Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean

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Index 285 Aboriginal Indian Committee, British, 20–21 “Aboriginal Indian Committee-Interim Report,” 241n58 Aboriginal Indian Protection Ordinance (1911), 241n58 acculturation: Rodrigues’s anxiety about futurity of Amerindian culture and, 222– 23. See also creolization Achebe, Chinua, 249n34, 258n61 Acosta, José de, 128 Across the Dark Waters: Ethnicity and Indian Identity in the Caribbean (Dabydeen and Samaroo), 199 Adams, Richard N., 48 Africa: displaced as prior time for black identity in New World, 70; Ruhomon on progress in, 200–201 African Americans: calls for reparations, 68; West Indians compared to, 57. See also blacks African cosmogonic systems, 71, 86, 90–92 African Diaspora (black Atlantic), 96, 214; Afro-Creole ethnonationalism and, 147; Césaire’s A Tempest as African diasporic text, 80, 81; differences/links between kala pani (Indian Diaspora) trajectory of modernity and, 38, 182, 183–90, 203; Wright on African diasporic counter discourses of Black subjectivity, 97–98 African Diaspora, The (Okpewho et al., eds.), 45 African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa (ASCRIA), 156 Afro-Caribbean philosophical tradition: Henry on, 89–94, 249n51, 250n66 Afro-Creole nationalism, xii, 147–48, 178– 79, 180; Cuffy statue and consolidation of, 9–10, 155; as inherited right, 38. See also Co-operative Republic, Guyana 1970: A Study of Aspects of Our Way of Life (Burnham administration); Burnham, Linden Forbes Sampson Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean (Burton), 41, 119 Afro-Creoles: emergence of, in Anglophone Caribbean, 41; transformation of Jamaica from colonial society to Creole society, 50–51 Afro-Creole subjectivity in Guyana, 37; based on codification of labor, 88–89, 92; identity as interior belonging, 38; master–slave dialectic at heart of production of, Caliban and, 76 agency: volitional element of Indian migration according, 186, 187, 189; Wynter’s distinction between labor on plantation and for the self and, 244n7 agrarian reform policy directed at blacks, 164. See also land; plantation system 286 Index “A. Independence and Dependence of SelfConsciousness : Lordship and Bondage” (Hegel), 105–6 Ainsa, Fernando, 252n35–36, 253n37; on tension in myth between “object” and “objective,” 123–25 Aishalton, village of, 226–27 Alarcón, Norma, 250n85 Alcalde system, British, 15 Algeria: French colonialism in, 61–62 alienation: Jagan’s labor struggle against, 206, 208 Allen, Carolyn, 42, 45, 244n12 Almquist, Steve, 248n13, 248n24–25; on Césaire’s Tempest, 80–83, 85; native as “subconscious presence” for, 248n24 Amazon Alliance, 19 American Indian in Western Legal Thought, The (Williams), 17 Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana, 19 Amerindian Act of 1976, 20, 21–25, 217; challenges to, 22–23; exemption of Amerindians from, 23, 242n66; identity issues under, 23–25; ordinances preceding, 20–21, 241n50; regulation of indigenous lands in, 21–23; revised (2006), 19, 22, 24–25; revised (2006), decision not to allow Amerindians to call themselves Indigenous Peoples in, 34 Amerindian architectural style, 162 “Amerindian Concerns” (Forte), 21–22 Amerindian Development Fund, 208 Amerindian Lands Commission, 21 Amerindian Ordinance (1951), 20–21 Amerindian Peoples Association (APA), 10, 19, 149, 175, 242n70, 247n89 Amerindians: exclusion from Jagan’s change in labor relations and future for Guyana, 208; fragility of national borders represented by, 158–59; in Guyana, Uncle Basil as ethnographic sketch of, 222–23; identity before the law, 17–26, 241n45; modes of creolization, 47, 71, 221, 228– 29, 231–32; preservation of culture in Rodrigues’s biography, 223, 228, 230; reduced to “small man,” 172–73, 177. See also Indigenous Peoples Amerindian Task Force, 208 Amirang, the National Conference of Indigenous Peoples (1994), 226 Anatomy of Resistance: Anti-Colonialism in Guyana, 1823–1966 (St. Pierre), 27, 205, 240n22 Anaya, S. James, 18, 241n45 Anderson, Mark, 263n2 Anglophone Caribbean, 3, 119; Belize, 15, 19, 212, 263n2; emancipation, 6, 41; excision of Indigenous Peoples, 26; Jamaica, 41, 43–44, 50–51, 244n7; movement toward independence in 1960s, 6–7, 72; Trinidad and Tobago, 46, 66, 151–52, 173–74, 200, 254n60. See also Guyana anticolonialism, 59, 60, 98, 149, 201; anticolonial negotiation of Creole subjectivity , 68–69; articulation of humanity and, 36; Caliban as anticolonial figure, 79, 80–81, 82, 96, 101, 233; of Césaire’s A Tempest, 76–86, 88; Cuffy as symbol of anticolonial resistance, 9, 10, 207; dualism of movement, 61–62; in Henry’s Caliban’s Reason, 91, 92; indigenization and, 43–44; Indigenous Peoples’ struggle in postindependence states as, 22–23; Native American, 108; struggle under Jagan, 205, 207–8, 210; of trade unions in Guyana, 151. See also Césaire, Aimé; labor for being...