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INDIGST 1B03

RECONCILING WHAT? INDIGENOUS RELATIONS IN CANADA

Undergraduate

Spring/Summer 2026 · C01

Topics

  • Introduction: Reconciliation Beyond the TRC
  • Commissions and Reports: Hearing from the People
  • Whistleblowers and Accomplices: Settlers Who Refuse
  • Declarations and Actions: Successes, Failures and Possibilities of UNDRIP
  • Problematic Support: The Trouble With The Left
  • Nativism vs Indigeneity: Racism, Denialism and the Rise of the Far Right
  • Structures of Feeling: Reconciliation Beyond Policy
  • Representation or Stereotype?: Controlling Indigenous Authenticity
  • Becoming Indigenous: Appropriation and Identity Fraud
  • Conflict and Solidarity: Land Reclamations at Grand River
  • Indigenizing Institutions: Taking Indigenous Knowledge Seriously
  • Shared Futures: Decolonization Beyond the Horizon of Reconciliation
  • Group Presentations – No lecture

Readings

  • All required and suggested materials for this course are freely available through the McMaster University library or the course website. See the detailed schedule below for a unit-by-unit list of required and suggested readings and viewings.
    Recommended / optional
  • Corntassel, J., Chaw-win-is, & T’lakwadzi. (2009). Indigenous Storytelling, Truthtelling, and Community Approaches to Reconciliation. ESC: English Studies in Canada , 35(1), 137-159.
    See source
  • Barker, Adam J. 2021. Chapter 5: Revolutionary Aspirations? Social Movements and Settler Colonial Complicity. In Making and Breaking Settler Space: Five centuries of colonization in North America . UBC Press: 148-187.
    See source
  • Gaudry, Adam and Lorenz, Danielle. 2018. Indigenization as inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonization: Navigating the different visions for indigenizing the Canadian Academy. AlterNative 14(3), 218-227. Unpacking Indigenous Data Sovereignty. The Social - CTV (10 Feb 2025).
    See source
  • Group presentations in class time – please see Assignments for Course Evaluation Details
    See source
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