INDI 2311
Settler Colonialism in Global Contexts
Fall 2017
Topics
- more contemporary issues considered include the environment, traditional knowledge
- self-government and the changing world order. The course aims to enhance students'
- understanding of the relationships between peoples and the processes of cultural sharing
Readings
- Required: Emma Batell Lowman and Adam Barker, Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada (Nova Scotia: Fernwood, 2015).
- Emma Batell Lowman and Adam Barker, Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada (Nova Scotia: Fernwood, 2015). Chps. 1-6.
- Sherry Farrell Racette, “Nimble Fingers and Strong Backs: First Nations and Metis Women in Fur Trade and Rural Economies,” in Indigenous Women and Work: From Labour to Activism, edited by Carol Williams (Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- John Lutz, “Vanishing the Indians: Aboriginal Labourers in Twentieth-Century British Columbia” in Aboriginal History, A Reader, Oxford University Press, 2012, 277-291.
- Winona Stevenson, “Colonialism and First Nations Women in Canada,” in Scratching the Surface: Canadian Anti-Racist, Feminist Thought, edited by Angela Robertson and Dua Enakshi (Toronto: Women’s Press, 1999), 49-82. (available on the course website).
- Cora Voyager, “The Difficult Was Easy – the Impossible Took a Little Longer: Canada’s First Female Indian Chief – Elsie Marie Knott,” Aboriginal History: A Reader (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2017
- Course source ↗
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.