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2018 •
Tyler McCreary
Shared Histories looks deeply into what happened at the intersection of settler dreams and Witsuwit’en reality in the small northwestern British Columbia town of Smithers. Planted in a swamp at the base of a mountain, this railway town tried to exclude the region’s first inhabitants. This collection of hidden histories reveals how generations of Witsuwit’en made a place for themselves in town despite local, provincial, and national efforts push them, and indeed all Indigenous peoples, to the fringes.
Fitzmaurice, K. (Editor) 2018. Undergraduate Journal of Indigenous Studies: DBAAJMOWIN. Volume 3, University of Sudbury/Laurentian: Sudbury.
2018 •
Kevin Fitzmaurice
UNDERGRADUATE JOURNAL OF INDIGENOUS STUDIES DBAAJMOWIN As a publication of undergraduate papers relating to the discipline of Indigenous Studies, this journal is intended as a respectful and inclusive space of scholarly expression. We encourage submissions that engage with Indigenous knowledge and practice, and which are supportive of Indigenous movements towards sovereignty and resurgence, decolonization, environmental protection, and the reconciliation of Indigenous-Settler relations. In support of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call for broad-based political transformation embodied in its 94 Calls to Action across 22 different public policy sectors, the first nine contributions in this volume outline a diversity of challenges in the areas of race relations, health, energy production, education, and the criminal justice system while suggesting possible paths forward that reflect Indigenous understandings of respectful relations. This volume then concludes with two submissions; which focus specifically on the Anishnaabe teachings of respect, wellness, and the meaning and practice of Mino Biimadiziwin.
Getting home from work: narrating settler home In British Columbia's small resource communities
2016 •
Stephanie Keane
Stories of home do more than contribute to a culture that creates multiple ways of seeing a place: they also claim that the represented people and their shared values belong in place; that is, they claim land. Narrators of post-war B.C. resource communities create narratives that support residents’ presence although their employment, which impoverishes First Nations people and destroys ecosystems, runs counter to contemporary national constructions of Canada as a tolerant and environmentalist community. As the first two chapters show, neither narratives of nomadic early workers nor those of contemporary town residents represent values that support contemporary settler communities’ claims to be at home, as such stories associate resource work with opportunism, environmental damage, raceand genderbased oppression, and social chaos. Settler residents and the (essentially liberal) values that make them the best people for the land are represented instead through three groups of alternat...
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Partners in Success: The Simon Fraser University and Secwepemc First Nations Studies Program
2013 •
Marianne Ignace
An unusual and ambitious program constitutes Simon Fraser University's response to a 1987 initiative of the Chiefs of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council and the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society to gain control over the education and training of their people. Offered as an extension program, it leads to a number of academic credentials and is specifically designed to enhance Native students' knowledge of their history, language, and culture, while providing a solid foundation in the social sciences. With a focus on the British Columbia Interior, the program is entirely offered in Kamloops, B.C., with some provision for distance education. As well as being a successful example of a collaboration between clients aware of their academic needs and objectives and a university capable of fulfilling them and willing to do so, the program is also an academic success in terms of its adaptability. Without sacrificing any of its scholarly requirements, it has adjusted to local circum...
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Research as Guesthood: The Memorial to Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Resolving Indigenous–Settler Relations in British Columbia
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Emma Feltes
What happens when the subject of anthropological study intervenes in the research process itself? This paper explores a 1910 letter—dubbed the Laurier Memorial, written by the Secwépemc, Syilx and Nlaka’pamux First Nations in interior BC—which puts forward a robust vision for just political relations between Indigenous peoples and settlers, based in Indigenous law, mutual obligation, reciprocal sovereignty and shared jurisdiction. However, it turns out that the Laurier Memorial has implications for anthropological practice as well. As the Laurier Memorial helps anthropology to “find a place to stand,” the resulting research relationship becomes an extension of the research content itself.Que se passe-t-il lorsque le sujet de l’étude anthropologique intervient dans le processus même de la recherche? Cet article se penche sur une lettre de 1910 – surnommée le « Monument à Laurier », et rédigée par les Premières Nations Secwépemc, Syilx et Nlaka’pamux du centre de la Colombie-Britanniq...
Fitzmaurice, K. (Editor) 2011. Undergraduate Journal of Indigenous Studies: DBAAJMOWIN. Volume 1, University of Sudbury/Laurentian: Sudbury.
Kevin Fitzmaurice
Verges
2020 •
M-A Murphy
This paper focuses on a critical reading of a monument on Papaschase Cree land (University of Alberta campus) entitled 'The Visionaries', which is of two white settler men-Rutherford, who was Alberta's first premier and who introduced legislation for the campus, and Tory, who was the university's first president. How does this monument work within memory-making to strategically erase and forget? In this case, forget the Papaschase Cree. And how can this erasure be made visible? After situating this research in a brief history of the Papaschase Cree and Rutherford and Tory, I will analyze the differing ways that Indigenous geographies and settler colonial geographies interpret place and relationships with the land. A critical pedagogy of place, inspired by Jay Johnson, will be used to re-read the monument and look at questions of memory, representation, settler implication and responsibility. My hope is that this analysis can encourage people to examine relationships and geographies of power, place and privilege that envelope monuments and institutions, such as universities, and ask: Who is being remembered and forgotten, and why?
