The Paradox of the Prior and Settler-Colonial Temporality: Statism, Collective Memory, and the Politics of the Calendar.

An essay is presented about the politics associated with colonialism, time and white settler countries. It offers information on the correlations between discourses of unstructures and structures, practices and institutions of politics. Moreover, it examines the political conflicts and discourses on territorial indigenous sovereignty and claims in Canada and the U.S.