“Zones of Refuge”

This article stated that notion of Indigenous was a political-legal concept. It was a concept of alienation that how native people had no connection with institutions. There was aboriginal concept that in itself was full of problems. It was another term of political definition which was engineered by new settlers to gradually erase cultural identity of native people. Author discussed Fourth World that a dominate group subdue another civilization and dictates to this capture people that what it is doing for common good and it steals sense of government-ship from them. The British Columbia Process was took 90% of land from native people, and new settlers institutions were imposed upon native people. In year 2000, there was a new negotiation between new settlers and native people, and when all parties reached to what appeared as a mutual agreement among parties, new settlers created a loophole in the new negotiation and refrained from using term ‘treaty’.

Author encouraged policy of ‘zones of refuge’ to stop imperialism and globalization.  This part of the idea that native people should move to an isolated area and not to have any form of connection with rest of the world. It would make them fanatic individuals, they appeared like Wahhabi movement that they want to rewind the clock and go back to times of Prophet Muhammad and live the life as he did. This frame of mind would prevent native people from exploring this new world. It would be beneficial for them to integrate in the mainstream society and educating rest of the society who they are. It is true that they will be governed by new settlers’ institutions. They need to ask themselves that what is alternative for current reality that world is moving toward globalization? There is no alternative to globalization.   Today, there is no pure race or pure ethnic groups. All races are mixed by other races due to military history of invasion and intermarriages that took place throughout times.