Colonial

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Death and the Rise of the State: Criminal Courts, Indian Executions, and Early Pacific Northwest Governments

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wendi A. Lindquist
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, CONNECT—New Voices on Canada , June 2012, pp. 142-155
Description
Discusses how the creation of colonial and territorial governments shifted treatment of interracial homicide into the legal arena rather than using past practices of direct retaliation.
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The Death of John Sassamon: An Exploration in Writing New England Indian History

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James P. Ronda
Jeanne Ronda
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer, 1974, pp. 91-102
Description
An examination of the differing versions of the death of the aide to Wampanoag chief King Philip, and the trial of the three Wampanoag men charged with his murder. The author notes the difficulty in attaining an accurate account of the events due to fact that all contemporary accounts were written by Englishmen.
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Debating the Origins of Democracy: Overview of an Annotated Bibliography

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce E. Johansen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 1996, pp. 155-172
Description
Commentary on the assertions that the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and other Native American confederacies helped shape ideas of democracy the early U.S. and Europe.
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A Declaration of Indian Rights: The BC Indian Position Paper (excerpt)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Union of BC Indian Chiefs
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 13-18
Description
Originally released November 17, 1970, this paper responds to the federal government’s White Paper, released in June of 1969. The Union of BC Indian Chiefs rejects the policies in the White Paper, reminding the government that changing or abridging the historic relationship between First Nations and the Federal Government requires consent from the First Nations.
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Decolonizing in the Era of Globalization

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Joyce Green
Canadian Dimension, vol. 36, no. 2, March/April 2002, pp. 31-33
Description
Focuses on the role of capitalism and colonialism in Canada and discusses the sufficiency of self-governance.
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Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kim Klein
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, Autumn, 2006, p. 498
Description
Book review of: Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies edited by John McLaren, A. R. Buck, Nancy E. Wright. Scroll to page 507 to access book review.
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The Diary of Lieut. J.A.V. Preston, 1885

Articles » General
Author/Creator
J. A. V. Preston
Saskatchewan History, vol. 8, no. 3, Autumn, 1955, pp. 95-107
Description
Journal of the John Alexander Victor Preston, a Lieutenant in D Company of the Midland Battalion in the Canadian militia in 1885. Preston’s company arrived in Batoche on the 13th of May joining Middleton’s command and participating in extinguishing the Northwest Resistance. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 95.
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Don McLean Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Don McLean
Christine Welsh
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview with non-Indian employed at the Gabriel Dumont Institute in Regina. At the time of the interview he was writing a book on the history of the Metis nation.
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Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, Lebensraum, and Manifest Destiny

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce E. Johansen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 115-122
Description
Uses the ideology of manifest destiny to connect the policies and political practices of Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, and Adolf Hitler; focuses on the removal of one people or race to make living space for another.
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“A Dreadful Little Glutton Always Telling You about Food”: The Epistolary Everyday and the Making of Settler Colonial British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Ishiguro
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 2, Summer, May 2018, pp. 258-283
Description
Article examines communications between settlers in British Columbia and the United Kingdom highlighting the ways that settlers aligned themselves with metropolitan Europeans and disregarded local Indigenous and other racialized peoples in a way that reflected a broader politics of daily life that underpinned the settler colonial project.
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Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Charles M. Johnston
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 80, no. 3, September 1999, p. 501
Description
Book review of: Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory edited by David T. McNab. A collection of conference presentations at Walpole Island in 1994, include Olive Dickason and Dean Jacobs.
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Education, Francisation, and Shifting Colonial Priorities at the Ursuline Convent in Seventeenth-Century Quebec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mairi Cowan
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 1-29
Description
Article suggests that the goals of the Ursuline nuns in Québéc—conversion and assimilation of Indigenous girls in New France—is complicated by various factors including correspondence from the French crown, the convent’s relationship with Jesuit orders, and Indigenous resistance to assimilation.
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The Edwin Brooks Letters: Part II

Alternate Title
The Edwin Brooks Letters: Part 2
The Edwin Brooks Letters: Part Two
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Edwin Brooks
Saskatchewan History, vol. 11, no. 1, Winter, 1958, pp. 30-37
Description

Brooks moved from eastern Canada to what is now Indian Head in the spring of 1882; went into partnership in with George P. Murray to form Murray and Brooks, General Merchants, 1883. In 1885 he sat on the jury that found Louis Riel Guilty of High Treason. Letters contain some commentary on local Indigenous peoples, events and settler-Indigenous and government-Indigenous relations. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 30

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Elimination/Deracination: Colonial Terror, La Matanza, and the 1930s Race Laws in El Salvador

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jorge E. Cuéllar
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 39-56
Description
Author investigates the colonial violence and race laws in El Salvador in the 1930s, and considers them as a form of terror employed by governing institutions for social control.
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The Emigrant and the Noble Savage: Sir Francis Bond Head's Romantic Approach to Aboriginal Policy in Upper Canada, 1836-1838

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Theodore Binnema
Kevin Hutchings
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter, 2005, pp. 115-139
Description
Discusses Sir Francis (1793-1875), the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada and how he wanted to remove the Anishinaabeg from what is now southern Ontario and relocate them to Manitoulin Island.
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Ensuring Equitable Distribution of Land in Ghana: Spirituality or Policy? A Case Study From the Forest-Savanna Agroecological Zone of Ghana

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye
Paul Sarfo-Mensah
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, Traditional Knowledge, Spirituality and Lands, 2011, pp. 1-18
Description
Study explores dual system used in land tenure distribution and management that faces policy making.
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Erasing Indigenous Indigeneity in Vancouver

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean Barman
BC Studies, no. 155, Autumn, 2007, pp. 3-30
Description
Focuses on the forced relocation of the Kitsilano Reserve, originally located near the Burrard Street Bridge in Vancouver. (For illustrations, see EBSCOhost version)
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“Eskimo” Immigrants and Colonial Soldiers: Icelandic Immigrants and the North-West Resistance, 1885.

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laurie K. Bertram
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 63-97
Description
Examines the way in which racialized ethnic immigrants were able to gain access to land, state support, and upward mobility by participating in the colonial agenda of Indigenous suppression through voluntary military service.
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The Evolution of Mi'kmaw Education: Charting the Challenges, the Failures and the Successes

Alternate Title
Kekina’muek: Learning about the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq]
Description
An overview of the traditional forms and philosophies of education in Native communities in Nova Scotia, and the changes that have occurred since pre-contact and colonization to the present. Chapter Four of Kekina’muek: Learning about the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia
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Exiled, Executed, Exalted: Louis Riel, Homo Sacer and the Production of Canadian Sovereignty

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin Bruyneel
Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 43, no. 3, 2010, pp. 711-732
Description
Looks at Riel's exile in 1870 after the Red River Rebellion; examines the tensions between French and English Canada over Riel's execution; and discusses the two statues which serve as a metaphor for the relationship between liberal and colonial dynamics in Canada political history.
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Exiled, Executed, Exalted: Louis Riel, Homo Sacer and the Production of Canadian Sovereignty

Alternate Title
Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference; 80th, 2008
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kevin Bruyneel
Description
Looks at Riel's exile in 1870 after the Red River Rebellion; examines the tensions between French and English Canada over Riel's execution; and discusses the two statues which serve as a metaphor for the relationship between liberal and colonial dynamics in Canadian political history. Later published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 43, no. 3, 2010.
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