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Specific claims are longstanding land claims disputes pertaining to Canada's legal obligations to indigenous communities. They are related to the administration of lands and other First Nations assets by the Government of Canada, or breaches of treaty obligations or of any other agreements between First Nations and the Crown by the government of Canada.
The acts of resurgence reclaim the Indigenous storyline, a counter-narrative, drawing away from hurt and grief, toward a future of hope. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 8 ] [ 3 ] Glen Coulthard states that Indigenous resurgence is a movement of nation building and decolonizing through the framework of grounded normativity. [ 7 ]
In 1947, a parliamentary committee recommended that Canada create a "Claims Commission" similar to the Indian Claims Commission in the United States, which was created two years prior in 1945. It was again recommended between 1959 and 1961 that Canada investigate land grievances of First Nations in British Columbia and in Kanesatake, Quebec. [2]
It has been discussed and theorized in the indigenous context of the concept that food sovereignty is also an effort of reclaiming culture and former relationship to land; [13] [15] [14] it has also been noted that, as a situational concept, food sovereignty in the traditional sense may have underlying traces of capitalist or colonialist ...
The stories themselves come "through the land," and land is required to provide the conditions for the story-telling and transmission of culture. [37] Without the land, removed by colonialism or by environmental destruction, Nishaabeg storytelling loses its grounding point for the transmission of cultural knowledge. [ 37 ]
Forget “code-switching,” we need work cultures “where people feel seen, heard, and valued,” argues LaShuna McBride.
A "Legal name fraud" billboard in the United Kingdom. A variation of the strawman theory is found in the "legal name fraud" movement, which believes that birth certificates give the state legal ownership of a personal name and that refusing to use this name removes oneself from the state's authority and a court's jurisdiction. [17] [18]
In the United States, there is a movement both inside and outside the Idaho state for the counties in east Oregon, east Washington and north California to join the state of Idaho. The movement mostly stems from the election results in those parts of commonly blue Washington , Oregon and California , since those areas predominantly vote republican.