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 t
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
Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state
The first critical reader of Indigenous stories that spans Turtle Island, including Canada, the US and Mexico. The book explores core concepts of Indigenous literary studies, such as the relations bet
"Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nations colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigeno
Established in 1964, the Centre for Research into Aboriginal Affairs propelled Monash University into a position of academic leadership in the ongoing struggle for justice for Aboriginal people. Leadi
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, the d
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 geogr
The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century—the otherwise named Petun and Huron—and their history is fragmented by their dispersa
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 theori
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. Co
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
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 vol
The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century–the otherwise named Petun and Huron–and their history is fragmented by their dispersa
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 attem
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
Since the 1970's, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-tourban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal comm
Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The co
Long before vacationers and boaters discovered BC's SunshineCoast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, called it and surroundingregions home. In this remarkable book, Elsie Paul, one of the lastsurvi
The recognition of Indigenous rights and the management of land andresources have always been fraught with complex power relations andconflicting expressions of identity. In Indigenous Encounters with
Altamirano-Jimenez (political science & Native studies, U. of Alberta) examines the ways indigeneity, gender, neoliberalism and property rights, and the environment intersect in both Canada and Me
Sunseri (sociology, Brescia University College, Canada) combines post-colonial and feminist theories with her own Oneida upbringing to produce a study of the place of women in traditional Oneida cultu
Burnett (history, Lakehead U.) notes that the history of the North American West continues to be dominated by the buffalo hunter, the missionary, and the medicine man-- in short, by men. In this book,
This book deals with the two key concepts of gender and rights of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It looks at issues of indigenous human rights, gender justice, repression, res
This book deals with the two key concepts of gender and rights of the indigenous people from all continents of the world. It looks at issues of indigenous human rights, gender justice, repression, res
