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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 ...

Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities

Edited by Craig Proulx & Heather A. Howard
Subjects: Social Science, Urban Studies, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities ...

Bridging Two Peoples

By Allan Sherwin
Subjects: Medical, History Of Medicine, History, Canadian History, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Bridging Two Peoples tells the story of Dr. Peter E. Jones, who in 1866 became one of the first status Indians to obtain a medical doctor degree from a Canadian university. He returned to his southern ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...

Indigenous Poetics in Canada

Edited by Neal McLeod
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume ...

Indianthusiasm

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

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 ...

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 ...