Indigenous Studies

In light of an unprecedented constitutional acknowledgement of diverse epistemologies and stipulation making the protection and advancement of so-called 'ancestral knowledges' a duty of the state, this research provides an analysis of the uptake of...

This multidisciplinary book develops a synthesis of traditional ecological knowledge in the Caucasus region in Georgia – a hotspot of natural and cultural diversity. Traditional ecological knowledge connects the knowledge of natural phenomena with the...

Metis Rising presents a remarkable cross-section of perspectives to demonstrate that there is no single Metis experience - only a common sense of belonging and a commitment to justice. The contributors to this unique collection, most of whom are Metis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978808171Author Sherina Feliciano-SantosFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 300g

In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over marriage, self-governance, land, and labor in colonial Mexico. She outlines how, in the hands of Native...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978808782Author Bronwyn CarlsonFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Acts of remembering offer a path to decolonization for Indigenous peoples forcibly dislocated from their culture, knowledge, and land. Susy J. Zepeda highlights the often overlooked yet intertwined legacies of Chicana feminisms and queer decolonial...

The Canadian public largely understands reconciliation as the harmonization of Indigenous-settler relations for the benefit of the nation. But is this really happening? The Theatre of Regret asks whether reconciliation politics will ultimately favour the...

This book analyses the social, political and religious life of the Hyolmo people of Nepal. Highlighting patterns of change and adaptation, it addresses the Shamanic-Buddhist interface that exists in the animated landscape of the Himalayas.Opening with an...

The so-called land question dominates political discourse in British Columbia. Unstable Properties reverses the usual approach – investigating Aboriginal claims to Crown land – to reframe the issue as a history of Crown attempts to solidify claims to...

Jennifer's life is falling apart and she escapes into booze, cocaine, and junk food. When they're not numbing enough, she slits a vein and tries to die but that doesn't work either. She has to try something else. A remarkable story about addiction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855750718Author Allison CadzowFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies Press

Scholars of sociology, settler-colonial and postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and gender studies will find this book to be of interest, and, as national attention is finally paid to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, it...

From hip-hop artists in the Marshall Islands to innovative multimedia producers in Vanuatu to racial justice writers in Utah, Pacific Islander youth are using radical expression to transform their communities. Exploring multiple perspectives about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125498Author AmberFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 229g

Most Canadians know only a tiny part of the Ipperwash story - the 1995 police shooting of Dudley George. Our Long Struggle for Home recounts the history as told by George's sister, cousins, and others from the Stoney Point Reserve, which was turned into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125986Author Einar Odd Mortensen, Sr.Format PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772126006Author Sandra D. StyresFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 152g

Explores the critical insights and creative energies of Pacific Islander youthFrom hip-hop artists in the Marshall Islands to innovative multimedia producers in Vanuatu to racial justice writers in Utah, Pacific Islander youth are using radical...

In 1911-1912, French-Canadian anthropologist Marius Barbeau spent a year recording forty texts in the Wyandot language as spoken by native speakers in Oklahoma. Though he intended to return and complete his linguistic study, he never did. More than a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551647746Author Joseph GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

This book critically opens new pathways for de-colonial scholarship and the reclamation of indigenous self-definition by women scholars. Indigenous peoples around the world are often socially egalitarian and gender equal, matricentric, matrifocal,...

Miniature canoes, houses and totems, and human figurines have been produced on the Northwest Coast since at least the sixteenth century. What has motivated Indigenous artists to produce these tiny artworks? Are they curios, toys, art, or something...

Indigenous Nationhood is a selection of blog posts by well-known lawyer, activist and academic Pamela Palmater. Palmater offers critical legal and political commentary and analysis on legislation, Aboriginal rights, Canadian politics, First Nations...

In A People and a Nation, the authors, most of whom are themselves Metis, offer readers a set of lenses through which to consider the complexity of historical and contemporary Metis nationhood and peoplehood. The field of Metis Studies has been afflicted...

"Have you ever looked back at a point in your life when, had good advice been taken, it would have meant a much better future? This book offers that advice, now. Canadians who want to live well because Indigenous peoples prosper need to read...

This book concentrates on female shamanisms in Asia and their relationship with the state and other religions, offering a perspective on gender and shamanism that has often been neglected in previous accounts.An international range of contributors cover...

This book is about the presence of the absent- the tribes of Punjab, India, many of them still nomadic, constituting the poorest of the poor in the state. Drawing on exhaustive fieldwork and ethnographic accounts of more than 750 respondents, it explores...

How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley,...

This book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection.Using performance as both an object and a lens, this volume explores the politics and aesthetics of migration control, border security and refugee resistance. The...

The remarkable story of the innovative legal strategies Native Americans have used to protect their religious rightsFrom North Dakota's Standing Rock encampments to Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, Native Americans have repeatedly asserted legal rights to...

In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in Canada. From land struggles to struggles against resource extraction, pipeline development and fracking, land and water...

The term 'progress' is a modern Western notion that life is always improving and advancing toward an ideal state. It is a vital modern concept which underlies geographic explorations and scientific and technological inventions as well as the desire to...

Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including...

Habitat loss, the extinction of species, severe droughts, rapidly diminishing polar ice, hugely powerful and destructive storms - how have we arrived at such a precarious point in the environmental history of our planet? In Television and the Earth: Not...

In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these children from their families, removing them from their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771605212Author Eileen Delehanty PearkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

The American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island was the catalyst for a more generalized movement in which Native Americans from across the country have sought redress of grievances, attempting to right the many wrongs committed against them. In this...

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native...

The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers...