Colonial

Author explores the premise that the denial of binarism silences Indigenous narratives and discourse that oppose the settler state, and calls for an acknowledgement of those discourses that are situated as binaries. [Issue 3-4]

Response to 66-page pamphlet entitled Red River Insurrection: Hon. Wm. McDougall's Conduct Reviewed.

Examines common experiences and uncovers forces at work in the process of capitalist development in both countries.

Looks at Puritan legal policy development regarding the treatment of Native Americans. Initially, when they felt themselves at a disadvantage, offenders were dealt with more fairly, but as their position became more secure, that treatment changed.

Book review of: Rediscovering the First Nations of Canada by John Friesen.

Collection of audiotapes featuring lectures by historians, researchers or interviews with local First Nations individuals. Some are accompanied by written or visual material.

Examines the historical relationship between protected areas or national parks and Indigenous nations in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Argues that for successful reconciliation with Aboriginal peoples, protected areas must move past incorporating Indigeneity and into “an Indigenous-centered project of truth telling, acknowledging harm, and providing for justice.” Author makes three assertions: need for reconciliation, importance of difficult conversations, and the need for system-wide change.

Examines colonial documents and the Indian Act to illustrate efforts to force First Nations societies away from sexual diversity and make heterosexuality the only acceptable option.

Political satire in which the tenants of English landlords are referred to as Indians.

Article re-examines the colonial narrative surrounding the Pacific Northwest costal region of British Columbia; the author situates the Village of Yuquot as a strategic portal on the Pacific and as a site of arrival for Europeans, Chinese labourers, Hawaiians and others.

Looks at ways to change current inequalities and disharmony back into traditional ways of inclusive native kinship.

Discusses previous commissions and reports and trends in Imperial and Colonial policies. The Pennefather findings and recommendations are analyzed under four headings: plans for departmental financing and administrative reorganization; assessment of the future of Indian reserves; inquiry into the legal status of Indian people; reform of Indian education; and evaluation of mechanism for detribalizing Indian people.

Report includes appendices relating to reserves, schedule of leases, statutes of British Columbia relating to Aboriginals and missions of British Columbia.

Topics include: centralized administration, compensation for land surrendered to settlers, surveying reserve land, provision of livestock and agricultural implements and instruction in European faming methods, and using education as method of assimilation.

Excerpts from the full report of the same name. Brief comments on each of the First Nations residing in Canada East and Canada West. Focuses on education and the establishment of schools.

Attempts to correct misconceptions about the policies, intentions and actions of the Dominion Government.

A satirical report written by an Indigenous person claiming parts of Europe for the Osage Nation much in the same way North American had been claimed by European nations.

"Published by Command".

Women's Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2010.

Author discusses the research outcomes and the policy influence of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); speculates on some of the factors that limited the influence of the TRC including opposition from interest groups and the structure of the commission itself.

Discusses recent academic discourse about colonialism, reserve establishment and policy and suggest that writers create a utopian perspective, disregarding the severe problems faced by on-reserve residents.

Book review of: The Resettlement of British Columbia by Cole Harris.

Second edition.

Examines strategies employed by the First Nations in Nova Scotia to resist assimilation by Euro centric institutions.

Looks at non-physical forms of genocide such as legal, cultural and ethnical by the destruction of language, culture and enforced poverty. History Honours Paper (B.A.)--Acadia University, 2016.

Discusses why the Okanagan Indians failed to successfully integrate into the European socio-economic society because of institutional discrimination.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D)--McGill University, 1987.

Discusses the Mushkegowuk people’s relationship to water and how it has been ruptured in the interests of extractive industries and economic development. Also discusses efforts to reconnect with and protect waterways.

Comments about the on going process of tribal government development in the Navajo Nation.

Discusses the importance of incorporating relevant traditional values in contemporary governance and options for revising the Navajo government.

Book review of: A Little Matter of Genocide; Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to Present by Ward Churchill.

Book reviews of: 2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock. Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick. Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie. Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer. Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.

Book reviews of: Another Attempt at Rescue by M. L. Smoker. Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment by Renée Ann Cramer. Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf, and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest by Robert R. McCoy. Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers edited by Jesus F. de la Teja and Ross Frank. Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous People of Their Land by Lindsay G.

Book reviews of: Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection edited by Simon J. Ortiz. Bringing Indians to the Book by Albert Furtwangler. A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin. Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 by Steven W.

Book reviews of: Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America edited by Brian Swann. Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota by Sally J. Southwick. The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature edited by Joy Porter and Kenneth M.

Book reviews of: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann. American Indian Themes in Young Adult Literature by Paulette F. Molin. Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family by Claudio Saunt. Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society by Brian Fagan. Cherokee Medicine Man: The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer by Robert J. Conley. The Cherokee Nation: A History by Robert J.

Book review of: Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles Wilkinson. Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations and Traditions by Alexander Posey. Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast by Michelene E. Pesantubbee. A Colonial Complex: South Carolina’s Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War 1680–1730 by Steven J.

Discusses the failure of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in 1927 to consider the perspectives of the Inuit, Innut, and Algonquian peoples when resolving the question of the border between Newfoundland and Quebec in the Labrador region. Highlights this practice as a reflection of Canada’s colonial past and how the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge would have changed the process.

Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2001.

Discusses ways of revitalizing the Ngoni culture, traditions and governance through personal historical memories, sacred oral histories & documented written sources.

Human and Social Development Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2006.

Discusses the motive behind British troops being positioned to end the Red River Colony disorders at a time when such actions went against policy.

History Thesis (Ph.D)--Stony Brook University, 2007.