Minding the gaps: Property, geography, and Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous people's right to water under international law: a legal pluralism perspective

“…Each state that is party to the Convention must submit a report of its activities regularly to the Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and this Committee must assess these reports and make recommendations. In a case of 2012 this Committee reconfirmed that these rights were also relevant for indigenous people in its non-binding concluding observations regarding the report [32] and shadow reports from Canada [33][34][35]. An indigenous community (the Tsilhqot'in) argued in its shadow report that a mining activity of the Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine would affect its traditional access to land and water and that community members would not be able to go home or visit their sacred sites [36].…”

Tender grounds: Intimate visceral violence and British Columbia's colonial geographies

“…Critical geographers focus on negotiations between First Nations and federal and provincial governments, unpacking the ways in which treaty certainty operates so non-Indigenous corporatedriven resource extraction can proceed in unfettered ways (McCreary & Milligan, 2014). Other geographers point out that settler-colonial dominated governments in British Columbia operate, especially legalistically, in ways focused on securing control and power over land (Egan & Place, 2013).…”

Sub‐surface Property, Free‐entry Mineral Staking and Settler Colonialism in Canada

“…This couplet has complexities. Egan and Place () suggest that property is relational and there are “gaps” or openings for alternative views of property. Egan and Place's specific concern is with how Indigenous epistemologies intersect with liberal understandings of property, as exercised through the modern nation state.…”