Indigenous Studies / Indigenous History

This book recounts the many and varied transformations in the history of law in Canada in the half century after Confederation.

Residential Schools and Reconciliation is a unique, timely, and provocative work that tackles and explains the institutional responses to Canada’s residential school legacy.

In a world that more than ever needs all of our knowledge and wisdom to address the developing crises around us, The Gatherings shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can come together to create mutually beneficial relationships.

Focusing on the impacts of uranium mining at Elliot Lake, Ontario, this book examines how the forces of the Cold War and settler colonialism shaped the lives of the Serpent River Anishinaabek in the second half of the twentieth century.

Providing rare insights into the doodem tradition and the concept of council fires, this book explores Indigenous law and the Anishinaabe’s holistic approach to governance, territoriality, family, and kinship structures.

The first comprehensive look at the archaeological history of the Atlantic Northeast, this book presents the archaeology of the region from the earliest Indigenous occupation to the first centuries of European occupation.

Based on decades of extensive archival research, Seen but Not Seen uncovers a great swath of previously-unknown information about settler-Indigenous relations in Canada.

Intimate Integration is an important analysis of the "Sixties Scoop" and post-World War II child welfare legislation in North America.

The third volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines Canadian legal responses to real or perceived threats to the safety and security of the state from 1840 to 1914, a period of extensive challenges associated with fundamental political and socio-economic change.

The Sleeping Giant Awakens considers how residential school Survivors and other Indigenous peoples, settlers, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada approached the question of genocide in the Indian Residential Schools system. It assesses prospects for conciliation in the aftermath of genocide.

This volume presents a history of the development of three legal traditions in Canada – the Indigenous, the French, and the English.

In Canada’s Odyssey, renowned scholar Peter H. Russell provides an expansive, accessible account of Canadian history from the pre-Confederation period to the present day.

Words Have a Past traces settler colonial narratives represented in newspapers produced in late nineteenth-century Indian boarding schools.

In Solemn Words and Foundational Documents, Jean-Pierre Morin unpacks the complicated history of Indigenous treaties in Canada.

Through an analysis of thirty-five sources pertaining to the Indian Act—addressing governance, gender, enfranchisement, and land—the authors provide readers with a much better understanding of this pivotal piece of legislation, as well as insight into the dynamics involved in its creation and maintenance.

The supposed extinction of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland in the first half of the nineteenth century is a foundational moment in Canadian history. In Tracing Ochre, Fiona Polack and a diverse group of contributors interrogate and expand upon changing perceptions of the Beothuk.