Title We are not you : First Nations and Canadian modernity / Claude Denis

Published Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (178 pages) Series Terra incognita Terra incognita (Peterborough, Ont.) Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Joseph Peters, in the court of public opinion -- 1. Nationalisms -- 2. Colonialism -- 3. Individual freedom -- 4. Self-government -- 5. Gender equality -- 6. Pluralisms -- 7. Limit-experience -- Conclusion: Expect aurora borealis -- Bibliography -- Index Summary We are not You starts with a 1992 court case, Peters v. Campbell, in which Joseph Peters sued fellow members of his Coast Salish people who, at his wife's instigation, forced him to undergo traditional ceremonies in order to resolve various marital difficulties. In the hands of Claude Denis, the case becomes a focal point of interpretations of difference set against the political landscape of Canada's highly charged conflicts of nationalisms. Observing the ruling and reasoning of the court (which found in favour of Peters), and the way in which that ruling was reported through the national media, this book is an exploration of the language of power and authority, of individual and collective rights, and of the politics of difference. What guidelines should we follow when the laws of the modern state and the laws of Aboriginal peoples collide? What do such cases reveal about the underlying spiritual and material orientations of aboriginal and dominant societies? What do they have to say about the corrosive issue of relativism? The author tackles all these questions with insight and perception-explores as well the dimension of gender, which sheds light both on this case and on the more general issues from a different angle. Denis starts from a single fascinating case study, but in the end his aim is to put modernity itself into question. There is something to be learned from a case like this, from the aboriginal side, about modernity's own limitations and shortcomings. But more fundamentally, the book interrogates modernity's claim that society's political self making can and will bring about human emancipation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Indian courts -- Canada Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada Indians of North America -- Canada -- Politics and government Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Politics and government SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. Indian courts Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. Indians of North America -- Politics and government Canada Genre/Form Trial and arbitral proceedings Trials, litigation, etc. Trial and arbitral proceedings. Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage. Form Electronic book ISBN 1551111187 9781551111186 9781442603073 1442603070

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