Colonial conquest of hunters stems from shared peasant assumptions alien to hunting societies

Evidence

The modern empires that now vie with one another for material and cultural domination of the world emphasize their historical and social differences. The rhetoric of global politics is replete with insistence by one or another of the superpowers that their institutions and points of view are underpinned by distinctive history and culture. Yet all these nations have in common one factor that provides a profound cultural unity—namely an agricultural heritage. The commonality of social and mental form may be traced even more specifically to peasant forms of agriculture. This foundation of so many societies means that ideas about land, property, religion, sexuality, children, patriarchy, and social control are also shared. Urban and suburban attitudes to hunters are still shaped by an agricultural and peasant history that bridges other ideological chasms… … Hunters do not share peasant and urban consciousness. Their ideas and institutions, their views about property, children, sexuality, and social control are radically unlike those founded in settled, originally agricultural societies. Peasant attachment to specific plots of land, the wish to have a large number of children in short periods of time, emphasis upon marriage, subordination of women to men, preoccupation with private ownership, and bodies of explicit law that are enforced by some form of police—all these notions and practices are deeply alien to most hunting societies. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 277

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to land/place law thread and Johnson v. M’Intosh — the Lockean/agricultural justification for land title rests on exactly this peasant-property ideology. — connects to: Canada banned Innu hunting while tolerating pilots killing caribou for antlers — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 321