Colonial

Discusses interethnic partnerships and the resulting post colonial politics and relationships.

Looks at how Métis women and their families in Western Canada withdrew from Treaty Six to participate in the scrip program in order to gain economical benefits.

Book review of: Colonial Entanglements by Jean Dennison.

Article describes the ways that colonial governments identified and signaled out “criminal tribes” in India, how the identity, language and culture of these tribes was stigmatized and consequently diminished. Describes present-day efforts to protect and revitalize these languages and cultures and provides commentary on the effectiveness of these efforts.

Explores the relationship between missionaries and Aboriginals in three fictional works as examples of societal attitudes.

Examines the official attitudes and actions of the Colonial Office regarding native policy.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--Queen's University, 2004.

Looks at the effects of personal and collective trauma through a political lens. Scroll down to read paper. Chapter from Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling edited by Suzanne L. Stewart, Roy Moodley, and Ashely Hyatt. Scroll down to read paper.

Analytical review, that should be approached from an holistic perspective that is both realistic, and historically and socially accurate.

Looks at the many effects of colonialism on First Nations people of Canada.

Looks at the influences of colonialism on Aboriginal mental health with emphasis on the effects of intergenerational trauma on communities.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Iowa, 2002.

Book review of: Colonialism's Culture by Nicholas Thomas. Article located by scrolling to page 219.

English Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2008.

Book review of: The Colonization of Mi'Kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928: by William C. Wicken.

Discusses colonization and the Hawaiian Native people.

Book review of: The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen.

(Abstract in French and English, article in French) Examines how the Montagnais benefitted from competition between the Hudson's Bay Company and independent fur traders in this region and the methods employed by the Company while trying to control the market.

Discusses six investigations which provided Colonial and Imperial officials with overview of Indian conditions, advice on policy issues, and suggestions on how to improve departmental administration. They were: the Darling report; the Executive Council of Lower Canada's report; Justice James Macaulay's report on Upper Canada; legislative committee of the Upper Canada Assembly's report; the Bagot study; and the Pennefather study.

Geography Thesis (M.A.) Queen's University at Kingston, 2004.

Text of lecture given by the Canada Research Chair in Native -Newcomer Relations. Examines the Native-newcomer relationship, including treaty negotiations from first contact forward.

Book review of Company, Crown and Colony by Stephen Royle. Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 172.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2002.

An analysis of four primary sources published by William Johnson, Superintendent of Northern Indian Affairs, British General Charles Lee, University of Pennsylvania Provost William Smith, and plantation owner and British soldier Peter Williamson.

Book review of: The 'Conquest' of Acadia by by John G. Reid, Maurice Basque, Elizabeth Mancke ... [et al.]

[Arctic and Northern Studies] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005.

Looks into the structure of contemporary imperialism, the role Canada plays in an imperial system, and the nature of Canadian society as a Settler society.

Contends that methods used to re-structure the Navajo Nation could be adopted by other nations to modify their governance.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Université Laval, 1999.

Law Thesis (L.L.M.)--York University, 1994.

Author, Brooks, discusses new book, Our Beloved Kin, with interviewer, Cohen. Brooks's book offers an Indigenous Perspective on King Philip's War, its scope, and its impact.

Dispatches to and from the Governor-General of Canada and the British Colonial Office with enclosures of reports from various Department officials.

Agreement concluded between the Crown and principle headmen of the Ojibewa (Ojibway/Anishinabek). This Treaty is commonly referred to as Robinson Huron Treaty. Document is reprinted from the 1939 edition.

Transcription of the text of the agreement between the Crown and principle men of the Ojibewa (Ojibway/Anishinabek). This Treaty is commonly referred to as Robinson Superior Treaty.

Treaty between the Crown and Blackfeet, Blood, Piegan, Sarcee, and Stony Nations in what is now Alberta. Adhesion and Order in Council setting up Commission for Treaty No. 7 also included. Reprinted from Crown's text of Treaty edition of 1877.

Correspondence consists of dispatches from Governor General Lisgar and the Colonial Office.

Author considers different estimates for the pre-contact population in the Western Hemisphere as a means of estimating the number of lives lost to colonial factors of violence in the ongoing Indigenous Holocaust. Primarily focuses on United States.

Discusses the enfranchisement of eastern First Nations by Macdonald’s Electoral Franchise Act in 1885, the participation of Indigenous voters in the Brant South and Haldimand ridings in elections between 1886 and 1897, and their disenfranchisement when the Electoral Franchise Act was repealed by Laurier’s government. Also considers conflicting perspectives on enfranchisement within the First Nations community.

Article contends that the United States, as the last significant colonial power, still dominates indigenous peoples in external territories without their full consent. The paper argues that images of cowboys and Indians are a part of colonial history that asserts white supremacy and Indigenous inferiority.

Book review of: The Crucible of War by Fred Anderson.

Discusses the use of several political tools, including languages and cultures, that can serve as a force de resistance against political subjugation.

Article examines the adoption of Western farming practices by the Nez Perce and the shift from a fishing-based economy to a Euro-American agriculture economy in the context of social power and cultural scale.

Book reviews of: Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America by Peter C. Mancall; White Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892 by William E. Unrau.