后殖民批评视角下的加拿大《印第安人法》

A Postcolonial Approach to Canadian Indian Act

曾经是加拿大最早的居民和主人的印第安人,有着自己独特的生活方式和组织结构,自主地管理着本族事务。欧洲移民的到来,使得印第安人失去了大量的土地和自治的权力,沦为附属和被监护的地位。以后殖民视角从1876年颁布的《印第安人法》入手,探讨印第安人与欧洲殖民者的关系,揭示加拿大印第安人从中心走向边缘的过程,旨在为研究印第安民族提供新的研究视角。

As the earliest arrivers and the real owners of the land which is today called Canada, the native Indians had their own distinctive life style and organization, and administered their own affairs independently. After the arrival of the European immigrants, the Indians began to lose their land and autonomous power and became subordinate to and ruled by the European colonialists. This thesis aims at exploring the Indian Act enacted in 1867 in a postcolonial perspective so as to expose the relationship between the native Indians and European colonists and to reveal how the Canadian Indians were rendered gradually from the centre of society to its margin, in the hope to find a new angle for the North American Indian Studies.