Contested Identities of ‘Indians’ and ‘Whitemen’ at James Bay, or the Power of Reason, Hybridity and Agency

In "We Have Never Been Modern" Bruno Latour notes the connections, separations and the "hybridity" of colonial uses of discourses and practices of modernity (Latour 1993). In this paper I examine discourses about identities and practical relationships that develop between institutions of a modern national state society and an Indigenous people. I suggest that the modern state/developer and James Bay Cree claims about each other's identities, …