“…Scholarly literature has examined the relationship between tax and colonialism (Bush & Maltby, 2004;Dick, 2015;Roitman, 2007;Stanley 2020), tax, law, and Indigenous nations (Bartlett, 1979(Bartlett, , 1992Bryan, 2020aBryan, , 2020bCahoon, 2018;EagleWoman, 2007;Heaman, 2013;Kiel, 2019;MacIntosh, 2009;Phelps, 1985;Tait, 2017;Stanger Ross 2008) and Indigeneity and fiscal relations (Mackey, 2016;Palmer, 2020;Pedri-Spade, 2016;Pasternak, 2016;Sheild Johansson, 2018;Simpson, 2008Simpson, , 2014; while Indigenous thinkers for some time have identified it as a generative area for understanding the shape of Indigenous legal, state, and interpersonal relations. Secwepemc leader George Manuel and journalist Michael Posluns identified tax as an element of Canadian assimilation schemes: "authorities… have offered an open hand to an Indian who 'becomes one of us'that is, an enfranchised, tax-paying Christian, who brings nothing from his past" (2019 [1974], p. 8).…”