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  • 11 - Gitxsan Democracy: On Its Own Terms

  • 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 195-213
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    Democracy is generally understood and discussed as operating within a state and applying to those people within it. How might we conceive of democracy within non-state societies such as historic Indigenous societies? This chapter first demonstrates how current negotiations between Gitxsan communities located in northwestern British Columbia and the Canadian government are, in effect, a form of abyssal thinking, and as such operate to further undermine Gitxsan distributive democracy and governance. Secondly, it examines one exemplar of Indigenous democracy, that of the historic and present-day Gitxsan society. Finally, it applies Lon Fuller’s legalities and relationships to expand how we think about law and governances in Gitxsan society, and by extrapolation, in other Indigenous societies. These explorations work to create another method and an accompanying grammar, with which to analyze contemporary forms of Indigenous governance and some of the arising issues.