This course introduces students to Indigenous forms and traditions of governance from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples and the Nations to which they belong.
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Required Readings |
Battiste, M. (Mi'kmaq). 1997. Nikanikinutmaqn. In: J. Youngblood Henderson's The Mikmaw Concordat. Fernwood Publishing, Halifax. pp. 13-22. |
Peacock, T (Anishinaabe) and M. Wisuri. 2002. The Creator's Vision. In: The Good Path. The Afton Historical Society, Afton, MN. pp. 13-22. |
Porter, T. (Mohawk). 1985. Traditions of the Constitution of the Six Nations. In: L. Little Bear, M. Boldt and J. Long. eds. Pathways to Self Determination: Canadian Indians and the Canadian State. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON. pp. 14-25. |
Alfred, T. (Rotinohshonni), N.D. The People. In: Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force, Words That Come Before Else: Environmental Philosophies of the Haudenosaunee. Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force and the Native North American Traveling College. pp. 8-15. |
Required Readings |
Clarkeson, L., V. Morrissette and G. Regallet. (Anishinaabe). 1992. Our Responsibility to the Seventh Generation: Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Development. International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, MB. pp. 3-10. |
Paul, D.N. (Mi'kmaq). 1993. We Were Not the Savages: A Micmac Perspective on the Collision of European and Aboriginal Civilizations. Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, NS. pp. 1-8. |
Wa, G. (Gitksan/Wet'suwet'en). 1989. The Spirit in the Land: The Opening Statement of the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs in The Supreme Court of British Columbia. Reflections, Gabriola, BC. pp. 71-89. |
Ladner, K.L. 2003. Governing within an Ecological Context: Creating AlterNative Understandings of Siiksiikaawa Governance. Studies in Political Economy 70(Spring): 125-152. |
Required Readings |
Ladner, K.L. 2000. Women and Blackfoot Nationalism. Journal of Canadian Studies 35(2): 35-60. |
Anderson, K (Cree/Métis). 2000. The Dismantling of Gender Equality. In: A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood. Second Story Press, Toronto, ON. pp. 57-78. |
Armstrong, J. (Okanagan). 1997. Invocation: The Real Power of Aboriginal Women. In: C. Miller and P. Chuchryk, Women of the First Nations: Power, Wisdom and Strength. University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, MB. pp. ix-xii. |
Minor, T. 2002. Political Participation of Inuit Women in the Government of Nunavut. Wicazo Sa Review17(1):pp. 65-90. |
Gunn, P.A. 1986. (Laguana Pueblo/Sioux). The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Beacon Press, Boston. pp. 13-30. |
Supplementary Readings |
Kehoe, A.B. 1995. Blackfoot Persons. In: Laura F. Klein and Lillian A. Ackerman (eds.), Women and Power in Native North America. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. pp. 113-125. |
Carter, S. 1997. Capturing Women: The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada's Prairie West. McGill-Queens University Press, Kingston. |
Wagner, S.R. 1989. The Roots of Oppression Is the Loss of Memory: The Iroquois and the Early Feminist Vision. Akwesasne Notes pp 11-13.
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Turpel, M.E. 1997. "Patriarchy & Paternalism". In: C. Andrews & S. Rodgers (eds.), Women and the Canadian State. McGill-Queens University Press, Kingston. pp. 64-78. |
Nahanee, T. 1997. Indian Women, Sexual Equality and the Charter. In: C. Andrews & S. Rogers (eds.), Women and the Canadian State. McGill-Queens University Press, Kingston. pp. 89-103. |
Wagner, S.R. 1992. The Iroquois Influence on Women's Rights. In: Jose Brarreiro (ed.) Indian Roots of American Democracy. Akwe:Kon Press, Ithaca, NY. pp. 115-133. |
Jaimes, M.A. Guerrero. 1997. Exemplars of Indigenism: Native North American Women for De/Colonization and Liberation. In: C. Cohen, K. Jones and J. Tronto (eds.), Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader. New York University Press, NY. pp. 205-222. |
Required Readings |
Churchill, W. (Keetoowah Cherokee). 1997. A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492-Present. City Lights Books, San Francisco. pp. 1-19. |
Churchill, W. (Keetoowah Cherokee). 1993. Struggling for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America, Common Courage Press, Monroe. pp. 33-63. |
Mitchell, M. (Mohawk). 1989. Akwesasne: An Unbroken Assertion of Sovereignty. In: B. Richardson (ed.), Drum Beat: Anger and Renewal in Indian Country, Summerhill Press, Toronto. pp. 105-136. |
Supplementary Readings |
Stannard, D. 1992. American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World. Oxford University Press, New York. |
Required Readings |
The Indian Act |
Tobias, John L. 1991. Protection, Civilization & Assimilation. In: J.R. Miller (ed.) Sweet Promises: A Reader on Indian-white Relations in Canada, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON. pp. 127-144. |
Supplementary Readings |
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1996. Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Volume 1, Canada Communications Group, Ottawa, ON. pp. 99-132. |
Cardinal, H. (Cree). 1969. An Unjust Society: The Tragedy of Canada's Indians. M.G. Hurtige, Edmonton, AB. |
Required Readings |
Cardinal, H. (Cree) and W. Hildebrandt. 2000. Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan: Our Dream is That Our Peoples Will One Day be Clearly Recognized as Nations. University of Calgary Press, Calgary, AB. pp.5-59 |
Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council, W. Hildebrandt, S. Carter and D. First Rider. 1996. The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7. McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston. pp. 67-82. |
Supplementary Readings |
Henderson, James Youngblood. (Sákéj). 1994. Empowering Treaty Federalism. Saskatchewan Law Review, 58(2): 241-332. |
Warrior, R.A. (Osage). 1999. Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800. Routledge, New York. |
Required Readings |
Roth, C. 2002. Without Treaty, Without Conquest: Indigenous Sovereignty in Post-Delgamuuwk British Columbia. Wicazo Sa Review 17(2): 143-165. |
LaDuke, W. (Anishinaabekwe). 1999. Buffalo Nations, Buffalo Peoples. In: All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. South End Press, Boston, M.A. pp. 139-167. |
Marshall, Donald Sr. 1989. The Mi'kmaq: The Covenent Chain. In: B. Richardson ed., Drum Beat: Anger and Renewal in Indian Country. Summerhill, Toronto. pp. 71-104. |
Supplementary Readings |
Young, Iris Marion. 2000. Hybrid Democracy: Iroqouis Federalism and the Post Colonial Project. In: Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton & Will Sanders (eds.), Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 237-258. |
Ladner, K.L. 2001. Negotiated Inferiority: The RCAP Vision of a Renewed Relationship. American Review of Canadian Studies:Vol. 31, Iss. 1/2, pp. 241-264. |