The Promise and Peril of Walking Indigenous Territorial Recognitions carried out by Settlers
This article proposes that if the permission and guidance of local Indigenous groups is obtained, and their protocols observed, a collaborative physical act of settler, or Indigenous-settler walking across territory on which events are to be held may constitute a more constructive form of "terr...
| Subtitles: | "Sacred Journeys 7: Pilgrimage and Beyond: Going Places, Far and Away" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 46-54 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Canada
/ Indigenous peoples
/ Territory
/ Land rights
/ Settler
/ Acknowledgment
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBQ North America ZB Sociology ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Walking
B Theology in the City B Treaty B Decolonisation B Indigenous B Kahnawà:ke B Kanien'kehá:ka B territorial acknowledgement B settler-colonial B Haldimand Tract |
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| Summary: | This article proposes that if the permission and guidance of local Indigenous groups is obtained, and their protocols observed, a collaborative physical act of settler, or Indigenous-settler walking across territory on which events are to be held may constitute a more constructive form of "territorial acknowledgement" than a verbal statement read out at such an event. By drawing sustained attention not only to Indigenous land but also to Indigenous title, resources, and jurisdiction, and by pointedly underlining the actual land in question, walking territorial acknowledgements can help settlers to develop an embodied sense of place-in-relation. In so doing they can move forward both the relationality implicit in Indigenous territorial recognition and the claims territorial recognitions make on settler bodies. These walk-acts diminish the superficial "virtue-signalling" and public performance of contrition which too often attach to such acknowledgements, threatening to render them obsolete. |
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| Physical Description: | 6 Illustrationen (farbig) |
| ISSN: | 2009-7379 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.21427/wmx8-e578 |