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Indian Country

By Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern “Indian wars” are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, ...

Walking a Tightrope

Edited by David T. McNab & Ute Lischke
Subjects: Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

“The most we can hope for is that we are paraphrased correctly.” In this statement, Lenore Keeshig-Tobias underscores one of the main issues in the representation of Aboriginal peoples by non-Aboriginals. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Words of the Huron

By John L. Steckley
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Indigenous Studies

Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century.
John L. Steckley explores ...

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition

By Deanna Reder
Subjects: Life Writing, Literary Criticism, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous ...

Activating the Heart

Edited by Christopher Cox, Julia Christensen, 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. ...

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 ...

Learn, Teach, Challenge

Edited by Deanna Reder & Linda M. Morra
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism
Series: Indigenous Studies

This is a collection of classic and newly commissioned essays about the study of Indigenous literatures in North America. The contributing scholars include some of the most venerable Indigenous theorists, ...

Literary Land Claims

By Margery Fee
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Indigenous Studies

Literature not only represents Canada as “our home and native land” but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented ...