Simultaneous
admiration for the glorious Indian past and willful disregard for contemporary
Indigenous realities.
Multicultural
misrecognition consists in the substitution of cultural meanings for political
meanings of indigeneity… by transforming Indigenous peoples into Native
Americans, multicultural misrecognition equates them with other ethnic
minorities to sustain the myth of America as a refuge to the world’s emigrants.
Multicultural
misrecognition erases the multidimensional political history of indigeneity.
Today’s
indigenous peoples experience a disjunction between, on the one hand, their
knowledge of their unique legal status and the status’ acknowledgment in
current political discourse and legal practice, and, on the other, popular
discourse’s insistence on understanding indigeneity as merely cultural
identity.
