topic:"Indigenous Customs" found 5 records - Research Collections

Abstract: For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority. Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination demonstrates how, over the last few decades, Canadian law has attempted to remove Indigenous sovereignty from the Canadian legal and social landscape. Adopting a naturalist analysis, Gordon Christie responds to questions about how to theorize this legal phenomenon, and how the study of law should accommodate the presence of diverse perspectives. Exploring the socially-constructed nature of Canadian law, Christie reveals how legal meaning, understood to be the outcome of a specific society, is being reworked to devalue the capacities of Indigenous societies. Addressing liberal positivism and critical postcolonial theory, Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination considers the way in which Canadian jurists, working within a world circumscribed by liberal thought, have deployed the law in such a way as to attempt to remove Indigenous meaning-generating capacity. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Setting the stage -- Canadian law and its puzzles -- Differing understandings and the way forward -- Remarks on theorizing and method -- Problems with theorizing about the law -- Liberal positivism and aboriginal rights -- Characterizing and defining 'existing' aboriginal rights -- The place of aboriginal rights in Canada -- Postcolonial theory and aboriginal law.

ISBN: 9781442628991

Accession Number: P2023.12

Call Number: 07.2 C46c

Collection: Archives Library

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Carrying the burden of peace : reimagining Indigenous masculinities through story

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2021

Author: McKegney, Sam

Publisher: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press

Call Number: 07.2 M19c

Author: McKegney, Sam

Publisher: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: xxxiii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Customs; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Traditions; Masculinity; Canada; History

Abstract: Through rigorous engagement with Indigenous literary art, Carrying the Burden of Peace highlights the decolonial potential of Indigenous masculinities. Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honour song--one that celebrates rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic? Carrying the Burden of Peace answers affirmatively. Countering the perception that masculinity has been so contaminated as to be irredeemable, the book explores Indigenous literary art for understandings of masculinity that exceed the impoverished inheritance of colonialism. Carrying the Burden of Peace weaves together stories of Indigenous life, love, eroticism, pain, and joy to map the contours of diverse, empowered, and non-dominant Indigenous masculinities. It is from here that a more balanced world may be pursued. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Indigenous masculinities and story -- Shame and deterritorialization -- Journeying back to the body -- De(f/v)iant generosity: gender and the gift -- Masculinity and kinship -- Naked and dreaming forward: a conclusion.

ISBN: 9780889777934

Accession Number: P2023.15

Call Number: 07.2 M19c

Collection: Archives Library

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Honouring the strength of Indian women : plays, stories, poetry

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2019

Author: Manuel, Vera

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press

Call Number: 07.2 M31h

Author: Manuel, Vera

Responsibility: Vera Manuel = Kulilu Pal ki, Edited by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene A. Manuel ; introduction by Emalene A. Manuel ; afterwords by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, and Joanne Arnott.

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: xii, 391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Customs; Indigenous Art; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Traditions; Women; Ktunaxa; Secwepemc

Abstract: This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact and devastating legacy of Canada's Indian residential schools, Vera Manuel wrote about it as part of her personal and community healing. She became a grassroots leader addressing the need to bring to light the stories of survivors, their journeys of healing, and the therapeutic value of writing and performing arts. A collaboration by four Indigenous writers and scholars steeped in values of Indigenous ethics and editing practices, the volume features Manuel's most famous play, "Strength of Indian Women"--First performed in 1992 and still one of the most important literary works to deal with the trauma of residential schools-along with an assemblage of plays, written between the late 1980s until Manuel's untimely passing in 2010, that were performed but never before published. The volume also includes three previously unpublished short stories written in 1988, poetry written over three decades in a variety of venues, and a 1987 college essay that draws on family and community interviews on the effects of residential schools. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction / Emalene A. Manuel -- Plays. Strength of Indian women -- Song of the circle -- Journey through the past to the future -- Echoes of our Mothers' past -- Every warrior's song -- Stories. That grey building -- Theresa -- The letter -- The abyss -- Poetry. The storm -- Woman without a tongue -- Ghosts & predators -- L.A. Obsession song -- Addictions -- Lies -- Life abuse of girls -- The woman I could be -- Fools -- Loneliness -- Abused mothers, wounded fathers -- Hunger -- The Catholic Church -- Deadly legacy -- Keeping Secrets -- Forgiveness -- When I first came to know myself -- When my sister & I dance -- The girl who could catch fish with her hands -- Two brothers -- La Guerra -- Keepers in the dark -- Inheritance -- For the child who knew -- Never ever tell -- Ottawa -- The truth about colonization -- Justice -- Beric -- Christmas inside of me -- Spring fever -- Megcenetkwe -- Dying -- Afterwords. Narrative acts of truth and reconciliation: teaching the healing plays of Vera Manuel / by Michelle Coupal -- Embedded teachings: Vera Manuel's recovered short stories / Deanna Reder -- "Through poetry a community is brought together": Vera Manuel's poetry, poetry activism, and poetics / Joanne Arnott -- Appendix. Indians and residential school: a study of the breakdown of a culture / Vera Manuel

Notes: The "l " in Vera Manuel's (Kulilu Pal ki's) name on the title page appears as the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for palatoalveolar click.

ISBN: 9780887558368

Accession Number: 2023.09

Call Number: 07.2 M31h

Collection: Archives Library

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Plants, people, and places : the roles of ethnobotany and ethnoecology in Indigenous peoples' land rights in Canada and beyond

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Call Number: 07.2 T85p

Responsibility: Edited by Nancy J. Turner

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: xxxii, 480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Traditions; Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous Customs; Plants, Edible; Plants, Medicinal

Abstract: For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples--as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials--and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs, narratives, and language. While the First Peoples of Canada and other parts of the world have developed deep cultural understandings of plants and their environments, this knowledge is often underrecognized in debates about land rights and title, reconciliation, treaty negotiations, and traditional territories. Plants, People, and Places argues that the time is long past due to recognize and accommodate Indigenous Peoples' relationships with plants and their ecosystems. Essays in this volume, by leading voices in philosophy, Indigenous law, and environmental sustainability, consider the critical importance of botanical and ecological knowledge to land rights and related legal and government policy, planning, and decision making in Canada, the United States, Sweden, and New Zealand. Analyzing specific cases in which Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights to the environment have been denied or restricted, this collection promotes future prosperity through more effective and just recognition of the historical use of and care for plants in Indigenous cultures. A timely book featuring Indigenous perspectives on reconciliation, environmental sustainability, and pathways toward ethnoecological restoration, Plants, People, and Places reveals how much there is to learn from the history of human relationships with nature"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction: Making a Place for Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Environmental Values in Land-Use Planning and Decision Making / Nancy J. Turner, Pamela Spalding, and Douglas Deur (Moxmowisa) -- Living from the Land: Food Security and Food Sovereignty Today and into the Future / Jeannette Armstrong -- Nuuc aan ul Plants and Habitats as Reflected in Oral Traditions: Since Raven and Thunderbird Roamed / Marlene Atleo ( eh eh nah tuu kwiss) -- Tamarack and Tobacco / Aaron Mills -- Xa´xli'p Survival Territory: Colonialism, Industrial Land Use, and the Biocultural Sustainability of the Xa´xli'p within the Southern Interior of British Columbia / Arthur Adolph -- Understanding the Past for the Future: Archaeology, Plants, and First Nations' Land Use and Rights / Dana Lepofsky, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Darcy Mathews, and Spencer Greening -- Preparing Eden: Indigenous Land Use and European Settlement on Southern Vancouver Island / John Sutton Lutz -- A Place Called Pi´psell: An Indigenous Cultural Keystone Place, Mining, and Secwe´pemc Law / Marianne Ignace and Chief Ronald E. Ignace -- Traditional Plant Medicines and the Protection of Traditional Harvesting Sites / Letitia M. McCune and Alain Cuerrier -- From Traplines to Pipelines: Oil Sands and the Pollution of Berries and Sacred Lands from Northern Alberta to North Dakota / Linda Black Elk and Janelle Marie Baker -- The Legal Application of Ethnoecology: The Girjas Sami Village versus the Swedish State / Lars O¨stlund, Ingela Bergman, Camilla Sandstro¨m, and Malin Bra¨nnstro¨m -- Ta¯ne Mahuta: The Lord of the Forest in Aotearoa New Zealand, His Children, and the Law / Jacinta Ruru -- Cultivating the Imagined Wilderness: Contested Native American Plant Gathering Traditions in America's National Parks / Douglas Deur (Moxmowisa) and Justine E. James Jr -- Ki¯puka Kuleana: Restoring Reciprocity to Coastal Land Tenure and Resource Use in Hawai i / Monica Montgomery and Mehana Blaich Vaughan -- Right Relationships: Legal and Ethical Context for Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights and Responsibilities / Kelly Bannister -- Ethnoecology and Indigenous Legal Traditions in Environmental Governance / Deborah Curran and Val Napoleon -- Indigenous Environmental Stewardship: Do Mechanisms of Biodiversity Conservation Align with or Undermine It? / Monica E. Mulrennan and Ve´ronique Bussie`res -- Tsilhqot'in Nation Aboriginal Title: Ethnoecological and Ethnobotanical Evidence and the Roles and Obligations of the Expert Witness / David M. Robbins and Michael Bendle -- Plants, Habitats, and Litigation for Indigenous Peoples in Canada / Stuart Rush, QC -- Restorying Indigenous Landscapes: Community Restoration and Resurgence / Jeff Corntassel -- Partnerships of Hope: How Ethnoecology Can Support Robust Co-Management Agreements between Public Governments and Indigenous Peoples / Pamela Spalding -- "Passing It On": Renewal of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Systems and Indigenous Approaches to Education / Leigh Joseph (Styawat) -- On Resurgence and Transformative Reconciliation / James Tully -- Retrospective and Concluding Thoughts / Nancy J. Turner with E. Richard Atleo (Umeek) and John Ralston Saul -- Epilogue: Native Plants, Indigenous Societies, and the Land in Canada's Future / Douglas Deur (Moxmowisa), Nancy J. Turner (Galitsimg a), and Kim Recalma-Clutesi (Oqwilowgwa).

ISBN: 9780228001836

Accession Number: P2023.13

Call Number: 07.2 T85p

Collection: Archives Library

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Sharing the land, sharing a future

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2021

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press

Call Number: 07.2 G76s

Responsibility: edited by Katherine A. H. Graham and David Newhouse

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: xi, 499 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Customs; Indigenous Peoples; Politics; Land use

Abstract: Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future looks to both the past and the future as it examines the foundational work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the legacy of its 1996 report. It assesses the Commission's influence on subsequent milestones in Indigenous-Canada relations and considers our prospects for a constructive future. RCAP's five-year examination of the relationships of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples to Canada and to non-Indigenous Canadians resulted in a new vision for Canada and provided 440 specific recommendations, many of which informed the subsequent work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Considered too radical and difficult to implement, RCAP's recommendations were largely ignored, but the TRC reiterates that longstanding inequalities and imbalances in Canada's relationship with Indigenous peoples remain and quite literally calls us to action. With reflections on RCAP's legacy by its co-chairs, leaders of national Indigenous organizations and the Minister of Indigenous Crown Relations, and leading academics and activists, this collection refocuses our attention on the groundbreaking work already performed by RCAP. Organized thematically, it explores avenues by which we may establish a new relationship, build healthy and powerful communities, engage citizens, and move to action. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: FOREWORD "We Are All Here to Stay": The Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum Marking the Twentieth Anniversary of RCAP / Marlene Brant Castellano and Frederic Wien -- INTRODUCTION -- Charting a Way Forward / Katherine A.H. Graham and David Newhouse -- PART 1: SETTING THE SCENE FOR A NEW NATION-TO NATION RELATIONSHIP -- Completing Confederation: The Necessary Foundation / Frances Abele, Erin Alexiuk, Satsan (Herb George) and Catherine MacQuarrie -- Twenty Years Later: The RCAP Legacy in Indigenous Health System Governance--What about the Next Twenty? / Yvonne Boyer, Jose´e Lavoie, Derek Kornelsen, and Jeff Reading -- PART 2: CREATING THE VISION FOR A NEW NATION-TO_NATION RELATIONSHIP -- Address by René Dussault, Co-Chair, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples -- Address by Georges Erasmus, Co-Chair, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples -- Address by Perry Bellegarde, National Chief, Assembly of First Nations -- Address by Natan Obed, President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami -- Address by Clément Chartier, President, Me´tis National Council -- Address by Robert Bertrand, National Chief, Congress of Aboriginal Peoples -- Address by Francyne Joe, President, Native Women's Association of Canada -- Address by Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada -- PART 3: POWERFUL COMMUNITIES, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES -- Thunderbird Is Rising: Indigenizing Education in Canada / Jo-ann Archibald Q'um Q'um Xiiem and Jan Hare-- Insights into Community Development in First Nations: A Poverty Action Research Project / Jennifer S. Dockstator, Jeff S. Denis, Frederic Wien, Gerard Duhaime, Mark S. Dockstator, David Newhouse, Wanda Wuttunee, Charlotte Loppie, John Loxley, Warren Weir, Eabametoong First Nation, Misipawtisik Cree First Nation, Opiticiwan Atikamekw Firs Nation, Sipekne'katik First Nation, and T'it'q'et -- Indigenous Economic Development with Tenacity / Wanda Wutunee, Fredric Wien, and David Newhouse -- Powerful Communities, Healthy Communities: A Twenty-Five Year Journey of Healing and Wellness / Caroline l. Tait, Devon Napope, Amy Bombay, William Mussell, First Peoples First Person, and Canadian Depression Research and Intervention Network -- Cultural Safety / Carrie Bourassa, Eric Olesen, Sibyl Diver, and Janet McElhaney -- What Will It Take? Ending the Canadian Government's Chronic Failure to Do Better for First Nations Children and Families When It Knows Better / Cindy Blackstock -- Art of Healing and Reconciliation: From Time Immemorial through RCAP, the TRC, and Beyond / Jonathan Dear -- PART 4: MOVING TO ACTION -- Engaging Citizens in Indigenous-Non-Indigenous Relations / Lynne Davfs and Chris Hillier -- SSHRC and the Conscientious Community: Reflecting and Acting on Indigenous Research and Reconciliation in Response to CTA 65 / Aaron Franks -- Canada's Aboriginal Policy and the Politics of Ambivalence: A Policy Tools Perspective / Daniel Sale´e and Carole Le´vesque -- Executive Summary: Canadian Public Opinion on Aboriginal Peoples / Michael Adams, The Environics Institute -- Conclusion: What's the Way Forward? / Katherine A.H. Graham and David Newhouse -- Appendix : Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future Forum Oversight Committee.

Notes: Selected revised papers presented at a conference, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Forum, "Hear Our Voice", in November, 2016, held in Winnipeg.

ISBN: 9780887558689

Accession Number: P2023.09

Call Number: 07.2 G76s

Collection: Archives Library

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