Awawanenitakik: The spatial politics of recognition and relational geographies of Indigenous self‐determination

Key Messages The spatial politics of recognition constrains Indigenous self‐determination to colonial territorial boundaries as opposed to Indigenous relationships with and responsibilities to their kinship networks, including their kin the land. Indigenous ontologies and the everyday practices in which they are learned and transmitted, cultivate an alternative politics for Indigenous self‐determination. Further dialogue is needed in geography on the ways Indigenous peoples think about and live self‐determination outside and/or alongside formal state and intergovernmental institutions.