The Era/Area of Indigenous Governance: The Territory in Question/L'ere/L'aire de la Gouvernance Autochtone: Le Territoire en Question (Part III: the Inevitable Ideological Issue/Partie III: L'incontournable Enjeu Ideologique‪)‬

Abstract Through the study of the proposed Nunavik Government, this paper seeks to analyze indigenous governance. Following the example of non-indigenous governance, it may be considered the result of a multiscalar deployment of political action. However, the study also sheds light on territorial forms that do not only correlate with various modes of regulation related to indigenous and state rationalities, but also lead us to conceive governance in a metaterritorial manner. Indeed, indigenous territory must be understood as a womb/mould rather than geographical space, so that indigenous governance relates more to symbolic territory than physical territory, even though, paradoxically, indigenous claims are anchored in the latter.