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id	eprints-22445
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
topic	K Law (General)
description	In the mid to late nineteenth century, as English and French settlers were in the process of consolidating their colonial Dominion over vast First Nations’ territories in the form of a Canadian federal state, the government enacted legislation to create the juridical category of the Indian. Binding together identity with access to land, Indian status and the Indian reserve would come irrevocably to define and regulate the lives of First Nations people in Canada from the mid-nineteenth century until the present. The creation of the “Indian” as a juridical category, along with the Indian reserve as a space of domination, marks a specific historical conjuncture—one in which identity (or indeed, subjectivity itself) and property relations were bound to one another, creating an apparatus [2] of colonial knowledge and governance that structures the ongoing dispossession of First Nations women.
format	Journal Article
author	Bhandar, Brenna
author_facet	Bhandar, Brenna
authorStr	Bhandar, Brenna
author_letter	Bhandar, Brenna
title	Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada
publisher	darkmatter
publishDate	2016
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/22445/