CPSA Reconciliation Committee
The field of Political Science is beginning to engage the challenges and opportunities of including Indigenous content in university courses (Ladner 2017; Bruyneel 2012). Although discussions regarding the “indigenization” of universities were important prior to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC) Calls to Action and Final Report, such discussions are even more urgent.
Introduction
As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and leading scholarship all make clear, educational institutions, including universities, have played a major role in the perpetuation of colonialism in Canada. The Reconciliation Committee of the Canadian Political Science Association encourages all educators, and especially political scientists, to incorporate the materials from this list into their syllabi, graduate reading lists, and research agendas, as part of a broader effort to reflect upon, and challenge, the role that education has played in the genocides of Indigenous Peoples.
The materials included here are intended to counter the weight of political science’s and cognate disciplines’ scholarship on Indigenous matters, so as to privilege a liberatory, critical race, post- and anti-colonial, and/or an Indigenous feminist theoretical framework; to privilege Indigenous-led scholarship that fits with that framework or that addresses the experience and consequences of the colonial experience. The objective is to construct a curated list amenable to revision, and directed at assisting the professoriate to improve its understanding, teaching, research and supervision by developing competence on these matters and be able to more carefully engage the political science canon; and to assist student scholars to develop similar competence and comfort with these materials and this approach as they proceed in their own careers.
This is the third update, and the first major revision to this syllabus. A further update will incorporate French-language sources into the revised structure. The resource is now organized into three sections. The first section provides an overview of some major works. It also includes links to existing, overlapping syllabi resources.
The division between the second and third sections is conceptual. In law, it is now customary to distinguish between Aboriginal Law – a field of Canadian law – and Indigenous law – the legal frameworks through which Indigenous peoples organize themselves. In a similar way, this syllabus draws a soft distinction between the study of Canadian-Indigenous politics and Indigenous politics “in” Canada. The former concerns Indigenous peoples’ relationship to the institutions of the Canadian state, and is surveyed in Part Two. The latter names an autonomous, global field of inquiry into the ways Indigenous peoples’ govern themselves and seek just and liberated futures. It is the focus of Part Three.
Materials which are especially accessible (e.g., appropriate for lower-level undergraduates or other audiences with little prior familiarity) are indicated by an asterix. In some cases, texts that are key to conversations across different themes are repeated on the list.
This work is necessarily a work in progress. As work continues to be published or drawn to our attention, this resource will be periodically updated.
The CPSA Reconciliation Committee acknowledges the financial support of the CPSA and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in preparing this resource.
Acknowledgements
The Canadian Political Science Association would like to thank the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences for its generous financial contribution to this project.
The CPSA Reconciliation Committee acknowledges the financial support of the Canadian Political Science Association and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in preparing this resource.
The CPSA and the committee also wish to express their great appreciation to Daniel Sherwin (PhD Candidate, University of Toronto) and Phil Henderson (PhD Candidate, University of Victoria), whose deep knowledge of the literature and excellent editorial judgement were crucial in pulling this version of the syllabus together; and Ben Rutkowski (Communications Assistant, CPSA – Political Science Student, University of Victoria) for his technical support and constructive suggestions during the planning and development of this document and the syllabus’ site.
Joyce Green – President
Éléna Choquette
Gordon Christie
Emily Grafton
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
Matthew James
David B. MacDonald
Daniel Voth
Part One: Other Syllabi - Major Works
This section presents an overview of some major works and includes links to existing, overlapping syllabi resources.
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Other Syllabi
Canadian Historical Association. A Syllabus for History After the TRC. 2018. https://cha-shc.ca/_uploads/5d5e99b2065d6.pdf
NYC Stands With Standing Rock. Standing Rock Syllabus. 2016. https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/
CPSA Reconciliation Committee “Indigenous Content Syllabus” November 2019 update. http://cpsa-acsp.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Indigenous-Content-Syllabus-Materials-November-27-2019.pdf
Landmark Reports
* Canada Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP). Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Vol. 1, Looking Forward, Looking Back. Ottawa, Ont: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1996
———. Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Volume 2, Restructuring the Relationship. Ottawa, Ont: Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1996. and other reports.
Reports of the RCAP. https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/royal-commission-aboriginal-peoples/Pages/final-report.aspx
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRCC). Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015. http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/301/weekly_acquisition_lists/2015/w15-24-F-E.html/collections/collection_2015/trc/IR4-7-2015-eng.pdf
———. 2015a. Calls to Action. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/british-columbians-our-governments/indigenous-people/aboriginal-peoples-documents/calls_to_action_english2.pdf
Reports of the TRCC.
https://nctr.ca/records/reports/#trc-reports
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. 2019. With related documents. https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/
Major Works (paradigm-setting works on Indigenous politics in “Canada,” by Indigenous authors)
Borrows, John. Canada’s Indigenous Constitution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. AND Borrows, John. Drawing out Law : A Spirit’s Guide. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
* Cardinal, Harold. The Unjust Society: The Tragedy of Canada’s Indians. Edmonton: Hurtig Ltd., 1969.
Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
King, Thomas. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2012.
Kuokkanen, Rauna. Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance, and Gender. Oxford Scholarship Online. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Manuel, George, and Michael Posluns. The Fourth World: An Indian Reality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interrupts: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press. 2017.
Turner, Dale A. This Is Not a Peace Pipe : Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Major Edited Volumes
Adese, Jennifer, and Chris Anderson eds. A People and a Nation: New Directions in Contemporary Métis Studies. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2021.
Asch, Michael, John Borrows, and James Tully, eds. Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Coyle, Michael, and John Borrows, eds. The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Green, Joyce A. Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, 2nd edition. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2017.
Green, Joyce A. Indivisible: Indigenous Human Rights. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2014.
* Ladner, Kiera L., and Leanne. Simpson, eds. This Is an Honour Song : Twenty Years since the Blockades, an Anthology of Writings on the “Oka Crisis.” Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Pub., 2010.
* Simpson, Leanne, ed. Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations. Winnipeg: ARP Books, 2008.
Starblanket, Gina and David Long. Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous People in Canada, 5th Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Tait, Myra, and Kiera Ladner, eds. Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2017.
Timpson, Annis May, ed. First Nations, First Thoughts: The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010.
Woolford, Andrew John, Jeff Benvenuto, and Alexander Laban Hinton. Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
Part Two: Canadian-Indigenous Politics
This section highlights some important scholarship on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the major institutions of the Canadian state, with a strong focus on Indigenous authors and on decolonial and liberatory approaches.
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The Canadian Constitution and Canadian Law
Asch, Michael. On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Borrows, John. “Wampum at Niagara: The Royal Proclamation, Canadian Legal History, and Self-Government.” In Aboriginal Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays of Law, Equality, and Respect for Difference. Edited by Michael Asch. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997. 155‐172.
Borrows, John. Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Borrows, John. “Canada’s Colonial Constitution.” In The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties. Edited by Michael Coyle and John Borrows. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Christie, Gordon. “Canadian Law and Its Puzzles.” In Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination: A Naturalist Analysis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 2019. 73-129.
Coburn, Veldon. “Indigenous People and the Constitution Conversation.” Policy Options (June 9, 2017). Online.
Gehl, Lynn. Gehl v. Canada: Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2021.
Macklem, Patrick. Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Monture-Angus, Patricia. Journeying Forward: Dreaming First Nations Independence. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 1999.
Nichols, Joshua. A Reconciliation without Recollection? An Investigation of the Foundations of Aboriginal Law in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.
* Russell, Peter H. Canada’s Odyssey: A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Tully, James. Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Criminal Law, the Police, and the Carceral System
Comack, Elizabeth. Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization. Halifax ; Winnipeg: Fernwood Books Ltd, 2018.
Comack, Elizabeth, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrissette, and Jim Silver. Indians Wear Red: Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs. Fernwood Publishing, 2013.
Cecillia, Brooke. “Cloaked Meaning and Moral Craftwork: Progress and Perpetual Problems in the News Coverage of Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s Justice System.” Canadian Journal of Communication 46(3) (2021): 587–612.
Crosby, Jeffery, and Andrew Monaghan. Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State. Halifax: Fernwood Books, 2018.
Monchalin, Lisa. The Colonial Problem: An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Razack, Sherene. Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody. University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. “Criminal Empire: The Making of the Savage in a Lawless Land.” Theory & Event 19(4) (October 12, 2016).
Federalism
Abele, Frances, and Michael J. Prince. “Aboriginal Governance and Canadian Federalism: A to-Do List for Canada.” In New Trends in Canadian Federalism. Edited by François Rocher and Miriam Catherine Smith, 2nd Edition. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2003.
Green, Joyce. “Self-determination, Citizenship, and Federalism: Indigenous and Canadian Palimpsest.” In Reconfiguring Aboriginal-State Relations. Edited by Michael Murphy. Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies: Queen’s University, 2005. 329-352
Hamilton, Robert. “Indigenous Peoples and Interstitial Federalism in Canada Special Issue: Treaty Federalism.” Review of Constitutional Studies 24(1) (2019): 43–84.
* Ladner, Kiera. “Treaty Federalism: An Indigenous Vision of Canadian Federalisms.” In New Trends in Canadian Federalism, 2nd Edition. Edited by François Rocher and Miriam Catherine Smith. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2003. 167–96.
McCrossan, Michael, and Kiera Ladner. “Eliminating Indigenous Jurisdictions: Federalism, the Supreme Court, and Territorial Rationalities of Power.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 49(3) (2016): 411-431.
Papillon, Martin. “Adapting Federalism: Indigenous Multilevel Governance in Canada and the United States.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 42(2) (2012): 289-312.
Parliament, Electoral Democracy, and Political Representation
Alfred, Taiaiake, Brock Pitawanakwat and Jackie Price. “The Meaning of Political Participation for Indigenous Youth: Charting the Course for Youth Civic and Political Participation.” Canadian Policy Research Networks, 2007.
Bear, Andre. “As an Indigenous Sovereigntist, I Will Vote in This Year’s Federal Election.” CBC News (September 17, 2021). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/first-person-andre-bear-vote-fedeal-election-1.6178086.
Beauvais, Edana. “The Political Consequences of Indigenous Resentment.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, (2020): 1–28.
Hosgood, Amanda Follett. “Jody Wilson-Raybould: Today’s Politics Are Toxic to Indigenous Women.” The Tyee. The Tyee, June 28, 2021. https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/06/28/Jody-Wilson-Raybould-Today-Politics-Toxic-Indigenous-Women/.
Kirkby, Coel. “Reconstituting Canada: The Enfranchisement and Disenfranchisement of ‘Indians,’ circa 1837–1900.” University of Toronto Law Journal 69(4) (2019): 497–539.
Ladner, Kiera and Michael McCrossan. The Electoral Participation of Aboriginal People. Working Paper Series on Electoral Participation and Outreach Practices. Ottawa: Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, 2006.
Waabshkigaabo. “As an Anishinaabe Citizen, I Can’t Vote in Good Conscience in Federal Elections.” CBC News (September 17, 2021). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-anishinaabe-vote-federal-election-1.6178236.
Wilson-Raybould, Jody. From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019.
Part Three: Indigenous Politics in ‘Canada’
Part three surveys selected scholarship on Indigenous politics, understood as a global field studying how Indigenous peoples’ govern themselves and exercise political agency, with a focus Nations that now exist in relationship to “Canada.” It is organized to reflect major terms, themes, and areas of dialogue within the field; since these dialogues are constantly evolving, the labels are imperfect and provisional.
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Decolonization
Altamirano-Jimenez, Isabel. “The Colonization and Decolonization of Indigenous Diversity.” In Lighting the Eighth Fire. The Liberation, Resurgence and Protection of Indigenous Nations. Edited by Leanne Simpson. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2008. 175-186.
Christie, Gordon. “‘Obligations,’ Decolonization and Indigenous Rights to Governance.” Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 27(1) (2014): 259-282.
* Dhamoon, Rita Kaur. “A Feminist Approach to Decolonizing Anti-Racism: Rethinking Transnationalism, Intersectionality, and Settler-Colonialism.” Feral Feminisms 4 (2015): 20-38.
Gehl, Lynn. Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Spirit. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2017.
Hunt, Sarah, and Cindy Holmes. “Everyday Decolonization: Living a Decolonizing Queer Politics.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 19(2) (2015): 154-172.
Ladner, Kiera L. “Gendering Decolonization, Decolonizing Gender.” Australian Indigenous Law Review 13(1) (2008): 62-77.
Lawrence, Bonita and Enakshi Dua. “Decolonizing Antiracism.” Social Justice 32(4) (2005): 120-143.
Mackey, Eva. Unsettled Expectations: Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2016.
Manuel, George and Michael Posluns. The Fourth World: An Indian Reality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019 [1975].
Manuel, Arthur, and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson. Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015.
Maracle, Lee. My Conversations with Canadians. Toronto: BookThug, 2017.
* McFarlane, Peter and Nicole Schabus, editors. Whose Land is it Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization. Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC, 2017.
Sharma, Nandita and Cynthia Wright. “Decolonizing Resistance, Challenging Colonial States.” Social Justice 35(3) (2009): 121-138.
Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization is not a metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1(1) (2012). Online.
Waziyatawin and Michael Yellow Bird, editors. For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press: 2012.
Resurgence
Alfred, Gerald R. Wasaʹse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom. Broadview Press, 2005
Alfred, Taiaiake and Jeff Corntassel. “Being Indigenous: Resurgences against Contemporary Colonialism.” Government and Opposition 40(4) (2005): 597–614.
Borrows, John. Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Corntassel, Jeff, Taiaiake Alfred, Noelani Goodyear-Ka’ōpua, Noenoe K. Silva, Hokulani Aikau, and Devi Mucina. Everyday Acts of Resurgence: People, Places, Practices. Olympia, WA: Intercontinental Cry, 2018.
Dhillon, Jaskiran. Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Gehl, Lynn. Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human Spirit. Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press, 2017.
Kino-nda-niimi Collective, The. The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movements. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2014.
* LaDuke, Winona. Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005 [1999].
* Manuel, Arthur, and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson. Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015.
* Simpson, Leanne. Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishinaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2011.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2021.
* Simpson, Leanne, ed. Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Perfection of Indigenous Nations. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2008.
* Simpson, Leanne, and Kiera L. Ladner, eds. This is an Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the Blockades. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2010
Starblanket, Gina, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark. “Towards a Relational Paradigm–Four Points for Consideration: Knowledge, Gender, Land, and Modernity.” In Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings. Edited by Michael Asch, John Borrows, and James Tully. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 175-208.
Reconciliation
Adams, Howard. A Tortured People: The Politics of Colonization. Penticton, BC: Theytus Books Lmtd., 1999.
Asch, Michael, John Borrows, and James Tully, editors. Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Castellano, Marlene Brant, Linda Archibald, and Mike DeGagné, editors. From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2008.
George, Rachel yacaaʔał. “Inclusion is just the Canadian Word for Assimilation: Self-Determination and the Reconciliation Paradigm in Canada.” In Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal. Edited by Myra Tait and Kiera Ladner. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2017. 49-62
Green, Joyce. “Enacting Reconciliation.” In Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous People in Canada, 5th edition. Edited by Gina Starblanket and David Long. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2019. 237-251.
Grey, Sam, and Alison James. “Truth, Reconciliation, and ‘Double Settler Denial’: Gendering the Canada-South Africa Analogy.” Human Rights Review 17(3) (2016): 303-328
Henderson, Jennifer. “Residential Schools and Opinion-Making in the Era of Traumatized Subjects and Taxpayer-Citizens.” Journal of Canadian Studies 49(1) (2015): 5-43.
Henderson, Jennifer, and Pauline Wakeham, ed. Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
James, Matt. “Uncomfortable Comparisons: The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission in International Context.” The Ethics Forum 5(2) (Fall 2010): 23-35.
James, Matt. “A Carnival of Truth? Knowledge, Ignorance and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 6(2) (2012): 182-204.
James, Matt. “Changing the Subject: The TRC, its National Events, and the Displacement of Substantive Reconciliation in Canadian Media Representations.” Journal of Canadian Studies 51(2) (2017): 362-397.
Lightfoot, Sheryl. “Settler-State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples: A Normative Framework and Comparative Assessment.” Native American and Indigenous Studies 2 (2015): 15-39.
Logan, Tricia E. (2014). “Memory, Erasure and National Myth.” in Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America (Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, and Alexander Laban Hinton, eds.) Duke University Press, pp. 149-165.
MacDonald, David B. The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
* Manuel, Arthur, and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson. The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land and Rebuilding the Economy. Toronto: James Lorimer and Co. Ltd., 2017.
Million, Dian. Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013.
Nagy, Rosemary. “The Scope and Bounds of Transitional Justice and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 7 (1) (2013): 52-73.
Nagy, Rosemary. “The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Genesis and Design.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 29 (2) (2014): 52-73.
* Regan, Paulette. Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.
Stanton, Kim. “Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Settling the Past?” International Indigenous Policy Journal 2(3) (2011): 1-18.
Thielen-Wilson, Leslie. “Troubling the Path to Decolonization: Indian Residential School Case Law, Genocide, and Settler Illegitimacy.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 29 (2) (2014): 181-197.
Wilson-Raybould, Jody. From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019.
Wyile, Hannah. “Towards a Genealogy of Reconciliation in Canada.” Journal of Canadian Studies 51(3) (2017): 601-635.
Indigeneity and Nationhood
Alfred, Taiaiake and Jeff Corntassel. “Being Indigenous: Resurgences against Contemporary Colonialism.” Government and Opposition 40(4) (2005): 597–614
* Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
Innes, Robert. Elder Brother and the Law of the People: Contemporary Kinship and Cowesses First People. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2013.
Kolopenuk, Jessica. “Wiindigo Incarnate: Consuming ‘Native American DNA.’” GeneWatch 27(2) (July 2014): 18-20.
Lyons, Scott Richard. X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Raibmon, Paige. Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. “Marked by Fire: Anishinaabe Articulations Nationhood in Treaty Making with the United States and Canada.” American Indian Quarterly 36(2) (Spring 2012): 119-149.
TallBear, Kim. Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Contested Identities, Contested Belonging
Andersen, Chris. Métis: race, recognition, and the struggle for Indigenous peoplehood. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014.
Deloria, Philip J. Playing Indian. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
Gehl, Lynn. Gehl v. Canada: Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2021.
Green, Joyce. “Canaries in the Mines of Citizenship: Indian Women in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 34(4) (2001): 715-738.
Green, Shirley. “Looking Back, Still Looking Forward.” Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, 2nd Edition. Edited by Joyce Green. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2017. 274-293.
Leroux, Darryl. Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2019.
Palmater, Pamela. Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009.
Teillet, Jean. The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2019.
Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Self-Government
Barker, Joanne, editor. Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Barker, Joanne, editor. Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Christie, Gordon. “Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Canada’s Far North: The Arctic and Inuit Sovereignty.” South Atlantic Quarterly 110(2) (2011): 329-346.
Green, Joyce A. “The Impossibility of Citizenship Liberation for Indigenous People.” In Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, edited by Jatinder Mann. Springer, 2017.
Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie. Finding Dahshaa: Self-Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009.
Karuka, Manu. “Black and Native Visions of Self-Determination.” Critical Ethnic Studies 3(2) (Fall 2017): 77-98.
Kulchyski, Peter. Aboriginal Rights Are Not Human Rights: In Defence of Indigenous Struggles. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Press Books, 2013.
Kuokkanen, Rauna. Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance, and Gender. Oxford Scholarship Online. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Monture-Angus, Patricia. Journeying Forward: Dreaming First Nations Independence. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 1999.
Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, editor. Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and UnWin, 2007.
Pasternak, Shiri. Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Scott, Tracie Lea. Postcolonial Sovereignty? The Nisga’a Final Agreement. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2012.
Singh, Jakeet. “Recognition and Self-Determination: Approaches from Above and Below.” In Recognition Versus Self-Determination: Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics. Edited by Avigail Eisenberg, Jeremy HA Webber, Andrée Boisselle, and Glen Coulthard. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014. 47-74.
Stevenson, Allyson. Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.
Indigenous Organizing/Social Movements
Coburn, Elaine, ed. More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resurgence and Resistance. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2015.
Kino-nda-niimi Collective, ed. The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2014.
LaRocque, Emma. When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse 1850-1990. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2010.
Nickel, Sarah A. Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019.
Pasternak, Shiri. Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
* Obomsawin, Alanis. (1993). [Film] “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance.”
* Simpson, Leanne, editor. Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2008. Recommended Chapter: “Chapter Four: Our Elder Brothers: The Lifeblood of Resurgence”
Silman, Janet. Enough Is Enough: Aboriginal Women Speak Out. Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1987.
Stevenson, Allyson, and Cheryl Toupe. “From Kitchen Tables to Formal Organization: Indigenous Women’s Social and Political Activism in Saskatchewan to 1980.” In Compelled to Act: Histories of Women’s Activism in Western Canada. Edited by Sarah Carter and Nanci Langford. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020.
Voth, Daniel. “Her Majesty’s Justice Be Done: Métis Legal Mobilization and the Pitfalls to Indigenous Political Movement Building.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 49(2) (2016): 243-266.
Indigenous Internationalisms and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Anaya, S. James. Indigenous Peoples in International Law, 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Bauerkemper, Joseph, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark. “The Trans/National Terrain of Anishinaabe Law and Diplomacy.” Journal of Transnational American Studies 4(1) (2012): 1-21.
Chang, David A. The World and All the Things Upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Desai, Chandni. “Disrupting Settler-Colonial Capitalism: Indigenous Intifadas and Resurgent Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine.” Journal of Palestine Studies 50(2) (2021): 43-66.
Estes, Nick. Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. London: Verso Books, 2019.
Hartley, Jackie, Paul Joffe, and Jennifer Preston, eds. Realizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Triumph, Hope, and Action. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2010.
Henderson, James Sa’ke’j Youngblood. Indigenous Diplomacy and the Rights of Peoples: Achieving UN Recognitions. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2008.
Karuka, Manu. Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers and the Transcontinental Railroad. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2019.
Kulchyski, Peter. Aboriginal Rights Are Not Human Rights: In Defence of Indigenous Struggles. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Press Books, 2013.
Lightfoot, Sheryl. Global Indigenous Politics: A Subtle Revolution. New York: Routledge Press, 2016.
Ladner, Kiera and Caroline Dick. “Out of the Fires of Hell: Globalization as a Solution to Globalization–an Indigenist Perspective.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 23, no. 1/2 (2008): 63-91.
Salaita, Steven. Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. “Nishinaabeg Internationalism.” In As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2017. 55-70.
* UN General Assembly. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: resolution/adopted by the General Assembly, 2 October 2007.
Treaties/Diplomacy
Asch, Michael. On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Battiste, Marie. Living Treaties: Narrating Mi’kmaw Treaty Relations. Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton University Press, 2016.
Belanger, Yale D. “The Six Nations of Grand River Territory’s: Attempts at Renewing International Political Relationships, 1921–1924.” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 13(3) (January 1, 2007): 29–43.
Borrows, John. “Wampum at Niagara: The Royal Proclamation, Canadian Legal History, and Self-Government.” In Aboriginal Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays of Law, Equality, and Respect for Difference. Edited by Michael Asch. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997. 155‐172.
Cardinal, Harold, and Walter Hildebrandt. Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan: Our Dream Is That Our Peoples Will One Day Be Clearly Recognized as Nations, 1st edition. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2000.
* Craft, Aimée. Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty: An Anishinaabe Understanding of Treaty One. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2013.
Coyle, Michael, and John Borrows, editors. The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Henderson, James Youngblood. “Empowering Treaty Federalism.” Saskatchewan Law Review 58(2) (1994): 241–330.
*Miller, J.R. Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009
Mills, Aaron. “What Is a Treaty? On Contract and Mutual Aid.” In The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties. Edited by John Borrows and Michael Coyle. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 208-247.
* Simpson, Leanne. “Looking after Gdoo-Naaganinaa: Precolonial Nishnaabeg Diplomatic and Treaty Relationships.” Wicazo Sa Review 23(2) (2008): 29–42.
Starblanket, Gina. “Crises of Relationship: The Role of Treaties in Contemporary Indigenous-Settler Relations.” In Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous People in Canada, 5th Edition. Editors Gina Starblanket and David Long. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2019. 13-33.
Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. “Changing the Treaty Question: Remedying the Right(s) Relationship.” In The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties. Edited by John Borrows and Michael Coyle. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 248–276.
* Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. “Marked by Fire: Anishinaabe Articulations Nationhood in Treaty Making with the United States and Canada.” American Indian Quarterly 36(2) (Spring 2012): 119-149.
Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. “Respect, Responsibility, and Renewal: The Foundations of Anishinaabe Treaty Making with the United States and Canada.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 34(2) (January 2010): 145–64.
Treaty 7 Elders, Sarah Carter, and Walter Hildebrant. True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7. Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995.
Tully, James. Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
* Venne, Sharon. “Understanding Treaty 6: An Indigenous Perspective.” In Aboriginal Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays of Law, Equality, and Respect for Difference. Edited by Michael Asch. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997. 173-207.
Indigenous Political Traditions
Alfred, Gerald R. Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors: Kahnawake Mohawk Politics and the Rise of Native Nationalism. Toronto ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Alfred, Taiaiake. Peace, Power, Righteousness : An Indigenous Manifesto. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Elliott, Dave Sr. Saltwater People as told Dave Elliott Sr. Saanich, BC: Native Education, 1983.
Horn-Miller, Kahente. “What does Indigenous Participatory Democracy Look Like? Kahnawà:ke’s Decision Making Process.” Review of Constitutional Studies 18(1) (2013): 111- 132.
Ignace, Marianne, and Ronald E. Ignace. Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 Re Stsq’ey’s-Kucw. Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2017.
Ladner, Kiera L. “Governing Within an Ecological Context: Creating an Alternative Understanding of Siiksikaawa Governance.” Studies in Political Economy 70(1) (2003): 125-152.
Saunders, Kelly, and Janique Dubois. Métis Politics and Governance in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019.
Voth, Daniel. ‘“Descendants of the Original Lords of the Soil’: Indignation, Disobedience, and Women Who Jig on Sundays.” Native American and Indigenous Studies 7(2) (2020): 87-113.
Indigenous Legal Traditions
Bohaker, Heidi. Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.
Borrows, John. Canada’s Indigenous Constitution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
* Borrows, John. Drawing out Law: A Spirit’s Guide. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Borrows, John. Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Mills, Aaron. “Rooted Constitutionalism: Growing Political Community.” In Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings. Edited by Michael Asch, John Borrows, and James Tully. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Mills, Aaron. “The Lifeworlds of Law: On Revitalizing Indigenous Legal Orders Today.” McGill Law Journal/Revue de Droit de McGill 61(4) (2016): 847–84.
Napoleon, V. “Did I Break It? Recording Indigenous (Customary) Law.” Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PELJ) 22(1) (2019): 1–35.
Napoleon, Val. “Thinking About Indigenous Legal Orders.” In Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. Edited by René Provost and Colleen Sheppard. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. 229–245.
Napoleon, Val, and Hadley Friedland. “An Inside Job: Engaging with Indigenous Legal Traditions through Stories.” McGill Law Journal / Revue de Droit de McGill 61(4) (2016): 725–754.
Williams, Kayanesenh Paul. Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2018.
Indigenous Feminisms, Masculinities, and Queer and Two-Spirit Critiques
Indigenous Feminisms
* Green, Joyce A, editor. Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, 2nd Edition. Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2017.
Jobin, Shalene. “Double-Consciousness and Nehiyawak (Cree) Perspectives: Reclaiming Indigenous Women’s Knowledge.” In Living on the Land: Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place. Edited by Nathalie Kermoal, Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez, and Nathalie Kermoal. Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press, 2016.
Kuokkanen, Rauna. Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination,Governance, and Gender. Oxford Scholarship Online. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.
* Maracle, Lee. I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism. Vancouver: Press Gang, 1996.
Nickel, Sarah and Amanda Fehr, editors. In Good Relation: History, Gender, and Kinship in Indigenous Feminisms. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020.
Starblanket, Gina. “Being Indigenous Feminists: Resurgences Against Contemporary Patriarchy.” In Making Space for Indigenous Feminism. Edited by Joyce A. Green, 2nd Edition. Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2017.
Starblanket, Gina. “Transforming the Gender Divide? Deconstructing Femininity and Masculinity in Indigenous Politics.” In Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities?: Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow. Edited by Fiona MacDonald and Alexandra Dobrowolsky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.
Indigenous Masculinities
Cannon, Martin J. Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019.
Innes, Robert Alexander, and Kim Anderson, editors. Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, and Regeneration. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2015.
McKegney, Sam, editor. Masculindians: Conversations about Indiganous Manhood. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014.
Mucina, Devi Dee. Ubuntu Relational Love: Decolonizing Black Masculinities. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2019.
Starblanket, Gina. “Transforming the Gender Divide? Deconstructing Femininity and Masculinity in Indigenous Politics.” In Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities?: Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow. Edited by Fiona MacDonald and Alexandra Dobrowolsky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.
Indigenous Queer and Two-Spirit Critiques
Belcourt, Billy-Ray. A History of My Brief Body. Toronto: Random House, 2021.
Justice, Daniel Heath. “Notes Toward a Theory of Anomaly.” A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 16(1-2) (2010): 207-242.
Rifkin, Mark. The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writings in the Era of Self-Determination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Territoriality
* Basso, Keith H. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
Coulthard, Glen, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. “Grounded Normativity / Place-Based Solidarity.” American Quarterly 68(2) (2016): 249–55.
* Coulthard, Glen. “Place Against Empire: Understanding Indigenous Anti-Colonialism.” Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action 4(2) (2010): 79-83.
Deloria, Vine. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. Third Edition, 30th Anniversary Edition. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003.
* Goeman, Mishuana. “From Place to Territories and Back Again: Centering Storied Land in the Discussion of Indigenous Nation-Building.” International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies 1(1) (2008): 23–34.
Goeman, Mishuana. Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Harris, Cole. Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002.
McGregor, Deborah. “Coming Full Circle: Indigneous Knowledge, Environment, and Our Future.” American Indian Quarterly 28(3/4) (Summer-Autumn 2004): 385-410.
Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Nadasdy, Paul. “Imposing Territoriality: First Nation Land Claims and the Transformation of Human-Environment Relations in the Yukon.” In Ice Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental History. Edited by Stephen Bocking and Brad Martin, 1st ed. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2017. 333–76.
Nadasdy, Paul. “Boundaries among Kin: Sovereignty, the Modern Treaty Process, and the Rise of Ethno-Territorial Nationalism among Yukon First Nations.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 54(3) (July 2012): 499–532.
Pasternak, Shiri. Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
* Savage, Candace. A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2012.
* Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. “Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3(3) (November 21, 2014).
Simpson, Leanne. “Theorizing Resurgence from within Nishnaabeg Thought.” In Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2011.
* Union of BC Indian Chiefs. Stolen Lands, Broken Promises: Researching the Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 2nd Edition. Vancouver: Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, 2005.
Watts, Vanessa. “Indigenous Place-Thought and Agency Amongst Humans and Non Humans (First Woman and Sky Woman Go On a European World Tour!)” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 2(1) (May 4, 2013).
Voth, Daniel; Loyer, Jessie. “Why Calgary isn’t Métis Territory: Jigging Towards an Ethic of Reciprocal Visiting.” In Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada 5th edition. Eds. Gina Starblanket and David Long with Olive Patricia Dickason. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Climate Change and Environmental Justice
WEA and NYSHM. The Violence on the Land, Violence on Our Bodies. Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence. Toronto: Women’s Earth Alliance and Native Youth Sexual Health Network, 2016.
Whyte, Kyle. “Indigenous Climate Change Studies : Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene.” English Language Notes 55(1) (2017): 153–62.
Whyte, Kyle. “Too Late for Indigenous Climate Justice: Ecological and Relational Tipping Points.” WIREs Climate Change 11(1) (2020): e603.
Settler Colonialism
Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Daschuk, James. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2013.
Harris, Cole. A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020.
Kelley, Robin DG. “The Rest of Us: Rethinking Settler and Native.” American Quarterly 69(2) (June 2017): 267-276.
Macoun, Alissa, and Elizabeth Strakosch. “The Ethical Demands of Settler Colonial Theory.” Settler Colonial Studies 3(2) (2013): 426-433.
MacDonald, David B. “Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools: Canadian History through the Lens of the UN Genocide Convention.” In Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America. Edited by Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, and Alexander Laban Hinton. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. 306-324.
Nichols, Robert. “Indigeneity and the Settler Contract Today.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 39(2) (February 2013): 165–86.
Nichols, Robert. Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2020.
Pasternak, Shiri. “Jurisdiction and Settler Colonialism: Where Do Laws Meet?” Canadian Journal of Law & Society/La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société 29(2) (August 2014): 145–61.
Razack, Sherene H. “Colonization: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.” In Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada. Edited by Andrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron, and Audrey Kobayashi. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011. 264-271.
Russell, Peter H. Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism. University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Schmidt, Jeremy J. “Dispossession by Municipalization: Property, Pipelines, and Divisions of Power in Settler Colonial Canada.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, January 27, 2022.
Simpson, Audra. “The State Is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty.” Theory & Event 19(4) (2016). Online.
* Snelgrove, Corey, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, and Jeff Corntassel. “Unsettling settler colonialism: The discourse and politics of settlers, and solidarity with Indigenous nations.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 3(2) (2014): 1-32.
Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. “Criminal Empire: The Making of the Savage in a Lawless Land.” Theory & Event 19(4) (2016). Online.
Thobani, Sunera. Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Veracini, Lorenzo. “Introducing: Settler Colonial Studies” Settler Colonial Studies 1 (2011): 1-12.
Wildcat, Matthew. “Fearing social and Cultural Death: Genocide and Elimination in Settler Colonial Canada-An Indigenous Perspective.” Journal of Genocide Research 17(4) (2015): 391-409.
* Wolfe, Patrick. “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.” Journal of Genocide Research 8(4) (2006): 387–409.
Wolfe, Patrick. Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology : The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event. Washington, DC: Cassell, 1999.
Settler Capitalism
Adams, Howard. Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View. Edmonton: Fifth House Publishers, 1989.
Altamirano-Jimenez, “Isabel. Free Mining Body Land and the Reproduction of Indigenous Life.” In Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities: Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow, ed. Fiona MacDonald and Alexandra Dobrowolsky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.
Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
* Coulthard, Glen. “For Our Nations to Live, Capitalism Must Die.” Unsettling America. 2013.
Kuokkanen, Rauna. “From Indigenous Economies to Market-Based Self-Governance: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 44(2) (2011): 275–297.
Pasternak, Shiri. “Assimilation and Partition: How Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism Co-Produce the Borders of Indigenous Economies.” South Atlantic Quarterly 119(2) (2020): 301–24.
Pasternak, Shiri. “How Capitalism Will Save Colonialism: The Privatization of Reserve Lands in Canada.” Antipode 47(1) (2015): 179-196.
Pasternak, Shiri, and Tia Dafnos. “How Does a Settler State Secure the Circuitry of Capital?” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(4) (2018). 739-757.
* Red Nation, The. The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth. Brooklyn, NY: Common Notions, 2021.
Shipley, Tyler A. Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2020.
Stanley, Anna. “Aligning against Indigenous Jurisdiction: Worker Saving, Colonial Capital, and the Canada Infrastructure Bank.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37(6) (2019): 1138-1156.
Toews, Owen. Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2018.
Colonization as Gender- and Sex-Based Violence
*Amnesty International. Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in Canada. 2004.
*Deer, Sarah. The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Eberts, Mary. “Victoria’s Secret: How to Make Population of Prey.” In Indivisible: Indigenous Human Rights. Edited by Joyce Green. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2014. 144-165.
Kuokkanen, Rauna. “Confronting Violence: Indigenous Women, Self-Determination and International Human Rights.” In Indivisible: Indigenous Human Rights. Edited by Joyce Green. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2014. 126-143.
Razack, Sherene H. “Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George.” In Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society. Edited by Sherene H Razack. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2008. 121-156
Simpson, Audra. “The State Is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty.” Theory & Event 19(4) (October 12, 2016). Online.
Snyder, Emily, Val Napoleon, and John Borrows. “Gendered Violence: Resources from Indigenous Legal Orders,” UBC Law Review 48(1) (2015): 593-655.
Race, Anti-Racism and Racialization
Bhandar, Brenna. Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
Chang, David A. The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Day, Iyko. Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Dhamoon, Rita. Identity/Difference Politics: How Difference is Produced, and Why it Matters. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009.
Dhamoon, Rita and Yasmeen Abu-Laban. “Dangerous (Internal) Foreigners and Nation-Building: The Case of Canada.” International Political Science Review 30(2) (2009): 163-183.
Forbes, Jack D. Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples, 2nd Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993 [1988].
King, Tiffany Lethabo. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formation of Black and Native Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
King, Tiffany Lethabo, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith, editors. Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
LaRocque, Emma. Defeathering the Indian. Ottawa: Book Society of Canada, 1975.
LaRocque, Emma. When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse 1850-1990. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2010.
Nath, Nisha. “Defining Narratives of Identity in Canadian Political Science: Accounting for the Absence of Race.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 44(1) (March 2011): 161-193.
* Phung, Melissa. “Are People of Colour Settler Too?” In Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity. Edited by Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, and Mike DeGagné. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2011.
Stevenson, Allyson. Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.
Wolfe, Patrick. “Land, Labor, and Difference: Elementary Structures of Race.” The American Historical Review 106(3) (June 2001): 866-905.
Indigenous Methodologies
* Absolon, Kathleen E. Kaandossiwin: How We Come to Know. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2011.
Archibald, Jo-ann. Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008.
Friedland, Hadley and Val Napoleon. “Gathering the threads: developing a methodology for researching and rebuilding Indigenous legal traditions.” Lakehead Law Journal 1(1) (2015): 16-44.
Grande, Sandy. Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought. Lanham: MD Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.
Hunt, Dallas. “Nikîkîwân 1: Contesting Settler Colonial Archives through Indigenous Oral History.” Canadian Literature 230/231 (Autumn 2016): 25-42.
Jobin, Shalene. “Double-Consciousness and Nehiyawak (Cree) Perspectives: Reclaiming Indigenous Women’s Knowledge.” In Living on the Land: Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place. Edited by Nathalie Kermoal, Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez, and Nathalie Kermoal. Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press, 2016.
* Kovach, Margaret. Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations and Contexts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. “Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3(3) (November 21, 2014). Online.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. New York: Zed Books, 1999.
Starblanket, Gina. “Complex Accountabilities: Deconstructing “the Community” and Engaging Indigenous Feminist Research Methods.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42(4) (2019): 1-15.
Tuck, Eve and K. Wayne Yang. “Unbecoming claims: Pedagogies of refusal in qualitative research.” Qualitative Inquiry 20(6) (2014): 811‐818.
Walter, Maggie and Chris Andersen. Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Research Methodology. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2013.
* Wildcat, Matthew, Mandee McDonald, Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, and Glen Coulthard. “Learning from the Land: Indigenous Land Based Pedagogy and Decolonization.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3(3) (December 1, 2014). Online.
* Wilson, Shawn. Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2009.
Critiquing Political Science
Abu-Laban, Yasmeen. “Narrating Canadian Political Science: History Revisited.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 50(4) (2017): 895-919.
Allard-Tremblay, Yann, and Elaine Coburn. “The Flying Heads of Settler Colonialism; or the Ideological Erasures of Indigenous Peoples in Political Theorizing.” Political Studies (June 9, 2021). Online.
Bruyneel, Kevin. “Social Science and the Study of Indigenous People’s Politics.” In Oxford Handbook of Indigenous People’s Politics. Edited by José Antonio Lucero, Dale Turner, and Donna Lee VanCott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Ferguson, Kennan. “Why Does Political Science Hate American Indians?” Perspectives on Politics 14(4) (December 2016): 1029–38.
Georgis, Mariam, and Nicole V.T. Lugosi. “(Re)Inserting Race and Indigeneity in International Relations Theory: A Post-Colonial Approach.” Global Change, Peace & Security 26, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 71–83. https://doi.org/10.1080/14781158.2014.867845.
* Ladner, Kiera L. “Taking the Field: 50 Years of Indigenous Politics in the CJPS.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 50(1) (2017): 163–179.
Nath, Nisha. “Defining Narratives of Identity in Canadian Political Science: Accounting for the Absence of Race.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 44(1) (March 2011): 161-193.
Critiquing the University
Henry, Frances, Enaski Dua, Carl E. James Audrey Kobayashi, Peter Li, Howard Ramos, and Malinda S. Smith, editors. The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. Recommended Chapter: “A Dirty Dozen: Unconscious Race and Gender Biases in the Academy.”
Gaudry, Adam, and Danielle Lorenz. “Indigenization as Inclusion, Reconciliation, and Decolonization: Navigating the Different Visions for Indigenizing the Canadian Academy.” AlterNative 14(3) (2018): 218–227.
Green, Joyce A. “Transforming at the Margins of the Academy.” In Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra: Challenging the Chill, edited by Elena Hannah, Linda Paul, and Swani Vethamany-Globus, 85–91. McGill-Queen’s Press – MQUP, 2002.
Kuokkanen, Rauna. Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes and the Logic of the Gift. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.
Monture-Angus, Patricia. “On Being Homeless: Aboriginal Experiences in Academic Spaces.” In Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra: Challenging the Chill, edited by Elena Hannah, Linda Paul, and Swani Vethamany-Globus, 168–73. McGill-Queen’s Press – MQUP, 2002.
Monture-Angus, Patricia. Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks. First Edition. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 1995.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London: Zed Books Ltd., 1999.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, Eve Tuck, and K. Wayne Yang, eds. Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education: Mapping the Long View. New York: Routledge, 2019.