Since the establishment of the Canadian colonial state on Turtle Island, White settlers have used language acts and Othering as key tools for the oppression of Indigenous peoples. Through the application of these discursive tools that reframe Indigenous identities, the Canadian state has manipulated the dynamics of settler-Indigenous relations for its own benefit.
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Indigenous Mayans who make up approximately sixty percent of the Guatemalan population have resisted centuries of dispossession, from the colonial era to contemporary times. How do Mayans in Guatemala resist state-imposed neoliberalism in ways that recenter their belief systems and community needs?
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