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 ...

Argimou

By S. Douglass S. Huyghue
Afterword by Gwendolyn Davies
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Early Canadian Literature

Both an adventure-laced captivity tale and an impassioned denunciation of the marginalization of Indigenous culture in the face of European colonial expansion, Douglass Smith Huyghue’s Argimou (1847) ...

Violence Against Indigenous Women

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

downstream

Edited by Dorothy Christian & Rita Wong
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Creative Writing, Poetry, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building peace ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature

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

Arts of Engagement

Edited by Dylan Robinson & Keavy Martin
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Performing Arts, Art
Series: Indigenous Studies

Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors ...