Independence without Revolution and White Settle Colonialism: 155 years since Canadian Confederation
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Canada, British North America, Canadian Confederation, white settler colonialism, First NationsAbstract
The establishment of Canadian Confederation in 1967, which was celebrated with great extravaganza on its 150th anniversary in 2017, was the ideological and discursive ratification of white settler colonialism. This commemoration is controversial since it has excluded sectors of the population who have lived and still live in the territory now called Canada, but which many Native Americans call Turtle Island. This essay offers a brief overview of the relatively unknown history of the Canadian Confederation to demonstrate that this emancipation — which developed as an independence without revolution — served to ratify the colonialist attitudes which characterized the European settlement in the territory of British North America which originally belonged to Canada’s indigenous people, and still survive today.
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