This dissertation uses storytelling to examine the nature of settler colonial relations (SCRs) in Canada. It examines testimonies about land use in settler Canada from the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP). Utilizing a combined Tribal Critical Race Theory (TCRT) and Critical Race Theory (CRT), this study compares testimonies about land use from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples and asks the question what, if anything, does this comparison tell us about settler Canada? The comparison reveals how settler Canada depends on the liberal racialization of Indigenous peoples’ national identity. To undertake this comparison I narrated the RCAP testimonies into small stories and analyzed their morals, or the point of these stories, using dialogical narrative analysis. The narrated stories laid bare a stark contrast in the way Indigenous peoples spoke of their social relations with the land and the way non-indigenous Canadians spoke of theirs. This study demonstrates how the narrated testimonies from Canadians, or what are referred to as cultural narratives in the language of CRT, are about land use that racialized the national identity of Indigenous peoples through the discourse of the liberal order, whereas the narrated testimonies from Indigenous peoples, considered as counter stories in this study, contradict the cultural narratives and reveal a national identity rooted in language, spirituality, the Creator, and the consequences for Indigenous peoples from settler colonial relations. The narrated counter stories in this study not only contradict the cultural narratives from settlers by describing the consequences of settler colonial relations but they also provide a blueprint in a narrative sense to decolonize land use in contemporary settler Canada. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

O objetivo primordial da Dissertação é o de discutir, por intermédio da bibliografia e de fontes impressas e manuscritas, a inserção da capitania de São Paulo nas linhas de comércio e crédito do Império português, entre 1788 (início do governo de Bernardo José de Lorena) e 1808 (chegada da Corte portuguesa à colônia). Partindo-se do debate em torno de decisões e procedimentos mercantis, que a bibliografia sobre o período designou como lei do porto único, pretende-se não só problematizar o quadro econômico e social da capitania como alguns dos fundamentos da decadência e pobreza de São Paulo na segunda metade do século XVIII, evidenciando-se os modos como essas expressões serviram de argumentos para o discurso e a prática tanto de capitães generais quanto de outros sujeitos históricos. Reconhecendo-se a complexidade da época e dos temas abordados, a proposta é a de contribuir para a compreensão de momento crucial da história paulista, notadamente no tocante às relações comerciais com o Reino, com a praça do Rio de Janeiro e com outras áreas da América Portuguesa. / From previous investigations toward the so called lei do porto único, we pretend to questioned the decay and the poverty of the capitania of São Paulo in the second half of the eighteen century, mapping the actuation of the merchant groups of the region, in the attempt to understand not only the economic and social frame of the capitania, but also the politic arrangements and conflicts between these sectors and metropolitan authorities, using as main reference the pombalinas reforms and their implications in colonial relations, particularly after 1780, when these reforms became more evident. In this sense and recognizing the complexity of this theme, the main goal of this study is to discuss, using selected bibliography and sources, the insertion of the capitania of São Paulo in the credit and trade lines of the Portuguese empire, between 1788 (beginning of the government of Bernardo Jose Lorena) and 1808 (arrived of the Portuguese court in Brazil), privileging the merchant groups of São Paulo and their connections with Portugal and the rest of the capitanias of the colony, in special with the market of Rio de Janeiro, administrative center of the colony and the main market of the Portuguese in America, since the second half of the XVIII century.

O objetivo primordial da Dissertação é o de discutir, por intermédio da bibliografia e de fontes impressas e manuscritas, a inserção da capitania de São Paulo nas linhas de comércio e crédito do Império português, entre 1788 (início do governo de Bernardo José de Lorena) e 1808 (chegada da Corte portuguesa à colônia). Partindo-se do debate em torno de decisões e procedimentos mercantis, que a bibliografia sobre o período designou como lei do porto único, pretende-se não só problematizar o quadro econômico e social da capitania como alguns dos fundamentos da decadência e pobreza de São Paulo na segunda metade do século XVIII, evidenciando-se os modos como essas expressões serviram de argumentos para o discurso e a prática tanto de capitães generais quanto de outros sujeitos históricos. Reconhecendo-se a complexidade da época e dos temas abordados, a proposta é a de contribuir para a compreensão de momento crucial da história paulista, notadamente no tocante às relações comerciais com o Reino, com a praça do Rio de Janeiro e com outras áreas da América Portuguesa. / From previous investigations toward the so called lei do porto único, we pretend to questioned the decay and the poverty of the capitania of São Paulo in the second half of the eighteen century, mapping the actuation of the merchant groups of the region, in the attempt to understand not only the economic and social frame of the capitania, but also the politic arrangements and conflicts between these sectors and metropolitan authorities, using as main reference the pombalinas reforms and their implications in colonial relations, particularly after 1780, when these reforms became more evident. In this sense and recognizing the complexity of this theme, the main goal of this study is to discuss, using selected bibliography and sources, the insertion of the capitania of São Paulo in the credit and trade lines of the Portuguese empire, between 1788 (beginning of the government of Bernardo Jose Lorena) and 1808 (arrived of the Portuguese court in Brazil), privileging the merchant groups of São Paulo and their connections with Portugal and the rest of the capitanias of the colony, in special with the market of Rio de Janeiro, administrative center of the colony and the main market of the Portuguese in America, since the second half of the XVIII century.