RT Article
T1 The Promise and Peril of Walking Indigenous Territorial Recognitions carried out by Settlers
JF The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
VO 9
IS 2
SP 46
OP 54
A1 Wilson, Kenneth M. 1956-
A1 Anderson, Matthew R.
LA English
PB Dublin Institute of Technology
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1764766555
AB 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.
K1 Indigenous
K1 settler-colonial
K1 Kanien'kehá:ka
K1 Walking
K1 territorial acknowledgement
K1 Haldimand Tract
K1 Kahnawà:ke
K1 Theology in the City
K1 Treaty
K1 Decolonisation
DO 10.21427/wmx8-e578