Vecteurs identitaires des discours autochtones: Affirmation d’une ontologie politique
Identity Vectors of Indigenous Discourses: Affirmation of a Political Ontology

Summary/Abstract: With the colonization of the Americas, the Europeans imposed political and epistemic control structures. Indigenous peoples have seen, in this process, their ontological conceptions depreciated and ruled out. Today, an epistemic mobilization, coming from Aboriginal people themselves and academics, attempts to dislocate coloniality. This leads us to ask: what are the impacts and influences of indigenous ontological differences today? To partly answer this question, we will examine how these differences manifest themselves in different types of discourse: the novel The Saga of the Beothuk, Georges Sioui’s essays and a declaration of Idle No More Quebec. We will maintain that when it falls within discursive dimensions, Amerindian ontology is tinged as a political ontology.

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