Unsettling Mobility - Mediating Mi'kmaw Sovereignty in Post-contact Nova Scotia

Since contact, attempts by institutions such as the British Crown and the Catholic Church to assimilate indigenous peoples have served to mark those people as "Other" than the settler majority. In Unsettling Mobility, Michelle A. Lelièvre examines how mobility has complicated, disrupted, and--at times--served this contradiction at the core of the settler colonial project. Drawing on archaeological, ethnographic, and archival fieldwork conducted with the Pictou Landing First Nation--one of thirteen Mi'kmaw communities in Nova Scotia--Lelièvre argues that, for the British Crown and the Catholic Church, mobility has been required not only for the settlement of the colony but also for the management and conversion of the Mi'kmaq.

About the author

Michelle A. Lelièvre is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and the American Studies Program at the College of William and Mary. She has published in Anthropological Theory, the Journal of Archaeological Science, and Anthropologica.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Lelièvre, Michelle LeliFvre
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9780816555390
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-5539-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology