Colonial

Discusses Roger Williams' challenges to Puritans' assertion that they had jurisdiction over both Indigenous peoples and their lands, and uses the conflict between the Narragansett and dissident Rhode Islanders as a case study.

Looks at the role of women under traditional communalism, the impact of colonialism and directions for the future.

Investigates Departmental hiring practises during this expansionary period and factors that determined whether patronage appointees would continue to be employed.

Presented at the "First Nations, First Thoughts" Conference, May 5-6, 2005, Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Uses two examples of critical heritage discourses—social media debate surrounding Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, and an undergraduate history education course which focused on the production of counter histories—to illustrate how critical heritage studies can expand the discussion and challenge traditional thinking around national memory and settler-colonial narratives.

International Development Studies Thesis (B.A.)--Dalhousie University, 2009.

Discusses how the visit in 1860 by Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, was used as a opportunity to draw public attention to issues and grievances.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maine, 2010.

Reflects on colonial traditions of "imagined" history or the myth of the frontier in Williams Lake, British Columbia.

Book review of: The Pleasure of the Crown by Dara Culhane.

Book review of: The Pleasure of the Crown by Dara Culhane. To read review, scroll down to page 108.

Discusses the assimilation as the new paradigms of self-government and peaceful coexistence.

Examines the controversial law enacted in 1849 to compensate Lower Canadians who lost property during the Rebellions of 1837, and the strategies used to defuse the political protests.

Author examines the movement of and reorganization of the Indigenous nations in the Puget Sound region of the United States in response to land seizure by the settler colonial state. Considers how contemporary governing bodies use that displacement to argue against the communities’ petitions to have their tribal statuses legally recognized.

Presents two case studies illustrating identity politics in which Aboriginal Tasmanians are routinely immersed and then explains why and how the politics have developed. Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies. Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 31.

Contends that Indigenous peoples should be contributors to government policy rather than receivers.

Book review of: Poonindie by Peggy Brock and Doreen Kartinyeri. Review located by scrolling to page 230.

Discusses the political and historical issues surrounding the teaching of ethnic American literature amid the Hawaiian activist movement and racial tensions in a multicultural state. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Author contends that due to the Mabo court decision the legal equation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians has changed.

Discussion of Indigenous thought and law in a Eurocentric world.

Sociology and Equity Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 1986. Focuses on the Battleford and Clandeboye Agencies.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2003.

Book review of: The Power of Promises edited by Alexandra Harmon. Scroll down to page 133 to read review.

Examines the contact-era epidemics among the Salish as an expression of globalism.

Discusses the role played by American Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, Educational Director at the Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1917-1944, and lobbyist in the formation and implementation of the administrative and education policies of the United States’ government as they related to Indigenous peoples.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2016.

Discusses a range of perspectives in relation to theoretical debates by looking at the works of Benedict Anderson and Anthony Smith.

Author discusses the results of an Indigenous development plan carried out between 2005 and 2010 in Colonia Aborigen Chaco, an Indigenous settlement originally established in 1911 as the Aboriginal Reserve of Napalpí, discusses the ongoing effects of colonial violence and programs of assimilation.

Relates the challenges faced to include issues of importance to the First Nations when researching and teaching history.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Universtiy of Washington, 2016.

Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--Regis University, 2013.

Looks at the relationship between three groups of traders and their influence on British policy in the Mississippi Valley.

Discusses the system of tenures at the time of settlement and how it was misunderstood to include Aboriginal occupied land.

Theory and Policy Studies in Education Thesis (Ph.D.)-- University of Toronto, 2010.

Mixed methods research study explores how Indigenous women in two Canadian urban centers experience racism. Findings indicate that participants experience racism in ways that can be classified as individual, collective or institutional, and cultural and rage from historical events to contemporary manifestations.

Looks at the systematic distribution of rations and the protection of Aboriginal customary rights on pastoral lands.

Discusses different categories and concepts to re-imagine and reconstruct co-operative research futures by drawing on cultural, postmodern, and postcolonial studies.

Canadian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1998.

Uses the writings of historical Hawaiian leaders to analyze how they embraced their blackness to challenge settler-colonial ideology that their perceived blackness made them unfit for sovereignty. Maoli literature used includes: Prince Alexander Liholiho, Samuel Kamakau, King Kalakaua, and Queen Lili‘uokalani.

Examines the historical events of the 1920s, the League of Nations and the development of the international society of states as it relates to the Indigenous peoples of North America.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2003.

Book review of: Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision edited by Marie Battiste. To access this review, scroll to page 125.

Book review of: Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision edited by Marie Battiste.

Book review of: Recognition Odysseys by Brian Klopotek.

Book review of: Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism by Peter H. Russell.

Paper examines Aboriginal perspectives and historical relations impacting literacy .

Political Science (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2005.

Discusses the cultural and historical background of Pueblo Indians and U.S. relations, the reasons for the trip to Washington, and key aspects of Pueblo identity and ethnicity.