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- Title
WINDIGO FACES: ENVIRONMENTAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS SERVING CANADIAN COLONIALISM.
- Authors
Lee, Damien
- Abstract
This paper argues that environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) play a role in perpetuating colonialism in Canada, specifically by legitimizing the state's control over Indigenous peoples. It positions ENGOs as indirectly serving imperialism in Indigenous peoples' territories when forming partnerships with First Nation governments that are themselves established to serve Canada's interests. The paper links Canada's interests in resource exploitation, how Canada dominates Indigenous peoples' political systems, and how ENGOs are legitimated by the state to demonstrate First Nations-ENGO partnerships can actually serve to assimilate Indigenous peoples, using the 2010 Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement as a primary example.
- Subjects
CANADA; NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations; ABORIGINAL Canadians; ENVIRONMENTALISM; FORESTS &; forestry; CANADIAN government relations with First Nations; FIRST Nations politics &; government; TAIGAS; IMPERIALISM; RESOURCE exploitation; WINDIGOS; CULTURAL assimilation of Native Americans
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 2011, Vol 31, Issue 2, p133
- ISSN
0715-3244
- Publication type
Article