topic:"Indigenous Culture" 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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Decolonizing sport

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

Published Date: 2023

Publisher: Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing

Call Number: 07.2 F77d

Responsibility: Edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field, and Murray G. Phillips

Publisher: Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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

Subjects: Canada; History-Canada; Education; Sport; Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous People; Indigenous Traditions; Indigenous Customs

Abstract: The path to decolonization is difficult and complex, and can even be contradictory at times, as when an Indigenous community enlists the same corporate sponsor that will destroy its natural environment to provide sport programming for its youth. There is no easy way forward. The Black Lives Matter movement, and their massive followers on social media, propelled forward discussions about the inequities that Covid-19 highlighted with unprecedented momentum. Indigenous people in Canada voiced their concerns in solidarity, calling attention to disparities they faced in everything from impoverished Indigenous health care initiatives to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the Canadian justice system, demanding to be heard alongside systemic change. Structural adjustments were afoot, including changes in the professional sport leagues. In both the United States and Canada, people witnessed the toppling of racist sports team names and logos in the spring and summer, not the least of which included the American Washington NFL team (Redskins) and the Canadian Edmonton CFL team (Eskimos). Clearly Indigenous people and their allies saw sport as a part of this desire for social change. This multi-authored collection contributes to that desire by bringing the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous allied scholars together to explore the history of sport, physical activity, and embodied physical culture in the Indigenous context. Including chapters that address Indigenous topics beyond the political boundaries of Canada, including the US, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Kenya, this collection considers questions such as: How can the history of sport (a colonizing practice with European origins) exist in dialogue with Indigenous voices to open up possibilities for reconsidering the history of modern sport? How can Indigenous and anti-oppressive research methodologies/methods inform the study of sport history? What are the ethics and responsibilities associated with conducting an Indigenous sport or recreation history? How can sport history as a discipline be open to the study of traditional land-based recreation? How can the meanings of "sport" be made more inclusive to include a variety of recreational practices? How can sport historians learn from histories of colonization and how can they contribute to a more reciprocal approach to knowledge formation through Indigenous community engagement? How can the discipline of sport history meaningfully support movements of Indigenous resurgence, regeneration, and decolonization? -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Ways of knowing: sport, colonialism, and decolonization / Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field -- Beyond competition: an Indigenous perspective on organized sport / Brian Rice -- More than a mascot: how the mascot debate erases Indigenous people in sport / Natalie Welch -- Witnessing painful pasts: understanding images of sports at Canadian Indian residential schools / Taylor McKee and Janice Forsyth -- The absence of Indigenous moving bodies: whiteness and decolonizing sport history / Malcolm MacLean -- # 87: using Wikipedia for sport reconciliation / Victoria Paraschak -- Olympism at face value: the legal feasibility of Indigenous-led Olympic Games / Christine O'Bonsawin -- Canoe racing to fishing guides: sport and settler colonialism in Mi'kma'ki / John Reid -- Transcending colonialism?: rodeos and racing in Lethbridge / Robert Kossuth -- "Men pride themselves on feats of endurance": masculinities and movement cultures in Kenyan running history / Michelle M. Sikes -- Stealing, drinking, and not cooperating: sport and everyday resistance in Aboriginal settlements in Australia / Gary Osmond -- Let's make baseball!: practices of unsettling on the recreational ball diamonds of Tkaronto/Toronto / Craig Fortier and Colin Hastings -- Subjugating and liberating at once: Indigenous sport history as a double-edge sword / Brendan Hokowhitu.

ISBN: 9781773636344

Accession Number: P2024.02

Call Number: 07.2 F77d

Collection: Archives Library

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Living in Indigenous sovereignty

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

Published Date: 2021

Author: Carlson-Manathara, Elizabeth and Rowe, Gladys

Publisher: Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing

Call Number: 07.2 C21l

Author: Carlson-Manathara, Elizabeth and Rowe, Gladys

Responsibility: Foreword by Aime´e Craft, Leona Star and Dawnis Kennedy

Publisher: Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: 302 pages ; 23 cm

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

Subjects: Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Traditions; Canada

Abstract: This book advances the concept of living in Indigenous sovereignty as an ontological and relational framework for settlers, particularly white settlers, who wish to initiate or deepen their decolonial/anti-colonial work while living on Indigenous lands occupied by the Canadian state. Here, living in Indigenous sovereignty refers to living in accordance with the understanding that we are on Indigenous lands which contain their own stories, systems of governance, relationships, laws, knowledges, protocols, obligations, and opportunities which have been understood and practiced by Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. Living in Indigenous sovereignty means understanding that our responsibilities and opportunities as settlers on these lands involve learning and placing ourselves in accountable and loving relationship with Indigenous lands, peoples, and sovereignty. Based on a completed dissertation, the book enacts accountability and embodies living in Indigenous sovereignty by centering the work and perspectives of Indigenous scholars, Knowledge holders, and activists regarding settler colonialism and decolonization. Thus, the theoretical and practice perspectives that point to pathways of living in Indigenous sovereignty are based largely on Indigenous sources. This work also features life stories/narratives of white settler activists for whom anti-colonial and decolonial work is a major life focus. These stories are intended to serve as inspiration and guidance for white settlers who wish to initiate or deepen their anti-colonial and decolonial work. Ultimately, this book aims to contribute to decolonial social change, particularly in Canada. I believe Fernwood would be a great fit as a publisher of this book due to its focus on confronting oppression and exploitation toward creating a more socially just world. Scholarship regarding frameworks for settler roles in decolonization has been historically sparse, although it has increased in the past decade (see complementary books below). Although most of the ideas in this book have been present in various forms in activist and Indigenous circles, the book will provide a deep and accessible exploration of living in Indigenous sovereignty and what this entails, as well as some of the tensions present in the work. Further, the approach of using extended life narratives of decolonial settler activists as a way to inspire others and illustrate the principles of the work in practice is something I haven't yet seen in book form. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introductions / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Gladys Rowe -- Settler Colonialism and Resistance / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Introducing the Narratives / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara with Aime´e Craft, Dawnis Kennedy, Leona Star, and Chickadee Richard -- Monique Woroniak / Monque Woroniak and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Murray Angus / Murray Angus and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Steve Heinrichs / Steve Heinrichs and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Franklin Jones / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Anonymous -- Orienting Toward Indigenous Sovereignty / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Joy Eidse / Joy Eidse and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Adam Barker / Adam Barker and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Susanne McCrea McGovern / Susanne McCrea McGovern and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Kathi Avery Kinew / Kathi Avery Kinew and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Rick Wallace / Rick Wallace and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- What Indigenous Peoples Have Asked of Us / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- John Doe / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Anonymous -- Silvia Straka / Silvia Straka with Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Dave Bleakney / Dave Bleakney with Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Victoria Freeman / Victoria Freeman and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Honourings / Gladys Rowe and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Conclusions / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Gladys Rowe -- Afterword / Gladys Rowe, Sherry Copenance, Yvonne Pompana, and Chickadee Richard.

ISBN: 9781773632384

Accession Number: P2023.02

Call Number: 07.2 C21l

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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Voicing identity : cultural appropriation and Indigenous issues

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

Published Date: 2022

Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press

Call Number: 07.2 B94v

Responsibility: Edited by John Borrows and Kent McNeil

Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: vi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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

Subjects: Indigenous; Indigenous People; Indigenous Culture; Appropriation; Canada; History

Abstract: Written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researching, writing, and teaching about Indigenous peoples. This book grapples with the question: who is qualified to engage in these activities and how can this be done appropriately and respectfully? The authors address these questions from their own individual perspectives and experiences, often revealing personal struggles and their ongoing attempts to resolve them. There is diversity in perspectives and approaches, but also a common goal: to conduct research and teach in respectful ways that enhance understanding of Indigenous histories, cultures, and rights, and promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Bringing together contributors with diverse backgrounds and unique experiences, Voicing Identity will be of interest to students and scholars studying Indigenous issues as well as anyone seeking to engage in the work of making Canada a model for just relations between the original peoples and newcomers.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction / John Borrows and Kent McNeil -- 1. Su-taxwiye: Keeping My Name Clean / Sarah Morales -- 2. At the Corner of Hawks and Powell: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous People, and the Conundrum of Double Permanence / Keith Thor Carlson -- 3. Look at Your "Pantses": The Art of Wearing and Representing Indigenous Culture as Performative Relationship / Aime´e Craft -- 4. Indigenous Legal Traditions, De-sacralization, Re-sacralization, and the Space for Not-Knowing / Hadley Friedland -- 5. Mino-audjiwaewin: Choosing Respect, Even in Times of Conflict / Lindsay Borrows -- 6. "How Could You Sleep When Beds Are Burning?" Cultural Appropriation and the Place of Non-Indigenous Academics / Felix Hoehn -- 7. Who Should Teach Indigenous Law? / Karen Drake and A. Christian Airhart -- 8. Reflections on Cultural Appropriation / Michael Asch -- 9. Turning Away from the State: Cultural Appropriation in the Shadow of the Courts / John Borrows -- 10. Voice and Indigenous Rights from a Non-Indigenous Perspective / Robert Hamilton -- 11. Guided by Voices? Perspective and Pluralism in the Constitutional Order / Joshua Ben David Nichols -- 12. NONU WEL,WEL TI,A´ NE T ,E E : Our Canoe Is Really Tippy / kQwa'st'not and Hannah Askew -- 13. Sharp as a Knife: Judge Begbie and Reconciliation / Hamar Foster -- 14. On Getting It Right the First Time: Researching the Constitution Express / Emma Feltes -- 15. Confronting Dignity Injustices / Sa'ke'j Henderson

ISBN: 9781487544683

Accession Number: P2023.10

Call Number: 07.2 B94v

Collection: Archives Library

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