Review of ‘Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life beyond Settler Colonialism,’ by Joseph Weiss.
Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights, Reviews on Sep 20th, 2021 Comments Off on Review of ‘Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life beyond Settler Colonialism,’ by Joseph Weiss.
Weiss arrived in Haida Gwai with the weight of dead generations of settler anthropologists before him. These sojourners were drawn to the deep sea Haida homeland. Their fascination was rooted in a settler sense of deracination and dislocation – it is as though the settlers’ own sense of loss is salved through emersion within another […]