Indigenous mobility against and beyond settler colonialism: David S. Walsh, ‘Indigenous Movement, Settler Colonialism: A History of Tlicho Dene Continuity through Travel’, Material Religion, 18, 1, 2022, pp. 46-60 | settler colonial studies blog

Indigenous mobility against and beyond settler colonialism: David S. Walsh, ‘Indigenous Movement, Settler Colonialism: A History of Tlicho Dene Continuity through Travel’, Material Religion, 18, 1, 2022, pp. 46-60

06Mar22

Abstract: Since time immemorial, Indigenous Dene Peoples have traveled ancestral routes throughout what is currently northern Canada and interior Alaska. Tłįchǫ Dene have continued to cultivate an identity as travelers throughout a history of ecological change and the settler ideology of Canadian colonialism. In this article, I aim to contribute to scholarship on Tłįchǫ travel and history by focusing on an additional dimension of movement: materiality. I have previously written about Tłįchǫ ecological ontologies relating to Indigenous conceptions of personhood in a more-than-human-world. In this article I apply my understanding of Tłįchǫ ontologies to the material dimensions of movement on the land, past and present, revealing an ontological, ecological, and spiritual continuity despite—although adapted in response to—settler-colonialism and climate change.

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