THE REGULATION OF FIRST NATIONS SEXUALITY

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I Resume This paper examines Canada's Indian Act and documents official colonial efforts toward making heterosexuality compulsory in First Nations commu nities. The first part of the paper establishes critically the broad range of gender and erotic diversity in First Nations communities prior to European contact. The second part explores racist, patriarchal and heterosexist knowledges and how they worked to regulate those preferring same-sex intimacies. The paper endorses a move away from treating race, gender and sexuality as separate or mutually exclusive categories of experience and analysis toward recognizing these configurations as a system of relations. It proposes de-marginalizing the intersection of race, gender and sexuality in current theories of state formation and First Nations research. Cet article examine la loi sur les indiens du Canada et retrace les efforts coloniaux officiels deployes pour rendre I'heterosexualite obligatoire dans les communautes de Premieres Nations. La premiere partie de I'article etablit de fayon critique la grande diversite des pratiques erotiques et des comportements lies a la masculinite et a la feminite au sein des commu nautes autochtones avant Ie contact avec les Europeens. La seconde partie se penche sur les attitudes racistes, patriarcales et heterosexistes et la maniere dont elles se sont appliquees pour controler les individus preferant les rapports homosexuels. L'article rejette Ie traitement de la race, des categories masculine et feminine et de la sexualite comme categories d'experience et d'analyse separees ou encore mutuellement exclusives; iI souscrit a la reconnaissance de ces configurations comme systeme de rapports unifies. \I propose d'ouvrir les frontieres rattachees a la race, a I'orientation sexuelle ainsi qu'a I'acceptation des genres masculin et feminin, et ce tant dans les theories contemporaines de la formation de I'etat que dans les recherches en etudes autochtones.

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