Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books

Book SynopsisAlan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state.Trade Review[This book] is an exciting and provocative investigation of the importance of citizenship in the modern age. Cairn’s work deserves a broad and diverse audience. -- Ken Coates * Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 *A remarkable and well-researched study that adds a measure of sanity to the often histrionic debate over Aboriginal rights and redresses in Canada. ... a cogent and compelling argument for integration as the middle road. -- Suzanne Methot * Quill & Quire *... in his book, Citizens Plus, he’s on to some wider possibilities that might bridge the dangerously widening divide between aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians... It puts the emphasis on what we share in common the foundation of sensible mutual relations, rather than on the idea that we share next to nothing or that aboriginals’ distinctiveness is of no value to them or us. -- Jeffrey Simpson * The Globe and Mail *Citizens Plus is a wonderfully informed, well-documented and balanced analysis of the issues, and political and legal debates concerning the position of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. More importantly, it’s a refreshing work since it addresses in a positive and realistic manner the fatal flaws that surround much of the debate. -- The Donner Prize JuryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. EmpireThe Complex Problem of “Voice”History and HumilityEmpire at Home and AbroadThe Cultural Terrain over which the Battle Is FoughtHow Did We Get to Where We Are?Conclusion2. AssimilationBasic Assimilation PolicyThe 1969 White PaperAcademic and Political SupportAboriginal SupportPaternalism and the Culture of LeadershipSignificance of White Paper DefeatPreliminary RemarksCross-currentsConclusion3. ChoiceA Time of TransitionThe Influence of the PastThe Requirements of Good Aboriginal Constitutional PolicyAssimilation versus Parallelism: Warring ParadigmsHow We See Ourselves: The Discourse of ContrastAn Alternative Vision: A Modernizing AboriginalityA Basis for Living Apart and TogetherSelf-Government as an Exit OptionConclusion4. The Constitutional Vision of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal PeoplesA Many-Splendoured but Problematic ReportThe Constitutional Vision of RCAPRelative Neglect of the Urban DimensionAncestry versus IdentityCultural Survival versus Economic OpportunityThe Centrality of NationThe Nation-to-Nation ApproachA Third Order of Aboriginal GovernmentLaw, Not PoliticsRepresentation at the CentreConclusion5. The Choice RevisitedAn Early Vision: Citizens PlusAboriginal Rights and Aboriginal NationsThe Opening Up of the DebateAcademic Activism and Legal ScholarshipLand Claims, Treaty Negotiations, Self-Government, and CitizenshipPolitical Science and “What Will Hold Us Together?”Interdependence and Other RealitiesAn Outward-Looking AboriginalityEmpathy and CitizenshipConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book, the first to be written about the Lake Babine Nation in north-central British Columbia, examines its traditional legal order, self-identity, and their involvement in current treaty negotiations.Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue1 The Political and Cultural Context2 Investigating Social and Cultural Practices3 The Lake Babine People: The Four-Clan Nation4 The Balhats5 Origin and History of the Balhats6 The Way of the Balhats7 Colonial Legal Orders8 Contemporary Justice Issues9 ConclusionNotes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume illuminate key conditions for autonomy and development: the definition and redefinition of national territories as cultural orders clash and mix; control of resource bases upon which northern economies depend; and renewal and reworking of cultural identity.Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgments1 Introduction: On Autonomy and Development / Colin H. Scott2 Healing the Past, Meeting the Future / Peter PenashuePart One: (Re)defining Territory3 Shaping Modern Inuit Territorial Perception and Identity in the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula / Ludger Müller-Wille4 Writing Legal Histories on Nunavik / Susan G. Drummond5 The Landscape of Nunavik/The Territory of Nouveau-Québec / Peter Jacobs6 Aboriginal Rights and Interests in Canadian Northern Seas / Monica E. Mulrennan and Colin H. Scott7 Territories, Identity, and Modernity among the Atikamekw (Haut St-Maurice, Québec) / Sylvie PoirierPart Two: Resource Management and Development Conflicts8 Voices from a Disappearing Forest: Government, Corporate, and Cree Participatory Forestry Management Practices / Harvey Feit and Robert Beaulieu9 Conflicts between Cree Hunting and Sport Hunting: Co-Management Decision-Making at James Bay / Colin H. Scott and Jeremy Webber10 Becoming a Mercury Dealer: Moral Implications and the Construction of Objective Knowledge for the James Bay Cree / Richard T. Scott11 Media Contestation of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement: The Social Construction of the Cree Problem / Donna Patrick and Peter Armitage12 Low-level Military Flight Training in Quebec-Labrador: The Anatomy of a Northern Development Conflict / Mary Barker13 The Land Claims Negotiations of the Montagnais or Innu of the Province of Quebec and the Management of Natural Resources / Paul CharestPart Three: Community, Identity, and Governance14 Community Dispersement and Organization: The Case of Ouje-bougoumou / Abel Bosum15 Gathering Knowledge: Reflections on the Anthropology of Identity, Aboriginality, and the Annual Gatherings in Whapmagoostui, Quebec / Naomi Adelson16 Building a Community in the Town of Chisasibi / Sue Jacobs17 Cultural Change in Mistissini: Implications for Self-Determination and Cultural Survival / Catherine James18 The Decolonization of the Self and the Recolonization of Knowledge: The Politics of Nunavik Health Care / Josée G. Lavoie19 Country Space as a Healing Place: Community Healing at Sheshatshiu / Cathrine Degnen20 The Concept of Community and the Challenge for Self-Government / Hedda Schuurman21 The Double Bind of Aboriginal Self-Government / Adrian Tanner22 Afterword: Reflections on Strategy / Colin H. ScottIndex

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Book SynopsisIt presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in BC – the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.Trade ReviewAs the first comprehensive account of the reserve system in British Columbia, the book is an important contribution to regional history, the history of aboriginal-white relations, and colonialism. Perhaps most unexpectedly, because it puts aboriginal-white relations in the context of the federal-provincial wrangling that has shaped the Canadian political landscape since 1867, it also manages to breathe new life into an old historical chestnut. -- Tina Loo * American Historical Review, April 2003 *This is a wonderful, timely, thoughtful, and gracefully written book. It makes a highly significant contribution, both to scholarship and to public policy. -- Hamar Foster, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, author of English Law, British Columbia: Establishing Legal Institutions West of the Rockies and The White Man’s Law in the Far West: Establishing Legal Institutions in British ColumbiaCole Harris has written the definitive history of the Aboriginal struggle for recognition and justice in British Columbia. Future generations of British Columbians, Aboriginal and otherwise, will thank him for this remarkable story. -- Neil J. Sterritt, Gitksan Nation, co-author of Tribal Boundaries in the Nass WatershedAlong with its encyclopaedic account of the white geographies and mentalities that dominated British Columbia through the 1800s and 1900s, Making Native Space is also a compelling saga of Aboriginal management and resistance. -- Robert Menzies * Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 18, No. 1 *Cole Harris’s latest book is a well crafted, handsomely produced historical geography ... It is rich in terms of its colonial discourse analysis, its comparative insight and its engagement with the politics of postcolonialism. -- Alan Lester, University of Sussex * Area, Vol. 35, Issue 3, September 2003 *This is an important book for historians, geographers, lawyers, government officials, and scholars of Aboriginal studies. But it deserves to reach a wider audience because it speaks to fundamental issues of Canada’s founding, namely, the dispossession of the original peoples living here ... Harris has given us a remarkable book, a genealogy, in the Foucauldian sense, of reserve policy and the land question in BC today. -- Jean-Paul Restoule * University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2004/05 *Outstanding ... invites us to rethink, and remap, literally and figuratively, the boundaries and paths that can guide us to a brighter future. -- Karl Preuss, University of Victoria * American Indian Quarterly, Summer & Fall 2005, Vol. 29, Nos. 3 and 4 *Table of ContentsFigures and IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: The Colonial Period1 The Imperial Background2 The Douglas Years, 1850-643 Ideology and Land Policy, 1864-71Part 2: Province and Dominion4 The Confederation Years, 1871-765 The Joint Indian Reserve Commission, 1876-786 Sproat and the Native Voice, 1878-80Part 3: Filling in the Map7 O’Reilly, Bureaucracy, and Reserves, 1880-988 Imposing a Solution, 1898-1938Part 4: Land and Livelihood9 Native Space10 Towards a Postcolonial Land PolicyAppendix: Indian Reserves in British Columbia during the Colonial PeriodNotesSource Notes for MapsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn elegantly written history that documents the colonial relationship between the CCF and the Saskatchewan north.Trade ReviewQuiring demonstrates quite convincingly that a fundamental contradiction underlay the CCF's Aboriginal policy. On the one hand, the CCF sought to reserve 'traditional' occupations, such as agriculture, fishing, and trapping, for Aboriginals. On the other, the party sought to modernize the Aboriginal way of life, with the ultimate goal of assimilating Aboriginal people into the mainstream economy and culture. CCF Colonialism effectively demonstrates that the party was caught in a classic Catch 22, its own policies contributing to the sense of displacement and marginality its policies professed to address. -- Peter Campbell, History Department, Queen's University * H-Canada *David Quiring’s study constitutes a radical departure from earlier hagiography. It is acidic in demonstrating how far short the CCF fell in applying its egalitarian ideology to the rugged northern half of the province, whose population then, as now, was overwhelmingly Aboriginal in origin ... for as this book makes clear, socialism as a popular movement stopped where the prairie ended and the northern forest began. -- David E. Smith, University of Saskatchewan * Western Historical Quarterly, Summer 2005 *David Quiring’s work is an exciting addition to a growing body of scholarship on the Canadian North, both in its territorial and provincial dimensions. Although focusing on the policies developed by the CCF government in Saskatchewan toward the northern regions of the province from 1944 to 1964, Quiring’s research offers many original insights into a host of related issues. It will become compulsory reading for those with an interest in the modern history of Saskatchewan, the workings of the first social democratic government in North America, and the evolution of Aboriginal-non-aboriginal relations in postwar Saskatchewan. -- Michael Cottrell, University of Saskatchewan * The Canadian Historical Review *Quiring builds his critique carefully and painstakingly by examining the CCF ideology, the new economic and social policies the government pursued, and the consequences of these policies for the northern population ... Quiring’s attack on the traditional image of the CCF makes this a worthwhile study. -- Bob Irwin, Grant MacEwan College * Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 97, no. 1, Winter 2005/2006 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: At the Crossroads1 Another Country AltogetherPart Two: Building the Colonial Structure2 From the Top3 The Ultimate Solution4 A Deterrent to DevelopmentPart Three: The Segregated Economy5 Never Before Have We Been So Poor6 At the Point of a Gun7 Just One Jump Out of the Stone Age8 A Pre-Industrial Way of LifePart Four: Poverty-Stricken and Disease-Ridden9 Scarcely More Than Palliative10 Dollars Are Worth More Than LivesEpilogue: We Will Measure Our SuccessAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSocial science researchers from both within and outside of government collaborate to examine how research can and should be used as a foundation for the development of public policy.Trade ReviewThe authors of Aboriginal Conditions are unapologetically quantitative in their approach, and, it must be said, sophisticatedly and successfully so. Ultimately, I think this book represents an important addition to any serious discussions regarding Aboriginal issues in Canada and I highly recommend its adoption in any number of courses with Aboriginal issues content. -- Chris Anderson, School of Native Studies, University of Edmonton * The American Review of Canadian Studies, Spring 2005 *Grounded in recent research, this book successfully identifies key issues bearing on the current social challenges Aboriginal people face in Canada. -- Nathalie Piquemal, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba * Great Plains Research, Spring 2005 *Table of ContentsTables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Focus of Aboriginal Conditions / Jerry P. WhitePart 1: Thinking Outside the Box: Building Models Based on Communities / Jerry P. White1. Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Population Outcomes in Canada’s First Nations Communities / Jerry P. White and Paul S. MaximPart 2: The Limits of Our Knowledge and the Need to Refine Understandings / Jerry P. White2. Perils and Pitfalls of Aboriginal Demography: Lessons Learned from the RCAP Projections / Don Kerr, Eric Guimond, and Mary Jane Norris3. Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act on First Nations Populations / Stewart Clatworthy4. Changing Ethnicity: The Concept of Ethnic Drifters / Eric Guimond5 . Aboriginal Mobility and Migration Patterns and the Policy Implications / Mary Jane Norris, Marty Cooke, and Stewart ClatworthyPart 3: Confronting Culture with Science: Language and Public Policy / Jerry P. White6 . Aboriginal Language Retention and Socio-Economic Development: Theory and Practice / Erin O’Sullivan7. Aboriginal Language Transmission and Maintenance in Families: Results of an Intergenerational and Gender-Based Analysis for Canada, 1996 / Mary Jane Norris and Karen MacConPart 4: Measuring and Predicting Capacity and Development / Jerry P. White8. An Application of the United Nations Human Development Index to Registered Indians in Canada, 1996 / Daniel Beavon and Martin Cooke9. Dispersion and Polarization of Income among Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Canadians / Paul S. Maxim, Jerry P. White, and Dan Beavon10. Toward an Index of Community Capacity: Predicting Community Potential for Successful Program Transfer / Paul S. Maxim and Jerry P. WhiteConclusion: The Research-Policy Nexus -- What Have We Learned? / Jerry P. WhiteIndex

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Book SynopsisUsing relational pluralism as a theoretical lens, the author takes a fresh look at the complex issue of aboriginal self-government.Trade ReviewThis is an academically courageous effort, fording into an area well marked in Canada ... Tim Schoul’s book is important as it gives us a window into how Aboriginal self-government policy in Canada may indeed develop once a period of “treaty federalism” is over. We can only hope that his “relational pluralism” – highly-contextually defined, open to renegociation, driven by local needs, rooted in mutual trust and justice – will prevail. It is refreshing to read his optimism and the book will no doubt play a part in the shaping of public policy and national debate on Aboriginal self-government. -- Anna de Aguayo, Dept. of Anthropology, Dawson College * The American Review of Canadian Studies, Spring 2005 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Identity Politics and Pluralist Theory2 Approaches to Aboriginal Identity3 Aboriginal Culture, Nation, and the Politics of Difference4 Aboriginal Women, Youth, and the Priority of Individual Choice5 Aboriginal Boundaries and the Demand for External Equality6 Aboriginal Identity and the Desire for Internal EqualityConclusion: Aboriginal Self-Government and the Politics of PluralismNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisUsing relational pluralism as a theoretical lens, the author takes a fresh look at the complex issue of aboriginal self-government.Trade ReviewThis is an academically courageous effort, fording into an area well marked in Canada ... Tim Schoul’s book is important as it gives us a window into how Aboriginal self-government policy in Canada may indeed develop once a period of “treaty federalism” is over. We can only hope that his “relational pluralism” – highly-contextually defined, open to renegociation, driven by local needs, rooted in mutual trust and justice – will prevail. It is refreshing to read his optimism and the book will no doubt play a part in the shaping of public policy and national debate on Aboriginal self-government. -- Anna de Aguayo, Dept. of Anthropology, Dawson College * The American Review of Canadian Studies, Spring 2005 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Identity Politics and Pluralist Theory2 Approaches to Aboriginal Identity3 Aboriginal Culture, Nation, and the Politics of Difference4 Aboriginal Women, Youth, and the Priority of Individual Choice5 Aboriginal Boundaries and the Demand for External Equality6 Aboriginal Identity and the Desire for Internal EqualityConclusion: Aboriginal Self-Government and the Politics of PluralismNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the Nuu-chah-nulth understanding of the universe as an integrated and orderly whole, providing a viable theoretical alternative that both complements and expands the view of reality presented by Western science.Trade ReviewIt provides a holistic, spiritual perspective, in contrast to the objective, Cartesian perspective of western science. Atleo argues, successfully I believe, that this spiritual view of nature is in many ways superior to the western disenchantment of the world. This book is one that will be valuable for scholars of the Northwest Coast, traditional ecological knowledge, and indigenous intellectuals. As well, it will probably fine a popular audience among those interested in First Nations, environmentalism, and, of course, New Age philosophy. -- Michael Harkin, University of Wyoming * Journal of Anthropological Research, Spring 2005 *Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview is simultaneously at the cutting edge of social philosophy and steeped in mythic reality. Through a translation of Nuu-chah-nulth origin stories, Atleo elucidates the ontological perspective of these people from the West Coast of Canada. He successfully demonstrates the linkages that the core belief of Tsawalk, everything is one, has with quantum physics, weather patterns, and postmodern theory, among other things. This holistic concept is the lynch pin (and namesake) of the book, incorporating Euro-American ideas and methods into Nuu-chah-nulth ontology. Although the majority of the book is dedicated to the retelling of ancient myths and their analysis, Atleo is explicitly trying to instigate a new research pattern based on a realization of Tsawalk in the academy. Tsawalk is an archetype of cutting edge social research – it is biographical, focuses on ontology, is culturally relative, and deconstructionist. Brining Atleo’s particular perspective into this milieu provides a fascinating encounter. In the specific context of politics in colonial states, and the mushrooming of interest in indigenous politics, Tsawalk provides a means of opening a new dialogue between colonizers and the colonized. -- Andreas Krebs * IN-SPIRE *Table of ContentsPrologueAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Development of an Indigenous Theory1 Tsawalk * Origin Tales and the Nature of Reality: How Son of Raven Captured the Day2 Utl-cla * He-xwa: The Struggle for Balance3 Xaata-tsa * Thluch-ha: Getting Married4 Muu * Quis-hai-cheelth: One Who Transforms5 Suh-tcha * Thlawk-thlawk-qua: A Humble Petition6 Nuu-Pooh * Tloo-utl-ish-sum: Remember Me7 Utl-Pooh * Heshook-ish Tsawalk: Everything Is OneEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe sacred sites of indigenous peoples are under increasing threat worldwide as a result of state appropriation of control over ancestral territories, coupled with insatiable demands on lands, waters, and natural resources. Yet because they spiritually anchor indigenous peoples' relationship with the land, they are crucial to these peoples' existence, survival, and well-being. Thus, threats to sacred sites are effectively threats to indigenous peoples themselves.In recent decades, First Nations peoples of Canada, like other indigenous peoples, have faced hard choices. Sometimes, they have chosen to grieve in private over the desecration and even destruction of their sacred sites. At other times, they have mounted public protests, ranging from public information campaigns to on-the-ground resistance. Of late, they have also taken their fight to the courts. First Nations Sacred Sites in Canada's Courts is the first work to examine how the courts have responded. InformeTrade ReviewThis is a provocative book that is well worth assessing by trial lawyers interested in our aboriginal issues. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What First Nations Peoples Have at Stake1 The Outlines of a General Theory of Sacred Sites2 The Context in Which First Nations Carry Their Fight to the Courts3 In Canada’s Courts: The Meares Strategy4 In Canada’s Courts: The Haida Strategy5 How First Nations Sacred Sites Have Fared in Canada’s Courts6 Tima Kwetsi- EpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how and why courts have failed to fairly treat First Nations sacred sites, which are under increasing threat worldwide due to state appropriation and insatiable demands on natural resources.Trade ReviewThis is a provocative book that is well worth assessing by trial lawyers interested in our aboriginal issues. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What First Nations Peoples Have at Stake1 The Outlines of a General Theory of Sacred Sites2 The Context in Which First Nations Carry Their Fight to the Courts3 In Canada’s Courts: The Meares Strategy4 In Canada’s Courts: The Haida Strategy5 How First Nations Sacred Sites Have Fared in Canada’s Courts6 Tima Kwetsi- EpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to document emerging practice in Aboriginal communities and describe child protection practice simultaneously from the point of view of the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal social worker.Trade ReviewThis little volume fares quite well as a single message book, that message being that historically, child and family practice in Aboriginal communities in British Columbia has been a dismal failure. -- John W. Friesen, University of Calgary * Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2006 *Trial lawyers specializing in aboriginal law will find this text to be the first of its kind describing child protection proceedings from the standpoint of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal social workers. The 1960s practice of mass removal of Native children from their homes resulted in roughly half of all children in care being from Aboriginal families. The author sets out creative and humane alternatives to the past processes. * The Barrister, No. 79 *Table of ContentsForeword / ixAcknowledgments / xiii1 Introduction2 The Historical Context3 The British Columbia Context4 A Description of Practice5 The Sociopolitical Practice Context6 Organizational Context of Practice7 The Community Context8 Visions, Explanations, and Knowledge for Practice9 Choices for Change10 Social Representations of Child Protection PracticeAppendices1 Note on the Theoretical Framework2 Note on MethodologyReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe authors show how an innovative program – an unexpected partnership between an Aboriginal tribal council and the University of Victoria’s School of Child and Youth Care – has strengthened community capacity to design and deliver culturally appropriate programs to support young children’s development.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Turning the World Upside Down2 Harnessing the Potential of Partnership3 Co-Constructing Curriculum from the Inside Out4 Sitting Backwards at Our Desks5 Grounding Learning in the Heart of Communities6 Transforming Knowledge through Trust and Respect7 Asserting the Power of Not Knowing8 Supporting Children and Families with Sustained Community TransformationsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe authors show how an innovative program – an unexpected partnership between an Aboriginal tribal council and the University of Victoria’s School of Child and Youth Care – has strengthened community capacity to design and deliver culturally appropriate programs to support young children’s development.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Turning the World Upside Down2 Harnessing the Potential of Partnership3 Co-Constructing Curriculum from the Inside Out4 Sitting Backwards at Our Desks5 Grounding Learning in the Heart of Communities6 Transforming Knowledge through Trust and Respect7 Asserting the Power of Not Knowing8 Supporting Children and Families with Sustained Community TransformationsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines contact stories from indigenous and newcomer populations from New Zealand and throughout North America. Focusing on misunderstandings embedded in the stories of "first contacts" and these narratives' contemporary relevance, production, and performance, this book introduces different tools for understanding the genre.Trade ReviewThe essays provide a fascinating surf of “first contacts” from New Zealand, England, southern Africa, and the Pacific Northwest, from the eighteenth century to today […]. A plentiful range of new approaches to the genre of the contact narrative distinguishes this impressively interdisciplinary collection, with contributions from historians, anthropologists, linguists, and literary critics. -- Sophie McCall * Canadian Literature, No.197 *Myth & Memory injects an interesting and crucial “new” narrative into the historical record. -- Kelly Chaves * The Northern Mariner, Vol.XIX, No.1 *This convincing and solid collection encourages assessment and reassessment of contact narratives. … Ten scholars from various fields, including history, anthropology, linguistics, and literature, engage in this informative work. …Edited by University of Victoria historian John Sutton Lutz, the chapters in Myth and Memory integrate a number of global indigenous perspectives. Lutz’s extensive insight regarding native and newcomer relations provides a solid basis for editorial expertise of this compendium. -- Corinne George, Simon Fraser University * H-Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Myth Understandings: First Contact, Over and Over Again / John Lutz1. Close Encounters of the First Kind / J. Edward (Ted) Chamberlin2. First Contact as a Spiritual Performance: Encounters on the North American West Coast / John Lutz3. Reflections on Indigenous History and Memory: Reconstructing and Reconsidering Contact / Keith Carlson4. Poking Fun? Humour and Power in Kaska Contact Narratives / Patrick Moore5. Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the Making of “The Chinook” / I.S. MacLaren6. Performing Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost Colony of Roanoke / Michael Harkin7. Stories at the Margins: Toward a More Inclusive Historiography / Wendy Wickwire8. When the White Kawau Flies / Judith Binney9. The Interpreter as Contact Point: Avoiding Collisions in Tlingit America / Nora and Richard DauenhauerNotesBibliographyContributors

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Book SynopsisFeaturing almost 300 illustrations, including 90 colour plates, Unsettling Encounters reconstructs a neglected aspect of Carr’s art and is a fresh assessment of her significance as a leading figure in early 20th-century modernism.Trade ReviewUnsettling Encounters is the most unified, offering an exhaustive narrative of Carr’s engagement with painting village scenes and the arts of the totem poles from the first decade of the 20th century until the mid 1930s. -- Clint Burnham * The Vancouver Sun *Moray…has written a fascinating and well-researched history on Canadian artist Emily Carr’s expeditions to witness and document native art in British Columbia. More than a history, Moray makes a forceful argument for Carr’s conscious attempt to represent Native art in a manner consistent with Native life and belief, in part as a critique of non-Native national and religious policies. The text is well illustrated with many period photos, the paintings of other artist, and Carr’s own drawings and watercolors…making this a splendid and full resource. * Reference and Research Book News *Table of ContentsForeword / Marcia CrosbyPlaces Painted by Emily CarrPart 1: Contexts for a Colonial Artist1 The Legendary Emily Carr2 Drawing and Insubordination3 Missionary in Reverse4 Among Ethnographers and Indian AgentsPart 2: A Pictorial Record of Native Villages and Totem Poles, 1899-19135 They Named Me Klee Wyck6 The Despised and Joyous Way of Painting7 Old Mythological Legends: Gitxsan Villages in 19128 A Great Dignity: Haida Gwaii in 19129 Unchanged by Fashion and Civilization: Kwakwaka’wakw Villages in 191210 The Largest Collection Yet Made: Carr’s 1913 Exhibition in Vancouver and Its AftermathPart 3: Homesick for Indian11 Out of the Wilderness and into the National Gallery12 What They Are Trying to Forget: Sketching Trips from 192813 The Big Thing That Means Canada Herself14 RetrospectNotes; Bibliographic; Essay; Index

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Book SynopsisThis remarkable book argues that neoliberalism, which drives government policy concerning First Nations in Canada, can also drive self-determination -- including the Mikisew First Nation, which successfully exploited opportunities for greater autonomy and well-being that the current political and economic climate has presented.Trade ReviewMs. Slowey presents a highly thought-provoking treatise on the development of self governance for First Nations peoples and it will certainly be a useful resource for all aboriginals in their search for a desirable and workable solution to their demand for justice. Lawyers working through the land claims process towards indigenous governance will find this to be a valuable text. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * Verdict, Issue 118 *Table of ContentsIntroductionAbbreviations1 Meeting Mikisew2 Neoliberalism Now3 Searching for Self-Determination4 The Politics of Change5 The Economics of Change6 Transforming First Nations GovernanceNotes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisThis remarkable book argues that neoliberalism, which drives government policy concerning First Nations in Canada, can also drive self-determination -- including the Mikisew First Nation, which successfully exploited opportunities for greater autonomy and well-being that the current political and economic climate has presented.Trade ReviewMs. Slowey presents a highly thought-provoking treatise on the development of self governance for First Nations peoples and it will certainly be a useful resource for all aboriginals in their search for a desirable and workable solution to their demand for justice. Lawyers working through the land claims process towards indigenous governance will find this to be a valuable text. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * Verdict, Issue 118 *Table of ContentsIntroductionAbbreviations1 Meeting Mikisew2 Neoliberalism Now3 Searching for Self-Determination4 The Politics of Change5 The Economics of Change6 Transforming First Nations GovernanceNotes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisIn a 1994 decision known as Howard, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the Aboriginal signatories to the 1923 Williams Treaties had knowingly given up not only their title to off-reserve lands but also their treaty rights to hunt and fish for food. No other First Nations in Canada have ever been found to have willingly surrendered similar rights. Blair argues that the Canadian courts caused a serious injustice by applying erroneous cultural assumptions in their interpretation of the evidence. In particular, they confused provincial government policy, which has historically favoured public over special rights, with the understanding of the parties at the time.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Historical Background1 History of the Williams Treaties First Nations2 Imperial Crown Policy3 A New Crown Policy4 Jurisdictional Disputes5 Bureaucratic ObstaclesPart 2: The Williams Treaties6 The Push for a New Treaty7 Differing Perceptions8 The Howard Case9 AnalysisConclusionAppendixNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis sweeping exploration of history writing in British Columbia shows how historians helped to construct Canada's settler society.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Earliest Pages of History2 Pioneers, Railways and Civilization: The Late Nineteenth Century3 A Greater Britain on the Pacific: History in the Edwardian Age4 The Domain of History: Judge Frederic Howay5 A Professional Past: The University of British Columbia and Walter Sage6 W. Kaye Lamb, Margaret Ormsby, and a First Generation of BC HistoriansConclusionNotesBibliography of Primary SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at how indigenous peoples in various contexts have thought about, and responded to, the pressures that globalization has on their cultural, political, and geographical autonomy.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: Introduction1 Reconfiguring the Web of Life: Indigenous Peoples, Relationality, and Globalization / Mario Blaser, Ravi de Costa, Deborah McGregor, and William D. Coleman2 Ayllu: Decolonial Critical Thinking and (An)other Autonomy / Marcelo Fernández OscoPart 2: Emergences3 Neoliberal Governance and James Bay Cree Governance: Negotiated Agreements, Oppositional Struggles, and Co-Governance / Harvey A. Feit4 Global Linguistics, Mayan Languages, and the Cultivation of Autonomy / Erich Fox Tree5 Global Activism and Changing Identities: Interconnecting the Global and the Local – The Grand Council of the Crees and the Saami Council / Kristina Maud Bergeron6 Indigenous Perspectives on Globalization: Self-Determination through Autonomous Media Creation / Rebeka Tabobondung7 Reconfiguring Mare Nullius: Torres Strait Islanders, Indigenous Sea Rights, and the Divergence of Domestic and International Norms / Colin Scott and Monica MulrennanPart 3: Absences8 Making Alternatives Visible: The Meaning of Autonomy for the Mapuche of Cholchol (Ngulumapu, Chile) / Pablo Marimán Quemenado9 Twentieth-Century Transformations of East Cree Spirituality and Autonomy / Richard J. “Dick” PrestonPart 4: Hope10 The International Order of Hope: Zapatismo and the Fourth World War / Alex KhasnabishAfterword / Ravi de CostaWorks CitedContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at how indigenous peoples in various contexts have thought about, and responded to, the pressures that globalization has on their cultural, political, and geographical autonomy.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: Introduction1 Reconfiguring the Web of Life: Indigenous Peoples, Relationality, and Globalization / Mario Blaser, Ravi de Costa, Deborah McGregor, and William D. Coleman2 Ayllu: Decolonial Critical Thinking and (An)other Autonomy / Marcelo Fernández OscoPart 2: Emergences3 Neoliberal Governance and James Bay Cree Governance: Negotiated Agreements, Oppositional Struggles, and Co-Governance / Harvey A. Feit4 Global Linguistics, Mayan Languages, and the Cultivation of Autonomy / Erich Fox Tree5 Global Activism and Changing Identities: Interconnecting the Global and the Local – The Grand Council of the Crees and the Saami Council / Kristina Maud Bergeron6 Indigenous Perspectives on Globalization: Self-Determination through Autonomous Media Creation / Rebeka Tabobondung7 Reconfiguring Mare Nullius: Torres Strait Islanders, Indigenous Sea Rights, and the Divergence of Domestic and International Norms / Colin Scott and Monica MulrennanPart 3: Absences8 Making Alternatives Visible: The Meaning of Autonomy for the Mapuche of Cholchol (Ngulumapu, Chile) / Pablo Marimán Quemenado9 Twentieth-Century Transformations of East Cree Spirituality and Autonomy / Richard J. “Dick” PrestonPart 4: Hope10 The International Order of Hope: Zapatismo and the Fourth World War / Alex KhasnabishAfterword / Ravi de CostaWorks CitedContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the relevance of contemporary literature, art, and performance for an emerging Indigenous feminist project.Trade ReviewA pioneering text…Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture is a comprehensive, inclusive, heterogeneous, and valuable collection for anyone studying Indigenous issues or histories, feminisms, cultural studies and criticism, decolonization, or literary studies. -- Patricia Miranda Barkaskas, The Goose, Issue 10, 2012Table of ContentsIndigenous Feminism: Theorizing the Issues / Shari M. Huhndorf and Cheryl SuzackPart 1: Politics1 From the Tundra to the Boardroom to Everywhere in Between: Politics and the Changing Roles of Inuit Women in the Arctic / Minnie Grey2 Native Women and Leadership: An Ethics of Culture and Relationship / Rebecca Tsosie3 “But we are your mothers, you are our sons”: Gender, Sovereignty, and the Nation in Early Cherokee Women’s Writing / Laura E. Donaldson4 Indigenous Feminism: The Project / Patricia Penn Hilden and Leece M. LeePart 2: Activism5 Affirmations of an Indigenous Feminist / Kim Anderson6 Indigenous Women and Feminism on the Cusp of Contact / Jean Barman7 Reaching Toward a Red-Black Coalition Feminism: Anna Julia Cooper’s “Woman versus the Indian” / Teresa Zackodnik8 Emotion Before the Law / Cheryl Suzack9 Beyond Feminism: Indigenous Ainu Women and Narratives of Empowerment in Japan / ann-elise lewallenPart 3: Culture10 Indigenous Feminism, Performance, and the Politics of Memory in the Plays of Monique Mojica / Shari M. Huhndorf11 “Memory Alive”: An Inquiry into the Uses of Memory by Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, Louise Halfe, and Joy Harjo / Jeanne Perreault12 To Spirit Walk the Letter and the Law: Gender, Race, and Representational Violence in Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson’s Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman / Julia Emberley13 Painting the Archive: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras / Pamela McCallum14 “Our Lives Will Be Different Now”: The Indigenous Feminist Performances of Spiderwoman Theater / Katherine Young Evans15 Bordering on Feminism: Space, Solidarity, and Transnationalism in Rebecca Belmore’s Vigil / Elizabeth Kalbfleisch16 Location, Dislocation, Relocation: Shooting Back with Cameras / Patricia DemersIndex

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Book SynopsisThe buffalo hunter, the medicine man, and the missionary continue to dominate the history of the North American west, even though historians have recognized women's role as both colonizer and colonized since the 1980s.Kristin Burnett helps to correct this imbalance by investigating the convergence of Aboriginal and settler therapeutic regimes in the Treaty 7 region from the perspective of women. Although the imperial eye focused on medicine men, Aboriginal women played important roles as healers and caregivers, and the knowledge and healing work of both Aboriginal and settler women brought them into contact. But as settlement increased and the colonial regime hardened, informal encounters in domestic spaces gave way to more formal, one-sided interactions in settler-run hospitals and nursing stations.By revealing Aboriginal and settler women's contributions to the development of health care in southern Alberta, Taking Medicine challenges traditional understandiTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Niitsitapi: The Northwestern Plains2 Setting the Stage: Engendering the Therapeutic Culture of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Tsuu T’ina, and Nakoda3 Giving Birth: Women’s Health Work and Western Settlement, 1850-19004 Converging Therapeutic Systems: Encounters between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Women, 1870s-90s5 Laying the Foundation: The Work of Nurses, Nursing Sisters, and Female Attendants on Reserves, 1890-19156 Taking over the System: Graduate Nurses, Nursing Sisters, Female Attendants, and Indian Health Services, 1915-307 The Snake and the Butterfly: Midwifery and Birth Control, 1900s-30sConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFocusing on sites of friction in property regimes, this book reveals that a politics of place can help local actors build bases of autonomy to withstand, and even reshape, the forces of globalization.Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Property, Autonomy, Territory, and Globalization / Scott Prudham and William D. Coleman2 The Globalization of International Law, Indigenous Identity, and the New Constitutionalism / A. Claire Cutler3 Lifeworlds and Property: Epistemological Challenges to Cree Concepts of Land in the Twentieth Century / Susan M. Preston4 Making Forests “Normal”: Sustained Yield, Improvement, and the Establishment of Globalist Forestry in British Columbia / Scott Prudham5 Contested Autonomy: Globalization and Miskito Customary Property Rights in the Rio Plantano Biosphere Reserve / Sharlene Mollett6 Globalization, Intellectual Property, and the Emergence of New Property Types / Daniel Gorman7 Competing or Relational Autonomies? Globalization, Property, and Friction over Land Rights / Eva Mackey8 Plant Genetic Resources, Farmers’ Rights, and the Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights: Reinforcing Asymmetries in Autonomies / William D. Coleman and Austina J. Reed9 Globalization without World Order: Intellectual Property and Its Discontents / Anna GreenspanCoda10 Property Rites: Cultural Narrations of the Palestinian Catastrophe / Jasmin HabibNotes and Acknowledgments; Works Cited; Contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through commonplace symbols of Canadian identity and how the work of contemporary artists is subverting these nostalgic accounts of the past.Trade ReviewThrough the concept of haunting, Francis provides a new and sophisticated way of thinking about the circulation of images of nationhood, showing how ideas about whiteness, aboriginality, race, and sexuality that were formative in the development of Anglo-Canadian nationhood continue to haunt its contemporary representations. -- Anne Whitelaw, Department of Art History, Concordia UniversityEngaging and insightful...Francis's analysis of the history of national parks in Canada and their meaning for national identity will ring particularly true to anyone familiar with the substantial literature in the United States on its national parks system. -- Chris Herbert, Grand Valley State University * BC Studies, No. 176, Winter 2012-13 *In addition to its scholarly rigour and theoretical sophistication, Creative Subversions is highly readable and engaging...This book is a major contribution to the study of Canada across the disciplines of history, art history, media and film studies, and cultural studies, and it will also be of value to scholars and students of colonialism and culture more generally. -- Candida Rifkind, University of Winnipeg * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol 14, No 1, 2013 *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction: "Ghosts Trying to Find Their Clothes"2 The Strange Career of the Beaver: Anthropomorphic Discourse and Imperial History3 Things Not Named: Bachelors, Dirty Laundry, and the Canadian Pacific Railway4 Exploring Banff National Park: Rangers on the Mountain Frontier5 Playing Indian: Indigenous Responses to Indianness6 Conclusion: Living in “Haunted Places”NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through commonplace symbols of Canadian identity and how the work of contemporary artists is subverting these nostalgic accounts of the past.Trade ReviewThrough the concept of haunting, Francis provides a new and sophisticated way of thinking about the circulation of images of nationhood, showing how ideas about whiteness, aboriginality, race, and sexuality that were formative in the development of Anglo-Canadian nationhood continue to haunt its contemporary representations. -- Anne Whitelaw, Department of Art History, Concordia UniversityEngaging and insightful...Francis's analysis of the history of national parks in Canada and their meaning for national identity will ring particularly true to anyone familiar with the substantial literature in the United States on its national parks system. -- Chris Herbert, Grand Valley State University * BC Studies, No. 176, Winter 2012-13 *In addition to its scholarly rigour and theoretical sophistication, Creative Subversions is highly readable and engaging...This book is a major contribution to the study of Canada across the disciplines of history, art history, media and film studies, and cultural studies, and it will also be of value to scholars and students of colonialism and culture more generally. -- Candida Rifkind, University of Winnipeg * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol 14, No 1, 2013 *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction: "Ghosts Trying to Find Their Clothes"2 The Strange Career of the Beaver: Anthropomorphic Discourse and Imperial History3 Things Not Named: Bachelors, Dirty Laundry, and the Canadian Pacific Railway4 Exploring Banff National Park: Rangers on the Mountain Frontier5 Playing Indian: Indigenous Responses to Indianness6 Conclusion: Living in “Haunted Places”NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisChallenging the well-worn images of rodeo as a white man’s sport, A Wilder West shows how rodeo brought together Aboriginal and settler men and women into relationships of competition and camaraderie, forging new identities and communities in the process.Trade ReviewBy using rodeo as the central contact zone, Kelm provides a very interesting and nuanced way of examining settler and Aboriginal relations in Western Canada...Kelm's book makes an important contribution to Canadian history. She successfully demonstrates that Western Canadian settlers and Aboriginal peoples did not operate in a static fashion or interact solely along the rigid lines of the colonization narrative. -- Michael Commito, McMaster University * Essays in History *Mary-Ellen Kelm’s book is a welcome addition to a somewhat sparse scholarly literature on the history of rodeo in Canada…overall, this study is well conceived and filled with personalized stories to keep readers interested and to deepen knowledge about localities. Kelm fulfills her intent to demonstrate the palpable “linkages between cultural display and political action” in terms of colonial history and has also created a good resource for studies about masculinities linked to sport and identity... -- Lynda M. Annik, Newfoundland Memorial University * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 An Old-Timers’ Town: Western Communities, Performance, and Contact Zones2 Truly Western in Its Character: Identities, Affinities, and Intimacies at Western Canadian Rodeo3 A Sport, Not a Carnival Act: Transforming Rodeo from Performance to Sport4 Heavens No! Let’s Keep It Rodeo! Pro Rodeo and the Making of the Modern Cowboy5 Going Pro: Community Rodeo in the Era of Professionalization6 Where the Cowboys Are Indians: Indian and Reserve Rodeo in the Canadian WestConclusionGlossary; Notes; Index

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Book SynopsisChallenging the well-worn images of rodeo as a white man’s sport, A Wilder West shows how rodeo brought together Aboriginal and settler men and women into relationships of competition and camaraderie, forging new identities and communities in the process.Trade ReviewBy using rodeo as the central contact zone, Kelm provides a very interesting and nuanced way of examining settler and Aboriginal relations in Western Canada...Kelm's book makes an important contribution to Canadian history. She successfully demonstrates that Western Canadian settlers and Aboriginal peoples did not operate in a static fashion or interact solely along the rigid lines of the colonization narrative. -- Michael Commito, McMaster University * Essays in History *Mary-Ellen Kelm’s book is a welcome addition to a somewhat sparse scholarly literature on the history of rodeo in Canada…overall, this study is well conceived and filled with personalized stories to keep readers interested and to deepen knowledge about localities. Kelm fulfills her intent to demonstrate the palpable “linkages between cultural display and political action” in terms of colonial history and has also created a good resource for studies about masculinities linked to sport and identity... -- Lynda M. Annik, Newfoundland Memorial University * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 An Old-Timers’ Town: Western Communities, Performance, and Contact Zones2 Truly Western in Its Character: Identities, Affinities, and Intimacies at Western Canadian Rodeo3 A Sport, Not a Carnival Act: Transforming Rodeo from Performance to Sport4 Heavens No! Let’s Keep It Rodeo! Pro Rodeo and the Making of the Modern Cowboy5 Going Pro: Community Rodeo in the Era of Professionalization6 Where the Cowboys Are Indians: Indian and Reserve Rodeo in the Canadian WestConclusionGlossary; Notes; Index

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Book SynopsisCaroline Dick asks how group identity claims, especially in the courts, obscure significant intragroup differences.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction1 Gender Discrimination within First Nations: The History and Nature of the Sawridge Dispute2 Group Rights and the Politics of Identity3 Taylor’s Theory of Identity Recognition4 Kymlicka’s Cultural Theory of Minority Rights5 Eisenberg’s Theory of Identity-Related Interests6 Culture, Identity, and the Constitutional Rights of Aboriginal Peoples7 The Politics of Intragroup Difference8 Sawridge RevisitedConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisCaroline Dick asks how group identity claims, especially in the courts, obscure significant intragroup differences.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction1 Gender Discrimination within First Nations: The History and Nature of the Sawridge Dispute2 Group Rights and the Politics of Identity3 Taylor’s Theory of Identity Recognition4 Kymlicka’s Cultural Theory of Minority Rights5 Eisenberg’s Theory of Identity-Related Interests6 Culture, Identity, and the Constitutional Rights of Aboriginal Peoples7 The Politics of Intragroup Difference8 Sawridge RevisitedConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book holds up the Covenant Chain, the historical treaty relationship between the British Crown and indigenous people in North America, as a model for building an ethic of mutual respect to guide modern treaty disputes and land claims.Trade ReviewBruce Morito gives vibrant voice to an important yet long-ignored topic. He makes a compelling argument for the existence of the Covenant Chain’s moral framework, using historical evidence to inform present-day indigenous–settler relations. This is an engaging and original book. -- Douglas Sanderson, Faculty of Law, University of TorontoTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 The Historical Context2 Structure and Function of the Covenant Chain Treaty Relationship3 Reputation and the Role of Key Agents4 The Transcultural, Transhistorical Ethic of the Covenant ChainEpilogueNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the struggle for identity and nationhood among non-status Algonquin during the negotiation of a major comprehensive land claim.Trade ReviewA good case study of a people that have been too rarely discussed and too often misunderstood. Recommended. * CHOICE, Vol. 50 No. 05 *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionAbbreviations and Definitions Relating to the Land ClaimPart 1: Algonquin Survival and Resurgence in the Ottawa River Watershed1 Algonquin Diplomacy, Resistance, and Dispossession2 The Fracturing of the Algonquin Homeland3 Aboriginal Title and the Comprehensive Claims Process4 The Algonquin Land Claim5 Reclaiming Algonquin IdentityPart 2: Algonquin Communities in the Mississippi, Rideau, and Lower Madawaska River Watersheds 6 The Development of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation7 The Effect of the Land Claim in the Region8 Uranium Resistance: Defending the LandPart 3: Algonquin Communities in the Watershed of the Bonnechere and Petawawa Rivers9 The Bonnechere Algonquin Communities and Greater Golden Lake10 Perspectives from PikwakanaganPart 4: Algonquin Communities in the Upper Madawaska and York River Watersheds11 The Upper Madawaska River Communities: Whitney, Madewaska, and Sabine12 The People of Kijicho Manitou: Baptiste Lake and Bancroft Part 5: From Mattawa to Ottawa – Algonquin Communities Along the Kichi Sibi13 Algonquin Communities along the Ottawa RiverPart 6: Conclusion14 Algonquin Identity and NationhoodNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada is the first work to focus sustained and serious attention on the wider implications of Aboriginal peoples’ involvement in sport.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Janice Forsyth and Audrey R. GilesPart 1: Historical Perspectives on Aboriginal Peoples in Sport and Recreation1 Bodies of Meaning: Sports and Games at Canadian Residential Schools / Janice Forsyth2 Indigenous Peoples and Canadian-Hosted Olympic Games / Christine M. O’Bonsawin3 Toward a History of Aboriginal Women in Canadian Sport / M. Ann HallPart 2: Contemporary Issues4 Aboriginal Peoples and the Construction of Canadian Sport Policy / Victoria Paraschak5 Canadian Elite Aboriginal Athletes, Their Challenges, and the Adaptation Process / Robert Schinke, Duke Peltier, and Hope Yungblut6 Women’s and Girls’ Participation in Dene Games in the Northwest Territories / Audrey R. Giles7 Performance Indicators: Aboriginal Games at the Arctic Winter Games / Michael Heine8 The Quality and Cultural Relevance of Physical Education for Aboriginal Youth: Challenges and Opportunities / Joannie Halas, Heather McRae, and Amy Carpenter9 Two-Eyed Seeing: Physical Activity, Sport, and Recreation Promotion in Indigenous Communities / Lynn Lavallée and Lucie LévesqueConclusion / Janice Forsyth and Audrey R. Giles

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Book SynopsisAboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada is the first work to focus sustained and serious attention on the wider implications of Aboriginal peoples’ involvement in sport.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Janice Forsyth and Audrey R. GilesPart 1: Historical Perspectives on Aboriginal Peoples in Sport and Recreation1 Bodies of Meaning: Sports and Games at Canadian Residential Schools / Janice Forsyth2 Indigenous Peoples and Canadian-Hosted Olympic Games / Christine M. O’Bonsawin3 Toward a History of Aboriginal Women in Canadian Sport / M. Ann HallPart 2: Contemporary Issues4 Aboriginal Peoples and the Construction of Canadian Sport Policy / Victoria Paraschak5 Canadian Elite Aboriginal Athletes, Their Challenges, and the Adaptation Process / Robert Schinke, Duke Peltier, and Hope Yungblut6 Women’s and Girls’ Participation in Dene Games in the Northwest Territories / Audrey R. Giles7 Performance Indicators: Aboriginal Games at the Arctic Winter Games / Michael Heine8 The Quality and Cultural Relevance of Physical Education for Aboriginal Youth: Challenges and Opportunities / Joannie Halas, Heather McRae, and Amy Carpenter9 Two-Eyed Seeing: Physical Activity, Sport, and Recreation Promotion in Indigenous Communities / Lynn Lavallée and Lucie LévesqueConclusion / Janice Forsyth and Audrey R. Giles

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the complexity of urban Indigeneity in Canada and internationally and positions urban areas as places of Indigenous resilience and cultural innovation.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Evelyn Peters and Chris AndersenPart 1: Aboriginal Urbanization in Canada1 The Urbanization of Aboriginal Populations in Canada: A Half Century in Review / Mary Jane Norris, Stewart Clatworthy, and Evelyn Peters2 Urban Aboriginality as a Distinctive Identity, in Twelve Parts / Chris Andersen3 Breaching Reserve Boundaries: Canada v. Misquadis and the Legal Creation of the Urban Aboriginal Community / Yale D. Belanger4 “I Basically Mostly Stick with My Own Kind”: First Nations Appropriation of Urban Space in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan / Evelyn Peters and Carol Lafond5 Being Métis: Exploring the Construction, Retention, and Maintenance of Urban Métis Identity / Ronald F. Laliberte6 Laying the Groundwork for Co-Production: The Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre, 1968-82 / Pamela Ouart and the Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre7 Increasing the Depth of Our Civic Identity: Future Seeking and Place Making with Aboriginal Communities / Ryan WalkerPart 2: American Indian Urbanization in the United States8 American Indians and Alaska Natives in Urban Environments / C. Matthew Snipp9 “Being Indian in the City”: Generational Differences in the Negotiation of Native Identity among Urban-Based American Indians / Nancy Lucero10 Dancing into Place: The Role of the Powwow within Urban Indigenous Communities / Jay T. JohnsonPart 3: Aboriginal Urbanization in Australia11 Indigenous Urbanization in Australia: Patterns and Processes of Ethnogenesis / John Taylor12 Aboriginal Identity and Place in the Intercultural Settings of Metropolitan Australia / Kelly Greenop and Paul Memmott13 Aboriginal Youth, Work, and Aspiration in Sydney’s Redfern-Waterloo Region / George MorganPart 4: Maori Urbanization in New Zealand14 The Structure of Urban Maori Identities / Tahu Kukutai15 Maori and Environmental Justice: The Case of “Lake” Otara / Brad Coombes16 Producing Indigeneity / Brendan HokowhituConclusion: Indigenizing Modernity or Modernizing Indigeneity? / Chris Andersen and Evelyn PetersIndex

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Book SynopsisThe story of a transformative visit by members of the Haida Nation to British museums housing their cultural artifacts.Trade ReviewThis inspirational book offers a fascinating ethnography .., The innovative multivocal presentation incorporates a range of opinions and emotions expressed by named curators, conservators, researchers, Elders, cultural descendants, and artists. The authors demonstrate the historical richness of museum collections and highlight their potential for community revitalization and cross-cultural understanding. -- Anita Herle, Senior Curator for Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of CambridgeThis book offers honest insight into the logistics, dilemmas, anxieties, anger, and joy, which combined for a “bittersweet” experience for museum professionals and the Haida through the six months' preparations and during the three-week visit. -- Gillian Crowther * BC Studies *Table of ContentsDramatis Personae: Participants in the Haida ProjectPreface1 The Paths Bringing us Together2 Preparations for the Visit3 Moments of EncounterWhy Go There? An Interlude / Ruth Gladstone-Davies4 Reflecting on the Visit5 Maintaining Relationships into the Future6 Museums As They Are, and Museums As They Might BeAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe story of a transformative visit by members of the Haida Nation to British museums housing their cultural artifacts.Trade ReviewThis inspirational book offers a fascinating ethnography .., The innovative multivocal presentation incorporates a range of opinions and emotions expressed by named curators, conservators, researchers, Elders, cultural descendants, and artists. The authors demonstrate the historical richness of museum collections and highlight their potential for community revitalization and cross-cultural understanding. -- Anita Herle, Senior Curator for Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of CambridgeThis book offers honest insight into the logistics, dilemmas, anxieties, anger, and joy, which combined for a “bittersweet” experience for museum professionals and the Haida through the six months' preparations and during the three-week visit. -- Gillian Crowther * BC Studies *Table of ContentsDramatis Personae: Participants in the Haida ProjectPreface1 The Paths Bringing us Together2 Preparations for the Visit3 Moments of EncounterWhy Go There? An Interlude / Ruth Gladstone-Davies4 Reflecting on the Visit5 Maintaining Relationships into the Future6 Museums As They Are, and Museums As They Might BeAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThrough the prisms of leadership, women, and power, this book traces the Wendat diaspora beyond a discourse of destruction and into a new world of rejuvenation and hope.Trade Review… the devastating Haudenosaunee attacks in 1649 have long shaped the ways scholars have narrated and understood the past of the Wendat people … So dramatic was this dispersal that many historians and anthropologists have portrayed it as the end of Wendat history and any meaningful Wendat peoplehood. Kathryn Magee Labelle forcefully challenges, and convincingly demolishes, this “discourse of destruction” (p. 196) in her aptly-named Dispersed but Not Destroyed … A topnotch ethnohistory, Labelle’s book … draws a complex yet coherent picture of the vibrant Wendat diaspora. At the same time it prompts broader questions about power, society, and narrative in the study of seventeenth-century North America. -- Sami Lakomäki, University of Oulu * Histoire sociale / Social History *A nuanced and highly readable account of the Wendat people’s turbulent history, which challenges the notion of the Wendat’s disappearance as a cohesive community in the wake of the Iroquois attacks of the mid-seventeenth century. -- Roger M. Carpenter, Department of History, University of Louisiana MonroeTable of ContentsA Brief Chronology: Selected Wendat Events and Migration, 1400-1701IntroductionPart 1: Resistance1 Disease and Diplomacy: The Loss of Leadership and Life in Wendake2 A Culture of War: Wendat War Chiefs and Nadowek Conflicts before 1649Part 2: Evacuation and Relocation3 Wendat Country: Gahoendoe Island and the Cost of Remaining Close4 Anishinaabe Neighbours: The Coalition5 The West: The Country of the People of the Sea6 The East: The Lorettans7 Iroquois Country: Wendat Autonomy at Gandougare, Kahnawake, and GanowaroharePart 3: Diaspora8 Leadership: Community Memory and Cultural Legacy9 Women: Unity, Spirituality, and Social Mobility10 Power: Sources of Strength and Survival beyond the DispersalEpilogue: Reconnecting the Modern Diaspora, 1999AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA timely assessment of a successful initiative to support Aboriginal cultural ways and worldviews in one Ontario high school.Trade ReviewImportantly, [this] book not only tells a story of Aboriginal students in public education systems but also situates the narrative within a broader socio-historical context that serves to provide the reader with significant insights into how the education system in Canada has failed Aboriginal youth ... Cherubini’s book offers a significant contribution to the landscape of Aboriginal education, opportunities to make further advances in this field, and expands on specific areas related to learning in order to provide increased clarity into the nature of how Aboriginal students learn most effectively. -- Gabrielle LindstromTable of ContentsForeword / Lyn TrudeauIntroductionPart 1: Background1 Evoking the Past, Framing the Future2 Setting the StoryPart 2: From Theory to Practice3 The Conversations4 Subplots5 Climax: Learning from the StoriesAppendicesWorks Cited; Index

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Book SynopsisA detailed account of the complex and contested process that resulted in the establishment of the Great Bear Rainforest in coastal British Columbia.Trade ReviewThis is an extremely important book, not only for explaining how collaboration has been achieved at a regional scale in mid- and north BC, but also as a symbol and example of what is possible in seemingly intractable conservation “stand-offs.” It will repay study by students of environmental history and by all involved in that wide-reaching, all-encompassing field of environmental politics. -- Ken Atkinson, University of York St John * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *Table of ContentsForeword: Rethinking Environmentalism / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 Where in the World Is the Great Bear? Problematizing British Columbia’s Coastal Forests2 Grizzlies Growl at the International Market: Circulating a Panorama of the Great Bear Rainforest3 Negotiating with the Enemy: Articulating a Common Matter of Concern4 Mobilizing Allies and Reconciling InterestsConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book re-evaluates the role of recognition in analyzing relations between groups in plural societies, the position of indigenous peoples in settler societies, and the principle of the self-determination of peoples.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: On the Use and Abuse of Recognition in Politics / Melissa S. WilliamsPart 1: Recognition and Self-Determination: Connections and Tensions1 Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the History of Mexican Indigenous Politics / Courtney Jung2 Recognition and Self-Determination: Approaches from Above and Below / Jakeet Singh3 Two Faces of State Power / Rinku LambaPart 2: The Practice of Recognition and Misrecognition, Self-Determination, and Imposition4 A Farewell to Rhetorical Arms? Unravelling the Self-Determination of Peoples / Zoran Oklopcic5 The Politics of Recognition and Misrecognition and the Case of Muslim Canadians / Yasmeen Abu-Laban6 Place against Empire: The Dene Nation, Land Claims, and the Politics of Recognition in the North / Glen Coulthard7 The Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Self-Determination and the Struggle against Cultural Appropriation / Francois Boucher8 Inter-Indigenous Recognition and the Cultural Production of Indigeneity in the Western Settler States / Kirsty GoverPart 3: Possible Ways of Reframing the Issues9 Recognition, Politics of Difference, and the Institutional Identity of Peoples / Michel Seymour10 Custom and Indigenous Self-Determination: Reflections on “Post-Territoriality” / Ghislain Otis11 The Generosity of Toleration / Jeremy Webber12 Self-Determination versus Recognition: Lessons and Conclusions / Avigail EisenbergIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book re-evaluates the role of recognition in analyzing relations between groups in plural societies, the position of indigenous peoples in settler societies, and the principle of the self-determination of peoples.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: On the Use and Abuse of Recognition in Politics / Melissa S. WilliamsPart 1: Recognition and Self-Determination: Connections and Tensions1 Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the History of Mexican Indigenous Politics / Courtney Jung2 Recognition and Self-Determination: Approaches from Above and Below / Jakeet Singh3 Two Faces of State Power / Rinku LambaPart 2: The Practice of Recognition and Misrecognition, Self-Determination, and Imposition4 A Farewell to Rhetorical Arms? Unravelling the Self-Determination of Peoples / Zoran Oklopcic5 The Politics of Recognition and Misrecognition and the Case of Muslim Canadians / Yasmeen Abu-Laban6 Place against Empire: The Dene Nation, Land Claims, and the Politics of Recognition in the North / Glen Coulthard7 The Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Self-Determination and the Struggle against Cultural Appropriation / Francois Boucher8 Inter-Indigenous Recognition and the Cultural Production of Indigeneity in the Western Settler States / Kirsty GoverPart 3: Possible Ways of Reframing the Issues9 Recognition, Politics of Difference, and the Institutional Identity of Peoples / Michel Seymour10 Custom and Indigenous Self-Determination: Reflections on “Post-Territoriality” / Ghislain Otis11 The Generosity of Toleration / Jeremy Webber12 Self-Determination versus Recognition: Lessons and Conclusions / Avigail EisenbergIndex

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