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An Aboriginal community in Northern Ontario. Public domain

Indigenous peoples, once thought to inevitably disappear, have become a force within Canada.  The recent election of the first Indigenous Premier in Winnipeg stands as a powerful example of this resurgence.  In this seminar the contributors to the BJCS upcoming special issue will discuss their contributions to 'Indigenous People and Canada’ sharing their research across topics relating to politics, history, poetry, and archeology and how they negotiate working in an area where one must always be mindful of the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism on Indigenous peoples in Canada.  This seminar promises to be a lively discussion about a broad range of topics as well as the challenges of working in the area of Indigenous studies.

The event will be chaired by Patrick Holdich (Honorary Research Fellow, UCL Institute of the Americas) and will include a session of questions and answers with the online audience once the presentations have been made. 

British Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 35.2, Autumn 2023

British Journal of Canadian Studies issue 35.2 is a special issue entitled ‘Indigenous peoples and Canada’, with guest editor Tracie Lea Scott. The articles include:

• Tracie Lea Scott. Introduction: Indigenous peoples and Canada: Indigenous resurgence, decolonisation, and Indigenous academics
• Cora Voyageur. Special  Guest Article: Not your regular 9-5 job: First Nations chiefs in Canada.
• Christopher Petrakos. The 'spiritual borderlands' of the far Canadian north: the ministries of William Carpenter Bompas and Robert McDonald in comparative context.
• Reeta Humalajoki. 'We cannot go without a National Organization any longer': the struggle to build unity in Canada's National Indian Council, 1961-1968
• Christophe Premat. Penser une ontologie décoloniale à partir du Manifeste Assi de Natasha Kanapé Fontaine (Thoughts on a decolonial ontology based on the Assi Manifesto by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine)
• Arzu Sardarli. Indigenous artefacts and oral stories

 
Launched thirty-five years ago, the British Journal of Canadian Studies is broad-based, multidisciplinary, and international, welcoming contributions from all areas of the arts and humanities and the economic and social sciences. For further information on the journal see the British Journal of Canadian Studies webpage at https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/id/72