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Aboriginal & Métis 

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Contents 

AboriginAl & Métis History 

3 Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las 

Leslie A. Robertson with the 

Kwagu’ł Gixsam Clan 

4 Where Happiness Dwells 

Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington, 

in collaboration with Elders of the 

Dane-zaa First Nations 

5 People of the Middle Fraser Canyon 

Anna Marie Prentiss and Ian Kuijt 

6 First Person Plural 

Sophie McCall 

7 The Many Voyages of Arthur 

Wellington Clah 

Peggy Brock 

8 Kwakwaka'wakw Settlements, 

1775-1920 

Robert Galois 

9 Fort Chipewyan and the Shaping 

of Canadian History, 1788–1920s 

Patricia A. McCormack 

10 Gathering Places 

Edited by Carolyn Podruchny and 

Laura Peers 

11 Prophetic Identities 

Tolly Bradford 

12 No need of a chief for this band 

Martha Elizabeth Walls 

13 One of the Family 

Brenda Macdougall 

14 A Wilder West 

Mary-Ellen Kelm 

15 Taking Medicine 

Kristin Burnett 

AntHropology & soCiology 

16 Being Again of One Mind 

Lina Sunseri 

politiCs & nAtion 

17 Indigenous Women and Feminism 

Edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. 

Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and 

Jean Barman 

18 The Perils of Identity 

Caroline Dick 

19 Creative Subversions 

Margot Francis 

20 Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy 

Edited by Mario Blaser, Ravi De Costa, 

Deborah McGregor, and 

William D. Coleman 

21 Unsettling the Settler Within 

Paulette Regan 

22 Fractured Homeland 

Bonita Lawrence 

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23 An Ethic of Mutual Respect 

Bruce Morito 

24 Conflict in Caledonia 

Laura DeVries 

25 Hunger, Horses, and Government Men 

Shelley A.M. Gavigan 

26 Ghost Dancing with Colonialism 

Grace Li Xiu Woo 

27 Oral History on Trial 

Bruce Granville Miller 

28 Storied Communities 

Edited by Hester Lessard, Rebecca 

Johnson, and Jeremy Webber 

29 Between Consenting Peoples 

Edited by Jeremy Webber and 

Colin M. Macleod 

30 Aboriginal Title and Indigenous 

Peoples 

Edited by Louis A. Knafla and 

Haijo Westra 

lAnguAge 

31 Nooksack Place Names 

Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway 

eduCAtion & leAdersHip studies 

32 Living Indigenous Leadership 

Edited by Carolyn Kenny and Tina 

Ngaroimata Fraser 

33 Inuit Education and Schools in the 

Eastern Arctic 

Heather E. McGregor 

sports & reCreAtion 

34 Aboriginal Peoples and Sport 

in Canada 

Edited by Janice Forsyth and 

Audrey R. Giles 

Aboriginal Studies 2012 1

environMentAl studies 

35 Principles of Tsawalk 

Umeek / E. Richard Atleo 

36 Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands 

in Canada 

Edited by D.B. Tindall, Ronald L. Trosper, 

and Pamela Perreault 

environMentAl History 

37 Temagami's Tangled Wild 

Jocelyn Thorpe 

38 The Nature of Borders 

Lissa K. Wadewitz 

39 Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors 

Charlotte Coté 

FroM our publisHing pArtners 

40 The Praying Man 

Isaac Kholisle Mabindisa 

40 The Archaeology of Native-Lived 

Colonialism 

Neal Ferris 

41 Inuit Arctic Policy 

Edited by Aqqaluk Lynge and 

Marianne Stenbaek 

41 Bartering with the Bones 

of Their Dead 

Laurie Arnold 

42 Where the Salmon Run 

Trova Heffernan 

42 We Are Our Language 

Barbara A. Meek 

43 Chinuk Wawa / kakwa nsayka ulmantilixam 

laska munk-kEmtEks nsayka / 

As Our Elders Teach Us to Speak It 

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, 

Oregon 

43 Haa Léelk'w Hás Aaní Saax'u / Our 

Grandparents' Names on the Land 

Edited by Thomas F. Thornton 

44 Klallam Dictionary 

Timothy Montler 

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44 Skwxwu7mesh Snichim-Xweliten 

Snichim Skexwts / Squamish-English 

Dictionary 

Squamish Nation Dictionary Project 

45 Walking the Clouds 

Edited by Grace L. Dillon 

45 Sovereign Erotics 

Edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath 

Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa 

Tatonetti 

46 A Metaphoric Mind 

Edited by Ruth Couture, and 

Virginia Mcgowan 

46 Eating the Landscape 

Enrique Salmón 

47 Red Medicine 

Patrisia Gonzales 

47 White Man’s Water 

Erica Prussing 

48 Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World 

and Weather 

Ann Fienup-Riordan and Alice Reardon 

48 Asserting Native Resilience 

Edited by Alan Parker and Zoltán 

Grossman 

49 Indigenous Peoples and Demography 

Edited by Per Axelsson and Peter Sköld 

49 Women and Knowledge in 

Mesoamerica 

Paloma Martinez-Cruz 

50 Songs of Power and Prayer in 

the Columbia Plateau 

Chad S. Hammill 

50 Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire 

Allice Legat 

ordering inForMAtion 

53 Canadian, US, and international 

orders, e-book information, review 

copies, and catalogue subscriptions.

ABORIGINAL & MÉTIS HISTORY 

Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las 

Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom 

Leslie A. Robertson with the Kwagu'ł Gixsam Clan 

LESLIE A. ROBERTSON teaches 

in Anthropology and the 

Institute for Gender, Race and 

Social Justice at the University 

of British Columbia. 

October 2012 

978-0-7748-2384-5 HC $125.00 

July 2013 

978-0-7748-2385-2 PB $39.95 

512 pages, 6 x 9 " 

History , Aboriginal Studies , 

Anthropological Theory & 

Methods , Aboriginal History 

Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las tells the remarkable 

story of Jane Constance Cook (1870-1951), a 

controversial Kwakwaka’wakw leader and activist 

who lived during a period of enormous colonial 

upheaval. Working collaboratively, Robertson and 

Cook’s descendants draw on oral histories and 

textual records to create a nuanced portrait of a 

high-ranked woman, cultural mediator, devout 

Christian, and aboriginal rights activist who criticized 

potlatch practices for surprising reasons. 

This powerful meditation on memory and cultural 

renewal documents how the Kwagu’ł Gixsam have 

revived their long-dormant clan in the hopes of 

forging a positive cultural identity for future generations 

through feasting and potlatching. 

CONTENTS 

Foreword / Nella Nelson 

Prologue 

Introduction: “Having Oneness on Your Face” 

Part I – The Living Text: Traces of Jane Cook 

Part II – Dukwa’esala (Look Around On the Beach): 

Ancestors 

Part III – Stranger Than Fiction: Surviving the 

Missionary 

Part IV – “Children of the Potlatch System,” 1888- 

1912 

Part V – “We As the Suppressed People,” 1913-18 

Part VI – “We Are the Aboriginee, Which Is Not a 

Citizen,” 1918-27 

Part VII – “With the Potlatch Custom in My Blood,” 

1930-39 

Part VIII – One Voice from Many: Citizenship, 

1940-48 

Part IX – A Tower of Strength: Word Memorials, 1951 

Part X – Dłaxw’it’sine’ (For Your Standing), Feasting 

Notes; Bibliography; Index 

History 2012 3


Where Happiness Dwells 

A History of the Dane-zaa First Nations 

Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington , in collaboration with Elders of the 

Dane-zaa First Nations 

ROBIN RIDINGTON is professor 

emeritus of anthropology at the 

University of British Columbia 

and has worked with the Danezaa 

First Nations since the 

1960s. JILLIAN RIDINGTON is 

an ethnographer and researcher 

who has worked with the Danezaa 

First Nations since 1978. 

Their books about the Dane-zaa 

include Robin’s Trail To Heaven: 

Knowledge and Narrative in a 

Northern Native Community , 

and a co-authored book, When 

You Sing It Now, Just Like New: 

First Nations Poetics, Voices and 

Representations. 

February 2013 

978-0-7748-2295-4 HC $95.00 

July 2013 

978-0-7748-2296-1 PB $34.95 

336 pages, 6 x 9 " 

History , Aboriginal Studies , 

British Columbia History, 

Aboriginal History 


The Dane-zaa people have lived in BC’s Peace River 

area for thousands of years. Elders documented 

their peoples’ history and worldview, passing 

them on through storytelling. Language loss, 

however, threatens to break the bonds of knowledge 

transmission. At the request of the Doig 

River First Nation, anthropologists Robin and 

Jillian Ridington present a history of the Dane-zaa 

people based on oral histories collected over a half 

century of fi eldwork. These powerful stories not 

only preserve traditional knowledge for future 

generations, they also tell the inspiring story of 

how the Dane-zaa learned to succeed and fl ourish 

in the modern world. 

CONTENTS 

Preface and Linguistic Note, with Pronunciation 

Guide 

Introduction: Trails of Time 

1 The Dane-zaa Creation Story 

2 Tsá á yaa, the Culture Hero 

3 Shin kaa: The Vision Quest 

4 The Trails of Long Ago: Archaeology, Prehistory 

and Oral History 

5 The Early Fur Trade 

6 Later Fur Trade: Saint Johns, The Hudson's Bay 

Company Killings and Beyond 

7 Priests and Dreamers 

8 The First and Last Dreamers 

9 Kinship and Community 

10 The 1899 Northwest Mounted Police Census and 

the Signing of the Treaty in 1900 

11 Seasonal Rounds in British Columbia and Alberta 

12 The 1918 Flu Epidemic 

13 The Time Between: Losing Suu Na chii K’chi ge, 

the Great Fire and Peterson’s Crossing 

14 Suu Na chii K'chi ge: The Place Where Happiness 

Dwells (IR 172) 

15 Today and Tomorrow 

16 Dane-zaa Stories and the Anthropological 

Literature 

Appendices; References; Index


People of the Middle Fraser Canyon 

An Archaeological History 

Anna Marie Prentiss and Ian Kuijt 

ANNA MARIE PRENTISS is a 

professor in the Department of 

Anthropology at the University 

of Montana. IAN KUIJT is a 

professor in the Department of 

Anthropology at the University 

of Notre Dame. 

May 2012 

978-0-7748-2168-1 HC $90.00 

January 2013 

978-0-7748-2169-8 PB $32.95 

288 pages, 6 x 9 " 

40 photographs, 15 maps, 

25 drawings 

Aboriginal Studies , History, 

Anthropology , Archaeology , 

BC Studies 

The Middle Fraser Canyon contains some of the 

most important archaeological sites in British 

Columbia, including the remains of ancient 

villages that supported hundreds, if not thousands, 

of people. How and why did these villages 

come into being? Why were they abandoned? In 

search of answers to these questions, Prentiss 

and Kuijt take readers on a voyage of discovery 

into the ancient history of the St’át’imc or Upper 

Lillooet, a people whose struggles and successes 

are brought to vivid life through photographs, 

artistic and fi ctionalized reconstructions of 

life in the villages, and discussions of evidence 

from archaeological surveys and excavations. 

CONTENTS 

1 Introduction 

2 Before the Villages: Middle Period Occupation 

of the Plateau 

3 Setting the Regional Stage 

4 The Rise of the Middle Fraser Villages 

5 Making a Living: Food in the Middle Fraser 

Villages 

6 Living Together: Social Organization in the 

Middle Fraser Villages 

7 The Abandonment and the Aftermath 

8 A Broad Perspective: Looking Back, Looking 

Forward 

Appendix: Linguistics / Leora Bar-El 

Notes on Sources; References; Index 



First Person Plural 

Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship 

Sophie McCall 

SOPHIE McCALL teaches in the 

English Department at Simon 

Fraser University. 

2011 

978-0-7748-1979-4 HC $85.00 

January 2012 

978-0-7748-1980-0 PB $32.95 

268 pages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal Studies , Social 

& Cultural Anthropology , 

Canadian Literature 


Sophie McCall’s splendid First Person Plural enlarges 

the genre of works purporting to be collaborative. 

Beyond writing, she includes land claims negotiations, 

commissioners’ reports, media representations, 

and fi lm. She traces the rise of Indigenous 

voice in Canada through the fi nal decades of the 

twentieth century. Students, scholars, and anyone 

interested in First Nations and Native American 

literature will welcome this book. 

– Julie Cruikshank, author of Do Glaciers Listen? 

Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social 

Imagination 

In this innovative exploration, told-to narratives, 

or collaboratively produced texts by Aboriginal 

storytellers and (usually) non-Aboriginal writers, 

are not romanticized as unmediated translations 

of oral documents, nor are they dismissed as corruptions 

of original works. Rather, the approach 

emphasizes the interpenetration of authorship 

and collaboration. Focused on the 1990s, when 

debates over voice and representation were particularly 

explosive, this captivating study examines a 

range of told-to narratives in conjunction with key 

political events that have shaped the struggle for 

Aboriginal rights to reveal how these narratives 

impact larger debates about Indigenous voice and 

literary and political sovereignty. 

CONTENTS 

Introduction: Collaboration and Authorship in Told-to 

Narratives 

1 “Where Is the Voice Coming From?”: Appropriations 

and Subversions of the ‘Native Voice’ 

2 Coming to Voice the North: The Mackenzie Valley 

Pipeline Inquiry and the Works of Hugh Brody 

3 “There Is a Time Bomb in Canada”: The Legacy of the 

Oka Crisis 

4 “My Story Is a Gift”: The Royal Commission on 

Aboriginal Peoples and the Politics of Reconciliation 

5 “What The Map Cuts Up, the Story Cuts Across”: 

Translating Oral Traditions and Aboriginal Land 

Title 

6 “I Can Only Sing This Song to Someone Who 

Understands It”: Community Filmmaking and the 

Politics of Partial Translation 

Conclusion: Collaborative Authorship and Literary 

Sovereignty 

Notes; Works Cited; Index


The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah 

A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific Northwest Coast 

Peggy Brock 

PEGGY BROCK is an emeritus 

professor at Edith Cowan 

University, Perth, and a visiting 

research fellow at the University 

of Adelaide, Australia. 

2011 

978-0-7748-2005-9 HC $95.00 


978-0-7748-2006-6 PB $29.95 

324 pages, 6 x 9 " 

19 photographs, 4 maps 

Aboriginal Studies , History , BC 

Studies , Biography, Memoirs & 

Letters 

Clah’s life and diary offer a window into the lives 

of the Tsimshian political hierarchy of the time 

and Tsimshian society’s interaction with colonialism 

... His voyage is a metaphor for the voyage 

that his own and other indigenous people were 

also taking in their encounters with colonialism. 

– Neil Sterritt, consultant in Aboriginal leadership 

and governance 

Arthur Wellington Clah’s diary is likely the most 

remarkable document to come into the light of 

Pacifi c Northwest Coast history. 

– John S. Lutz, author of Makúk: A New History of 

Aboriginal-White Relations 

First-hand accounts of Indigenous people’s 

encounters with colonialism are rare. A daily 

diary that extends over fi fty years is unparalleled. 

Based on a transcription of Arthur Wellington 

Clah’s diaries, this book offers a riveting account 

of a Tsimshian man who moved in both colonial 

and Aboriginal worlds. From his birth in 1831 

to his death in 1916, Clah witnessed profound 

change: the arrival of traders, missionaries, and 

miners, and the establishment of industrial fi sheries, 

wage labour, and reserves. His many voyages 

– physical, cultural, and spiritual – provide an 

unprecedented Aboriginal perspective on colonial 

relationships on the Pacifi c Northwest Coast. 

CONTENTS 

Introduction 

1 The Life and Times of Arthur Wellington Clah 

2 Keeping Account: The Diary 

3 The Fur Trade Era 

4 Chasing Gold 

5 Food Production and Wage Labour 

6 Land Matters 

7 Becoming a Christian 

8 Parading and Preaching 

9 Clah and the Missionaries 

10 The Changing World of Feasting 

11 Ligeex, Chief of the Gispaxlo’ots 

12 Old Age: The End of Voyaging 

Conclusion 

Appendices; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index 



Kwakwaka'wakw Settlements, 1775-1920 

A Geographical Analysis and Gazetteer 

Robert Galois 

ROBERT GALOIS is an adjunct 

professor in the Department 

of Geography at the University 


He has worked extensively 

with Aboriginal groups in 

British Columbia. 

August 2012 

978-0-7748-2476-7 PB $49.95 

484 pages, 6 x 9 " 

History , Aboriginal , Historical 

Geography , Aboriginal History 

World rights except US 


The Kwakwaka’wakw, speakers of the Kwak’wala 

language, lived in northern Vancouver Island and 

the adjacent mainland of British Columbia long 

before the arrival of non-Natives. This important 

book, newly back in print, provides a geographic 

overview of the changing demography and settlement 

patterns of the Kwakwaka’wakw between 

1775 and 1920 and serves as a reference guide to 

the location and use of Kwakwaka’wakw settlement 

sites. Robert Galois has utilized a vast 

quantity of unpublished archival data to show that 

much changed in the 150 years after contact. This 

is an invaluable resource tool for anyone investigating 

documentary sources dealing with Native 

peoples in British Columbia and elsewhere. 

CONTENTS 

Part 1: Language, Territory, and Settlements: 

Perspectives on the Kwakwaka’wakw 

Introductory Statement / Gloria Granmer 

Webster Geography, Ethnogeography, and the 

Perspective of the Kwakwaka’wakw / Gloria 

Cranmer Webster and Jay Powell 

The Kwak’wala Language / Jay Powell 

Kwakwaka’wakw Settlement Patterns, 1775-1920 / 

Robert Galois 

Part 2: Gazetteer of Kwakwaka’wakw Settlement 

Sites (Including Kwakwaka’wakw Origin 

Narratives) 

Introduction to the Gazetteer 

Abbreviations 

Gilford Island Tribes 

Knight Inlet Tribes 

Kwakiutl Tribes 

Lekwiltok Tribes 

Nahwitti Tribes 

Nimpkish Tribes 

Northern Tribes Quatsino 

Sound Tribes 

Appendices; Orthography; Bibliography; Index

CANADIAN ABORIGINAL HISTORY & MÉTIS HISTORY 

Fort Chipewyan and the Shaping of Canadian History, 1788–1920s 

“We like to be free in this country” 

Patricia A. McCormack 

PATRICIA MCCORMACK is 

an associate professor in the 

Faculty of Native Studies at the 

University of Alberta. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1668-7 HC $90.00 

978-0-7748-1669-4 PB $39.95 

408 pages, 6.5 x 9 " 

47 b&w photos, 8 maps, 7 tables, 

2 family trees 

Aboriginal Studies , Canadian 

History , Alberta History , 

Anthropology, Historiography 

Patricia McCormack’s study of Fort Chipewyan is 

unique in its scope and its coverage of this northern 

Alberta community’s history. 

– Jennifer S.H. Brown, FRSC, Professor of History, 

University of Winnipeg 

The story of the expansion of civilization into the 

wilderness continues to shape perceptions of how 

Aboriginal people became part of nations such as 

Canada. Patricia McCormack subverts this narrative 

of modernity by examining nation building 

from the perspective of a northern community 

and its residents. Fort Chipewyan, she argues, was 

never an isolated Aboriginal community but a 

plural society at the crossroads of global, national, 

and local forces. By tracing the events that led 

its Aboriginal residents to sign Treaty No. 8 and 

their struggle to maintain autonomy thereafter, 

this groundbreaking study shows that Aboriginal 

peoples and others can and have become modern 

without relinquishing cherished beliefs and 

practices. 

CONTENTS 

1 Writing Fort Chipewyan History 

2 Building a Plural Society at Fort Chipewyan: 

A Cultural Rababou 

3 The Fur Trade Mode of Production 

4 The Creation of Canada: A New Plan for the 

Northwest 

5 Local Impacts: State Expansion, the Athabasca 

District, and Fort Chipewyan 

6 Christian Missions 

7 The Ways of Life at Fort Chipewyan: Cultural 

Baselines at the Time of Treaty 

8 Treaty No. 8 and Métis Scrip: Canada Bargains for 

the North 

9 The Government Foot in the Door 

10 Fort Chipewyan and the New Regime 

Epilogue: Facing the Future 

Appendix ; Notes ; References ; Index 



Gathering Places 

Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories 

Edited by Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers 

CAROLYN PODRUCHNY teaches 

history at York University. 

LAURA PEERS teaches and 

is a curator at the Pitt Rivers 

Museum, University of Oxford. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1843-8 HC $34.95 

978-0-7748-1844-5 PB $34.95 

344 pages, 6 x 9 " 

17 photos, 3 paintings, 1 map, 

4 tables 

Aboriginal Studies , 

Anthropology , Aboriginal 

History , Historiography 


Gathering Places presents some of the most 

innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to 

metis, fur trade, and First Nations history being 

practised today. 

CONTENTS 

Preface 

1 Introduction: Complex Subjectivities, Multiple 

Ways of Knowing / Laura Peers and 

Carolyn Podruchny 

Part 1: Using Material Culture 

2 Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural 

Mixing in the Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny, 

Frederic W. Gleach, and Roger Roulette 

3 Dressing for the Homeward Journey: Western 

Anishinaabe Leadership Roles Viewed through 

Two Nineteenth-Century Burials / 

Cory Willmott and Kevin Brownlee 

Part 2: Using Documents 

4 Anishinaabe Toodaims: Contexts for Politics, 

Kinship, and Identity in the Eastern Great Lakes / 

Heidi Bohaker 

5 The Contours of Everyday Life: Food and Identity 

in the Plateau Fur Trade / Elizabeth Vibert 

6 “Make it last forever as it is”: John McDonald 

of Garth’s Vision of a Native Kingdom in the 

Northwest / Germaine Warkentin 

Part 3: Ways of Knowing 

7 Being and Becoming Métis: A Personal 

Refl ection / Heather Devine 

8 Historical Research and the Place of Oral 

History: Conversations from Berens River / 

Susan Elaine Gray 

Part 4: Ways of Representing 

9 Border Identities: Métis, Halfbreed, and Mixed- 

Blood / Theresa Schenck 

10 Edward Ahenakew’s Tutelage by Paul 

Wallace: Reluctant Scholarship, Inadvertent 

Preservation / David R. Miller 

11 Aboriginal History and Historic Sites: The 

Shifting Ground / Laura Peers and Robert Coutts 

Afterword: Aaniskotaapaan – Generations and 

Successions / Jennifer S.H. Brown 

Index


Prophetic Identities 

Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75 

Tolly Bradford 

TOLLY BRADFORD is an assistant 

professor of history at 

Concordia University College of 

Alberta in Edmonton. 

April 2012 

978-0-7748-2279-4 HC $85.00 

January 2013 

978-0-7748-2280-0 PB $32.95 

224 pages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal Studies, History , 

British Empire History , 

Missiology 

Offering a fresh perspective on aboriginal leadership 

and adaptation to Christianity, Prophetic 

Identities is particularly noteworthy in its comparative 

approach showing the origins of a form of 

indigenous identity in two very different communities. 

This book will have a signifi cant impact 

on the fi elds of missionary literature, colonial 

projects, aboriginal-newcomer relationships, and 

indigenous identity. 

– Jean Friesen, associate professor of history, 

University College, University of Manitoba 

The presence of indigenous people among the 

ranks of British missionaries in the nineteenth 

century complicates narratives of all-powerful 

missionaries and hapless indigenous victims. 

What compelled these men to embrace 

Christianity? How did they reconcile being both 

Christian and indigenous in an age of empire? 

Tolly Bradford fi nds answers to these questions 

in the lives of Henry Budd, a Cree missionary 

from western Canada, and Tiyo Soga, a Xhosa 

missionary from southern Africa. He portrays 

these men not as victims of colonialism but 

rather as individuals who drew on faith, family, 

and their ties to Britain to construct a new 

sense of indigeneity in a globalizing world. 

CONTENTS 

Preface 

Introduction: “What difference is there between you 

& me?” Indigenous Missionaries, Identity, and the 

British Empire 

Part 1: Journeys to Ordination 

1 From “Orphan” to “Settler”: The Making of the 

Reverend Henry Budd 

2 From Wars to a Prophet: The Making of the Reverend 

Tiyo Soga 

Part 2: Lives 

3 Alienated and Connected: Finding Positions 

4 “Placed in very special circumstances”: Defi ning 

Themselves 

5 Advocate and Adviser: Spreading Their Word 

Part 3: Legacies 

6 Henry Budd’s “Great Transformation”: A Cree 

Village Community 

7 “The Destiny of the Kaffi r Race”: A Xhosa National 

Community 

Conclusion: Indigeneity and Empire 




No need of a chief for this band 

The Maritime Mi'kmaq and Federal Electoral Legislation, 1899-1951 

Martha Elizabeth Walls 

MARTHA ELIZABETH 

WALLS teaches Canadian, 

Atlantic Canadian, and First 

Nations history. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1789-9 HC $85.00 

978-0-7748-1790-5 PB $29.95 

216 pages, 6 x 9 " 

9 b&w photos, 16 tables, 1 map 

Aboriginal Studies , History , 

Aboriginal Politics & Policy , 

Atlantic History , Political 

Science 


This important, compelling study reveals the 

creativity and persistence of the Mi’kmaq in 

responding to the federal assimilation campaign. 

By demonstrating the fl exibility with which the 

Mi’kmaq resisted, accommodated, and adapted 

the triennial elective band council system, Walls 

contributes signifi cantly to a more nuanced understanding 

of Mi’kmaw cultural change, political 

engagement, and interaction with government. 

– Robin Jarvis Brownlie, author of A Fatherly 

Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and 

Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939 

In 1899 the Canadian government passed legislation 

to replace the community appointment of 

Mi’kmaw leaders and Mi’kmaw political practices 

with the triennial system, a Euro-Canadian system 

of democratic band council elections. Offi cials 

in Ottawa assumed the federally mandated and 

supervised system would redefi ne Mi’kmaw 

politics. They were wrong. Many Mi’kmaw communities 

rejected or amended the legislation, 

while others accepted it only sporadically to meet 

specifi c community needs and goals. Compelling 

and timely, this book supports Aboriginal claims 

to self-governance and complicates understandings 

of state power by showing that the Mi’kmaw, 

rather than succumbing to imposed political models, 

retained political practices that distinguished 

them from their Euro-Canadian neighbours. 

CONTENTS 

Introduction 

1 The Mi’kmaw World in 1900 

2 Continuity and Change in Mi’kmaw Politics 

to 1899 

3 The Origins of the Triennial Band Council System 

4 Federal Interference and Political Persistence in 

Mi’kmaw Communities 

5 The Limits of Triennial Elections 

Conclusion 

Notes; Bibliography; Index


One of the Family 

Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan 

Brenda Macdougall 

BRENDA MacDOUGALL is 

an associate professor in the 

Department of Native Studies at 

the University of Saskatchewan. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1729-5 HC $85.00 

978-0-7748-1730-1 PB $34.95 

320 pages, 6.5 x 9 " 

8 b&w photos, 5 maps, 24 family 

trees 

Aboriginal Studies , History , 

Saskatchewan History 

Winner, 2011 Clio Prize for the Prairies, Canadian 

Historical Association 

In recent years there has been growing interest 

in identifying the social and cultural attributes 

that defi ne the Metis as a distinct people. In 

this groundbreaking study, Brenda Macdougall 

employs the concept of wahkootowin – the Cree 

term for a worldview that privileges family 

and values interconnectedness – to trace the 

emergence of a Metis community in northern 

Saskatchewan. Wahkootowin describes how 

relationships worked and helps to explain how 

the Metis negotiated with local economic and religious 

institutions while nurturing a society that 

emphasized family obligation and responsibility. 

This innovative exploration of the birth of Metis 

identity offers a model for future research and 

discussion. 

CONTENTS 

Introduction 

1 “They are strongly attached to the country of 

rivers, lakes, and forests“: The Social Landscapes 

of the Northwest 

2 “The bond that connected one human being to 

another“: Social Construction of the Metis Family 

3 “To live in the land of my Mother“: Residency and 

Patronymic Connections Across the Northwest 

4 “After a man has tasted of the comforts of 

married life this living alone comes pretty 

tough“: Family, Acculturation, and Roman 

Catholicism 

5 “The only men obtainable who know the country 

and Indians are all married“: Family, Labour, and 

the HBC 

6 “The HalfBreeds of this place always did and 

always will dance“: Competition, Freemen, and 

Contested Spaces 

7 “I Thought it advisable to furnish him“: Freemen 

to Free Traders in the Northwest Fur Trade 

Conclusion 

Appendix; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography ; Index of 

Subjects 



A Wilder West 

Rodeo in Western Canada 

Mary-Ellen Kelm 

MARY-ELLEN KELM is a 

Canada Research Chair in the 

Department of History at Simon 

Fraser University. Her previous 

books include Colonizing Bodies: 

Aboriginal Health and Healing 

in British Columbia . 

2011 

978-0-7748-2029-5 HC $85.00 

July 2012 

978-0-7748-2030-1 PB $27.95 

256 pages, 6 x 9 " 

52 b&w photos, 3 maps 

Aboriginal Studies , Canadian 

Social History , Communication 

& Cultural Studies , Women's 

History , Western History 


I love this book. It is wonderfully written and, 

while clearly an academic look at the sport, 

always accessible and engaging. It documents an 

important part of our western tradition in a way 

that will captivate academics, rodeo devotees, and 

casual observers alike. From Nora Gladstone's 

poem to the in-depth look at the Williams Lakes 

and Lethbridges of the rodeo world, I fi nally lost 

track of the ‘aha’ moments in the book. 

– David A. Poulsen, rodeo announcer and awardwinning 

author 

A controversial sport, rodeo is often seen as 

emblematic of the West's reputation as a “white 

man's country.” A Wilder West complicates this 

view, showing how rodeo has been an important 

contact zone – a chaotic and unpredictable place 

of encounter that challenged expected social hierarchies. 

Rodeo has brought people together across 

racial and gender divides, creating friendships, 

rivalries, and unexpected intimacies. Fans made 

hometown cowboys, cowgirls, and Aboriginal riders 

local heroes. Lavishly illustrated and based on 

cowboy/cowgirl biographies and memoirs, press 

coverage, archival records, and dozens of interviews 

with former and current rodeo contestants, 

promoters, and audience members, this creative 

history returns to rodeo's small-town roots to shed 

light on the history of social relations in Canada's 

western frontier. 

CONTENTS 

Introduction 

1 An Old-Timers’ Town: Western Communities, 

Performance, and Contact Zones 

2 Truly Western in Its Character: Identities, 

Affi nities, and Intimacies at Western Canadian 

Rodeo 

3 A Sport, Not a Carnival Act: Transforming Rodeo 

from Performance to Sport 

4 Heavens No! Let’s Keep It Rodeo! Pro Rodeo and the 

Making of the Modern Cowboy 

5 Going Pro: Community Rodeo in the Era of 

Professionalization 

6 Where the Cowboys Are Indians: Indian and 

Reserve Rodeo in the Canadian West 

Conclusion 

Glossary; Notes; Index


Taking Medicine 

Women's Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 

1880–1930 

Kristin Burnett 

KRISTIN BURNETT is a member 

of the Department of History at 

Lakehead University. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1828-5 HC $85.00 

978-0-7748-1829-2 PB $32.95 

248 pages, 6 x 9 " 

15 b&w photographs, 1 map 

Aboriginal Studies , Women's 

Studies , Aboriginal Health , 

Aboriginal History , Alberta 

History 

Women and Indigenous Studies 

Series 

Hunters, medicine men, and missionaries continue 

to dominate images and narratives of the West, 

even though historians have recognized women’s 

role as colonizer and colonized since the 1980s. 

Kristin Burnett helps to correct this imbalance 

by presenting colonial medicine as a gendered 

phenomenon. Although the imperial eye focused 

on medicine men, Aboriginal women in the Treaty 

7 region served as healers and caregivers – to their 

own people and to settler society – until the advent 

of settler-run hospitals and nursing stations. By 

revealing Aboriginal and settler women’s contributions 

to health care, Taking Medicine challenges 

traditional understandings of colonial medicine in 

the contact zone. 

CONTENTS 

Introduction 

1 Niitsitapi: The Northwestern Plains 

2 Setting the Stage: Engendering the Therapeutic 

Culture of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Tsuu T’ina, 

and Nakoda 

3 Giving Birth: Women’s Health Work and Western 

Settlement, 1850-1900 

4 Converging Therapeutic Systems: Encounters 

between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Women, 

1870s-90s 

5 Laying the Foundation: The Work of Nurses, 

Nursing Sisters, and Female Attendants on 

Reserves, 1890-1915 

6 Taking over the System: Graduate Nurses, 

Nursing Sisters, Female Attendants, and Indian 

Health Services, 1915-30 

7 The Snake and the Butterfl y: Midwifery and Birth 

Control, 1900s-30s 

Conclusion 



AntHropology & soCiology 

being Again of one Mind 

Oneida Women and the Struggle for Decolonization 

Lina Sunseri 

LINA suNseRI , whose 

Longhouse name is Yeliwi:saks 

(Gathering Stories/Knowledge), 

from the Oneida Nation of 

the Thames, Turtle Clan, is an 

assistant professor of sociology 

at Brescia University College, 

an affi liate of the University of 

Western Ontario. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1935-0 HC $85.00 

978-0-7748-1936-7 Pb $32.95 

216 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal studies , sociology , 

women's studies , Aboriginal 

History , Political science 


Series 


Sunseri provides a beautifully woven methodological 

framework that answers first to Oneida traditions 

and then to sociological or feminist ones. 

This is an important example for other scholars 

who wish to move beyond a critique of Western 

knowledge methodologies and into action. 

– From the Foreword by Patricia A. Monture, 

Professor of Sociology, University of 

Saskatchewan 

Being Again of One Mind combines a critical reading 

of feminist literature on nationalism with the 

narratives of Oneida women of various generations 

to reveal that some Indigenous women view 

nationalism in the form of decolonization as a way 

to restore traditional gender balance and wellbeing 

to their own lives and communities. These 

insights challenge mainstream feminist ideas 

about the masculine bias of Western theories of 

nation and about the dangers of nationalist movements 

that idealize women's so-called traditional 

role, questioning whether they apply to Indigenous 

women. 

CoNteNts 

Foreword / Patricia A. Monture 

Introduction 

1 Theorizing Nations and Nationalisms: From 

Modernist to Indigenous Perspectives 

2 A History of the Oneida Nation: From Creation 

Story to the Present 

3 Struggles of Independence: From a Colonial 

Existence toward a Decolonized Nation 

4 Women, Nation, and National Identity: Oneida 

Women Standing Up and Speaking about Matters 

of the Nation 

5 Dreaming of a Free, Peaceful, Balanced 

Decolonized Nation: Being Again of One Mind 

6 Concluding Remarks 

Notes; References; Index

AboriginAl studies 

indigenous women and Feminism 

Politics, Activism, Culture 

Edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and 

Jean Barman 

CHeRyL suZACk is an assistant 

professor of English and 

Aboriginal Studies at the 

University of Toronto. sHARI 

M. HuHNDoRF is a professor 

of Ethnic Sudies and Women’s and 

Gnder Studies at the University of 

Oregon. JeANNe PeRReAuLt is a 

professor in and associate head of 

the Graduate Program Department 

of English at the University of 

Calgary. JeAN bARMAN is a professor 

emeritus at the University 


2010 

978-0-7748-1807-0 HC $85.00 

July 2 011 

978-0-7748-1808-7 Pb $34.95 

344 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

6 b&w photographs, 1 table 

Aboriginal studies , Politics , 

Aboriginal History , women's 

studies , Cultural studies 


Series 

Indigenous Women and Feminism represents a longawaited 

breakthrough in the way we think about the 

place of Indigenous women in mainstream feminism 

and other progressive movements. With this book, 

Indigenous women's visions and experiences begin to 

shine through the overlay of patriarchal oppressions. 

– Kathryn Shanley, Professor, Native American 

Studies, University of Montana 

CoNteNts 

Indigenous Feminism: Theorizing the Issues / 

Shari M. Huhndorf and Cheryl Suzack 

Part 1: Politics 

1 From the Tundra to the Boardroom to Everywhere 

in Between: Politics and the Changing Roles of Inuit 

Women in the Arctic / Minnie Grey 

2 Native Women and Leadership: An Ethics of Culture 

and Relationship / Rebecca Tsosie 

3 “But we are your mothers, you are our sons”: 

Gender, Sovereignty, and the Nation in Early 

Cherokee Women’s Writing / Laura E. Donaldson 

4 Indigenous Feminism: The Project / Patricia Penn 

Hilden and Leece M. Lee 

Part 2: Activism 

5 Affi rmations of an Indigenous Feminist / 

Kim Anderson 

6 Indigenous Women and Feminism on the Cusp of 

Contact / Jean Barman 

7 Reaching Toward a Red-Black Coalition Feminism: 

Anna Julia Cooper’s “Woman versus the Indian” / 

Teresa Zackodnik 

8 Emotion Before the Law / Cheryl Suzack 

9 Beyond Feminism: Indigenous Ainu Women and 

Narratives of Empowerment in Japan / ann-elise 

lewallen 

Part 3: Culture 

10 Indigenous Feminism, Performance, and the 

Politics of Memory in the Plays of Monique Mojica / 

Shari M. Huhndorf 

11 “Memory Alive”: An Inquiry into the Uses of Memory 

by Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, Louise 

Halfe, and Joy Harjo / Jeanne Perreault 

12 To Spirit Walk the Letter and the Law: Gender, Race, 

and Representational Violence in Rudy Wiebe and 

Yvonne Johnson’s Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree 

Woman / Julia Emberley 

13 Painting the Archive: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras / 

Pamela McCallum 

14 “Our Lives Will Be Different Now”: The Indigenous 

Feminist Performances of Spiderwoman Theater / 

Katherine Young Evans 

15 Bordering on Feminism: Space, Solidarity, and 

Transnationalism in Rebecca Belmore’s Vigil / 

Elizabeth Kalbfleisch 

16 Location, Dislocation, Relocation: Shooting Back 

with Cameras / Patricia Demers 

Index 



the perils of identity 

Group Rights and the Politics of Intragroup Difference 

Caroline Dick 

CARoLINe DICk is an assistant 

professor in the Department 

of Political Science at the 

University of Western Ontario. 

2011 

978-0-7748-2062-2 HC $90.00 

July 2 012 

978-0-7748-2063-9 Pb $29.95 

260 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal studies, Law & 

Politics , Political theory & 

Philosophy , Constitutional Law , 

Canadian Courts & Constitution 


The Perils of Identity lays out various philosophical 

treatments of identity, addresses their 

limitations, and then offers a means for judges 

to address group claims. The scholarship is very 

sound and the author is at the top of her game. 

– Christa Scholtz, author of Negotiating Claims: 

The Emergence of Indigenous Land Claim 

Negotiation Policies in Australia, Canada, New 

Zealand, and the United States 

Many liberal theorists consider group identity 

claims a necessary condition of equality in 

Canada, but do these claims do more harm than 

good? To answer this question, Caroline Dick 

examines the identity-driven theories of Charles 

Taylor, Will Kymlicka, and Avigail Eisenberg in the 

context of Sawridge Band v. Canada, a case which 

sets a First Nation’s right to self-determination 

against indigenous women’s right to equality. The 

concept of identity itself is not the problem, Dick 

argues, but rather the way in which prevailing 

conceptions of identity and group rights obscure 

intragroup differences. Her proposal for a new 

politics of intragroup difference has the power to 

transform rights discourse in Canada. 

CoNteNts 

Introduction 

1 Gender Discrimination within First Nations: 

The History and Nature of the Sawridge Dispute 

2 Group Rights and the Politics of Identity 

3 Taylor’s Theory of Identity Recognition 

4 Kymlicka’s Cultural Theory of Minority Rights 

5 Eisenberg’s Theory of Identity-Related Interests 

6 Culture, Identity, and the Constitutional Rights 

of Aboriginal Peoples 

7 The Politics of Intragroup Difference 

8 Sawridge Revisited 

Conclusion 



Creative subversions 

Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary 

Margot Francis 

MARgot FRANCIs is an 

assistant professor of women’s 

studies and sociology at Brock 

University. 

2011 

978-0-7748-2025-7 HC $85.00 

July 2 012 

978-0-7748-2026-4 Pb $32.95 

288 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

43 b&w photographs 

Aboriginal studies , Canadian 

studies , Art History , gender 

studies , sociology 

This book is both timely and of broad appeal. Its 

exploration of artistic forms that speak back to 

and re-flesh cultures rendered into ghosts makes 

a significant addition to the debate on Canadian 

national memory and identity. 

– Beverley Haun, author of Inventing ‘Easter 

Island’ 

In this richly illustrated book, Margot Francis 

explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are 

articulated through four icons of Canadian identity 

– the beaver, the railway, the wilderness of 

Banff National Park, and “Indianness” – and the 

contradictory and contested meanings they evoke. 

These seemingly benign, even kitschy, images, she 

argues, are haunted by ideas about race, masculinity, 

and sexuality that circulated during the 

formative years of Anglo-Canadian nationhood. 

Juxtaposing these nostalgic images with the work 

of contemporary Canadian artists, she investigates 

how everyday objects can be re-imagined 

to challenge ideas about history, memory, and 

national identity. 

CoNteNts 

Preface 

1 Introduction: "Ghosts Trying to Find Their 

Clothes" 

2 The Strange Career of the Beaver: 

Anthropomorphic Discourse and Imperial 

History 

3 Things Not Named: Bachelors, Dirty Laundry, and 

the Canadian Pacifi c Railway 

4 Exploring Banff National Park: Rangers on the 

Mountain Frontier 

5 Playing Indian: Indigenous Responses to 

Indianness 

6 Conclusion: Living in “Haunted Places” 

Notes ; Bibliography ; Index 



indigenous peoples and Autonomy 

Insights for a Global Age 

Edited by Mario Blaser, Ravi De Costa, Deborah McGregor, and 

William D. Coleman 

MARIo bLAseR is Canada 

Research Chair in Aboriginal 

studies at Memorial University. 

RAvI De CostA is an assistant 

professor in the Faculty of 

Environmental Studies at York 

University. DeboRAH MCgRegoR 

is an associate professor in the 

Department of Geography and 

Planning and the Aboriginal studies 

program at the University of 

Toronto. wILLIAM D. CoLeMAN 

is CIGI Chair in Globalization 

and Public Policy at the Balsillie 

School of International Affairs and 

professor of political science at the 

University of Waterloo. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1792-9 HC $85.00 

978-0-7748-1793-6 Pb $32.95 

312 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

globalization , Aboriginal Politics 

& Policy , International Relations , 

Political science 

Globalization and Autonomy Series 


The passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of 

Indigenous Peoples in 2007 focused attention on 

the ways in which Indigenous peoples are adapting 

to the pressures of globalization and development. 

This volume extends the discussion by presenting 

case studies from around the world that explore 

how Indigenous peoples are engaging with and 

challenging globalization and Western views 

of autonomy. Taken together, these insightful 

studies reveal that concepts such as globalization 

and autonomy neither encapsulate nor explain 

Indigenous peoples’ experiences. 

CoNteNts 

Preface 

Part 1: Introduction 

1 Reconfi guring the Web of Life: Indigenous Peoples, 

Relationality, and Globalization / Mario Blaser, 

Ravi de Costa, Deborah McGregor, and William D. 

Coleman 

2 Ayllu: Decolonial Critical Thinking and (An)other 

Autonomy / Marcelo Fernández Osco 

Part 2: emergences 

3 Neoliberal Governance and James Bay Cree 

Governance: Negotiated Agreements, Oppositional 

Struggles, and Co-Governance / Harvey A. Feit 

4 Global Linguistics, Mayan Languages, and the 

Cultivation of Autonomy / Erich Fox Tree 

5 Global Activism and Changing Identities: 

Interconnecting the Global and the Local – The 

Grand Council of the Crees and the Saami Council / 

Kristina Maud Bergeron 

6 Indigenous Perspectives on Globalization: Self- 

Determination through Autonomous Media 

Creation / Rebeka Tabobondung 

7 Reconfi guring Mare Nullius: Torres Strait Islanders, 

Indigenous Sea Rights, and the Divergence of 

Domestic and International Norms / Colin Scott and 

Monica Mulrennan 

Part 3: Absences 

8 Making Alternatives Visible: The Meaning 

of Autonomy for the Mapuche of Cholchol 

(Ngulumapu, Chile) / Pablo Marimán Quemenado 

9 Twentieth-Century Transformations of East Cree 

Spirituality and Autonomy / Richard J. “Dick” 

Preston 

Part 4: Hope 

10 The International Order of Hope: Zapatismo and the 

Fourth World War / Alex Khasnabish 

Afterword / Ravi de Costa 

Works Cited; Contributors; Index


unsettling the settler within 

Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada 

Paulette Regan, Foreword by Taiaiake Alfred 

PAuLette RegAN is the director 

of research for the Truth and 

Reconciliation Commission of 

Canada. She holds a PhD from 

the Indigenous Governance 

Program at the University of 

Victoria. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1778-3 Pb $34.95 

316 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal History , Law , 

Canadian History , Law & society 

This book is significant not only as it concerns 

relations between indigenous peoples and 

Canadians; it will be of interest to those working in 

multicultural settings of many kinds where power 

imbalances have affected relations. Paulette Regan 

manages to combine scholarly discourse with personal 

accounts in ways that buttress its credibility 

and make it a must-read for anyone interested in 

reconciliation between peoples. 

– L. Michelle LeBaron, Professor of Law and 

Director, UBC Program on Dispute Resolution 

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. Settlers must relinquish the 

persistent myth of themselves as peacemakers 

and acknowledge the destructive legacy of a 

society that has stubbornly ignored and devalued 

Indigenous experience. A compassionate call to 

action, this powerful book offers a new and hopeful 

path toward healing the wounds of the past. 

CoNteNts 

Foreword / Taiaiake Alfred 

Introduction: A Settler’s Call to Action 

1 An Unsettling Pedagogy of History and Hope 

2 Rethinking Reconciliation: Truth Telling, 

Restorying History, Commemoration 

3 Deconstructing Canada’s Peacemaker Myth 

4 The Alternative Dispute Resolution Program: 

Reconciliation as Regifting 

5 Indigenous Diplomats: Counter-Narratives of 

Peacemaking 

6 The Power of Apology and Testimony: Settlers as 

Ethical Witnesses 

7 An Apology Feast in Hazelton: A Settler’s 

“Unsettling” Experience 

8 Peace Warriors and Settler Allies 

Notes ; Selected Bibliography ; Index 



Fractured Homeland 

Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario 

Bonita Lawrence 

boNItA LAwReNCe (Mi’kmaw) 

teaches Indigenous Studies at 

York University in Toronto. She 

is the author of “Real” Indians 

and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban 

Native People and Indigenous 

Nationhood . 

May 2 012 

978-0-7748-2287-9 HC $90.00 

January 2013 

978-0-7748-2288-6 Pb $34.95 

352 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal studies , Canadian 

History , Aboriginal History , 

sociology, Political science 


In 1992, the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan, the 

only federally recognized Algonquin reserve in 

Ontario, launched a comprehensive land claim. 

The action not only drew attention to the fact that 

Canada had acquired Algonquin land without 

negotiating a treaty, but it also focused attention 

on the two-thirds of Algonquins who fell 

outside the claim because they had never been 

recognized as Indian. Fractured Homeland is 

Bonita Lawrence’s stirring account of how the 

claim forced federally unrecognized Algonquin 

in Ontario to confront both the issue of their own 

identity and the failure of Algonquin leaders – who 

launched the claim – to develop a more inclusive 

vision of nationhood. 

CoNteNts 

Preface 

Introduction 

Part 1: Algonquin survival and Resurgence in the 

ottawa River watershed 

1 Algonquin Diplomacy, Resistance, and Dispossession 

2 The Fracturing of the Algonquin Homeland 

3 Aboriginal Title and the Comprehensive Claims 

Process 

4 The Algonquin Land Claim 

5 Reclaiming Algonquin Identity 

Part 2: Algonquin Communities in the Mississippi, 

Rideau, and Lower Madawaska River watersheds 

6 The Development of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation 

7 The Effect of the Land Claim in the Region 

8 Uranium Resistance: Defending the Land 

Part 3: Algonquin Communities in the watershed 

of the bonnechere and Petawawa Rivers 

9 The Bonnechere Algonquin Communities and 

Greater Golden Lake 

10 Perspectives from Pikwakanagan 

Part 4: Algonquin Communities in the upper 

Madawaska and york River watersheds 

11 The Upper Madawaska River Communities: 

Whitney, Madewaska, and Sabine 

12 The People of Kijicho Manitou: Baptiste Lake and 

Bancroft 

Part 5: From Mattawa to ottawa – Algonquin 

Communities Along the kichi sibi 

13 Algonquin Communities along the Ottawa River 

Part 6: Conclusion 

14 Algonquin Identity and Nationhood 


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An ethic of Mutual respect 

The Covenant Chain and Aboriginal-Crown Relations 

Bruce Morito 

bRuCe MoRIto is an associate 

professor of philosophy in 

the Faculty of Humanities and 

Social Sciences at Athabasca 

University. 

July 2 012 

978-0-7748-2244-2 HC $90.00 

January 2013 

978-0-7748-2245-9 Pb $32.95 

272 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal studies , Law , 

Aboriginal History , Philosophy , 

Legal History 

In An Ethic of Mutual Respect, Bruce Morito 

demonstrates how the Covenant Chain underlies 

a vital relationship in the history of Canada ... 

This book has the potential to correct historical 

injustice while paving the way for new relationship 

building. It is of significant importance to 

anyone who wants to understand the true nature 

of European-Indian interactions, treaty relationships, 

and the meaning of treaties. 

– Lorraine Mayer, Native Studies, Brandon 

University 

Over the course of a century until the late 

1700s, the British Crown, the Iroquois, and other 

Aboriginal groups of eastern North America developed 

an alliance and treaty system known as the 

Covenant Chain. Bruce Morito offers a philosophical 

re-reading of the historical record of negotiations, 

showing that the parties developed an ethic 

of mutually recognized respect. This ethic, Morito 

argues, remains relevant to current debates over 

Aboriginal and treaty rights, because it is neither 

culturally nor historically bound. Real change is 

possible, if efforts can be shifted from piecemeal 

legal and political disputes to the development of 

an intercultural ethic based on trust, respect, and 

solidarity. 

CoNteNts 

Introduction 

1 The Historical Context of the Covenant Chain 

2 Structure & Function of the Covenant Chain 

3 Reputation and Key Agents 

4 The Trans-cultural, Trans-historical Character of 

the Chain’s Ethic 

Epilogue 



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Conflict in Caledonia 

Aboriginal Land Rights and the Rule of Law 

Laura DeVries 

LAuRA DevRIes is currently 

studying law at the University of 

British Columbia. 

November 2 011 

978-0-7748-2184-1 HC $85.00 

July 2 012 

978-0-7748-2185-8 Pb $32.95 

260 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Law , Aboriginal studies, 

Canadian Politics & Policy , Law 

& society , Political science 

Law and Society Series 


From the first to the last page, the author pulls 

the reader into the fascinating and conflicting 

narrative surrounding the events leading to and 

eventually affecting all of Caledonia. It takes the 

conversation and understanding of Six Nations – 

Canadian relationship to a whole new level. 

– Lorraine Mayer, chair, Native Studies 

Department, Brandon University 

This book offers, for those non-Aboriginals who 

will read it to the very end, a chance to decolonize 

their minds by questioning non-Aboriginal, takenfor-granted 

discourses that negatively impact 

Aboriginal–non-Aboriginal relations, both historically 

and in the present. 

– Craig Proulx, Department of Anthropology, 

St. Thomas University 

In February 2006, First Nations protesters blocked 

workers from entering a housing development 

in southern Ontario. The protest highlighted the 

issue of land rights and sparked a series of ongoing 

events known as the “Caledonia Crisis.” This 

powerful account of the dispute links the actions 

of police, offi cials, and locals to non-Aboriginal 

discourses about law, landscape, and identity. 

DeVries encourages non-Aboriginal Canadians to 

reconsider their assumptions, to view “facts” such 

as the rule of law as culturally specifi c notions 

that prevent truly equitable dialogue. She seeks 

out possible solutions in alternative conceptualizations 

of sovereignty over land and law embedded 

in the Constitution. 

CoNteNts 

Introduction 

1 “Rule of Law” 

2 Places to Grow 

3 “Us” and “Them” 

4 A History of Sovereignty 

5 In Search of Justice 

6 Constitutional Territory 

Conclusion 

Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Hunger, Horses, and government Men 

Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905 

Shelley A.M. Gavigan 

sHeLLey A.M. gAvIgAN is 

professor of law at Osgoode Hall 

Law School and a member of the 

graduate faculties in Law, Socio- 

Legal Studies, and Women’s 

Studies at York University. 

October 2 012 

978-0-7748-2252-7 HC $95.00 

July 2 013 

978-0-7748-2253-4 Pb $34.95 

320 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

19 b&w photos, 2 maps, 3 tables 

History , Law , western 

Provinces , Legal History , Law & 

society 


Drawing on new evidence and innovative applications 

of theory, and advancing fresh interpretations, 

this book challenges conventional wisdom 

and assumptions. It is a captivating study, that 

provides a unique window on this era of dramatic 

transformation in the Canadian West, and it is 

also a significant and sophisticated contribution to 

our understanding of law and colonialism. 

– Sarah Carter is a professor of history and classics 

at the University of Alberta and the author of 

Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western 

Canada 

Scholars often accept without question that the 

Indian Act (1876) criminalized First Nations. 

Drawing on court fi les, police and penitentiary 

records, and newspaper accounts from the 

Saskatchewan region of the North-West Territories 

between 1870 and 1905, Shelley Gavigan argues 

that the notion of criminalization captures neither 

the complexities of Aboriginal participation in 

the criminal courts nor the signifi cance of the 

Indian Act as a form of law. This illuminating book 

paints a vivid portrait of Aboriginal defendants, 

witnesses, and informants whose encounters with 

the criminal law and the Indian Act included both 

the mediation and the enforcement of relations of 

inequality. 

CoNteNts 

Introduction: One Warrior’s Legal History 

1 Legally Framing the Plains and the First Nations 

2 “Of course no one saw them”: Aboriginal Accused 

in the Criminal Court 

3 “Prisoner Never Gave Me Anything for What He 

Done”: Aboriginal Voices in the Criminal Court 

4 “Make a Better Indian of Him”: Indian Policy and 

the Criminal Court 

5 Six Women, Six Stories 

Conclusion 

Afterword: A Methodological Note on Sources and 

Data 



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ghost dancing with Colonialism 

Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada 

Grace Li xiu woo 

gRACe LI xIu woo is a retired 

member of the Law Society 

of British Columbia. She has 

taught in the Program of Legal 

Studies for Native People at the 

University of Saskatchewan. 

2011 

978-0-7748-1887-2 HC $85.00 

February 2012 

978-0-7748-1888-9 Pb $34.95 

360 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

6 b&w photos, 3 charts, 6 tables 

Law , Aboriginal studies 



This book has impressive scholarly depth, and in 

a systematic and challenging way makes a major 

contribution to understanding and assessing the 

Supreme Court’s decision-making with respect to 

Aboriginal peoples in the quarter century since 

Aboriginal and treaty rights have been formally 

recognized in Canada’s Constitution. 

– Peter H. Russell, Professor Emeritus of Political 

Science at the University of Toronto and author 

of Recognizing Aboriginal Title 

Some assume that Canada earned a place among 

postcolonial states in 1982 when it took charge of 

its Constitution. Yet despite the formal recognition 

accorded to Aboriginal and treaty rights at 

that time, Indigenous peoples continue to argue 

that they are still being colonized. Grace Woo 

assesses this allegation using a binary model that 

distinguishes colonial from postcolonial legality. 

She argues that two legal paradigms governed 

the expansion of the British Empire, one based 

on popular consent, the other on conquest and 

the power to command. Ghost Dancing with 

Colonialism casts explanatory light on ongoing 

tensions between Canada and Indigenous peoples. 

CoNteNts 

Introduction: Ghost Dancing and S. 35 

Part 1: Paradigms and the british empire 

1 Anomalies 

2 Conceptual Structures 

3 Colonial and Postcolonial Legality 

Part 2: Case study: Indigenous Rights and 

Decolonization at the supreme Court of Canada 

4 Methodology 

5 Internal Architecture of the Court’s Reasoning 

6 Trends and Dance Tunes 

7 Can the Court Become Postcolonial? 

Appendices; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Indices

lAw 

oral History on trial 

Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts 

Bruce Granville Miller 

bRuCe gRANvILLe MILLeR is a 

professor of anthropology at the 

University of British Columbia. 

2011 

978-0-7748-2070-7 HC $85.00 


978-0-7748-2071-4 Pb $29.95 

212 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal studies , Aboriginal 

History , Law , Anthropology , 

Canadian Legal History , Law & 

society 

Thoroughly documented and clearly written, is 

sure to become a leading work in the field. It 

discusses the standards considered authoritative 

when undertaking research about Aboriginal peoples 

and it scrutinizes the way in which law and 

the courts deal with Aboriginal oral narratives. 

Raising and resolving key issues about the admissibility 

and weight of evidence in courtrooms, it 

is an invaluable resource for judges, lawyers, and 

legal scholars, as well as anthropologists, historians, 

and Indigenous rights researchers. 

– John Borrows, author of Drawing Out Law: 

A Spirit’s Guide 

This important book breaks new ground by 

asking how oral histories might be incorporated 

into existing text-based, “black letter law” court 

systems. Along with a compelling analysis of 

Aboriginal, legal, and anthropological concepts of 

fact and evidence, Oral History on Trial traces the 

long trajectory of oral history from community 

to court, and offers a sophisticated critique of the 

Crown’s use of Aboriginal materials in key cases. 

A bold intervention in legal and anthropological 

scholarship, Oral History on Trial presents a 

powerful argument for a reconsideration of the 

Crown’s approach to oral history. 

CoNteNts 

Preface 

Introduction 

1 Issues in Law and Social Science 

2 The Social Life of Oral Narratives 

3 Aboriginal and Other Perspectives 

4 Court and Crown 

5 The Way Forward? An Anthropological View 

6 Conclusions 

References; Index 


lAw 

storied Communities 

Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community 

Edited by Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy webber 

HesteR LessARD is a professor 

of law at the University of 

Victoria. RebeCCA JoHNsoN 

is a professor of law at the 

University of Victoria. JeReMy 

webbeR holds the Canada 

Research Chair in Law and 

Society at the University of 

Victoria and is also a Trudeau 

Fellow. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1879-7 HC $85.00 

July 2 011 

978-0-7748-1880-3 Pb $34.95 

384 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Law , Political science , Race & 

transnationalism in Politics , 

Historiography , Aboriginal 

Politics & Policy , Constitutional 

Law , Law & Politics 


By bringing to light the links between narratives 

of contact and narratives of arrival in settler societies, 

this volume opens up new ways to imagine, 

sustain, and transform political communities. 

CoNteNts 

1 Introduction / Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, 

and Jeremy Webber 

2 Canadian Sovereignty and Universal History / 

Michael Asch 

3 Historicizing Narratives of Arrival: The Other 

Indian Other / Audrey Macklin 

4 The Conceit of Sovereignty: Toward Post-Colonial 

Technique / Brenna Bhandar 

5 Show Me Yours / Richard Van Camp 

6 Horsefl ies, Haireaters, and Bulldogs: In 

Conversation with Richard Van Camp / Blanca 

Schorcht 

7 Counter-Narratives of Arrival and Return: Testing 

the Interstices of Resistance / Sneja Gunew 

8 Common Ground around the Tower of Babel / J. 

Edward Chamberlin 

9 Juxtaposing Contact Stories in Canada / Anne 

Godlewska 

10 Native Women, the Body, Land, and Narratives of 

Contact and Arrival / Kim Anderson 

11 The Batman Legend: Remembering and Forgetting 

the History of Possession and Dispossession / 

Bain Attwood 

12 Layered Narratives in Site-Specifi c “Wild” Places / 

Jacinta Ruru 

13 Narratives of Origins and the Emergence of the 

European Union / Patricia Tuitt 

14 “Robbed of a Different Life”: Alternative Histories, 

Interrupted Futures / Susan Bibler Coutin 

15 Toward a Shared Narrative of Reconciliation: 

Developments in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law / 

S. Ronald Stevenson 

16 Hoquotist: Reorienting through Storied Practice / 

Johnny Mack 

17 Proof and Narrative: “Reproducing the Facts” in 

Refugee Claims / Donald Galloway 

18 Differentiating Liberating Stories from Oppressive 

Narratives: Memory, Land, and Justice / 

Martha Nandorfy 

Index

lAw 

between Consenting peoples 

Political Community and the Meaning of Consent 

Edited by Jeremy webber and Colin M. Macleod 

JeReMy webbeR holds the 

Canada Research Chair in Law 

and Society at the University 

of Victoria and is a Trudeau 

Fellow. CoLIN M. MacLeoD is an 

associate professor of law and 

philosophy at the University of 

Victoria. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1883-4 HC $85.00 


978-0-7748-1884-1 Pb $34.95 

280 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Law & Politics , Political theory , 


Constitutional Law , Philosophy 

Consent has long been used to establish the 

legitimacy of society. But when one asks – who 

consented? how? to what type of community? – 

consent becomes very elusive, more myth than 

reality. In Between Consenting Peoples, leading 

scholars in legal and political theory examine the 

different ways in which consent has been used to 

justify political communities and the authority of 

law, especially in indigenous-nonindigenous relations. 

They explore the kind of consent – the kind 

of attachment – that might ground political community 

and establish a fair relationship between 

indigenous and nonindigenous peoples. 

CoNteNts 

Introduction 

1 The Meanings of Consent / Jeremy Webber 

the Challenges of Consent in Indigenous Contexts 

2 Living Together: Gitksan Legal Reasoning as a 

Foundation for Consent / Val Napoleon 

3 “Thou Wilt Not Die of Hunger ... for I Bring 

Thee Merchandise”: Consent, Intersocietal 

Normativity, and the Exchange of Food at York 

Factory, 1682-1763 / Janna Promislow 

4 The Complexity of the Object of Consent: Some 

Australian Stories / Tim Rowse 

Reconceiving Consent in Political and Legal 

Philosophy 

5 Indigenous Peoples and Political Legitimacy / 

Margaret Moore 

6 Consent, Legitimacy, and the Foundation of 

Political and Legal Authority / David Dyzenhaus 

7 Consent or Contestation? / Duncan Ivison 

8 Beyond Consent and Disagreement: Why 

Law’s Authority Is Not Just about Will / Andrée 

Boisselle 

Concluding Refl ections 

9 Consent, Hegemony, and Dissent in Treaty 

Negotiations /James Tully 

Index 


lAw 

Aboriginal title and indigenous peoples 

Canada, Australia, and New Zealand 

Edited by Louis A. Knafl a and Haijo Westra 

LouIs A. kNAFLA is a professor 

emeritus of the Department of 

History and director of sociolegal 

studies at the University 

of Calgary. HAIJo westRA is a 

professor of Greek and Roman 

studies at the University of 

Calgary. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1560-4 HC $85.00 

978-0-7748-1561-1 Pb $32.95 

280 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal Law , Aboriginal 

History , Aboriginal studies , 

Political science 



This book enriches the literature, which is not 

greatly endowed with comparative scholarship on 

indigenous rights, and it will help scholars, policy 

makers, students, and indigenous groups to better 

appreciate both historical and recent legal developments 

in common law jurisdictions. 

– Benjamin J. Richardson, Osgoode Hall Law 

School, York University 

CoNteNts 

Introduction. “This Is Our Land“: Aboriginal Title 

at Customary and Common Law in Comparative 

Contexts / Louis A. Knafla 

Part 1: sovereignty, extinguishment, and 

expropriation of Aboriginal title 

1 From the US Indian Claims Commission Cases 

to Delgamuukw : Facts, Theories, and Evidence in 

North American Land Claims / Arthur Ray 

2 Social Theory, Expert Evidence, and the Yorta Yorta 

Rights Appeal Decision / Bruce Rigsby 

3 Law’s Infi delity to Its Past: The Failure to Recognize 

Indigenous Jurisdiction in Australia and Canada / 

David Yarrow 

4 The Defence of Native Title and Dominion in 

Sixteenth-Century Mexico Compared with 

Delgamuukw / Haijo Westra 

5 Beyond Aboriginal Title in Yukon: First Nations 

Land Registries / Brian Ballantyne 

Part 2: Native Land, Litigation, and Indigenous 

Rights 

6 The “Race“ for Recognition: Toward a Policy of 

Recognition of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada / 

Paul L.A.H. Chartrand 

7 The Sources and Content of Indigenous Land Rights 

in Australia and Canada: A Critical Comparison / 

Kent McNeil 

8 Common Law, Statutory Law, and the Political 

Economy of the Recognition of Indigenous 

Australian Rights in Land / Nicolas Peterson 

9 Claiming Native Title in the Foreshore and Seabed / 

Jacinta Ruru 

10 Waterpower Developments and Native Water 

Rights Struggles in the North American West in the 

Early Twentieth Century: A View from Three Stoney 

Nakoda Cases / Kenichi Matsui 

Conclusion. Power and Principle: State-Indigenous 

Relations across Time and Space / Peter W. 

Hutchins 

Selected Bibliography; General Index; Index of Cases; 

Index of Statutes, Treaties, and Agreements

lAnguAge 

nooksack place names 

Geography, Culture, and Language 

Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway 

ALLAN RICHARDsoN is a consulting 

anthropologist, retired 

from teaching at Whatcom 

Community College, Bellingham, 

Washington. bReNt gALLowAy 

is professor emeritus, First 

Nations University of Canada, 

Regina, Saskatchewan. Foremost 

experts in their fi elds, they have 

thirty years of experience locating, 

visiting, and documenting 

Nooksack places. 

2011 

978-0-7748-2045-5 HC $90.00 

March 2 012 

978-0-7748-2046-2 Pb $29.95 

248 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal Languages , 


History , social & Cultural 

Anthropology , ethnicity , 

Linguistics 

Place names convey a people's relationship to the 

land, their sense of place. For indigenous peoples, 

place names can also help to revive endangered 

languages. This book takes readers on a voyage 

into the history, language, and culture of the 

Nooksack people of Washington State and British 

Columbia as it documents more than 150 places 

named by elders and mentioned in key historical 

texts. Descriptions of Nooksack history and 

naming patterns – with maps, photographs, and 

linguistic analyses of the place names – give life to 

a nearly extinct language and illuminate the intertwined 

relationships of place, culture, language, 

and identity. 

CoNteNts 

Nooksack Phonemes and Orthographic Conventions 

Part 1: About this book and Its sources 

1 Introduction 

About This Book 

The Nooksack People 

Nooksack Linguistic Boundaries 

The Nooksack Language 

2 Major Sources and Their Interpretation 

Northwest Boundary Survey, 1857-62 

Materials of Percival R. Jeffcott 

Field Notes 

Papers by Paul Fetzer 

Tapes of Oliver Wells 

Recently Published Maps 

Part 2: Nooksack Place Names 

3 Introduction and Phonological Comments 

Introduction 

A Few Phonological Comments 

4 Analysis of the Place Names 

Part 3: geography, semantics, and Culture 

5 Naming Patterns 

Geographic Features Named 

Determination of Modern Locations of Named 

Places 

Semantic Naming Patterns 

6 Conclusion 

Linguistic Units 

Place Names, Land Ownership, and Territory 

Methodological Insights 

Insights into Language Loss and Rebirth 

Bridging Linguistic and Ethnographic Insights 

References; Indices 



living indigenous leadership 

Native Narratives on Building Strong Communities 

Edited by Carolyn Kenny and Tina Ngaroimata Fraser 

CARoLyN keNNy is professor 

of human development and 

indigenous studies at Antioch 

University. tINA NgARoIMAtA 

Fraser, a Maori scholar, is 

assistant professor in the School 

of Education at the University 

of Northern British Columbia, 

where she also teaches in the 

School of Nursing and First 

Nations Studies program. 

November 2 012 

978-0-7748-2346-3 HC $95.00 

July 2 013 

978-0-7748-2347-0 Pb $34.95 

288 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal education , 

Aboriginal Health , Aboriginal 

education , Aboriginal Health , 

Canadian Aboriginal Political 

science , Canadian Public Policy 

& Administration 


Gives a voice to the Native women in Canada, the 

United States, and New Zealand who are building 

outstanding leadership practices in indigenous 

communities. 

CoNteNts 

Foreword / Verna J. Kirkness 

Preface / Carolyn Kenny and Tina Ngaroimata Fraser 

1 Liberating Leadership Theory / Carolyn Kenny 

Part 1: Leadership, Native style 

2 Learning to Lead Kokum Style: An Intergenerational 

Study of Eight First Nation Women / Yvonne G. 

McLeod 

3 Elders’ Teachings on Indigenous Leadership / 

Alannah Earl Young 

4 Parental Involvement in First Nations Communities: 

Towards a Paradigm Shift / Evelyn Steinhauer 

5 kilay: Portrait of a Haida Artist and Leader / Carolyn 

Kenny (Nangx’aadasa’iid) 

Part 2: Collaboration Is the key 

6 Indigenous Grandmas and the Social Justice 

Movement / Raquel D. Gutiérrez 

7 Legacy of Leadership: From Grandmother’s Stories 

to Kapa Haka / Tina Ngaroimata Fraser 

8 The Four R’s of Leadership in Indigenous Language 

Revitalization / Stelómethet Ethel B. Gardner 

9 Transformation and Indigenous Interconnections: 

Indigeneity, Leadership, and Higher Education / 

Michelle Pidgeon 

10 Translating and Living Native Values in Current 

Business, Global, and Indigenous Contexts / Gail 

Cheney 

11 Complexity and Relationship: A Life Story Approach 

to Leadership through Relationships, Friendships, 

and Culture / Michelle Archuleta 

Part 3: Healing and Perseverance 

12 “We Want a Lifetime of Commitment, Not Just Sweet 

Words”: Native Visions for Educational Healing / 

Michelle M. Jacob 

13 And So I Turn to Rita: Mi’kmaq Women, Community 

Action, Leadership, and Resilience while Dancing on 

the Edge of Chaos / Patricia Doyle-Bedwell 

14 The Graceful War Dance: Engendering Native 

Traditional Knowledge and Practice in Leadership / 

Annette Squetimkin-Anquoe 

15 Leaders Walking Backwards: Aboriginal Male Ex- 

Gang Members’ Perspectives and Experiences / 

Alanaise Goodwill 

Contributors; Index


inuit education and schools in the eastern Arctic 

Heather E. McGregor 

HeAtHeR e. McgRegoR is 

a researcher who currently 

works for the public service in 

Nunavut. 

2010 

978-0-7748-1744-8 HC $85.00 

978-0-7748-1745-5 Pb $32.95 

240 p ages, 6.5 x 9 " 

9 b&w photos, 1 map 


education , educational Policy 

& theory , Aboriginal History , 


Northern Canadian studies 

This book is very important to the field of Inuit 

education ... It clearly shows that when schools 

create different power relationships with Inuit 

families and communities, positive results can 

be seen. 

– Joanne Tompkins, author of Teaching in a Cold 

and Windy Place: Change in an Inuit School 

Since the mid-twentieth century, sustained contact 

between Inuit and newcomers has led to profound 

changes in education in the Eastern Arctic, 

including the experience of colonization and progress 

toward the re-establishment of traditional 

education in schools. Heather McGregor assesses 

developments in the history of education in four 

periods – the traditional, the colonial (1945-70), 

the territorial (1971-81), and the local (1982-99). 

She concludes that education is most successful 

when Inuit involvement and local control support 

a system refl ecting Inuit culture and visions. 

CoNteNts 

Introduction 

1 History of the Eastern Arctic: Foundations and 

Themes 

2 Living and Learning on the Land: Inuit Education 

in the Traditional Period 

3 Qallunaat Schooling: Assimilation in the Colonial 

Period 

4 Educational Change: New Possibilities in the 

Territorial Period 

5 Reclaiming the Schools: Inuit Involvement in the 

Local Period 

Afterword 

Appendix: Inuit Qaujimajatuqanginnik (IQ) Guiding 

Principles; Notes; Bibliography; Index 



Aboriginal peoples and sport in Canada 

Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues 

Edited by Janice Forsyth and Audrey R. Giles 

JANICe FoRsytH is the director 

of the International Centre 

for Olympic Studies and an 

assistant professor in the School 

of Kinesiology at the University 

of Western Ontario. AuDRey R. 

gILes is an associate professor 

in the School of Human Kinetics 

at the University of Ottawa. 

December 2 012 

978-0-7748-2420-0 HC $95.00 

July 2 013 

978-0-7748-2421-7 Pb $32.95 

256 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Sports & Recreation Studies, 

History , Aboriginal Health , 

Aboriginal History 


Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada uses sport 

as a lens through which to examine Aboriginal 

peoples’ issues of individual and community 

health, gender and race relations, culture and 

colonialism, and self-determination and agency. 

In this ground-breaking volume, leading scholars 

offer a multidisciplinary perspective on how 

unequal power relations infl uence the ability 

of Aboriginal people in Canada to implement 

their own visions for sport. The diverse analyses 

illuminate how Aboriginal people employ sport 

as a venue through which to assert their cultural 

identities and fi nd a positive space for themselves 

and upcoming generations in contemporary 

Canadian society. 

CoNteNts 

Introduction / Janice Forsyth & Audrey R. Giles 

Part 1: Historical perspectives on Aboriginal sport 

and recreation 

1 Bodies of Meaning: Sports and Games at 

Residential Schools / Janice Forsyth 

2 Aboriginal People and Olympic Ceremonies / 

Christine O’Bonsawin 

3 Aboriginal Women in Canadian Sport / 

Ann Hall 

Part 2: Contemporary Issues 

4 Aboriginal people and the Construction of 

Canadian Sport Policy / Victoria Paraschak 

5 Canadian Elite Aboriginal Athletes, their 

Challenges, and the Adaptation Process / 

Robert Schinke, Duke Peltier, and Hope Yungblut 

6 Women’s and Girls’ Participation in Dene Games 

in the Northwest Territories / Audrey Giles 

7 Performance Indicators: Aboriginal Games at the 

Arctic Winter Games / Michael Heine 

8 The Quality and Cultural Relevance of Physical 

Education for Aboriginal Youth: Challenges and 

Opportunities / Joannie Halas, Heather McRae, 

and Amy Carpenter 

9 Two Eyed Seeing: Physical Activity, Sport, 

and Recreation Promotion in Indigenous 

Communities / Lynn Lavallée and Lucie Lévesque 

Conclusion / Janice Forsyth and Audrey R. Giles 

Index

environMentAl studies 

principles of tsawalk 

An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis 

Umeek / E. Richard Atleo 

uMeek (e. RICHARD AtLeo), 

a hereditary Nuu-chah-nulth 

chief, is a research liaison at the 

University of Manitoba and an 

associate adjunct professor at 

the University of Victoria. He is 

the author of Tsawalk: A Nuuchah-nulth 

Worldview . 

October 2 011 

978-0-7748-2126-1 HC $85.00 

July 2 012 

978-0-7748-2127-8 Pb $32.95 

220 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

3 b&w illustrations 

Aboriginal Politics and Policy , 

environmental Philosophy , 

environmental Politics , 

Constitutional Law 

This book is captivating, thoughtful, and startling 

in its clarity. It draws on the wisdom and insights 

of many scholars, but, most significantly, it is 

grounded firmly in the philosophies and origin 

stories of Dr. Atleo’s own Nuu-chah-nulth culture, 

representative of countless Indigenous philosophical 

approaches to life ... and it points to a different 

pathway that can lead to greater understanding, 

greater empathy, and stronger connections with 

each other and with all the other life forms with 

whom we share this planet. 

– Nancy Turner, Distinguished Professor, School of 

Environmental Studies, University of Victoria 

Tsawalk, or “one,” expresses the Nuu-chah-nulth 

view that all living things – human, plant, and 

animal – form part of an integrated whole brought 

into harmony through constant negotiation and 

mutual respect. In this book, Umeek argues that 

contemporary environmental and political crises 

and the ongoing plight of indigenous peoples 

refl ect a world out of balance, a world in which 

Western approaches for sustainable living are not 

working. Nuu-chah-nulth principles of recognition, 

consent, and continuity, by contrast, hold the 

promise of bringing greater harmony, where all 

life forms are treated with respect and accorded 

formal constitutional recognition. 

CoNteNts 

Preface 

Introduction 

1 Wikiiš ca?miihta: Things Are Not in Balance, 

Things Are Not in Harmony 

2 Mirrors and Patterns 

3 Genesis of Global Crisis 

4 The Nuu-chah-nulth Principle of Recognition 

5 The Nuu-chah-nulth Principle of Consent 

6 The Nuu-chah-nulth Principle of Continuity 

7 Hahuulism 

Notes; Index 



Aboriginal peoples and Forest lands in Canada 

Edited by D.B. Tindall, Ronald L. Trosper, and Pamela Perreault 

D.b. tINDALL is an associate professor 

in the Department of Forest 

Resources Management, and in 

the Department of Sociology at the 

University of British Columbia, 

and is affi liated with the Centre 

for Applied Conservation Research 

at UBC. RoNALD L. tRosPeR is 

Head, American Indian Studies, 

University of Arizona, Tucson, 

Arizona. PAMeLA PeRReAuLt is 

a member of Garden River First 

Nation in Ontario Canada and 

currently works as an independent 

consultant for First Nation 

communities and organizations 

on projects related to natural 

resource management, community 

capacity-building and policy 

reform. 

December 2012 

978-0-7748-2334-0 HC $95.00 

July 2 013 

978-0-7748-2335-7 Pb $34.95 

320 p ages, 6 x 9 " 

Aboriginal studies , 

environmental Policy , Resource 

Management , Resource Policy & 

Politics 


This book presents the fi rst comprehensive treatment 

of the land question in British Columbia and 

is the fi rst to examine the modern political history 

of British Columbia Indians. 

CoNteNts 

Part 1: Introduction 

1 The Social Context of Aboriginal Peoples and Forest 

Land Issues / D.B. Tindall and Ronald L. Trosper 

Part 2: History, Cooperation, Confl ict, and 

Reconciliation 

2 Natural Resource Co-Management with Aboriginal 

Peoples in Canada: Coexistence or Assimilation? / 

M.A. (Peggy) Smith 

3 Aboriginal Peoples and Traditional Knowledge: 

A Course Correction for Sustainable Forest 

Management / Marc G. Stevenson 

4 Blue Ecology, Blue Ecology: A Cross Cultural 

Ecological Vision for Fresh Water / Michael 

Blackstock 

5 Early Occupation and Forest Resource Use in 

Prehistoric British Columbia / Brian Chisholm 

6 First Nations’ Spiritual Conceptions of Forests 

and Forest Management / John Lewis and Stephen 

Sheppard 

7 Different Peoples, Shared Lands: Historical 

Perspectives on Native-Newcomer Relations 

Surrounding Resource Use in British Columbia / Ken 

Coates and Keith Thor Carlson 

8 Cultural Resource Management in the Context of 

Forestry in British Columbia: Existing Conditions 

and New Opportunities / Andrew Mason 

Part 3: traditional ecological knowledge and use 

9 Circle of Infl uence: Social Location of Aboriginals in 

Canadian Society / James S. Frideres 

10 Accommodation of Aboriginal Rights: The Need for 

an Aboriginal Forest Tenure / Monique Passelac-Ross 

and Peggy Smith 

11 Treaty Daze: Refl ections on Negotiating Treaty 

Relationships under the British Columbia Treaty 

Process / Mark L. Stevenson 

12 Timber: Direct Action over Forests and Beyond / 

Rima Wilkes and Tamara Ibrahim 

Part 4: Collaborative endeavours 

13 Progress and Limits to Collaborative Resolution of 

the BC Indian Forestry Wars / Norman Dale 

14 In Search of Certainty: A Decade of Shifting 

Strategies for Accommodating First Nations in 

Forest Policy, 2001 11 / Jason Forsyth, George 

Hoberg, and Laura Bird 

15 Unheard Voices: Aboriginal Content in Professional 

Forestry Curriculum / Trena Allen and Naomi 

Krogman 

16 Co-Management of Forest Lands: The Cases of 

Clayoquot Sound, and Gwaii Haanas / Holly Mabee, 

D.B. Tindall, George Hoberg, and J.P. Gladu 

17 Changing Contexts: Environmentalism, Aboriginal 

Community and Forest Company Joint Ventures, and 

the Formation of Iisaak / Gabriela Pechlaner and 

D.B. Tindall 

18 Consultation and Accommodation: Making Losses 

Visible / Ronald L. Trosper and D.B. Tindall 

Index

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY 

Temagami's Tangled Wild 

Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature 

Jocelyn Thorpe 

JOCELYN THORPE is an assistant 

professor of women’s studies 

at Memorial University of 

Newfoundland. 

February 2012 

978-0-7748-2200-8 HC $85.00 


978-0-7748-2201-5 PB $32.95 

220 pages, 6 x 9 " 

Environmental History , 

Aboriginal History , Gender 

Studies 

Nature | History | Society Series 

An incredibly important and original contribution 

to the related fi elds of environmental history, cultural 

geography, and race and ethnicity studies. 

– Andrew Baldwin, lecturer in human geography, 

Durham University 

Canadian wilderness seems a self-evident entity, 

yet, as this volume shows in vivid historical detail, 

wilderness is not what it seems. In Temagami’s 

Tangled Wild , Jocelyn Thorpe traces how struggles 

over meaning, racialized and gendered identities, 

and land have made the Temagami area in Ontario 

into a site emblematic of wild Canadian nature, 

even though the Teme-Augama Anishnabai have 

long understood the region as their homeland 

rather than as a wilderness. Eloquent and accessible, 

this engaging history challenges readers to 

acknowledge the embeddedness of colonial relations 

in our notions of wilderness, and to reconsider 

our understanding of the wilderness ideal. 

CONTENTS 

Foreword / Graeme Wynn 

Introduction: Welcome to n’Daki Menan (“Our Land”) 

1 Tangled Wild 

2 Timber Nature 

3 Virgin Territory for the Sportsman 

4 A Rocky Reserve 

5 Legal Landscapes 

6 Conclusion: A Return to n’Daki Menan 




The Nature of Borders 

Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea 

Lissa K. Wadewitz 

LISSA K. WADEWITZ is an 

assistant professor of history 

and environmental studies at 

Linfi eld College in McMinnville, 

Oregon. 

June 2012 

978-0-295-99182-5 PB $24.95 

368 pages, 6 x 9 " 

27 fi gures, 3 charts, 2 tables, 

13 maps 

Environmental History , 

Aboriginal History , Resource 

Management 

Co-published with the 

University of Washington Press 

Canadian Rights only 


Wadewitz identifi es an important environmental 

historical problem – how people make and challenge 

boundaries – and situates her investigation 

in a rich and complex case. It would be hard to 

imagine a site better suited to a transnational 

investigation in environmental history than the 

Salish Sea. 

– Matthew Evenden, author of Fish versus Power: 

An Environmental History of the Fraser River 

An excellent and timely examination of how 

humans have organized ecological and social space 

across time, and of the implications of boundarymaking 

processes on people and nature alike. 

– Joseph E. Taylor III, author of Making Salmon: An 

Environmental History of the Northwest Fishery 

Crisis 

For centuries, borders have been central to salmon 

management customs on the Salish Sea, but how 

those borders were drawn has had very different 

effects on the Northwest salmon fi shery. Native 

peoples who fi shed the Salish Sea drew social and 

cultural borders around salmon fi shing locations 

and found ways to administer the resource in a 

sustainable way. Nineteenth-century European 

settlers took a different approach and drew the 

Anglo-American border along the forty-ninth 

parallel, ignoring the salmon’s patterns and life 

cycle. As the canned salmon industry grew and 

more people moved into the region, class and 

ethnic relations changed. The Nature of Borders 

is about the ecological effects creating cultural 

and political borders has had on this critical West 

Coast salmon fi shery.



Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors 

Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions 

Charlotte Coté; Foreword by Micah McCarty 

CHARLOTTE COTÉ is an associate 

professor of American 

Indian studies at the University 

of Washington. 

2010 

978-0-7748-2053-0 PB $24.95 

328 pages, 7 x 10 " 

22 b&w illustrations, 3 maps 

Aboriginal Studies, Aboriginal 

History , Aboriginal Politics & 

Policy , Environmental History , 

Anthropology 

Canadian rights only 

This work by an indigenous scholar, trained in 

the academy who also has hereditary rights to 

particular kinds of information and who shares 

the traditions of her own family and community, 

makes a powerful contribution to Northwest Coast 

indigenous and environmental history. 

– Coll Thrush, author of Native Seattle: Stories 

from the Crossing-Over Place 

Following the removal of the gray whale from the 

Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe 

of northwest Washington State and the Nuu-chahnulth 

Nation of British Columbia announced that 

they would revive their whale hunts. The Makah 

whale hunt of 1999 was met with enthusiastic support 

and vehement opposition. A member of the 

Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation, Charlotte Coté offers 

a valuable perspective on the issues surrounding 

Indigenous whaling. Her analysis includes major 

Aboriginal studies and contemporary Aboriginal 

rights issues, addressing environmentalism, 

animal rights activism, anti-treaty conservatism, 

and the public’s expectations about what it means 

to be “Indian.” 

CONTENTS 

Foreword by Micah McCarty 

Introduction: Honoring Our Whaling Ancestors 

1 Tsawalk: The Centrality of Whaling to Makah and 

Nuu-chah-nulth Life 

2 Utla: Worldviews Collide: The Arrival of 

Mamalhn’i in Indian Territory 

3 Kutsa: Maintaining the Cultural Link to 

Whaling Ancestors 

4 Muu: The Makah Harvest a Whale 

5 Sucha: Challenges to Our Right to Whale 

6 Nupu: Legal Impediments Spark a 2007 Hunt 

7 Atlpu: Restoring Nanash’agtl Communities 




the praying Man 

Henry Bird Steinhauer, Ojibwe and 

Methodist Minister 

Isaac Kholisle Mabindisa 

Until he was about nine, Henry Bird 

Steinhauer was an Ojibwe – born around 

1820, in the area of Lake Simcoe, and 

probably named Sowengisik. In 1828, he 

was baptized into the Christian faith, 

and his life changed. In 1855, he traveled 

to London to be ordained and was then 

posted to Alberta. There, he founded a 

mission at Whitefish Lake, which would 

become his life’s work. But Steinhauer 

did not forget his Aboriginal roots. The 

Praying Man – the first full-length biography 

of Steinhauer – explores the tensions 

inherent in the life of someone who owes 

allegiance to two cultures, one of which 

seeks to dominate the other. 

IsAAC MAbINDIsA has had a distinguished 

career as an educator in his 

native South Africa and in Canada. He 

was a coordinator of Native Studies at 

Athabasca University before returning 

to his homeland to continue his teaching 

activities. DANIeL JoHNs, a former 

journalist, now works as an investigator 

for the Alberta Ombudsman. 

2011, 978-1-926836-06-5 Pb $24.95 

420 pages, 6 x 9" 

History, Aboriginal History, biography, 

Memoirs & Letters, Religion & 

spirituality, Missiology 

AU Press 

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the Archaeology of nativelived 

Colonialism 

Neal Ferris 

Neal Ferris examines how communities 

from three Aboriginal nations in what 

is now southwestern Ontario negotiated 

the changes that accompanied the arrival 

of Europeans and maintained a cultural 

continuity with their pasts that has been 

too often overlooked in conventional 

“master narrative” histories of contact. 

This book convincingly utilizes historical 

archaeology to link the Aboriginal experience 

of the eighteenth and nineteenth 

centuries to the deeper history of sixteenth- 

and seventeenth-century interactions 

and with pre-European times. It 

shows how these Aboriginal communities 

succeeded in retaining cohesiveness 

through centuries of foreign influence 

and material innovations by maintaining 

ancient, adaptive social processes 

that both incorporated European ideas 

and reinforced historically understood 

notions of self and community. 

NeAL FeRRIs holds the Lawson Chair of 

Canadian Archaeology at the University 

of Western Ontario. 

2009, 978-0-8165-2705-2 HC $50.00 

2011, 978-0-8165-0238-7 Pb $24.95 

240 pages, 6 x 9" 

Archaeology, Aboriginal studies, History 

The Archaeology of Colonialism in Native 

North America 

University of Arizona Press 

Canadian rights only


inuit Arctic policy 

Edited by Aqqaluk Lynge and 

Marianne Stenbaek 

Policy-making is a crucial step to the full 

exercise of Inuit self-determination and 

government, and to protecting Arctic 

interests. Inuit Arctic Policy updates and 

revises policy pertinent to global conditions 

and addresses current, ongoing 

issues of climate change, hunting rights 

and education, among others. Included 

here is the Inuit Circumpolar Council 

declaration on sovereignty issued in 

2009, as well as sections on cultural 

issues, social issues, environment, and 

economy. It allows a means by which Inuit 

values, perspectives and concerns can be 

effectively elaborated. 

AqqALuk LyNge is president of the Inuit 

Circumpolar Council-Greenland and a 

member of the United Nations Permanent 

Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is an 

advisory body to the U.N.'s Economic and 

Social Council. MARIANNe steNbAek 

is a professor of English literature at 

McGill University and the first Dickey 

Fellow at the Institute for Arctic Studies, 

Dartmouth College. 

2010, 978-0-9821-7037-3 Pb $20.00 

116 pages, 8 x 9.5" 

Politics & Policy, Climate Change, 

ecology, Political science, environmental 

Politics 

International Polar Institute Press 


bartering with the bones 

of their dead 

The Colville Confederated Tribes 

and Termination 

Laurie Arnold 

Bartering with the Bones of their Dead 

tells the unique story of a tribe whose 

members waged a painful and sometimes 

bitter twenty-year struggle among 

themselves about whether to give up 

their status as a sovereign nation. Over 

one hundred federally recognized Indian 

tribes and bands lost their sovereignty 

after the Eisenhower Administration 

enacted a policy known as termination, 

which was carefully designed to end 

the federal-Indian relationship and to 

dissolve Indian identity. Most tribes and 

bands fought this policy; the Colville 

Confederated Tribes of north-central 

Washington State offer a rare example of 

a tribe who pursued termination. 

LAuRIe ARNoLD is the director of Native 

American Initiatives at the University of 

Notre Dame, Indiana. 

November 2012 

978-0-295-99198-6 HC $60.00 

978-0-295-99228-0 Pb $24.95 

208 pages, 6 x 9" 

10 illustrations, 2 maps 

united states History, sociology, Politics, 

Aboriginal studies 





where the salmon run 

The Life and Legacy of 

Billy Frank Jr. 

Trova Heffernan 

Billy Frank Jr. was an early participant in 

the fight for tribal fishing rights during 

the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and 

handcuffed on the riverbank, he emerged 

as one of the most influential Northwest 

Indians in modern history. His efforts 

helped bring about the 1974 ruling by 

Federal Judge George H. Boldt affirming 

Northwest tribal fishing rights and allocating 

half the harvestable catch to them. 

Today, he continues to support Indian 

country and people by working to protect 

salmon and restore the environment. 

tRovA HeFFeRNAN is director of the 

Legacy Project and the creative director 

of the Heritage Center in the Washington 

State Office of the Secretary of State. 


978-0-295-99178-8 HC $40.00 

328 pages, 6 x 9" 

50 illustrations 

Resource Management, Aboriginal 

History, biography, Memoirs & Letters 




we Are our language 

Barbara A. Meek 

In presenting the case of Kaska, an 

endangered language in an Athapascan 

community in the Yukon, Barbra Meek 

asserts that language revitalization 

requires more than just linguistic rehabilitation; 

it demands a social transformation. 

This book provides a detailed 

investigation of language revitalization 

based on more than two years of 

active participation in local language 

renewal efforts. Each chapter focuses on 

a different dimension, such as spelling 

and expertise, conversation and social 

status, family practices, and bureaucratic 

involvement in local language choices. 

Each situation illustrates the balance 

between the desire for linguistic continuity 

and the reality of disruption. 

bARbRA A. Meek is an associate professor 

of anthropology and linguistics at the 

University of Michigan. 

2011, 978-0-8165-1453-3 HC $29.95 

240 pages, 6 x 9" 

13 illustrations, 4 tables, 2 maps 

Aboriginal studies, Linguistics, 

sociology, queer studies 

First Peoples: New Directions in 

Indigenous Studies 




Chinuk wawa / kakwa nsayka 

ulman-tilixam laska munkkemteks 

nsayka / As our elders 

teach us to speak it 

The Chinuk Wawa Dictionary 

Project 


Oregon 

Chinuk Wawa (also known as Jargon and 

Chinook Jargon) is a hybrid lingua franca 

consisting of simplified Chinookan, 

combined with contributions from 

Nuuchahnulth (Nootkan), Canadian 

French, English, and other languages. It 

originated on the lower Columbia River, 

where it once was the predominant 

medium of intertribal and interethnic 

communication. Even after English came 

into general use on the lower Columbia, 

Chinuk Wawa survived for generations 

in families and communities shaped by 

the meeting of the region’s historically 

diverse tribes and races. This Chinuk 

Wawa dictionary is based primarily on 

records from one such community, the 


Oregon, where Chinuk Wawa is taught as 

a community heritage language. 

March 2012 

978-0-295-99186-3 Pb $29.95 

494 pages, 7 x 10" 

25 illustrations 

Aboriginal Languages, Aboriginal 

studies, Aboriginal, Linguistics, 

sociology 



Haa léelk'w Hás Aaní saax'u / 

our grandparents' names on 

the land 

Edited by Thomas F. Thornton 

Haa Léelk’w Has Aaní Saax’u / Our 

Grandparents’ Names on the Land presents 

the results of a collaborative project 

with Native communities of Southeast 

Alaska to record Indigenous geographic 

names. Documenting and analyzing 

more than 3,000 Tlingit, Haida, and other 

Native names on the land, it highlights 

their descriptive force and cultural significance. 

With community maps, tables, 

and photographs, this book will be invaluable 

for those seeking to understand 

Native geographic perspectives. 

tHoMAs F. tHoRNtoN is senior 

research fellow and the director of the 

Environmental Change and Management 

Program at the Environmental Change 

Institute, School of Geography and the 

Environment, University of Oxford. He is 

the author of Being and Place among the 

Tlingit. 


978-0-295-98858-0 Pb $30.00 

200 pages, 8.5 x 11" 

60 illustrations, maps 

History, Aboriginal Languages, 

Aboriginal, social & Cultural 

Anthropology, geography, sociology 





Klallam dictionary 

Timothy Montler 

With the help of elders, educators, and 

tribal councils of the Klallam Tribes at 

Elwha, Port Gamble, and Jamestown, 

Washington, and Becher Bay on 

Vancouver Island, Timothy Montler has 

compiled a comprehensive dictionary of 

the Klallam language. It includes over 

9,000 entries, a brief grammatical sketch, 

and numerous indexes, along with a 

wealth of cultural information. Klallam 

is the language of the people whose ancestors 

lived at Tse-whit-zen, the largest 

archaeological site in Washington. An 

endangered language, it is being revived 

through the efforts of the Klallam 

Language Program. 

tIMotHy MoNtLeR is a professor at the 

University of North Texas. 

October 2012 

978-0-295-99207-5 HC $85.00 

900 pages, 8.5 x 11" 

Aboriginal Languages, Aboriginal, 

Linguistics, Reference 




skwxwu7mesh snichim- 

Xweliten snichim skexwts / 

squamish-english dictionary 

Squamish Nation Dictionary Project 

This dictionary is the first published 

compilation by the Squamish Nation of 

Skwxwu7mesh Sníchim, one of ten Coast 

Salish languages. The Squamish peoples’ 

traditional homeland includes the territory 

around Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, 

B.C.), Howe Sound, and the Squamish and 

Cheakamus river valleys. The Squamish 

language offers a view of modern daily 

life, and contains the historical record, 

protocols, laws, and concerns of generations 

of Squamish people, but is also critically 

endangered today. Building on over 

100 years of documentation and research 

by Squamish speakers working with 

anthropologists and linguists, the dictionary 

is informed by Squamish elders 

who taught language classes in the 1960s. 

2011, 978-0-295-99022-4 Pb $40.00 

390 pages, 7 x 10" 

Aboriginal Languages, Linguistics, 

Reference 




walking the Clouds 

An Anthology of Indigenous 

Science Fiction 

Edited by Grace L. Dillon 

In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous 

science fiction, Grace Dillon collects 

some of the finest examples of the craft 

with contributions by Native American, 

Canadian First Nations, Aboriginal 

Australian, and New Zealand Maori 

authors. The collection includes seminal 

authors such as Gerald Vizenor and 

Eden Robinson, historically important 

contributions often categorized as 

“magical realism” by authors like Leslie 

Marmon Silko and Sherman Alexie, and 

authors more recognizable to science 

fiction fans like William Sanders and 

Stephen Graham Jones. Dillon’s engaging 

introduction situates the pieces in the 

larger context of science fiction and its 

conventions. 

gRACe L. DILLoN is an associate professor 

in the Indigenous Nations Studies 

program at Portland State University in 

Oregon. She is also the editor of Hive of 

Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction 

from the Pacific Northwest. 


978-0-8165-2982-7 Pb $24.95 

270 pages, 6 x 9" 

Aboriginal studies, Fiction & Poetry 



sovereign erotics 

A Collection of Two-Spirit 

Literature 

Edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath 

Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa 

Tatonetti 

This landmark literary collection strives 

to reflect the complexity of identities 

within Native Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, 

Transgender, Queer, and Two-Spirit 

(GLBTQ2) communities. Gathering 

together the work of established writers 

and talented new voices, this anthology 

spans genres – fiction and nonfiction, 

poetry and essay – and themes – memory, 

history, sexuality, indigeneity, friendship, 

family, love, and loss – and represents a 

watershed moment in Native American 

and indigenous literatures, queer studies, 

and the intersections between the two. 

qwo-LI DRIskILL is a Cherokee Two- 

Spirit/Queer activist, writer, performer, 

and the author of Walking with Ghosts: 

Poems. 

2011, 978-0-8165-0242-4 Pb $26.95 

272 pages, 6 x 9" 

Aboriginal studies, Fiction & Poetry, 





A Metaphoric Mind 

Selected Writings of Joseph 

Couture 

Edited by Ruth Couture, and Virginia 

Mcgowan; Foreword by Lewis Cardinal 

Joseph Couture (1930–2007), known 

affectionately as “Dr. Joe,” stood at the 

centre of some of the greatest political, 

social, and intellectual struggles 

of Aboriginal peoples in contemporary 

Canada. A profound thinker and writer, 

as well as a gifted orator, he easily walked 

two paths, as a respected Elder and 

traditional healer and as an educational 

psychologist, one of the first Aboriginal 

people in Canada to receive a PhD. A 

Metaphoric Mind brings together for 

the first time key works selected from 

among Dr. Joe’s writings, published and 

unpublished. Shaped by his social science 

training but also by his apprenticeship 

in Medicine Ways, his writings allow us 

to experience the richness and power of 

fully functional Indigenous culture. 

RutH CoutuRe is a qualitative 

researcher. She is the author of numerous 

research reports, some with Dr. 

Joseph Couture. vIRgINIA McgowAN 

leads research activities for a division of 

Correctional Service Canada. 


978-1-926836-52-2 Pb $34.95 

340 pages, 6 x 9" 

8 colour photos, 3 illustrations 

Aboriginal education, History, Health, 

education, biography, Memoirs & Letters 

AU Press 


eating the landscape 

American Indian Stories of Food, 

Identity, and Resilience 

Enrique Salmón 

Traversing a range of cultures, including 

the Tohono O'odham of the Sonoran 

Desert and the Rarámuri of the Sierra 

Tarahumara, this book focuses on an 

array of Indigenous farmers who uphold 

traditional agricultural practices in the 

face of modern changes to food systems 

such as extensive industrialization 

and the genetic modification of food 

crops. Salmón reveals common themes: 

the importance of participation in a 

reciprocal relationship with the land, 

the connection between each group's 

cultural identity and their ecosystems, 

and the indispensible correlation of land 

consciousness and food consciousness. 

His call for a return to more traditional 

food practices in this wide-ranging and 

insightful book is especially timely. 

eNRIque sALMóN is an assitant professor 

in the Department of Ethnic Studies at 

California State University, East Bay. 


978-0-81653-011-3 Pb $24.95 

160 pages, 6 x 9" 

Food & Agricultural studies, Aboriginal 

Health, History, Anthropology, sociology 



Oregon State University Press 



red Medicine 

Traditional Indigenous Rites of 

Birthing and Healing 

Patrisia Gonzales 

Patrisia Gonzales addresses “Red 

Medicine” as a system of healing that 

includes birthing practices, dreaming, 

and purification rites to re-establish 

personal and social equilibrium. The 

book explores Indigenous medicine 

across North America, with a special 

emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge 

has endured and persisted among 

peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales 

combines her lived experience in Red 

Medicine as an herbalist and traditional 

birth attendant with in-depth research 

into oral traditions, storytelling, and the 

meanings of symbols to uncover how 

Indigenous knowledge endures over time. 

And she shows how this knowledge is now 

being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican 

Americans and Mexican Indigenous 

peoples. 


978-0-8165-2956-8 Pb $35.00 

272 pages, 6 x 9" 

Aboriginal Health, History, Hispanic & 

Latin American studies, Complementary 

& Alternative Health, sociology 





white Man’s water 

Erica Prussing 

Erica Prussing provides the first in-depth 

assessment of the politics of Native 

sobriety by focusing on the Northern 

Cheyenne community in southeastern 

Montana, where for many decades the 

federally funded health care system 

has relied on the Twelve Step program 

of Alcoholics Anonymous. White Man’s 

Water provides a thoughtful and careful 

analysis of Cheyenne views of sobriety 

and the politics that surround the selective 

appeal of Twelve Step approaches 

despite wide-ranging local critiques. 

Narratives from participants in these programs 

debunk long-standing stereotypes 

about “Indian drinking” and offer insight 

into the diversity of experiences with 

alcohol that actually occur among Native 

North Americans. 

eRICA PRussINg is an assistant professor 

of anthropology and community and 

behavioral health at the University of 

Iowa. 

2011, 978-0-8165-2943-8 HC $49.95 

288 pages, 6 x 9" 

4 b&w photographs, 1 map, 1 table 

Aboriginal studies, Aboriginal Health, 

Politics and Policy 







ellavut / our yup'ik world 

and weather 

Continuity and Change on the 

Bering Sea Coast 

Ann Fienup-Riordan and Alice Reardon 

Ellavut / Our Yup’ik World and Weather 

is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings 

among Yup’ik elders to document the 

qanruyutet (words of wisdom) that guide 

their interactions with the environment. 

In an effort to educate their own young 

people as well as people outside the community, 

the elders discussed the practical 

skills necessary to live in a harsh environment, 

stressing the ethical and philosophical 

aspects of the Yup’ik relationship 

with the land, ocean, snow, weather, and 

environmental change, among many 

other elements of the natural world. 

ANN FIeNuP-RIoRDAN is author of 

many books on the Native peoples of 

Alaska, including Yuungnaqpiallerput / 

The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks 

of Yup'ik Science and Survival. ALICe 

ReARDoN is a translator for the Calista 

Elders Council, the primary heritage association 

of Southwest Alaska. 


978-0-295-99161-0 Pb $45.00 

416 pages, 7 x 10" 

70 illus., 30 in color, 2 maps 

Aboriginal studies, environmental 

History, Nature, sociology 




Asserting native resilience 

Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations 

Face the Climate Crisis 

Edited by Alan Parker and Zoltán 

Grossman 

Indigenous nations are on the frontline 

of the climate crisis of the 21st century, 

as the first peoples to experience climate 

change and the communities who feel it 

most deeply, with cultures and economies 

that are vulnerable to climate-related 

catastrophes. Yet Aboriginal peoples 

around the Pacific Rim are also demonstrating 

historical resilience in the face 

of adversity, developing responses to 

climate change that can serve as a model 

for Native and non-Native communities 

alike. Asserting Native Resilience 

presents a powerful anthology of writings 

from Canada, the US, and New Zealand 

that explore indigenous responses to the 

climate crisis. 

ALAN PARkeR is executive director of 

the Northwest Indian Applied Research 

Institute at Evergreen State College. 

ZoLtáN gRossMAN is a professor of 

geography and Native American and 

world indigenous peoples studies at 

Evergreen State College. 

April 2012 

978-0-87071-663-8 Pb $24.95 

240 pages, 7 x 10" 

Over 50 b&w illustrations, photos and 

maps 

Aboriginal studies, Climate Change, 

environmental studies, sociology 




indigenous peoples and 

demography 

The Complex Relation between 

Identity and Statistics 

Edited by Per Axelsson and Peter Sköld 

When researchers want to study indigenous 

populations they are dependent 

upon the highly variable way in which 

states or territories enumerate, categorize, 

and differentiate indigenous people. 

In this volume, anthropologists, historians, 

demographers, and sociologists 

have come together for the first time to 

examine the historical and contemporary 

construct of indigenous people in 

a number of fascinating geographical 

contexts around the world, including 

Canada, the United States, Colombia, 

Russia, Scandinavia, the Balkans, and 

the United Kingdom. Using historical and 

demographical evidence, the contributors 

explore the creation and validity of 

categories for enumerating indigenous 

populations. 

PeR AxeLssoN is a senior researcher of 

the Centre for Sami Research at Umeå 

University, Sweden. PeteR sköLD is a 

professor of history at Umeå University 

and the director of the Centre for Sami 

Research. 

2011, 978-0-85745-000-5 HC $120.00 

354 pages, 6 x 9" 

1 map, 26 figs, 36 tables 

Aboriginal studies, social & Cultural 

Anthropology, Multiculturalism & 

transnationalism 

Berghahn Books 


women and Knowledge in 

Mesoamerica 

From East L.A. to Anahuac 

Paloma Martinez-Cruz 

The few works looking at the knowledge 

of women in Mesoamerica generally examine 

only the written – even academic 

– world, accessible only to the most elite 

segments of (customarily male) society. 

These works have consistently excluded 

the essential repertoire and performed 

knowledge of women who think and 

work in ways other than the textual. And 

while two of the book’s chapters critique 

contemporary novels, Martinez-Cruz 

also calls for the exploration of nontextual 

knowledge trans-mission. In this 

regard, its goals and methods are close 

to those of performance scholarship 

and anthropology, and these methods 

reveal Mesoamerican women to be public 

intellectuals. In Women and Knowledge 

in Mesoamerica, fieldwork and ethnography 

combine to reveal women healers as 

models of agency. 

PALMoA MARtINeZ-CRuZ is an assistant 

professor of Spanish language and 

literature and Latino studies at North 

Central College in Naperville, Illinois. 

2011, 978-0-8165-2942-1 Pb $35.95 

208 pages, 6 x 9" 

Aboriginal studies, Hispanic & Latin 

American studies, gender, sociology, 

Health 





songs of power and prayer in 

the Columbia plateau 

The Jesuit, the Medicine Man, and 

the Indian Hymn Singer 

Chad S. Hammill 

Songs of Power and Prayer traces a cultural, 

spiritual, and musical encounter 

that upended notions of indigeneity and 

the rules of engagement for Indigenous 

peoples and priests in the Columbia 

Plateau. Chad Hamill’s narrative focuses 

on a Jesuit and his two Indigenous “grandfathers” 

– one a medicine man, the other a 

hymn singer – who together engaged in a 

collective search for the sacred. The priest 

became a student of the medicine man. 

The medicine man became a Catholic. The 

Indian singer brought indigenous songs to 

the Catholic mass. Using song as a thread, 

these men weaved together two worlds 

previously at odds, realizing a promise 

born within prophecies two centuries 

earlier. 

CHAD s. HAMILL is an assistant professor 

of ethnomusicology at Northern Arizona 

University, where he serves as co-chair 

for the Commission for Native Americans. 


978-0-87071-675-1 Pb $21.95 

192 pages, 6 x 9" 

Full color insert, b&w photographs 

Aboriginal studies, social & Cultural 

Anthropology, Music, sociology 






walking the land, 

Feeding the Fire 

Knowledge and Stewardship 

Among the Tlicho Dene 

Allice Legat; Foreword by Joanne 

Barnaby 

In the Dene worldview, relationships 

form the foundation of a distinct way of 

knowing. For the Tlicho Dene, indigenous 

peoples of the Northwest Territories, as 

stories from the past unfold as experiences 

in the present, so unfolds a 

philosophy for the future. This book 

vividly shows how – through stories and 

relationships with all beings – Tlicho 

knowledge is produced and rooted in the 

land. Anthropologist Allice Legat undertook 

this work at the request of Tlicho 

Dene community elders, who wanted to 

provide younger Tlicho with narratives 

that originated in the past but provide a 

way of thinking through current critical 

land-use issues. Legat illustrates that, for 

the Tlicho Dene, being knowledgeable and 

being of the land are one and the same. 


978-0-8165-3009-0 Pb $32.95 

184 pages, 6 x 9" 

Aboriginal studies, Aboriginal 

education, environmental Politics, 

sociology, Politics & Policy, Political 

science 





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the Canada Book Fund; the Canada Council for the Arts; the Canadian Federation for the 

Humanities and Social Sciences through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program; and 

the assistance of the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council.

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