Indigenous Poetics in Canada

Edited by Neal McLeod
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies, Poetry
Series: Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume ...

Bridging Two Peoples

By Allan Sherwin
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Indigenous Studies, Medical, History Of Medicine
Series: Indigenous Studies

Bridging Two Peoples tells the story of Dr. Peter E. Jones, who in 1866 became one of the first status Indians to obtain a medical doctor degree from a Canadian university. He returned to his southern ...

Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities

Edited by Heather A. Howard & Craig Proulx
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Urban Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities ...

Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts

Edited by Robin Elliott & Gordon E. Smith
Subjects: Music, Ethnography, Indigenous Studies

Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists ...

Troubling Tricksters

Edited by Deanna Reder & Linda M. Morra
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints ...

Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885

By D.N. Sprague
Foreword by Thomas R. Berger
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, History, Canadian History

“In this book, Professor D.N. Sprague tells why the Métis did not receive the land that was supposed to be theirs under the Manitoba Act.... Sprague offers many examples of the methods used, such as legislation ju ...

The Long Journey of a Forgotten People

Edited by Ute Lischke & David T. McNab
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Indigenous Studies

Known as “Canada’s forgotten people,” the Métis have long been here, but until 1982 they lacked the legal status of Native people. At that point, however, the Métis were recognized in the constitution as one ...

Words of the Huron

By John L. Steckley
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Indigenous Studies

Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century.
John L. Steckley explores ...

Rupert’s Land

Edited by Richard C. Davis
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Indigenous Studies

For nearly two centuries, the Company of Adventurers trading into Hudson’s Bay exported from Rupert’s Land hundreds of thousands of pelts, leaving in exchange a wealth of European trade goods. Yet opening the ...

The Moyer Site

By Norman E. Wagner, Lawrence E. Toombs, and Eduard R. Riegert
Subjects: Social Science, Archaeology, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies

The Moyer Site, the early 15th century village in Waterloo County, Ontario, contained 10 Longhouses. The largest house was the length of a football field, over 300 feet long!

Excavated in 1970–72, the M ...