The Laws and the Land -- Dr. Daniel Rück

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707585 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Laws and the Land Author: Dr. Daniel Rück Narrator: Kaniehti:io Horn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 21, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, settlers dispossessed Indigenous people and undermined their sovereignty as nations. One site of invasion was Kahnawà:ke, a Kanien’kehá:ka community and part of the Rotinonhsiónni confederacy. The Laws and the Land delineates the establishment of a settler colonial relationship from early contact ways of sharing land; land practices under Kahnawà:ke law; the establishment of modern Kahnawà:ke in the context of French imperial claims; intensifying colonial invasions under British rule; and ultimately the Canadian invasion in the guise of the Indian Act, private property, and coercive pressure to assimilate. What Daniel Rück describes is an invasion spearheaded by bureaucrats, Indian agents, politicians, surveyors, and entrepreneurs. This original, meticulously researched book is deeply connected to larger issues of human relations with environments, communal and individual ways of relating to land, legal pluralism, historical racism and inequality, and Indigenous resurgence.