203.
15. Clifford Geertz, Works and Lives (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988), 144.
16. Derrida, Spectres of Marx, xv.
CHAPTER ONE
1. Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989), 273.
2. Plutarch, Essays (London: Penguin Books, 1992), 45.
3. Ibid, 42.
4. Jean Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, trans. Charles Levin (St. Louis: Telos, 1981), 145.
5. Joan Ryan, Doing Things the Right Way (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1995), 53.
6. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1978), 91.
7. Taussig, Shamanism, 366.
8. Ibid., 367.
9. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988), 75.
10. Ibid., 89.
11. Karl Marx, Grundrisse, trans. Martin Nicolaus (New York: Vintage Books, 1973), 89.
12. Eric Wolfe, Europe and the People Without History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 75.
13. Nicos Poulantzas, Political Power and Social Classes, trans, and ed. Timothy O’Hagan (London: Verso, 1978), 15.
14. Jameson, Political Unconscious, 95.
15. Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977).
16. Marx, Grundrisse, 105–107.
17. Wolfe, Europe and the People, 76.
18. Jameson, Political Unconscious, 94.
19. Marx, Grundrisse, 102.
20. Wolfe, Europe and the People, 80.
21. Jacques Derrida, “Force of Law,” in Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, ed. Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, and David Gray Carlson, trans. Mary Quaintance (New York: Routledge, 1992), 44.
22. Dene Nation, Denendeh (Yellowknife: The Dene Nation, 1984), 135.
23. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 62–63.
24. Jameson, Political Unconscious, 286.
25. Diamond Jenness, Arctic Odyssey: The Diary of Diamond Jenness 1913-1916, ed. Stuart Jenness (Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1991), 254–255.
26. Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics (Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1972), 32.
27. Eleanor Burke Leacock, Myths of Male Dominance (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1981), 13.
28. Ibid., 133.
29. Hugh Brody, Maps and Dreams (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983), xi–xii.
30. Plutarch, Essays, 131.
31. Derrida, “Force of Law,” 43.
32. Sahlins, Stone Age Economics, 13.
33. Marshall Sahlins, Culture and Practical Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), 211.
34. E. Wilmsen and J. Denbow, “Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision,” Curent Anthropology 31,5: 494.
35. Ibid., 498.
36. James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Lit-erature and Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), 11.
37. Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (New York: Routledge, 1994), 38.
38. Ibid., 4.
39. Ibid., 207.
40. Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the Modern World (Vancouver: Douglas and Mclntyre, 2000), 101.
41. Ibid.
42. Mark O. Dickerson, Whose North? (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1992), 89.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid., 30.
45. Fredric Jameson, Late Marxism (New York: Verso, 1990), 41.
46. Ibid, 149.
47. Stanley Diamond, In Search of the Primitive (New Brunswick [USA]: Transaction Books, 1977).
48. Quoted in Jameson, Late Marxism, 41.
49. Mel Watkins, ed. Dene Nation: The Colony Within (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978), 121.
50. Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism, trans. Patrick Camiller (London: Verso, 1980), 81.
51. Jenness, Arctic Odyssey, 420.
52. Jean Briggs, Never in Anger (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967), 96–108.
53. Jenness, Arctic Odyssey, 386.
54. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), 10.
55. Jameson, Postmodernism, 102.
1. Derrida, “Force of Law,” 26.
2. Antonia Mills, Eagle Down Is Our Law: Witsuwit’en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994), 137.
3. Rene Fumoleau, As Long as This Land Shall Last: A History of Treaty 8 and Treaty 11, 1870-1939 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973), 213.
4. Minutes from Dene Assembly, July 14, 1992, p. 2.
5. Fumoleau, As Long as This Land, 164.
6. Jameson, Postmodernism, 145–180.
7. David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992), 210.
8. Ato Sekyi-Otu, Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), 72–73.
9. Nunavut Implementation Commission, “Two-Member Constituencies and Gender Equality: A ‘Made in Nunavut’ Solution for an Effective and Representative Legislature,” December 6, 1994, p. 4.
10. Ibid, 17.
11. Jameson, The Seeds of Time, 61.
12. Jameson, Political Unconscious, 293.
13. Ibid., 285, 293–294.
14. Jameson, Postmodernism, 337 (but see also Seeds of Time, 66-67).
15. Jameson, Political Unconscious, 294.
16. Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, vol. 1, trans. Alan Sheridan-Smith (London: New Left Books, 1978), 256.
17. Hugh Brody, The People’s Land (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977), 12.
18. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 170.
19. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine (New York: Routledge, 1993), 177.
20. J. Irving Hallowell, “Ojibwa Ontology, Behavior, and World View,” in Primitive Views of the World, ed. Stanley Diamond (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969), 75.
21. Ibid.
22. Winona LaDuke, The Winona LaDuke Reader (Pentiction: Theytus Books, 2002), 79.
23. Ibid., 80.
24. Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 447–48.
1. Cited in Fumoleau, As Long as This Land, 173.
2. Ibid., 347–349.
3. Kerry Abel, Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993), 240.
4. Donna Lea Hawley, The Annotated 1990 Indian Act (Toronto: Carswell Company, 1990), 87.
5. Ibid, 88.
6. Joan Ryan, Doing Things the Right Way (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1995), 57.
7. Dominick LaCapra, Representing the Holocaust (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), 202.
CHAPTER FOUR
1. W.J.T. Mitchell, “Imperial Landscape,” in Landscape and Power, ed. W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 10.
2. Jonathan Bordo, “Jack Pine—Wilderness Sublime or the Erasure of the Aboriginal Presence from the Landscape,” Journal of Canadian Studies 27, 4 (Winter): 121.
3. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Sahtu Treaty (Ottawa: Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 1991), 9.
4. Pierre Clastres, Society Against the State (New York: Zone Books, 1983), 31.
5. Taussig, Shamanism, 202.
6. Ibid, 203.
7. George Barnaby, “The Political System and the Dene,” in Dene Nation: The Colony Within, ed. Mel Watkins (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977), 120.
8. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Sahtu Treaty, 8.
9. Barnaby, “The Political System,” 121.
10. Rosalind E. Krauss, The Optical Unconscious (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993), 167.
CHAPTER FIVE
1. Jameson, The Seeds of Time, 23.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Marc Stevenson, Inuit, Whalers and Cultural Persistence (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997), 103.
5. For the decision, see my Unjust Relations (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1994), 32-47; and for its background, see Peter Kulchyski and Frank Tester, Tammarniit (Mistakes) (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994), 13–42.
6. Cited in Morris Zaslow, The Northward Expansion of Canada 1914-1967 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988), 260.
7. Brody, The People’s Land, 74.
8. Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), 252.
9. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1978), 255.
10. Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, trans. John and Doreen Weightman (New York: Atheneum, 1973), 337.
11. Jacques Derrida, OfGrammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), 123.
12. Clastres, Society Against the State, 186.
13. Ibid., 177.
CHAPTER SIX
1. See Michael Mitchell, in Joyce Richardson, ed., Drumbeat (Toronto: Summerhill Press, 1989), 118.
2. Watkins, ed., Dene Nation, 3.
3. See Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) Report, Vol. Two, Part One (Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services, 1996), 349.
4. Ibid., 340; see also 130–134.
5. Ibid., 4.6.12, 481; see also 4.6.13.
6. Menno Boldt, Surviving as Indians (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), 76.
7. Bill C-31, see 63–64.
8. Frank Cassidy and Robert L. Bish, Indian Government: Its Meaning in Practice (Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 1989), 156.
9. Alan C. Cairns, Citizens Plus; Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000), 12.
10. Dominick LaCapra, History of Criticism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), 140.
11. Jurgen Habermas, Communication and the Evolution of Society, trans. Thomas McCarthy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979), 98.
12. Marie Smallface Marule, “Traditional Indian Government: Of the People, by the People, for the People,” in Pathways to Self-determination ed. Leroy Little Bear, Menno Boldt, and J. Anthony Long (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), 44.
13. Dene Nation, Denendeh (Yellowknife: The Dene Nation, 1984), 32.
14. Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism, 59.
15. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 42.
16. Derrida, “Force of Law,” 60.
17. Giddens, Nation-State and Violence, 295.
18. Cassidy and Bish, Indian Government, 135–144.
19. Taiaiake Alfred, Peace, Power, and Righteousness; An Indigenous Manifesto (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 1999), 188.
20. Ibid., 88.
21. See Patricia Monture-Angus, Thunder in My Soul; a Mohawk Woman Speaks (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1995), 15.
22. Alfred, Peace, Power, and Righteousness, 119.
23. Marx, Capital, vol. one, trans. Ben Fowkes (New York: Vintage Books, 1977), 876.