Re-historicising dissolved identities: Deskaheh, the League of Nations and the international legal discourse on Indigenous peoples

Stephen Young

doi:10.1093/lril/lraa004

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Re-historicising dissolved identities: Deskaheh, the League of Nations and the international legal discourse on Indigenous peoples

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Re-historicising dissolved identities: Deskaheh, the League of Nations and the international legal discourse on Indigenous peoples

Stephen Young

London Review of International Law, Vol.7(3), pp.377-408

12/2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lraa004

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Indigenous peoples

international law

history

Deskaheh

international legal discourse

genealogy

performativity

Deskaheh

League of Nations

self determination

Six Nations

Iroquois Nation

In 1923, Levi General Deskaheh sought recognition from the League of Nations of the Six Nations’ sovereignty and right to self-determination. Although scholars have good reasons for retroactively identifing Deskaheh as a representative of Indigenous peoples, doing so dissolves the identities of historical and present-day subjects, which has a number of invidious consequences.

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Title: Re-historicising dissolved identities: Deskaheh, the League of Nations and the international legal discourse on Indigenous peoples
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Publication Details: London Review of International Law, Vol.7(3), pp.377-408
Academic Unit: Faculty of Law
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date published ; e-published: 12/2019
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