Native American

Following their extinction, the Beothuk came to be viewed as a people whose origins, history, and fate were shrouded in mystery. On a quest to sort fact from fiction, Ingeborg Marshall, a leading expert on the Beothuk, has produced an elegant, comprehensive, and scholarly review of the history and culture of the Beothuk that incorporates an unmatch …

“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintenden …

A controversial sport, rodeo is often seen as emblematic of theWest's reputation as a “white man's country.” AWilder West complicates this view, showing how rodeo has been animportant contact zone -- a chaotic and unpredictable place ofencounter that challenged expected social hierarchies. Rodeo hasbrought people together across racial and gend …

In the last two decades there has been positive change in how theCanadian legal system defines Aboriginal and treaty rights. Yet evenafter the recognition of those rights in the Constitution Act of 1982,the legacy of British values and institutions as well as colonialdoctrine still shape how the legal system identifies and interpretsAboriginal and …

Aimed at three main constituencies - Aboriginal and non-Aboriginalsocial scientists, government and Aboriginal policymakers, andAboriginal communities - the book has multiple purposes. First, itpresents findings from recent research, with the goal of advancingresearch agenda, and stimulating positive social development. Second,it encourages greater …