Indigenous Practices and Performances of Mobility as Resistance and Resurgence

Ken  Wilson

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Vol. 46 No. 2 (2021): Indigenous Literary Arts of Truth and Redress / Arts littéraires autochtones de vérité et de réparation

Indigenous Practices and Performances of Mobility as Resistance and Resurgence

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Submitted: June 22, 2022
Published: 2022-07-04

References

“Anishnaabe Iraq War Vet Completes Cross-Country Walk with Indian Act Chained to Body.” APTN National News, 4 Sept. 2012, aptnnews.ca/2012/09/04/anishnaabek-iraqwar-vet-completes-cross-country-walk-with-indian-act-chained-to-body/.
Bell, Avril. Relating Indigenous and Settler Identities: Beyond Domination. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Benjoe, Kerry. “Marching for a Cause.” Leader-Post [Regina], 14 June 2012, p. A3. ProQuest.
Bishop, Claire. “The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents.” Artforum, vol. 44, no. 6, Feb. 2006, pp. 178 83.
Bourriaud, Nicolas. Relational Aesthetics. Translated by Simon Pleasance et al., Les Presses du Réel, 2002.
Burelle, Julie Sara Véronique. Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec. Northwestern UP, 2019.
Byrd, Jodi A. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism. U of Minnesota P, 2011.
Coates, Ken. #IdleNoMore and the Remaking of Canada. U of Regina P, 2015.
Coulthard, Glen, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. “Grounded Normativity/Place-Based Solidarity.” American Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 2, 2016, pp. 249-55. doi.org/10.1353/aq.2016.0038.
Dick, Beau. “Interview with Chief Beau Dick of Alert Bay.” By Evelyn Thomas, YouTube, 7 Feb. 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=216&v=ggRnqOqYdIo&feature=emb_logo.
Enns, Lindsey. “Chained to the Indian Act.” Dryden Observer [Dryden, ON], July 2012, thedrydenobserver.ca/2012/07/chained-to-the-indian-act/.
Galloway, Gloria. “Trek to Ottawa ‘Not the End.’” The Globe and Mail, 26 Mar. 2013, p. A4. ProQuest.
Galloway, Gloria. “‘White Wizard,’ Leader of a 1,500-Km Journey, Mourned.” The Globe and Mail, 18 July 2013, p. A4. Canadian Periodical Index Quarterly.
Garneau, David. “Imaginary Spaces of Conciliation and Reconciliation.” West Coast Line, no. 74, 2012, pp. 28-38.
Garneau, David. “Migration as Territory: Performing Domain with a Non-Colonial Aesthetic Attitude.” Voz-à-voz/Voice-à-voice, www.vozavoz.ca/feature/david-garneau.
Goto, Ayumi. (kyōdōseikatsu): In the Shadows of Witnessing. 2018. School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, PhD dissertation.
Hopkins, Candice. “Beau Dick (1955-2017).” Documenta 14: Daybook, www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13689/beau-dick.
Hopkins, Candice. “Interventions in Traditional Territories: ‘Cistemaw iyiniw,’ a Performance by Cheryl L’Hirondelle.” Hemispheric Institute, 2005, hemisphericinstitute.org/en/emisferica-21/2-1-essays/cistemaw-iyiniw-ohci.html.
Howlett, Karen. “Publicity Trek from James Bay to Ottawa Coming to an End Today.” The Globe and Mail, 25 Mar. 2013, p. A4. ProQuest.
Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie. “#IDLENOMORE: Settler Responsibility for Relationship.” The Kino-nda-niimi Collective, editor, pp. 222-25.
The Kino-nda-niimi Collective. “Idle No More: The Winter We Danced.” The Kino-ndaniimi Collective, editor, pp. 21-26,
The Kino-nda-niimi Collective, editor. The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2014.
Land, Clare. Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles. Zed Books, 2015.
Lavoie, Judith. “First Nations Chief to Perform Rare Shaming Rite on Legislature Lawn.” Times-Colonist [Victoria], 9 Feb. 2013, www.timescolonist.com/news/local/first-nations-chief-to-perform-rare-shaming-rite-on-legislature lawn-1.70849.
L’Hirondelle, Cheryl. Why the Caged Bird Sings: Radical Inclusivity, Sonic Survivance and the Collective Ownership of Freedom Songs. 2015. Ontario College of Art and Design, MA thesis.
L’Hirondelle, Cheryl, et al. “Songlines, Stories and Community Engagement.” West Coast Line, no. 74, 2012, pp. 94-107.
Loewen, Andrew. “Where Is This Going?” Briarpatch, July-Aug. 2014, p. 2. Canadian Periodical Index Quarterly.
Lowman, Emma Battell, and Adam J. Barker. Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada. Fernwood, 2015.
McGregor, Deborah. “Anishnaabe-Kwe, Traditional Knowledge, and Water Protection.” Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, nos. 3-4, 2008, pp. 26-30. Canadian Periodical Index Quarterly.
Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized. Expanded ed., translated by Howard Greenfield, Beacon Press, 1991.
Nolan, Yvette. Medicine Shows: Indigenous Performance Culture. Playwrights Canada Press, 2015.
Pearson, Matthew. “Making Every Step Count: As the Nishiyuu Walkers Reached Chelsea on Their Way to Parliament Hill, Matthew Pearson Sees Their Ranks Have Swollen from Seven to Several Hundred.” Ottawa Citizen, 25 Mar. 2013, p. A1. ProQuest.
Pearson, Matthew. “Nishiyuu Walkers End Trek in Ottawa: Aboriginal Group Travelled 1,600 Km.” Gazette [Monteal], 26 Mar. 2013, p. A7. ProQuest.
Rice, Brian. The Rotinonshonni: Through the Eyes of Teharonhia: Wako and Sawiskera. 1999. California Institute of Integral Studies, PhD dissertation.
Rubinstein, Dan. Born to Walk: The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act. ECW Press, 2015.
Rubinstein, Dan. “Giant Steps in the Right Direction.” The Globe and Mail, 11 May 2013, p. F5. ProQuest.
Rubinstein, Dan. “The Walking Cure: On the Trail in Northern Quebec — Finding Salvation, One Step at a Time.” The Walrus, 26 Oct. 2013, thewalrus.ca/the-walking-cure.
Santin, Aldo. “Chained to the Indian Act: Walk Centres on Aboriginal Issues.” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 July 2012, www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/chained-to-theindian-act-161182145.html.
Seesequasis, Paul. “Nishiyuu Walkers: In Restlessness, There Is Power.” The Kino-nda-niimi Collective, editor, pp. 209-11.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. U of Minnesota P, 2017.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. “Politics Based on Justice, Diplomacy Based on Love: What Indigenous Diplomatic Traditions Can Teach Us.” Briarpatch, 1 May 2013, briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/politics-based-on-justice-diplomacy-based-on-love.
Springgay, Stephanie, and Sarah E. Truman. Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World: WalkingLab. Routledge, 2018.
Taillon, Joan. “Innu Grandmother Finds Her ‘Meshkanu’ by Walking.” Windspeaker, 1 Aug. 2001, p. 14. ProQuest.
Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-40, jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630/15554.
Veracini, Lorenzo. Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Walker, Connie. “Lake Winnipeg Should Be ‘Recognized as a Person,’ Says Advocate: Katherine Sinclair Is Walking 1,300 Kilometres to Raise Awareness about Health of World’s 10th Largest Lake.” CBC News, 12 July 2014, www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/lake-winnipeg-should-be-recognized-as-a-person-says-advocate-1.2703350.
Watts, Vanessa. “Indigenous Place-Thought and Agency amongst Humans and Non-Humans (First Woman and Sky Woman Go on a European World Tour!).” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, vol. 2, no. 1, 2013, pp. 20-34.
Wilson, Ken. “Annotated Bibliography on Contemporary Indigenous Mobility Practices.” Unpublished, 26 Mar. 2018.
Wilson, Ken. “Wood Mountain Walk and the Possibilities of Decolonization through Relationships with People and Land in Solo Walking Performance.” Canadian Theatre Review, no. 182, 2020, pp. 51-56.
Wolfe, Patrick. “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.” Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 8, no. 4, 2006, pp. 387-409. doi:10.1080/14623520601056240.
“Young Cree Walkers Greeted by Crowd after 1,600 Kilometer Trek to Canada’s Capital.” Indian Life: News from Across Native North America, May-June 2013, p. 3.

How to Cite

Wilson, K. . (2022). Indigenous Practices and Performances of Mobility as Resistance and Resurgence. Studies in Canadian Literature, 46(2), 47–63. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32896

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[1] “Anishnaabe Iraq War Vet Completes Cross-Country Walk with Indian Act Chained to Body.” APTN National News, 4 Sept. 2012, aptnnews.ca/2012/09/04/anishnaabek-iraqwar-vet-completes-cross-country-walk-with-indian-act-chained-to-body/.

[2] Bell, Avril. Relating Indigenous and Settler Identities: Beyond Domination. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

[3] Benjoe, Kerry. “Marching for a Cause.” Leader-Post [Regina], 14 June 2012, p. A3. ProQuest.

[4] Bishop, Claire. “The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents.” Artforum, vol. 44, no. 6, Feb. 2006, pp. 178 83.

[5] Bourriaud, Nicolas. Relational Aesthetics. Translated by Simon Pleasance et al., Les Presses du Réel, 2002.

[6] Burelle, Julie Sara Véronique. Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec. Northwestern UP, 2019.

[7] Byrd, Jodi A. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism. U of Minnesota P, 2011.

[8] Coates, Ken. #IdleNoMore and the Remaking of Canada. U of Regina P, 2015.

[9] Coulthard, Glen, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. “Grounded Normativity/Place-Based Solidarity.” American Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 2, 2016, pp. 249-55. doi.org/10.1353/aq.2016.0038.

[10] Dick, Beau. “Interview with Chief Beau Dick of Alert Bay.” By Evelyn Thomas, YouTube, 7 Feb. 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=216&v=ggRnqOqYdIo&feature=emb_logo.

[11] Enns, Lindsey. “Chained to the Indian Act.” Dryden Observer [Dryden, ON], July 2012, thedrydenobserver.ca/2012/07/chained-to-the-indian-act/.

[12] Galloway, Gloria. “Trek to Ottawa ‘Not the End.’” The Globe and Mail, 26 Mar. 2013, p. A4. ProQuest.

[13] Galloway, Gloria. “‘White Wizard,’ Leader of a 1,500-Km Journey, Mourned.” The Globe and Mail, 18 July 2013, p. A4. Canadian Periodical Index Quarterly.

[14] Garneau, David. “Imaginary Spaces of Conciliation and Reconciliation.” West Coast Line, no. 74, 2012, pp. 28-38.

[15] Garneau, David. “Migration as Territory: Performing Domain with a Non-Colonial Aesthetic Attitude.” Voz-à-voz/Voice-à-voice, www.vozavoz.ca/feature/david-garneau.

[16] Goto, Ayumi. (kyōdōseikatsu): In the Shadows of Witnessing. 2018. School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, PhD dissertation.

[17] Hopkins, Candice. “Beau Dick (1955-2017).” Documenta 14: Daybook, www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13689/beau-dick.

[18] Hopkins, Candice. “Interventions in Traditional Territories: ‘Cistemaw iyiniw,’ a Performance by Cheryl L’Hirondelle.” Hemispheric Institute, 2005, hemisphericinstitute.org/en/emisferica-21/2-1-essays/cistemaw-iyiniw-ohci.html.

[19] Howlett, Karen. “Publicity Trek from James Bay to Ottawa Coming to an End Today.” The Globe and Mail, 25 Mar. 2013, p. A4. ProQuest.

[20] Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie. “#IDLENOMORE: Settler Responsibility for Relationship.” The Kino-nda-niimi Collective, editor, pp. 222-25.

[21] The Kino-nda-niimi Collective. “Idle No More: The Winter We Danced.” The Kino-ndaniimi Collective, editor, pp. 21-26,

[22] The Kino-nda-niimi Collective, editor. The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2014.

[23] Land, Clare. Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles. Zed Books, 2015.

[24] Lavoie, Judith. “First Nations Chief to Perform Rare Shaming Rite on Legislature Lawn.” Times-Colonist [Victoria], 9 Feb. 2013, www.timescolonist.com/news/local/first-nations-chief-to-perform-rare-shaming-rite-on-legislature lawn-1.70849.

[25] L’Hirondelle, Cheryl. Why the Caged Bird Sings: Radical Inclusivity, Sonic Survivance and the Collective Ownership of Freedom Songs. 2015. Ontario College of Art and Design, MA thesis.

[26] L’Hirondelle, Cheryl, et al. “Songlines, Stories and Community Engagement.” West Coast Line, no. 74, 2012, pp. 94-107.

[27] Loewen, Andrew. “Where Is This Going?” Briarpatch, July-Aug. 2014, p. 2. Canadian Periodical Index Quarterly.

[28] Lowman, Emma Battell, and Adam J. Barker. Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada. Fernwood, 2015.

[29] McGregor, Deborah. “Anishnaabe-Kwe, Traditional Knowledge, and Water Protection.” Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, nos. 3-4, 2008, pp. 26-30. Canadian Periodical Index Quarterly.

[30] Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized. Expanded ed., translated by Howard Greenfield, Beacon Press, 1991.

[31] Nolan, Yvette. Medicine Shows: Indigenous Performance Culture. Playwrights Canada Press, 2015.

[32] Pearson, Matthew. “Making Every Step Count: As the Nishiyuu Walkers Reached Chelsea on Their Way to Parliament Hill, Matthew Pearson Sees Their Ranks Have Swollen from Seven to Several Hundred.” Ottawa Citizen, 25 Mar. 2013, p. A1. ProQuest.

[33] Pearson, Matthew. “Nishiyuu Walkers End Trek in Ottawa: Aboriginal Group Travelled 1,600 Km.” Gazette [Monteal], 26 Mar. 2013, p. A7. ProQuest.

[34] Rice, Brian. The Rotinonshonni: Through the Eyes of Teharonhia: Wako and Sawiskera. 1999. California Institute of Integral Studies, PhD dissertation.

[35] Rubinstein, Dan. Born to Walk: The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act. ECW Press, 2015.

[36] Rubinstein, Dan. “Giant Steps in the Right Direction.” The Globe and Mail, 11 May 2013, p. F5. ProQuest.

[37] Rubinstein, Dan. “The Walking Cure: On the Trail in Northern Quebec — Finding Salvation, One Step at a Time.” The Walrus, 26 Oct. 2013, thewalrus.ca/the-walking-cure.

[38] Santin, Aldo. “Chained to the Indian Act: Walk Centres on Aboriginal Issues.” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 July 2012, www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/chained-to-theindian-act-161182145.html.

[39] Seesequasis, Paul. “Nishiyuu Walkers: In Restlessness, There Is Power.” The Kino-nda-niimi Collective, editor, pp. 209-11.

[40] Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. U of Minnesota P, 2017.

[41] Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. “Politics Based on Justice, Diplomacy Based on Love: What Indigenous Diplomatic Traditions Can Teach Us.” Briarpatch, 1 May 2013, briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/politics-based-on-justice-diplomacy-based-on-love.

[42] Springgay, Stephanie, and Sarah E. Truman. Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World: WalkingLab. Routledge, 2018.

[43] Taillon, Joan. “Innu Grandmother Finds Her ‘Meshkanu’ by Walking.” Windspeaker, 1 Aug. 2001, p. 14. ProQuest.

[44] Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-40, jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630/15554.

[45] Veracini, Lorenzo. Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

[46] Walker, Connie. “Lake Winnipeg Should Be ‘Recognized as a Person,’ Says Advocate: Katherine Sinclair Is Walking 1,300 Kilometres to Raise Awareness about Health of World’s 10th Largest Lake.” CBC News, 12 July 2014, www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/lake-winnipeg-should-be-recognized-as-a-person-says-advocate-1.2703350.

[47] Watts, Vanessa. “Indigenous Place-Thought and Agency amongst Humans and Non-Humans (First Woman and Sky Woman Go on a European World Tour!).” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, vol. 2, no. 1, 2013, pp. 20-34.

[48] Wilson, Ken. “Annotated Bibliography on Contemporary Indigenous Mobility Practices.” Unpublished, 26 Mar. 2018.

[49] Wilson, Ken. “Wood Mountain Walk and the Possibilities of Decolonization through Relationships with People and Land in Solo Walking Performance.” Canadian Theatre Review, no. 182, 2020, pp. 51-56.

[50] Wolfe, Patrick. “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.” Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 8, no. 4, 2006, pp. 387-409. doi:10.1080/14623520601056240.

[51] “Young Cree Walkers Greeted by Crowd after 1,600 Kilometer Trek to Canada’s Capital.” Indian Life: News from Across Native North America, May-June 2013, p. 3.