ABSTRACT

Scholarship in the area of social movements points to the importance of inter-group collaboration and alliance building. In the case of Indigenous-led movements and the issue of solidarity with non-Indigenous movement participants, scholarship at the intersection of Native studies and social movements suggests that such alliances can be built and sustained but that unlearning colonial attitudes and behaviors is central to this process. Through in-depth interviews with non-Native solidarity participants, this article considers how engagement with Indigenous thought and action re-shapes particpants’ conceptions of environment and place. Findings suggest that such involvement calls attention to histories of violence as well as ongoing practices of dispossession causing activists to grapple not only with their personal and family histories but also with their evolving relationship with environmentalism.

摘要

社会运动领域的学术研究指出了群体间合作和联盟建设的重要性。就土著领导的运动和与非土著运动参与者的团结问题而言，土著研究和社会运动交叉的学术研究表明，这种联盟可以建立和维持，但忘却殖民态度和行为是其中的核心过程。通过对非土著团结参与者的深入采访，本文考虑了与土著思想和行动的接触如何重新塑造参与者对环境和地点的概念。