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Textbook

Ray, Arthur J. An Illustrated History of Canada’s Native People: I Have Lived Here Since the World Began. 4th ed. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.

Unit 1: Colonialism and Indigenous Peoples in Western Canada, 1830–1900

Smith, Keith D. “‘Certain Doubtful Transactions’: The Treaty 7 Region After 1877.” In Liberalism, Surveillance and Resistance : Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877–1927, 197–222. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2009.

Unit 2: Residential Schools

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. They Came for the Children: Canada, Aboriginal Peoples, and Residential Schools, 2012.

Unit 3: Indigenous Women's Agency in the Fur Trade and under Colonialism

Carter, Sarah. "A Striking Contrast . . . Where Perpetuity of Union and Exclusiveness Is Not a Rule, at Least Not a Strict Rule." In The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1918, 103–44. Edmonton: AU Press, 2008.
Berry, Susan. "Recovered Identities: Four Métis Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rupert's Land." In Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands, edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack, 29–59. Edmonton: AU Press, 2011.
Burnett, Kristin. "Obscured Obstetrics: Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada.” In Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands, edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack, pp. 157–71. Edmonton: AU Press, 2011.
Barman, Jean. "Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman.” In Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands, edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack, 175–95. Edmonton: AU Press, 2011.
Gleeson, Kristin L. "Blazing Her Own Trail: Anahareo’s Rejection of Euro-Canadian Stereotypes." In Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands, edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack, 287–311. Edmonton: AU Press, 2011.

Unit 4: Colonialism and Indigenous Peoples in the North, Central Canada, and the Atlantic Region, 1830–1900

Abel, Kerry. "War Songs, 1821 to 1848." In Drum Songs, 88–112. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993
Abel, Kerry. "Traders and Trappers." In Drum Songs, 145–64. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. Excerpts from The Old Man Told Us: Excerpts from Mi’kmaq History 1500–1950. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1991.

Read pages 207–08, 218–19, 228, 231–2, 237–41, 252–3, and 266–72.
Morito, Bruce. “The Rule of Law and Aboriginal Rights: The Case of the Chippewas of Nawash.” The Canadian Journal of Native Studies XIX, no. 2 (1999): 263–88.

Unit 5: Indigenous Peoples Confront Twentieth-Century Canada

Smith, Keith D. "In the Same Position as They Were Before Entering: Exclusionary Liberalism in World War I and Beyond." In Liberalism, Surveillance and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877–1927, 223–36. Edmonton: AU Press, 2009.
Abel, Kerry. "Canada and the Dene Nation: Society and Politics." In Drum Songs, 231–64. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.
Sangster, Joan. "Criminalizing the Colonized: Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920–60." The Canadian Histroical Review 80, no. 1 (March 1999): 32–60.

Unit 6: Indigenous Resistance and Ongoing Struggles

Andersen, Chris, and Claude Denis. "Urban Natives and the Nation: Before and After the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples." The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 40, no. 4 (November 2003): 373–90.