Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights

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225 Index Abadian, Sousan, 109–17, 138–39 Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 19, 103, 143–44 activism and resistance, 8, 14–15, 115–17, 121–22, 123–27. See also biosociality; indigenism Adams, Howard, 85–87 affect, 49; affective attachments to health, 152; mobilizations of, 50, 52, 55, 67–68, 96, 147 A. G. Canada v. Lavell (1973), 60–61 agon, 27, 30 Alaskan natives, 36 alcohol abuse, 19–20, 105–7, 110–11, 149–50 Alcoholics Anonymous, 58, 111, 114, 153–54, 156 Alfred, Gerald Taiaiake, 165 Alkali Lake, as healing community, 106–13, 120, 147 alternate polities, 13, 16, 121–22, 166, 172, 179–80; affective mobilizations and, 50, 52, 55 American Indian studies, 69–73; as ethical act, 25–26 Amnesty International, 22–23, 33–36, 40 Anderson, Kim, 135–36 anomie, 82–85, 110 Armstrong, Jeannette, 27, 57, 67, 74–75, 143. See also Slash Athabascans (northern), health of, 163 Australian Aboriginals, 21–22, 52, 150 Berlant, Lauren, 46, 51, 150–52 biopolitics and biopower, 20, 28–30, 41, 44, 147–49; nation-states and, 23, 157; normative vs. “deviant” health and, 152 biosociality, 152–57 Blocker, Jane, 48–49 Bopp, Michael and Judie, 103–4, 138, 143 Braroe, Niels, 47–48 Breaking the Silence (1994), 94, 97–99 Bumiller, Kristin, 39–40 Burstow, Bonnie, 89–90 Campbell, Maria, 57, 60–61 Canada: Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence (report, Amnesty International), 23, 33–36, 40, 52–53 Canadian colonialism, 79, 81; emotional colonialism, 46–48; violence as normative to, 7, 31–37, 40–42, 74, 125, 177 capitalism, 10–13, 157; emotional capitalism , 50–51; Indigenous critiques of, in United Nations, 15; as necropolitic, 178–80; Zapatistas and, 16–17. See also neoliberal economic development Castellano, Marlene Brant, 5, 16, 134–35 Chelsea family, 106–7 child abuse: in Australia, 21–23, 150; Canadian national discourse on, 80–81, 88–90. See also residential schools and schooling Coast Salish, Canoe Way of, 166–70 codependence, 113–14 colonialism, 9; decolonization post-WWII and, 13–17; gender and sexual violence as normative to, 7, 31–37, 40–42, 74, 125, 177; healing from, 12, 155–56; internal, 16, 47; trauma and, 6, 19 constitutional recognition, 4–5 Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth, 25–26 Cornell, Stephen, 157–58 226 • Index Coulthard, Glen, 132–33 Courtois, Christine, 88–89 Coyhis, Don, 154–56 criminology, 87–90 Crowe, Charlene, 146, 148 Culleton, Beatrice, 57 “culture as therapy,” 114–21, 139, 159 cultures and knowledges as living practices, 115–17, 121–22, 128; Canoe Way of Coast Salish and, 166–70; environmentalism and, 172–73; felt knowledge of, 65–66; as models for alternative polities, 116, 161–63, 170–74, 177–80; traditional foods and, 115, 173–75; in urban areas, 164–65; vs. Canadian neoliberal multiculturalism and economic development and, 20, 158–62 Daily, Brenda, 88–89 “Dealing with Shame and Unresolved Trauma: Residential School and Its Impact on the 2nd and 3rd Generation Adults” (Ing), 95–97 Deci, Edward, 146, 148 decolonization, 13–16 Decolonizing Methodologies, Research and Indigenous Peoples (Tuhiwa Smith), 160 Deer, Sarah, 34, 37–39, 54 Delgamuukw v. British Columbia, 133 Dene, self-determination negotiations by, 160–62 Deskaheh (Cayuga Iroquois leader), 14–15 deviancies, 150; state policing of, in name of human rights, 21–22 Diabetes Prevention through Traditional Plants Program (Northwest Indian College ), 170–71 “The Disempowerment of First North American Native Peoples and Empowerment through Their Writing” (Armstrong ), 67 domestic violence law, 102 Duran, Eduardo, 155–56 “The Effects of Residential Schools on Native Child-Rearing Practices” (Ing), 94–97 emotions, 46–51; of residential school attendees, 96 The Empire of Trauma (Fassin and Rechtman ), 2–3 Enough is Enough (Tobique Women’s Action Group), 60 environmentalism, Indigenous knowledges and, 172–73 Erickson, Eric, 154–55 ethnopolitics, 18–19 families and familial relations, 20, 58–60, 80, 123; codependence and, 113–14; colonial schooling and, 31, 40–42, 85; gendered heterosexual normativity and, 31, 40–42; Indian Act and, 41, 59–60, 126–27; morality policing of, 23, 43–46; nation as extended family and, 122–24; western feminist mobilizations and, 58, 123. See also gender and sexual violence; Indigenous women Fanon, Frantz, 132–33 Fassin, Didier, 2–3, 11 Fast, Phyllis, 163 felt experience, 46, 50–51, 57, 65–67, 126 Fiske, Joanne, 127–31 Fleras, Augie, 4, 19 food and food sovereignty, 116, 170–77 Foucault, Michel, 28–30, 43–44, 148; sexuality and, 24 Fourth World, 15...