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SESSION 2 [Panel]: Building Solidarities Between (Immigrant) Settlers of Colour and the Indigenous Peoples of this Land
No full textThe purpose of this session is to spark a much needed conversation, especially in a time of the TRC\u27s calls to action. In general, discourse around reconciliations, in the context of BC, has operated within an indigenous-non-indigenous binary, where non-indigenous bodies are presumed to be white. Beyond this binary, there are people of colour who occupy a different space. On the one hand, many people of colour have some understandings around experiences of racism and perhaps even white settler colonialism or imperialism (depending largely on the situations and places they left or fled from to be in Canada), which presents powerful opportunities of solidarity with the Indigenous peoples of this land. Yet, on the other hand, people of colour are also settlers - tolerated and allowed by white settlers - whose decision it should have never been - to be on this land and in this place. As settlers, people of colour benefit from colonialism, a difference that is important to situate and deconstruct so as to be better allies with Indigenous peoples of this land and their ongoing experiences of settler colonialism. This is where this conversation begins. We invite immigrant settlers of colour and indigenous peoples of this land to enter into conversation with one another with the purpose of finding commonalities in how we\u27ve been othered, and more importantly build new solidarities especially so that non-indigenous racialized peoples can better learn to develop and maintain their relationships with the indigenous peoples of this land and with this land that they settled upon
SESSION 2.3: Decolonizing Missionary Histories: Imperative and action in the 21st Century
No full textMissionary histories are inseparable from many histories of colonization, and the archival records of missionary activity are invaluable to understanding Indigenous-Settler histories of British Columbia. Investigating the lives of two missionaries in the British Columbia interior, this paper lays out an approach to missionary histories based in Indigenous research methodologies and settler colonial analysis consistent with contemporary frameworks for decolonizing historical practice. Engaged in this way, the stories of these two have a great deal to tell us about how British Columbia has come to be
