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Indigenous Studies eBook Series

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  • Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities

    Transformations and Continuities

    Edited by Heather A. Howard, Craig Proulx ...
    Series 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 represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and ... Read more

    $38.87 CAD

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  • Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence

    Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence

    by Leanne Simpson ...
    Many promote Reconciliation as a “new” way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence and must support the regeneration of Indigenous languages, oral cultures, and traditions of governance. ... Read more

    $9.62 CAD

  • Social Movements 2e

    by Suzanne Staggenborg ...
    Now in a second edition, Social Movements offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's, ... Read more

    $22.67 CAD

  • Indigenous Methodologies

    Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

    by Margaret Kovach ...
    What are Indigenous research methodologies, and how do they unfold? Indigenous methodologies flow from tribal knowledge, and while they are allied with several western qualitative approaches, they remain distinct. These are the focal considerations of Margaret Kovach's study,which offers guidance to those conducting research in the academy using Indigenous methodologies.Kovach includes topics such ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Unsettling the Settler Within

    Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

    by Paulette Regan ...
    In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada's notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation. ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

  • Canada's Indigenous Constitution

    by John Borrows ...
    Canada's Indigenous Constitution reflects on the nature and sources of law in Canada, beginning with the conviction that the Canadian legal system has helped to engender the high level of wealth and security enjoyed by people across the country. However, longstanding disputes about the origins, legitimacy, and applicability of certain aspects of the legal system have led John Borrows to argue that ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry

    The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation

    by Frances Widdowson, Albert Howard ...
    By examining the root causes of aboriginal problems, Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard expose the industry that has grown up around land claim settlements, showing that aboriginal policy development over the past thirty years has been manipulated by non-aboriginal lawyers and consultants. They analyse all the major aboriginal policies, examine issues that have received little critical attention ... Read more

    $27.35 CAD

  • Ending Denial

    Understanding Aboriginal Issues

    by Wayne Warry ...
    There is an unconscious racism at work in Canada—an ignorance of Aboriginal peoples and culture that breeds indifference to, and ambivalence about, Aboriginal poverty and ill health. Warry examines conservative arguments and mainstream views that promote assimilation and integration as the solution to Aboriginal marginalization. He argues that we must acknowledge our denial of colonialism in order ... Read more

    $22.31 CAD

  • This Is Not a Peace Pipe

    Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy

    by Dale Turner ...
    How can indigenous people best assert their legal and political distinctiveness? In This is Not a Peace Pipe, Dale Turner explores indigenous intellectual culture and its relationship to, and within, the dominant Euro-American culture. He contends that indigenous intellectuals need to engage the legal and political discourses of the state, respecting both indigenous philosophies and Western ... Read more

    $32.39 CAD

  • Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses, biography, and social theory, Disposable Youth explores the current conditions of young ... Read more

    $68.98 CAD

  • Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage:

    A Global Challenge

    by Marie Battiste, James (Sa'Ke'j) Youngblood Henderson ...
    Series series Purich's Aboriginal Issues Series
    Whether the approximately 500 million Indigenous peoples of the world live in Canada, the United States, Australia, India, Peru, or Russia, they have faced a similar fate at the hands of colonizing powers. That fate has included assaults on their language and culture, commercialization of their art, and use of their plant knowledge in the development of medicine, all without consent, ... Read more

    $25.91 CAD

  • Restoring the Balance

    First Nations Women, Community, and Culture

    Edited by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Eric Guimond, Madeleine Dion Stout ...
    First Nations peoples believe the eagle flies with a female wing and a male wing, showing the importance of balance between the feminine and the masculine in all aspects of individual and community experiences. Centuries of colonization, however, have devalued the traditional roles of First Nations women, causing a great gender imbalance that limits the abilities of men, women, and their ... Read more

    $17.27 CAD