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Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State

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Since Justin Trudeau’s election in 2015, Canada has been hailed the world over as embarking on a really progressive, post-postcolonial era—including an improved relationship between the state and its Indigenous peoples. Shiri Pasternak corrects this misconception, showing that colonialism could be very much alive in Canada. From the point of view of Indigenous law and jurisdiction, she tells the story of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, in western Quebec, and their tireless resistance to federal land claims policy. 

Grounded Authority chronicles the band’s ongoing attempts to restore full governance over its lands and natural resources through an agreement signed by settler governments almost three decades ago—an agreement the state refuses to fully put into effect. Pasternak argues that the state’s aversion to recognizing Algonquin jurisdiction stems from its goal of perfecting its sovereignty by replacing the inherent jurisdiction of Indigenous peoples with its own, delegated authority. From police brutality and fabricated sexual abuse cases to an intervention into and overthrow of a customary government, Pasternak provides a compelling, richly detailed account of rarely documented coercive mechanisms employed to force Indigenous communities into compliance with federal policy.

A rigorous account of the implausible struggle fought by the Algonquins to handle responsibility over their territory, Grounded Authority provides a powerful alternative model to one nation’s land claims policy and a very important contribution to current debates within the study of colonialism and Indigenous peoples in North The usa and globally.

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