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The Rediscovered Self: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice

The Rediscovered Self: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice

Niezen, Ronald

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Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies, Book 57

Native American History

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ISBN10: 0773535306
ISBN13: 9780773535305
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: May 18 2009
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezen discusses the ways new rights standards and networks of activist collaboration facilitate indigenous claims about culture, adding coherence to their histories, institutions, and group qualities.

Drawing on historical, legal, and ethnographic material on aboriginal communities in northern Canada, Niezen illustrates the ways indigenous peoples worldwide are identifying and acting upon new opportunities to further their rights and identities. He shows how - within the constraints of state and international legal systems, activist lobbying strategies, and public ideas and expectations - indigenous leaders are working to overcome the injuries of imposed change, political exclusion, and loss of identity. Taken together, the essays provide a critical understanding of the ways in which people are seeking cultural justice while rearticulating and, at times, re-dignifying the collective self.

The Rediscovered Self shows how, through the processes and aims of justice, distinct ways of life begin to be expressed through new media, formal procedures, and transnational collaborations.

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