Renewing Relations: Indigenous Heritage Rights and (Re)conciliation in Northwest Coast Canada

更新关系：加拿大西北海岸的土著遗产权利与（重新）和解

基本信息

批准号：
AH/V013726/1
负责人：
Bryony Onciul
金额：
$ 25.76万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV013726%2F1
关键词：
Renewing Relations Indigenous Heritage Rights

项目摘要

From the British Museum to Historic England, decolonisation has become a critical challenge for heritage institutions and for reconsidering colonial legacies in national heritage. Internationally, settler countries are grappling with this issue with a specific focus on settler/Indigenous relations, with applications and implications for heritage practice that can inform and support those in Britain. In 2015 Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) acknowledged a history of cultural genocide against Indigenous peoples in Canada and committed to addressing this difficult heritage in the 94 'Calls to Action'. British Columbia (BC) is leading the response, becoming the first province in Canada to enshrine United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) into law. This established UNDRIP as the foundational framework for reconciliation in BC, placing Indigenous heritage rights at the centre (via Articles 11, 12, 13, and 31). Yet by February 2020 Indigenous leaders were declaring reconciliation dead in response to the treatment of Wet'suwet'en protests in BC about natural gas pipelines planned to be built across traditional unceded territories. This highlights how Indigenous heritage rights are intertwined with land, resource, social, and environmental justice. (Re)conciliation is a difficult process that requires sustained effort, time, a willingness to decolonise approaches, and engage with non-western epistemologies, ontologies and axiologies. The (re) is bracketed in recognition that conciliation is often needed first. Preliminary research with community leaders and heritage professionals in BC indicates a mix of hope and cynicism about the new laws: will they support Indigenous rights, or simply pay lip service to the idea? While aspects of North West Coast Indigenous heritage have been explored before, this Fellowship will bring a new lens to the analysis. By focusing on renewing relations it will consider this heritage holistically, bringing together multiple dimensions of heritage, reconnecting people with places, collections, practice, and environment. The research will explore different approaches to reclaiming, renewing, and (re)conciling heritage, exploring the history of the struggles and achievements that led to this significant change in law. The research focuses on the importance of (re)connections, (re)newing relations within and across cultural groups and heritage organisations, and recognising the role of ecosystems and environment in maintaining and sustaining heritage. Crucially, the project explores the potential of heritage to positively contribute to (re)conciliation and decolonisation.This interdisciplinary project aims to make a future-oriented contribution to (re)conciliation and (re)negotiation of Indigenised heritage in Canada and its (post)colonial legacies in museums and heritage in the UK.

从大英博物馆到历史英格兰，非殖民化已成为遗产机构和重新考虑国家遗产中的殖民遗产的关键挑战。在国际上，定居者国家正在努力解决这个问题，特别关注定居者/土著关系，以及遗产实践的应用和影响，可以为英国人提供信息和支持。 2015 年，加拿大真相与和解委员会 (TRC) 承认加拿大存在针对原住民的文化种族灭绝历史，并承诺在 94 项“行动呼吁”中解决这一棘手的遗产问题。不列颠哥伦比亚省 (BC) 正在带头应对，成为加拿大第一个将《联合国土著人民权利宣言》(UNDRIP) 写入法律的省份。这将 UNDRIP 确立为不列颠哥伦比亚省和解的基本框架，将土著遗产权利置于中心位置（通过第 11、12、13 和 31 条）。然而，到 2020 年 2 月，原住民领导人宣布和解已死，以回应不列颠哥伦比亚省 Wet'suwet'en 抗议活动，抗议计划在传统的未割让领土上修建天然气管道。这凸显了土著遗产权如何与土地、资源、社会和环境正义交织在一起。（重新）和解是一个困难的过程，需要持续的努力、时间、非殖民化方法的意愿，并参与非西方认识论、本体论和价值论。 (re) 被括在括号中是因为认识到通常首先需要进行调解。对不列颠哥伦比亚省社区领袖和遗产专业人士的初步研究表明，对新法律既希望又愤世嫉俗：他们会支持原住民权利，还是只是口头上支持这个想法？虽然之前已经探讨过西北海岸土著遗产的各个方面，但本次奖学金将为分析带来新的视角。通过专注于更新关系，它将全面考虑这一遗产，汇集遗产的多个维度，重新将人们与地点、收藏、实践和环境联系起来。该研究将探索回收、更新和（重新）协调遗产的不同方法，探索导致这一法律重大变革的斗争和成就的历史。该研究重点关注文化群体和遗产组织内部和之间（重新）联系和（重新）更新关系的重要性，并认识到生态系统和环境在维护和维持遗产方面的作用。至关重要的是，该项目探索了遗产对（重新）和解和非殖民化做出积极贡献的潜力。这个跨学科项目旨在为加拿大及其（后）土著遗产的（重新）和解和（重新）谈判做出面向未来的贡献。）英国博物馆和遗产中的殖民遗产。