Shaping the future on Haida Gwaii : life beyond settler colonialism /

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Author / Creator:	Weiss, Josef
Imprint:	Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xi, 230 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Haida Indians -- British Columbia -- Haida Gwaii -- Social life and customs -- 21st century. Haida Indians -- British Columbia -- Haida Gwaii -- Politics and government -- 21st century. Haida Indians -- Politics and government Haida Indians -- Social life and customs Social conditions Haida Gwaii (B.C.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century. British Columbia -- Haida Gwaii
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11699282

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ISBN:	0774837586 9780774837583
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society. This book asserts quite the opposite: Indigenous peoples are not in any sense "out of time" in our contemporary world. Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii shows how Indigenous peoples not only continue to have a future, but are at work building many different futures-for themselves and for their nonIndigenous neighbours. Through the experiences of the Haida First Nation, this book explores these possible futures in detail, demonstrating how Haida ways of thinking about time, mobility, and political leadership are at the heart of contemporary strategies for addressing the dilemmas that come with life under settler colonialism."--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Part I. Pasts and Futures
1. An Introduction to Haida Future-Making in Old Massett
2. The Everyday Temporalities of Life on Haida Gwaii
Part 2. Home
3. Coming Home to Haida Gwaii: Haida Departures and Returns in the Future Perfect
4. Of Hippies and Haida: Fantasy, Future-Making, and the Allure of Haida Gwaii
Part 3. Care
5. Leading "from the Bottom of the Pole": Care and Governance in the Haida World
6. Precarious Authority: Endangerment the Political Promise to Protect Haida Gwaii
Conclusion: Unsettling Futures
Notes
References
Index

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