Week 9 Kinship

Incomplete Colonial Conversions: The speaker expresses a sentiment of lament regarding the incomplete colonial conversions and insufficient bank savings, emphasizing a continuous connection with communal life.
- Key Quote: "I decline to hoard love and another’s body for myself."
- Concept of Scarcity: Engages with the idea that faith in scarcity disaffects community ties.

Marriage as a Tool of National Identity: Sarah Carter asserts that marriage was intertwined with concepts of property rights and citizenship, functioning as part of Canada's national agenda.
- The establishment of a "marriage fortress" aimed to protect the Canadian way of life.

TRACES Exhibition: Discusses how urban spaces erase Indigenous presence while highlighting the ongoing existence and resistance of Indigenous communities.
- Key Themes: Markings of urban landscapes convey histories and activism.
- Indigenous Bodies: Treated as a method for expression and important to the narrative of connection to land.

Culling of Bodies: The discourse reveals how societal structures propagate safety for white bodies at the expense of marginalized communities.
- Questions raised about who has the right to reproduce and whose lives are prioritized.

Documentation of Performances: Referencing various art exhibitions, specifically noting performances within the "TRACES" and "Mothering Spaces" exhibitions.
- Documentation by Urban Shaman highlights Indigenous perspectives through installations.
Arts Collectives: Introduces groups like The Ephemerals, focusing on themes of food security and Indigenous women's caregiving in the context of colonial histories.

Extended Kinship vs. Nuclear Family: Critique of the nuclear family model as a colonial construct.
- Kim Anderson's Insights: Discusses the target of colonialism being Indigenous familial structures where women possessed authority—challenging notions of traditional family dynamics.
- Emphasizes the significance of extended kin networks in Native communities.

Impacts of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): Sought to combat historical injustices regarding Indigenous child removal from families.
- Ideological Shifts: The 1951 revision of the Indian Act emphasized conforming Indigenous kinship to Euro-Canadian family structures.
- Concept of Reproductive Justice: Calls for the autonomy of Indigenous women to parent free from systemic coercions.

Indigenous concepts: The term mino pimatisiwin refers to "living a good life," addressing health connected to kinship and community relations.
- Impact of Child Removal: Seen as a significant form of violence against Indigenous communities, analogous to warfare.

Postcommodity Collective: Engages with colonial narratives and seeks to promote Indigenous cultural resilience amid globalization.
- Focus on public discourse surrounding Indigenous rights and narratives of self-determination.
Visual Representations: Highlighting artworks that engage with land and identity, including collaborations featuring prominent Indigenous artists.

Women and Care: Discusses maternal roles within Indigenous contexts and relationships shaped by colonial influences.
Urban Spaces: How Indigenous bodies navigate and respond to architectural and social environments.
Mothering Spaces: Conceptual spaces that articulate the intersections between mothering, care, and political issues affecting Indigenous women.
Connections to Institutions: An examination of how Indigenous narratives are positioned within institutional frameworks.

Decolonizing intimate relations: Suggests rethinking the categorization of sexuality and intimacy as a way to decolonize engagements with all forms of being, including land and ancestral relations.
- Explores relationality and fosters a web of connections that promote understanding beyond traditional structures.