INDIGST 1AA3
INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS STUDIES
Winter 2026 · C01
Topics
- Introduction to the Course Guest talk: Rick Monture
- Settler Colonialism in the 21 st Century: A Primer
- Red Power and the Fourth World: Intro to Indigenous Activism Guest talk: Allan Downey
- Debating Canada: The White Paper, ‘Aboriginal Title’, and RCAP
- Flashpoints and Standoffs: Violence and Resistance
- By Strength We Are Still Here: Understanding Residential Schools and the TRC Guest talk: Rob Innes
- No lecture
- New Relationships?: Treaties, Self-Government, and the Politics of Recognition
- “Slow Industrial Genocide”: Environmentalism and Extractivism in Indigenous Territories
- Flashmob Round Dance: Idle No More and the Newest Indigenous Social Movements
- Missing and Murdered: Confronting Femicide Guest talk: Savage Bear
- Land Reclamation and Re-Occupation Camps
- Decolonial Futures Guest talk: Adrianne Xavier
- Summary and Review Week
Readings
- Looking After Gdoo-naaganinaa: Precolonial Nishnaabeg Diplomatic and Treaty RelationsWicazo Sa Review 23.2
- Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois
- Settler Colonialism and the Consolidation of Canada in the 20th Century
- The Good CanadianCBC Gem
- The Fourth World : an Indian reality, 2nd ed.University of Minnesota Press
- You Are On Indian LandNational Film Board of Canada
- Chapter 1: White Paper Liberalism and the Problem of Aboriginal ParticipationU of T Press
- Dancing Around the TableNational Film Board of Canada
- Oka to Ipperwash: The necessity of flashpoint eventsARP
- What We Have Learned: Principles of Reconciliation
- APTN Reports on Residential School Denialism
- Awawanenitakik: The spatial politics of recognition and relational geographies of Indigenous self‐determinationThe Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien 60(2)
- Russ Diabo at Readings for Treaty PeopleReadings to Decolonize
- Toxic encounters, settler logics of elimination, and the future of a continentAntipode 50, no. 5
- Feather FallNational Film Board of Canada
- The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More MovementARP
- The Power Was With Us: Idle No MoreAPTN
- Reclaiming Power and Place: Executive Summary of The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- Finding DawnNational Film Board of Canada
- Reoccupation and Resurgence: Indigenous protest camps in CanadaPolity Press
- YintahCBC
- Decolonization is not a metaphorDecolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society 1 (1)
- Reclaiming PKOLS
- Conceptualizing Self-Government in a Post-Indian Act/Daniels WorldMcMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI)
- In The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism edited by Lorenzo Veracini & Edward Cavanagh
- Read: Looking after Gdoo-naaganinaa Watch: Digital Wampum – Testimony of the Iroquois
- Read: Settler Colonialism and the Consolidation of Canada in the 20th Century.” Watch: The Good Canadian
- Read: The Fourth World : an Indian reality Watch: You Are On Indian Land
- Read: White Paper Liberalism and the Problem of Aboriginal Participation Watch: Dancing Around the Table”, Parts 1 & 2
- Read: Oka to Ipperwash: The necessity of flashpoint events Watch: Acts of Defiance
- Read: Excerpt from “What We Have Learned: Principles of Reconciliation” Watch: Residential school denialism (APTN News)
- Read: Awawanenitakik: The spatial politics of recognition and relational geographies of Indigenous self ‐ determination Watch: Russ Diabo at Readings for Treaty People
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Campus Store reading list ↗Winter 2026
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Winter 2026