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  • We Are Coming Home

    Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence

    In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum’s relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to First Nations’ peoples. These efforts drew harsh criticism from members of the provincial government. ... Leer más

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  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

    In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well ... Leer más

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  • Unsettling the Settler Within

    Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

    In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada's notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation. ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Blood

    Rethinking Indigenous Identity

    The current Status criteria of theIndian Act contains descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants, which author Pamela Palmater argues will lead to the extinguishment of First Nations as legal and constitutional entities. Beginning with an historic overview of legislative enactments defining Indian status and their impact on ... Leer más

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  • From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation

    A Road Map for All Canadians

    Canada is a country founded on relationships and agreements between Indigenous peoples and newcomers. Although recent court cases have upheld Aboriginal title rights, the cooperative spirit of the treaties is being lost as Canadians engage in endless arguments about First Nations “issues.” Each new court decision adds fuel to the debate raging between those who want to see an end to special ... Leer más

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  • Metis in Canada

    History, Identity, Law and Politics

    These twelve essays constitute a groundbreaking volume of new work prepared by leading scholars in the fields of history, anthropology, constitutional law, political science, and sociology, who identify the many facets of what it means to be Métis in Canada today. After the Powley decision in 2003, Métis people were no longer conceptually limited to the historical boundaries of the fur trade in ... Leer más

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  • Blackfoot Redemption

    A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

    In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and, aided by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, exacted a ... Leer más

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  • Pagans in the Promised Land

    Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery

    Pagans in the Promised Land provides a unique, well-researched challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. It attacks the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the plenary power of the United States. ... Leer más

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  • The Beginning and End of Rape

    Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America

    de Sarah Deer ...
    Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book AwardDespite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer’s work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on—and ending it.The ... Leer más

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  • Grounded Authority

    The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State

    Series series Indigenous Americas
    Western Political Science Association's Clay Morgan Award for Best Book in Environmental Political TheoryCanadian Studies Network Prize for the Best Book in Canadian StudiesNominated for Best First Book Award at NAISAHonorable Mention: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book PrizeSince Justin Trudeau’s election in 2015, Canada has been hailed internationally as embarking on a truly ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Breaking Ground

    The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village

    Series series Capell Family Books
    In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. Yet the state continued its project, disturbing hundreds of burials and unearthing more than 10,000 artifacts at Tse-whit ... Leer más

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  • Winisk

    On the Shore of Hudson Bay

    The northern community known as Peawanuck (Cree for Flint) is located approximately 32 kilometres up river from the former village of Winisk on the shore of Hudson Bay. There, prior to a devastating flood on May 16, 1986, the First Nations residents of Winisk had carried on with a traditional lifestyle built largely around hunting and trapping seasons.The late Mildred Young Hubbert of Markdale, ... Leer más

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