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Are you familiar with the terms listed above? In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel, legal scholar, teacher, and intellectual, opens an important dialogue about these (and more) concepts and the wider social beliefs associated with the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canada. In 31 essays, Chelsea explores the Indigenous experience from the time of contact to the present, through five categories—Terminology of Relationships; Culture and Identity; Myth-Busting; State Violence; and Land, Learning, Law, and Treaties. She answers the questions that many people have on these topics to spark further conversations at home, in the classroom, and in the larger community.
Indigenous Writes is one title in The Debwe Series.
Indigenous Writes is a timely book…and contains enough critical information to challenge harmful assumptions and facilitate understanding. This is a book for everyone—but particularly for non-Indigenous people wishing to better understand their own place in the history of violence against Indigenous peoples, and to find ways to move toward true solutions and right relationships.
Contents
kinanâskomitinâwâw/Acknowledgments
Introduction: How to Read This Book
Part 1. The Terminology of Relationships
- Just Don’t Call Us Late for Supper Names for Indigenous Peoples
- Settling on a Name Names for Non-Indigenous Canadians
Part 2. Culture and Identity
- Got Status? Indian Status in Canada
- You’re Métis? Which of Your Parents Is an Indian? Métis Identity
- Feel the Inukness Inuit Identity
- Hunter-Gatherers or Trapper-Harvesters? Why Some Terms Matter
- Allowably Indigenous: To Ptarmigan or Not to Ptarmigan When Indigeneity Is Transgressive
- Caught in the Crossfire of Blood-Quantum Reasoning Popular Notions of Indigenous Purity
- What Is Cultural Appropriation? Respecting Cultural Boundaries
- Check the Tag on That “Indian” Story How to Find Authentic Indigenous Stories
- Icewine, Roquefort Cheese, and the Navajo Nation Indigenous Use of Intellectual Property Laws
- All My Queer Relations Language, Culture, and Two-Spirit Identity
- The Myth of Progress
- The Myth of the Level Playing Field
- The Myth of Taxation
- The Myth of Free Housing
- The Myth of the Drunken Indian
- The Myth of the Wandering Nomad
- The Myth of Authenticity
- Monster The Residential-School Legacy
- Our Stolen Generations The Sixties and Millennial Scoops
- Human Flagpoles Inuit Relocation
- From Hunters to Farmers Indigenous Farming on the Prairies
- Dirty Water, Dirty Secrets Drinking Water in First Nations Communities
- No Justice, No Peace The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
- Rights? What Rights? Doctrines of Colonialism
- Treaty Talk The Evolution of Treaty-Making in Canada
- The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same Numbered Treaties and Modern Treaty-Making
- Why Don’t First Nations Just Leave the Reserve? Reserves Are Not the Problem
- White Paper, What Paper? More Attempts to Assimilate Indigenous Peoples
- Our Children, Our Schools Fighting for Control Over Indigenous Education