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Summary of the photographic exhibition Tribal Canoe Journeys : Naviguer vers la souveraineté at the Librairie La Géothèque, 14 rue Racine, Nantes, between 1st and 30th September 2021 and interview with the artist Joe wahalatsu? Seymour.

Through examples of recently produced American films belonging to different genres – neowestern, drama, comedy and even science fiction - this article intends to show that white (anti)-heroes are still present and central to the narrative, and are presented in the end as better Indians than the Indians themselves. More importantly, the way whiteness is represented can only be fully understood by analyzing the construction of the Indian characters who, like an intaglio portrait, shape the character of the White Savior, validating his existence and enhancing it. Today still, whiteness depends on the inherent subordination of Indianness and feeds on its disappearance.

Aux abords de la réserve fictive de Red Crow, les morts reviennent subitement à la vie. Seule la population autochtone semble immunisée contre l’épidémie et doit gérer la vague d’individus réfugiés blancs souhaitant se mettre à l’abri. Quand, au début des années 2010, le réalisateur mi’gmaq Jeff Barnaby imagine ce scénario, il est loin de penser que son film Blood Quantum sera tristement d’actualité lors de sa sortie prévue en mars 2020. S’il respecte les codes classiques du film d’horreur, derrière son apparence de pur divertissement, Blood Quantum insuffle également un sous-texte historique qui invite le public à interroger les relations tumultueuses du Canada envers les peuples autochtones depuis la colonisation. D’une réponse aux pandémies – passées, présentes et futures –, Blood Quantum devient alors une puissante métaphore historique assortie d’une critique environnementale et sociale plus globale dont l’onde de choc, dans le contexte actuel, peut atteindre tout le monde.

This article tackles the issue of tribal sovereignty on Indian territories in relation to the Cobell v. Salazar settlement (Cobell v. Salazar, 573 F. 3d 808, (D.C. Cir.), 2009). Ai a result of the superimposition of multiple laws and their successive, and sometimes inconsistent, implementation, the legal status of Native American lands in the US is highly intricate and testifies to the complexity of articulating indigenous specificity and the different levels of federalism. Cobell v. Salazar, which puts an end to a class-action lawsuit of fourteen years, recognizes that the federal government has mismanaged Indian trust lands and provides for the allocation of a two-million-dollar fund for tribes to repurchase the tiny tracts of individually owned land deriving from the Dawes Act of 1887. What degree of autonomy has the settlement generated? Is it yet another example of negotiated and partial autonomy?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]