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  • As the legal escamotage of terra nullius denied the existence of Indigenous land tenure, opening up land and resources to European settlers, so cultura nullius is being used to justify government and market policy efforts to overlay our own, often foreign values and visions, on those that are rhetorically effaced and trade-off one cultural body of knowledge, skills, practices and values for another.

    Culture Matters 2008

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  • Juggling; sleight of hand; trickery.

    July 24, 2007

  • I would have assumed it meant the sabotage of the construction of an igloo.

    July 24, 2007

  • Or the camouflage of same! Hmmmm, sort of anyway...

    July 24, 2007

  • Or maybe that's eskimotage...

    July 24, 2007

  • Right on, Kimo Sabe! ;oD

    July 24, 2007

  • Or the deliberate concealment of Eskimo Pies. ;-)

    July 24, 2007

  • Ooh, let's see deep under the frozen blueberries slumry stashes Eskimo Pies so that the other slumry does not know they are there. Would it be wrong? Would it be too much sleight of hand or trickery?

    July 24, 2007

  • Wait a minute...there are two slumrys? What escamotage is this? ;-)

    July 24, 2007