Indigenous Studies – serie
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32 produkter
Indian Country
Essays on Contemporary Native Culture
Häftad, 2005
462 kr
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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, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle among themselves over …
Walking a Tightrope
Aboriginal People and Their Representations
Av Ute Lischke, David T. McNab
Häftad, 2005
431 kr
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""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. Non-Aboriginal people often fail to understand the sheer diversity, multiplicity, and …
Words of the Huron
Häftad, 2007
504 kr
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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 a range of topics, including: the construction of longhouses and wooden armour; the use of …
Long Journey of a Forgotten People
Métis Identities and Family Histories
Av Ute Lischke, David T. McNab
Häftad, 2007
526 kr
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Known as ""Canada's forgotten people,"" the Métis have long been here, but until 1982 they lacked the legal status of Native people. At that point, however, the Métis were recognized in the constitution as one of Canada's Aboriginal peoples. A significant addition to Métis historiography, The Long …
From the Iron House
Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
Av Deena Rymhs
Inbunden, 2008
992 kr
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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 different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal …
Troubling Tricksters
Revisioning Critical Conversations
Av Deanna Reder, Linda M. Morra
Häftad, 2010
498 kr
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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 complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the …
Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities
Transformations and Continuities
Av Heather A. Howard, Craig Proulx
Häftad, 2011
462 kr
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Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal …
Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature
Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment
Av Karl S. Hele
Inbunden, 2013
1115 kr
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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 attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary …
Lines Drawn Upon the Water
First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands
Av Karl S. Hele
Häftad, 2016
548 kr
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The First Nations who have lived in the Great Lakes watershed have been strongly influenced by the imposition of colonial and national boundaries there. The essays in Lines Drawn upon the Water examine the impact of the Canadian - American border on communities, with reference to national efforts …
Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature
Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment
Av Karl S. Hele
Häftad, 2016
512 kr
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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 attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary …
From the Iron House
Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
Av Deena Rymhs
Häftad, 2016
553 kr
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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 different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal …
Essential Song
Three Decades of Northern Cree Music
Av Lynn Whidden
Häftad, 2017
519 kr
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Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and Manitoba. The result of more than two decades spent in the North learning from the Cree, Lynn Whidden's account discusses the …
Bridging Two Peoples
Chief Peter E. Jones, 1843-1909
Häftad, 2012
384 kr
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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 Ontario reserve and was elected chief and band doctor. As secretary to the Grand Indian Council of …
Eighteenth-Century Wyandot
A Clan-Based Study
Inbunden, 2014
1148 kr
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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 dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves these fragmented histories …
Indigenous Poetics in Canada
Av Neal McLeod
Häftad, 2014
531 kr
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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 volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and …
Literary Land Claims
The ""Indian Land Question"" from Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat
Av Margery Fee
Häftad, 2015
319 kr
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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 as roaming ""savages"" without land title and without literature. Literary Land Claims: From …
Arts of Engagement
Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Av Dylan Robinson, Keavy Martin
Häftad, 2016
514 kr
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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. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school …
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Häftad, 2018
331 kr
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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 political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. In considering the …
Learn, Teach, Challenge
Approaching Indigenous Literatures
Av Deanna Reder, Linda M. Morra
Häftad, 2016
725 kr
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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, among them Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan), Craig Womack (Creek), …
Eighteenth-Century Wyandot
A Clan-Based Study
Häftad, 2015
518 kr
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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 dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves these fragmented histories …
Activating the Heart
Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship
Av Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
379 kr
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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. The collection pays particular attention to the significance of storytelling in Indigenous …
Violence Against Indigenous Women
Literature, Activism, Resistance
Häftad, 2017
390 kr
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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 women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature …
Homing Place
Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic
Inbunden, 2017
730 kr
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Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across …
Homing Place
Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic
Häftad, 2018
444 kr
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Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across …
Read, Listen, Tell
Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island
Av Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
542 kr
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Don't say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You've heard it now."" - Thomas King, in this volumeRead, Listen, Tell brings together an extraordinary range of Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island (North America). From short …
Indianthusiasm
Indigenous Responses
Av Hartmut Lutz, Florentine Strzelczyk m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
444 kr
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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 in romanticized representations of the past, Indianthusiasm has developed into a veritable industry …
I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country?
Häftad, 2020
347 kr
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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 of these works, each page presented facing the revised Innu text, makes them available …
Literatures, Communities, and Learning
Conversations with Indigenous Writers
Inbunden, 2020
825 kr
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Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers gathers nine conversations with Indigenous writers about the relationship between Indigenous literatures and learning, and how their writing relates to communities. Relevant, reflexive, and critical, these conversations …
Literatures, Communities, and Learning
Conversations with Indigenous Writers
Häftad, 2021
444 kr
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Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers gathers nine conversations with Indigenous writers about the relationship between Indigenous literatures and learning, and how their writing relates to communities.Relevant, reflexive, and critical, these conversations …
Autobiography As Indigenous Intellectual Tradition
Cree and Métis âcimisowina
Av Deanna Reder
Häftad, 2022
440 kr
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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 literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing. Since the 1970s non-Indigenous …
