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    It is not the case that Indigenous peoples should redirect struggles toward a resurgent politics of recognition premised on self-actualization rather than seeking settler-state recognition.

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    • 1.State recognition, however imperfect, confers legally enforceable protections that extrajudicial resurgence movements cannot independently secure.
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    • 2.Coulthard's dichotomy between recognition and resurgence underestimates how Indigenous communities strategically use both simultaneously without contradiction.
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    • 3.Dismissing settler-state engagement risks abandoning material gains in land rights, resource sovereignty, and treaty enforcement won through legal recognition.
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    • 1.Hegel's master-slave dialectic, which grounds recognition theory, does not entail that recognition must reproduce subordination—it can be transformed through struggle.
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    • 2.Axel Honneth's intersubjective account demonstrates that misrecognition causes genuine psychological harm that self-actualization alone cannot remedy without social validation.
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    • 3.A politics that categorically refuses external recognition may reproduce the isolation that historically weakened Indigenous collective bargaining power against state encroachment.
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    • 1.Seeking a conciliatory form of settler-state recognition for Indigenous nations does not produce genuine self-determination.
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    • 2.A resurgent politics of recognition premised on self-actualization, direct action, and resurgence of cultural practices addresses both subjective and structural dimensions of settler-colonial power.
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