Entering into relationship
Is the reluctance of southern students to share the food of an Inuit host part of this same process? Is “polite” refusal ultimately a colonizing action? To be sure, most qallunaat students visiting Pangnirtung are strongly motivated by the desire not to be colonizers. Yet when this priority compels us to shy away from potentially complicated and entangling encounters, we may wind up rehearsing those individualist and separatist practices that ultimately feed the colonial process by liberating its agents from responsibility to others. The solution to this conundrum would be the flip-side of Donald’s theorem: that decolonization might be understood as the extended process of acknowledging or honouring relationship. But what does that look like? And how might it be enacted within Indigenous literary
Keavy Martin quote 2016
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