Audra Simpson - 'Mohawk Interruptus' Factsheet

Zeibeb A.

This factsheet explores the complexities of Kahnawà:ke Mohawk sovereignty in regards to the fraught past and present relationship between Indigenous and settler societies. The factsheet explores nation-building narratives and Audra Simpson's politics of refusal as a politics which asserts and maintains political sovereignty through ongoing settler colonialism.

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References

Simpson, A. (2014). “Ethnographic Refusal: Anthropological Need.” Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. pp. 95-114. DOI: https://doi.org/10/1215/9790822376781

Source Authors

Audra Simpson

Keywords

Canada's Colonial History, Colonialism, Indigenous Resistance, Indigenous Sovereignty, Interrupting Colonial Narratives, Knowledge and Power, Land and Power, Land Dispossession, Language of Rights, Multiple Ways of Knowing, Nation Building Narrative, Ongoing Colonialism, Plurality of Experiences, Politics of Citizenship, Politics of Recognition, Representations and Power, Resistant Knowledge, Settler Colonialism, Settler Moves to Innocence, Settler-Indigenous Relations, Stories and Power, Terra Nullius

Key Figures

Kahnawà:ke Mohawk

Locations

Mi'kmaki

Themes

History, Theory