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Standing on the Shore with Saaban: An Anthropological Rapprochement with an Indigenous Intellectual Tradition

Standing on the Shore with Saaban: An Anthropological Rapprochement with an Indigenous... COMMENTARY Standing on the Shore with Saaban An Anthropological Rapprochement with an Indigenous Intellectual Tradition charles r. menzies, Gitxaala/University of British Columbia The relationship between Indigenous peoples and the academics who study us is fraught with the memories of Western colonialism and its attendant history of disruption and appropriation. Perhaps if it was only a memory we could creatively reinvent the past and get on with it. But it is our present too. As I write this, a large multinational corporation is planning to run crude oil tankers through the culturally and ecologically important waters of my home community on Canada's northwest coast. Another company wants to place a large ship loading facility over a place of cultural significance. Yet another company wants to plant several hundred gigantic wind turbines over the top of a culturally significant resource harvesting area and watershed. Government agencies continue to act as facilitators of these projects, and social science continues to be applied to justify the displacement of indigenous peoples from meaningful decision-making processes and ultimately to marginalize us further from our homes.1 Social science research has become more attuned to indigenous issues in recent decades, but indigenous people still experience such http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Collaborative Anthropologies University of Nebraska Press

Standing on the Shore with Saaban: An Anthropological Rapprochement with an Indigenous Intellectual Tradition

Menzies, Charles R.
Collaborative Anthropologies , Volume 6 (1) – Feb 27, 2013
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COMMENTARY Standing on the Shore with Saaban An Anthropological Rapprochement with an Indigenous Intellectual Tradition charles r. menzies, Gitxaala/University of British Columbia The relationship between Indigenous peoples and the academics who study us is fraught with the memories of Western colonialism and its attendant history of disruption and appropriation. Perhaps if it was only a memory we could creatively reinvent the past and get on with it. But it is our present too. As I write this, a large multinational corporation is planning to run crude oil tankers through the culturally and ecologically important waters of my home community on Canada's northwest coast. Another company wants to place a large ship loading facility over a place of cultural significance. Yet another company wants to plant several hundred gigantic wind turbines over the top of a culturally significant resource harvesting area and watershed. Government agencies continue to act as facilitators of these projects, and social science continues to be applied to justify the displacement of indigenous peoples from meaningful decision-making processes and ultimately to marginalize us further from our homes.1 Social science research has become more attuned to indigenous issues in recent decades, but indigenous people still experience such

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