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Native America Calling: New Caledonia at a crossroads
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
New Caledonia at a crossroads
Tensions are high in New Caledonia as the remote Pacific island nation’s Indigenous people are pushing for independence more than 170 years after the island was colonized by France.
At least 13 people have died in protests triggered in May when the French government attempted to institute voting changes that would bolster the political power of New Caledonia’s white settler communities at the expense of the Indigenous Kanak people. There’s been little progress in the four decades after the Kanak tried to force better recognition from New Caledonia’s political leaders aligned with Paris.
It’s a fight that has parallels to current and past struggles by Indigenous people in North America and elsewhere.
Guests on Native America Calling
Joseph Xulue (Kanak and Samoan), executive member and former president of the New Zealand Pacific Lawyers’ Association
Viro Xulue (Kanak), human rights and Indigenous law officer for the Drehu Customary Council of New Caledonia
Dr. Christiane Leurquin (Kanak and French), senior lecturer in Global Studies and Social Anthropology at the University of Otago in New Zealand
Dr. Tate LeFevre, cultural anthropologist and Kanaky/New Caledonia specialist
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