“Time Immemorial” and Indigenous Rights: A Genealogy and Three Case Studies (  C alder ,   V an der  P eet ,   T silhqot'in ) from  B ritish  C olumbia | Zendy

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“Time Immemorial” and Indigenous Rights: A Genealogy and Three Case Studies ( C alder , V an der P eet , T silhqot'in ) from B ritish C olumbia

Author(s) -

Weir Lorraine

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of historical sociology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186

H-Index - 26

eISSN - 1467-6443

pISSN - 0952-1909

DOI - 10.1111/johs.12028

Subject(s) - indigenous , relation (database) , genealogy , history , ethnology , function (biology) , sociology , humanities , law , political science , philosophy , ecology , database , biology , computer science , evolutionary biology

“Time immemorial” has operated as a legal fiction in the discourse of colonization, performing a genealogical function in the construction of “antiquity” and “legal memory” in E nglish law, and repurposed in Indigenous rights cases in C anada. Beginning with a genealogical outline, this paper analyzes “time immemorial” in relation to Settler and Indigenous discourses of time, memory and the land in C alder , V an der P eet , and T silhqot'in .

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