How Canadian Policy used the Protestant Work Ethic to Injure the Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Plains Relationship to the Earth

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dc.contributor.authorMaton, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-04T14:41:55Z
dc.date.available2022-07-04T14:41:55Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-14
dc.date.submitted2022-07-02T03:39:01Zen_US
dc.description.abstractIt’s only been a very short time since the occident began to think of religion as something distinct from the Commonwealth's governing body. Likewise, to believe that Canada's labor policy is somehow divorced from those roots, and to think in terms of a divide between political social ideas and religion would have been, until very recently, an audacious point of view. Therefore, the purpose of this essay, will be to look at how the political objectives of North Western Canada's labor policies were derived from conceptions of work rooted in religious ideology. This essay argues that North Western Canada's labor policies are inflected by an economy of knowledge that ideologically injures and challenges Indigenous people’s relationships to the earth using religiously defined ideas including the ubiquitous concept of the Protestant work ethic. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate how the contemporary conception of work became defined by the Apostolic Protestant work ethic expressed in various symbolic associations including the figure of the ox. This essay demonstrates why the metaphysical analogy associated with oxen is useful to weaponization of Apostolic notions of work; designed to destroy Indigenous people’s relationship to the earth. This paper draws upon historical evidence that shows that since ancient times, labor has been weaponized against earthly Indigenous lifeways. Central to this essay is how Canada's North Western magistrate policies have weaponized the religious economy of knowledge called the Protestant work ethic.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2562-6213
dc.identifier.urihttps://ojs.trentu.ca/ojs/index.php/jmrt/article/view/321
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/36594
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Multidisciplinary Research at Trenten_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectIndigenousen_US
dc.subjectreligionen_US
dc.subjectsettler colonialismen_US
dc.subjectworken_US
dc.subjectnorthwest policyen_US
dc.subjectlabouren_US
dc.subjectoxenen_US
dc.subjectideologyen_US
dc.subjectsettler colonial studiesen_US
dc.titleHow Canadian Policy used the Protestant Work Ethic to Injure the Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Plains Relationship to the Earthen_US
dc.title.alternativeHow the Protestant Work Ethic Injures the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Islanden_US
dc.typejournal articleen_US
local.author.affiliationFaculty of Arts::Department of Native Studiesen_US
oaire.citation.endPage214en_US
oaire.citation.issue1en_US
oaire.citation.startPage199en_US
oaire.citation.volume2en_US
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