# Idle No More

> Idle No More is mapped as the prior relation: it asserts political orders, land relations, memory, and sovereignty that precede or resist settler institutions.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:indigenous-decolonial:idle-no-more` |
| Family | Indigenous Governance & Decolonial Change |
| Domain | Rights |
| Kind | movement |
| Archetypal function | The Prior Relation |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Idle No More belongs to the **Indigenous Governance & Decolonial Change** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Idle No More asserts political orders, land relations, memory, and sovereignty that precede or resist settler institutions, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Idle No More, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Prior Relation.** Idle No More is mapped as the prior relation: it asserts political orders, land relations, memory, and sovereignty that precede or resist settler institutions.

## Gift

restores self-determination and plural legal-political worlds; through Idle No More, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

gets reduced to symbolism, extraction of tradition, or a single Indigenous voice; Idle No More can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Idle No More to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Prior Relation enters through Idle No More. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Idle No More becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**leverage.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Idle No More; another player names a countermove. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **constrains — Truth and Reconciliation:** Truth and Reconciliation constrains Idle No More by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **legitimizes — Zapatismo:** Idle No More legitimizes Zapatismo by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **distributes costs to — Pacted Transition:** Idle No More distributes costs to Pacted Transition by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **constrains — Counterculture:** Counterculture constrains Idle No More by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Idle No More from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Idle No More is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Idle No More: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [The Haudenosaunee Confederacy](https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/) — Haudenosaunee Confederacy, ongoing. Contemporary self-description of governance, nations, and the Great Law of Peace.
- [S. Con. Res. 76](https://www.congress.gov/bill/100th-congress/senate-concurrent-resolution/76) — U.S. Senate, 1988. Congressional acknowledgment of Haudenosaunee influence claims; not resolution of scholarly debate.
- [UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples](https://www.ohchr.org/en/indigenous-peoples/un-declaration-rights-indigenous-peoples) — United Nations, 2007. International declaration concerning self-determination, culture, land, and participation.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
