Claiming Back Their Heritage

Geneviève Susemihl is a senior researcher and lecturer of North American literature, culture and media at Kiel University, Germany. She obtained a PhD in North American literature and culture with a dissertation on the immigration of German-Jewish refugees to New York and Toronto in 2004 and a post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) in 2022. She was a stand-in professor of Cultural and Media Studies at Kiel University, an assistant professor at the Universities of Rostock and Greifswald, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Queen's Centre for International Relations at Queen’s University, and program manager and senior research associate at the Centre for Security, Armed Forces and Society at the Royal Military College of Canada. Her main areas of research are Heritage and Indigenous Studies. She has published extensively on Indigenous heritage, the construction of the American Indian in literature and culture, migration, and storytelling. She wrote the book Das indigeneKanada (The Indigenous Canada, 2023) and, together with Grit Alter, edited the book Teaching Canada I: Indigenous Peoples and Cultures (2023).

• Part 1.- Chapter 1. Ideas, Concepts, and Uses of Heritage.- Chapter 2. Empowerment and Community Development through Heritage.- Part 2.- Chapter 3. Consultation and Communication: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.- Chapter 4. Collaboration and Cooperation: SGang Gwaay and Gwaii Haanas.- Chapter 5. Indigenous Independence, Resilient Relations: The Tr’ondëk-Klondike.