Standing Up with G̲a'ax̱sta'las
Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
A stirring portrait of a controversial Kwakwaka’wakw leader and the efforts of her descendants to reconcile a difficult history in the hopes of forging a positive cultural identity for future generations.
- Copyright year: 2012
Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw Settlements, 1775-1920
A Geographical Analysis and Gazetteer
This book provides a geographic overview of the demography and settlement patterns of the Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw, who lived in northern Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland of British Columbia.
- Copyright year: 1994
Aboriginal Law, Fourth Edition
Commentary and Analysis
Now in its 4th edition, this definitive text discusses and clarifies Canadian laws impacting Aboriginal peoples.
- Copyright year: 2012
Fractured Homeland
Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario
An examination of the struggle for identity and nationhood among non-status Algonquin during the negotiation of a major comprehensive land claim.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Nature of Borders
Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea
This transnational view provides an understanding of the modern Pacific salmon crisis and reorients borderlands studies towards the Canada-US border while providing a new view of how Native Borders worked.
- Copyright year: 2012
People of the Middle Fraser Canyon
An Archaeological History
The first synthesis of the archaeological and ethnological evidence pertaining to the St’át’imc or Upper Lillooet people of the Mid-Fraser Canyon.
- Copyright year: 2012
Prophetic Identities
Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75
An exploration of how two missionaries in southern Africa and western Canada used their faith and ties to Britain to rearticulate the meaning of indigeneity.
- Copyright year: 2012
Temagami's Tangled Wild
Race, Gender, and the Making of Canadian Nature
This book shows that wilderness is created rather than discovered, and describes how the creation of wilderness has led to the marginalization of Aboriginal peoples from their territories.
- Copyright year: 2012
Postcolonial Sovereignty?
The Nisga’a Final Agreement
An extensive examination of the significant Nisga’a Final Agreement and the effect on Aboriginal and government relations.
- Copyright year: 2012
Creative Subversions
Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary
This book explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through commonplace symbols of Canadian identity and how the work of contemporary artists is subverting these nostalgic accounts of the past.
- Copyright year: 2012
A Wilder West
Rodeo in Western Canada
Challenging the well-worn images of rodeo as a white man’s sport, A Wilder West shows how rodeo brought together Aboriginal and settler men and women into relationships of competition and camaraderie, forging new identities and communities in the process.
- Copyright year: 2011
Conflict in Caledonia
Aboriginal Land Rights and the Rule of Law
A powerful account of how land disputes reflect complex and often competing understandings of law, landscape, and identity among First Nations and non-Aboriginal people in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2011
Principles of Tsawalk
An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis
Hereditary chief Umeek weaves together Nuu-chah-nulth and Western worldviews to revitalize contemporary approaches to the environment and the plight of indigenous peoples.
- Copyright year: 2011
Ghost Dancing with Colonialism
Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada
Drawing on history, international law, and recent decision-making in the Supreme Court, this book seeks the truth behind allegations that Canadian law continues to colonize Indigenous peoples.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Perils of Identity
Group Rights and the Politics of Intragroup Difference
Caroline Dick asks how group identity claims, especially in the courts, obscure significant intragroup differences.
- Copyright year: 2011
Nooksack Place Names
Geography, Culture, and Language
The first comprehensive study of Nooksack place names in Washington State and southern British Columbia, based on historical records and field trips with elders.
- Copyright year: 2011
First Person Plural
Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship
Focusing on the 1990s, when debates over voice and representation were particularly explosive, McCall investigates a wide range of “told-to” narratives that have shaped the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Canada, and asks what is at stake in crafting a politics and ethics of collaboration.
- Copyright year: 2011
Beyond Blood
Rethinking Indigenous Identity
Despite what the criteria of the Indian Act states regarding Aboriginal status, Palmater argues that blood should not determine belonging.
- Copyright year: 2011
Property, Territory, Globalization
Struggles over Autonomy
Focusing on sites of friction in property regimes, this book reveals that a politics of place can help local actors build bases of autonomy to withstand, and even reshape, the forces of globalization.
- Copyright year: 2011