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Indigenous Studies

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The Indigenous Studies Series builds on the successes of the past and is inspired by recent critical conversations about Indigenous epistemological frameworks. Recognizing the need to encourage burgeoning scholarship, the series welcomes manuscripts drawing upon Indigenous intellectual traditions and philosophies, particularly in discussions situated within the Humanities. 

Series Editor

Deanna Reder (Cree-Metis)
Associate Professor, First Nations Studies and English
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC
Canada V5A 1S6
Phone: (778) 782 8192
Fax: (778) 782-4989
E-mail: dhr@sfu.ca

Advisory Board

  • Jo-ann Archibald (Sto:lō), Professor of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
  • Kristina Bidwell (NunatuKavut), Associate Dean of Aboriginal Affairs, College of Arts and Science, Professor of English, University of Saskatchewan
  • Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation), Professor, First Nations and Indigenous Studies/English, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture, University of British Columbia
  • Eldon Yellowhorn (Piikani), Associate Professor, Archaeology, Director of First Nations Studies, Simon Fraser University

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Literatures, Communities, and Learning

By Aubrey Jean Hanson
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers gathers nine conversations with Indigenous writers about the relationship between Indigenous literatures and learning, and ...

I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi?

By An Antane Kapesh
Translated by Sarah Henzi
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Life Writing, Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation
Series: Indigenous Studies

Quebec author An Antane Kapesh's two books, Je suis une maudite sauvagesse (1976) and Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays? (1979), are among the foregrounding works by Indigenous women in Canada. This English translation ...

Indianthusiasm

Edited by Hartmut Lutz, Florentine Strzelczyk, and Renae Watchman
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, German Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Indianthusiasm refers to the European fascination with, and fantasies about, Indigenous peoples of North America, and has its roots in nineteenth-century German colonial imagination. Often manifested ...

The Homing Place

By Rachel Bryant
Subjects: Literary Criticism, History, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state ...

Activating the Heart

Edited by Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox, and Lisa Szabo-Jones
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Creative Writing, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. ...

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

By Daniel Heath Justice
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the ...

Violence Against Indigenous Women

By Allison Hargreaves
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous ...

Read, Listen, Tell

Edited by Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, David Gaertner, and Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Language Arts & Disciplines, Creative Writing
Series: Indigenous Studies

“Don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now. ” —Thomas King, in this volume

Read, Listen, Tell brings ...

Essential Song

By Lynn Whidden
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Music
Series: Indigenous Studies

Audio Files located on Soundcloud

Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and ...

Lines Drawn upon the Water

Edited by Karl S. Hele
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

The First Nations who have lived in the Great Lakes watershed have been strongly influenced by the imposition of colonial and national boundaries there. The essays in Lines Drawn upon the Water examine ...