Natives and Settlers Now and Then

Paul DePasquale is Associate Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg where he teaches courses on Aboriginal literature and on early modern European travel and colonialism.

"Natives and Settlers Now and Then is a slim volume that will be of great interest to scholars of Indigenous Studies and Native-Newcomer relations. Its primary focus is on the Canadian Great Plains, but it also touches on broader Indigenous issues in the United States and New Zealand. ... The various essays tackle issues of European-Indigenous contact; treaty making; Native rights and title; land claims; and the processes of colonization, decolonization, and nation building -- from all Aboriginal perspectives. ... Published conference proceedings are often disappointing, but the essays reproduced here resonate with the flavor and passion of the original spoken presentations. ... I would recommend the volume to anyone with an interest in the treaty process in Canada and elsewhere. Most significantly the conference and these published proceedings represent a significant installment in the in the ongoing process of incorporating aboriginal oral knowledge and perspectives, the Indigenous voice, into the evolving written academic discourse in Canada and elsewhere." Michael Cottrell, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, Great Plains Research Vol. 18, No. 2, Fall 2008

• Treaties Made in Good Faith; Three Treaty Nations Compared: Economic & Political Consequences for Indigenous Peoples in Canada, the United States and New Zealand; "The Rights to the Land May Be Transferred": Archival Records as Colonial Text -- A Narrative of Metis Scrip; Nation-Building: Reflections of Nihiyow (Cree); Questions and Discussions; Remembering Harold Cardinal; Index.