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 �territori...
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doaj-48d6d7c2b85c412fb7aa65117619b15c2021-07-26T12:31:59ZengTechnological University DublinInternational Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage2009-73792021-07-0192The Promise and Peril of Walking Indigenous Territorial Recognitions carried out by SettlersKen Wilson0Matthew Anderson1University of Regina, Regina SKConcordia University, Montreal QCThis 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.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp/vol9/iss2/7indigenoussettler-colonialkanien�keh�:kawalkingterritorial acknowledgementhaldimand tract |
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The Promise and Peril of Walking Indigenous Territorial Recognitions carried out by Settlers |
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The Promise and Peril of Walking Indigenous Territorial Recognitions carried out by Settlers |
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The Promise and Peril of Walking Indigenous Territorial Recognitions carried out by Settlers |
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The Promise and Peril of Walking Indigenous Territorial Recognitions carried out by Settlers |
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The Promise and Peril of Walking Indigenous Territorial Recognitions carried out by Settlers |
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promise and peril of walking indigenous territorial recognitions carried out by settlers |
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Technological University Dublin |
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International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage |
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2009-7379 |
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2021-07-01 |
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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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indigenous settler-colonial kanien�keh�:ka walking territorial acknowledgement haldimand tract |
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