Meaningful consultation, meaningful participants and meaning making: Inuvialuit perspectives on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and the climate crisis

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dc.contributor.authorPokiak, Letitia
dc.contributor.supervisorThom, Brian David
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-22T02:53:53Z
dc.date.available2020-09-22T02:53:53Z
dc.date.copyright2020en_US
dc.date.issued2020-09-21
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Anthropologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis Inuvialuit ‘story’ revolves around the Inuvialuit uprising and resurgence against government and industrial encroachment, and the self determination efforts to regain sovereignty of traditional territories. This ‘story’ also discusses how meaningful consultation made the Inuvialuit Final Agreement a reality, through which Inuvialuit land rights and freedoms were formally acknowledged and entrenched in the Canadian Constitution. Through meaningful consultation, Inuvialuit have become ‘meaningful participants’ in sustainable and future-making decisions of Inuvialuit nunangat (Inuvialuit lands) and waters, with respect to the Inuvialuit People and natural beings that Inuvialuit depend upon and maintain relationship with. As ‘meaningful participants’, Inuvialuit have the sovereign rights to “make meaning” and carve out a future as a sovereign nation within the country of Canada. This Inuvialuit ‘story’ is told with an informal framework through which it decolonizes academia, while also highlighting Indigenous voice through an Indigenous lens and worldview. The government and industry are called upon to meaningfully consult with Indigenous Peoples who have not only inhabited Turtle Island for millennia, but who have inherent Indigenous rights and freedoms, as Indigenous embodiment and well-being, and temporality and future-making are entangled with homelands.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12138
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectland rightsen_US
dc.subjectland claimsen_US
dc.subjectInuvialuiten_US
dc.subjectmeaningful consultationen_US
dc.subjectmeaningful participantsen_US
dc.subjectmeaning makingen_US
dc.subjectentanglementsen_US
dc.subjectembodimenten_US
dc.subjectwell-beingen_US
dc.subjecttemporalityen_US
dc.subjectfuture-makingen_US
dc.subjectfood sovereigntyen_US
dc.subjectsovereigntyen_US
dc.subjectstoryen_US
dc.subjectstoryworken_US
dc.subjectIndigenousen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous methodologyen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous resurgenceen_US
dc.subjectInuvialuit Settlement Regionen_US
dc.subjectWestern Arctic Regionen_US
dc.subjectindustryen_US
dc.subjectgovernmenten_US
dc.subjectclimate changeen_US
dc.subjectCommittee for Original People's Entitlementen_US
dc.titleMeaningful consultation, meaningful participants and meaning making: Inuvialuit perspectives on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and the climate crisisen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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