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  • 15 - Governing Ourselves: Reflections on Reinvigorating Democracy Stimulated by Gitxsan Governance

  • from Part IV - Indigenous Democracies
  • Edited by James Tully, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Keith Cherry, University of Alberta, Fonna Forman, University of California, San Diego, Jeanne Morefield, University of Oxford, Joshua Nichols, McGill University, Montréal, Pablo Ouziel, University of Southampton, David Owen, University of Southampton, Oliver Schmidtke, University of Victoria, British Columbia
  • Book:
    Democratic Multiplicity
    Published online:
    21 July 2022
    Print publication:
    04 August 2022, pp 281-304
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    This chapter explores how we might, by our practice, give more vigor to the democratic aspiration that a people should rule themselves. It does so in two steps. First, it examines the form of governance of the Gitxsan people, a First Nation of northern British Columbia. The traditional governance of the Gitxsan, like that of most Indigenous peoples, is not organized in the manner of a state. The nature of Gitxsan members’ attachment to their legal and political order is not masked, then, by the heavy institutionalization of a state, and the characteristics of their adherence can be perceived and weighed more easily. Second, the chapter reflects upon how a similar quality of adherence might be achieved within state-structured polities. In short, this chapter uses the Gitxsan comparison to seek more precision in how we ought to understand citizens’ attachment to – their “consent” to – their legal and political order, and it suggests practical steps that might promote that end in contemporary states.