Reflections through land and property on settler-Indigenous urban relations
本文评论认为定居者殖民国家有义务利用资本主义工具将土地及其收益归还给原住民,并管理好原住民与定居者土地使用的共存体系,以加拿大城市为例。
Indigenous lands have been turned into homes and sources of capital accumulation in western settler cities. Land has been subjugated into property. Indigenous urbanism creates spaces that are invited by settlers, in some cases, and in others, they are invented by Indigenous peoples and seen as threatening to settler colonial socio-spatiality. Our commentary argues that the settler colonial state has an obligation to use its capitalist tools to return land, and its proceeds, to Indigenous nations, and to better manage the co-existing systems of Indigenous and settler land use. We do this with the help of examples from urban areas across Canada. Economic reparations will depend on reversing some of the extraordinary intergenerational transfer of wealth to settlers from Indigenous lands turned private property.