indigenous resistance and activism

Question 1

forms that indigenous resistance has taken

Answer 1

• petitions to governor general
• resistance to residential schools
• Assembly of FIrst Nations
• mobilization against White Paper
• blockades and occupations

Question 2

is Indigenous resistance purely oppositional?

Answer 2

NO! not just about keeping the state as it is and changing policies, its about enacting a new social order

Question 3

what are prefigurative practices?

Answer 3

how you bring about the world you desire
- enacting in the present the future you desire

Question 4

what have been the limitations to indigenous resistance?

Answer 4

1. resistance is often reactive and responsive to encroachment on indg. lands and rights, so it is hard to fight for bigger problems
2. resistance is often framed as illegal and criminal -> needing coercive power of state