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<\/p>\nFor this assignment I chose to answer question 3 which prompted me to examine the comment Judge McEachern made at the trial of Delgamuukw v. the Queen, “We\u2019ll call this the map that roared”, as well as Matthew Sparke’s analysis of the aforementioned comment. Sparke positions the geographic conflict between Canadian Settlers and Indigenous Peoples as that of two groups who share the same land but have different ways of relating to the world and the land which both groups live on. The innately is not a problem, but when one group, the settlers, controls much of the legal and political aspects relating to law and geography, a power imbalance which leads to the creation an asymmetrical conflict. The resolution to this conflict favors the Settlers, since they are the ones that act as the “referees” between the two disputing sides. Additionally due to the difference between Western Colonial and Indigenous understandings of geography, Indigenous geographic claims are delegitimized, in political and legislative contexts. A conceptualization of these issues and the conflict that has been created by them can be represented by the phrase “the map that roared”, as the crux of this conflict is interplayed through the physical map, as well as the circumstances (the court case) of Canadian law which forces Indigenous Peoples to have to prove their rights to lands which they have occupied first, to a political body consisting almost entirely by settlers.<\/p>\n
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While Judge McEachern, spoke these words with a diminishing intent, they were transformed into a symbol of “resistance in the First Nations\u2019 remapping of the land” (468). This refusal to allow language to marginalize and reformation of such language into an expression of the challenge to the colonial injustices by the Gitxsan and Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en people. This particular case, not only has particular relevance to contemporary news, as the Wet’suwet’en land defenders have currently been protesting<\/a> the construction of a pipeline which was implemented without the consent of the hereditary chiefs. The use of colonial land designations is not just a problem among the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en people. Settler-colonial legislated geography has been used to marginalize First Nations and other Indigenous Peoples throughout Canada. This is exemplified by Shoal Lake 40<\/a>, which, despite living next to the main fresh water source for Winnipeg, had no access to safe, fresh water. Additionally, due to an aqueduct that was constructed by the Canadian government the community at Shoal Lake 40, had no safe or easy way to exit the now island. As of 2019, a road called, “Freedom Road<\/a>” has been built enabling those who lived on Shoal Lake 40 to come and go from their community. This is another example of ideas relating to Sparke’s analysis of “the map that roared”. It is an issue that is crucial to the identity and survival of the Indigenous community in conflict. Additionally, their ability to inhabit their territory was diminished and otherwise ignored by the Settler-Colonial policies of Canadian governance. Both the communities at Shoal Lake 40 and the Gitxsan and Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en lands have to continually challenge the geographic designations of the Canadian Government, and the outcomes and discussion related challenges are what will shape this period of Canadian history and the relations between Indigenous People and Canadian settlers for generations to come.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Works Cited<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For this assignment I chose to answer question 3 which prompted me to examine the comment Judge McEachern made at the trial of Delgamuukw v. the Queen, “We\u2019ll call this the map that roared”, as well as Matthew Sparke’s analysis of the aforementioned comment. Sparke positions the geographic conflict between Canadian Settlers and Indigenous Peoples […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69985,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophiedafesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophiedafesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophiedafesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophiedafesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophiedafesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophiedafesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophiedafesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophiedafesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophiedafesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sophiedafesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bracken, Amber. \u201cCanada: Protests Go Mainstream as Support for Wet’suwet’en Pipeline Fight Widens.\u201d\u00a0The Guardian<\/i>, 14 Feb. 2020, https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/14\/wetsuweten-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-allies.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u201cCanada’s Waterless Communities: Shoal Lake 40.\u201d\u00a0Vice<\/i>, Vice Canada, 8 Oct. 2015, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KHOJ0c2izbo.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u201cFreedom Road to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation Now Completed.\u201d Freedom Road to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation Now Completed<\/i>, City of Winnipeg, 19 June 2019, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SUGnBJ9KMBY.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSparke, Matthew. “A Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography, and the Narration of Nation.”\u00a0Annals of the Association of American Geographers<\/i>, vol. 88, no. 3, 1998, pp. 463-495.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTemprano, Victor. \u201cNativeLand.ca.\u201d\u00a0Native Land<\/i>, Native Land Digital, native-land.ca\/.<\/div>\n