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标题：Indigenous temporal priority and the (de)legitimization of the Canadian state: A book review of On Being Here to Stay
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作者：Scott Kouri
期刊名称：Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society
印刷版ISSN：1929-8692
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：2
语种：English
出版社：Journal Publishing Services
摘要：Michael Asch, in On Being Here to Stay: Treaty and Aboriginal Rights in Canada , devotes over 200 pages to the question of “what, beyond the fact that we [settlers] have the numbers and the power to insist on it, authorizes our being here to stay” (p. 3)? In the context of Canada, decolonization almost inevitably engages with the complexities of treaty relationships and the issue of temporal priority. Asch’s contribution serves as both a primer for legislative aspects of these issues, as well as a critical engagement with the debates on contested sovereignty. Asch draws on Indigenous knowledge and scholarship, Western political thought, and his research in Indigenous communities to provide a creative and engaging proposal for altering current settler colonial relations in Canada. In this review I will both present Asch’s main arguments as accurately as possible while also challenging some points through a decolonizing critique inspired by Tuck and Yang’s (2012) ethics of incommensurability. Michael Asch. (2014). On being here to stay: Treaty and Aboriginal rights in Canada . Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 217 pp. $24.95
关键词：settler colonialism;Indigenous-settler relationships;treaty and Aboriginal rights;Indigenous sovereignty;Canadian politics;incommensurablility