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
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, Associate Dean, Indigenous Education, University of British Columbia
Kristina Bidwell, Associate Professor, English, University of Saskatchewan
Daniel Heath Justice, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture, University of British Columbia
Eldon Yellowhorn, Associate Professor, Archaeology, Simon Fraser University

The Chippewas of Georgina Island

Edited by John L. Steckley, Leah Atkinson, Albert Big Canoe, Andrew Big Canoe, Lauri Hoeg, Susan Hoeg, & Barbara McDonald
Subjects: Social Science: Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, History: Canadian History
Series: Indigenous Studies

The Chippewas of Georgina Island is a record of the history of an Indigenous community and the stories and photographs of the lives of community members over the years. A work of community storytelling ...

Activating the Heart

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

The Homing Place

By Rachel Bryant
Subjects: Literary Criticism: Canadian Literature, History, Literary Criticism, 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 ...

Violence Against Indigenous Women

By Allison Hargreaves
Subjects: Women's Studies, 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, & 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 together ...

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: Indigenous Studies, International Relations, Political Science
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 ...

The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature

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

Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts ...

From the Iron House

By Deena Rymhs
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism: Canadian Literature
Series: Indigenous Studies

In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, ...

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