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Author Vowel, Chelsea, author

Title Indigenous writes : a guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit issues in Canada / Chelsea Vowel
Published Winnipeg, MB, Canada : HighWater Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps, portraits
Series The Debwe series
Debwe series.
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 THE TERMINOLOGY OF RELATIONSHIPS -- 1. Just Don't Call Us Late for Supper -- Names for Indigenous Peoples -- 2. Settling on a Name -- Names for Non-Indigenous Canadians -- pt. 2 CULTURE AND IDENTITY -- 3. Got Status? -- Indian Status in Canada -- 4. You're Metis? Which of Your Parents Is an Indian? -- Metis Identity -- 5. Feel the Inukness -- Inuit Identity -- 6. Hunter-Gatherers or Trapper-Harvesters? -- Why Some Terms Matter -- 7. Allowably Indigenous: To Ptarmigan or Not to Ptarmigan -- When Indigeneity Is Transgressive -- 8. Caught in the Crossfire of Blood-Quantum Reasoning -- Popular Notions of Indigenous Purity -- 9. What Is Cultural Appropriation? -- Respecting Cultural Boundaries -- 10. Check the Tag on That "Indian" Story -- How to Find Authentic Indigenous Stories -- 11. Icewine, Roquefort Cheese, and the Navajo Nation -- Indigenous Use of Intellectual Property Laws -- 12. All My Queer Relations -- Language, Culture, and Two-Spirit Identity -- pt. 3 MYTH-BUSTING -- 13. The Myth of Progress -- 14. The Myth of the Level Playing Field -- 15. The Myth of Taxation -- 16. The Myth of Free Housing -- 17. The Myth of the Drunken Indian -- 18. The Myth of the Wandering Nomad -- 19. The Myth of Authenticity -- pt. 4 STATE VIOLENCE -- 20. Monster -- The Residential-School Legacy -- 21. Our Stolen Generations -- The Sixties and Millennial Scoops -- 22. Human Flagpoles -- Inuit Relocation -- 23. From Hunters to Farmers -- Indigenous Farming on the Prairies -- 24. Dirty Water, Dirty Secrets -- Drinking Water in First Nations Communities -- 25. No Justice, No Peace -- The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples -- pt. 5 LAND, LEARNING, LAW, AND TREATIES -- 26. Rights? What Rights? -- Doctrines of Colonialism -- 27. Treaty Talk -- The Evolution of Treaty-Making in Canada -- 28. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same -- Numbered Treaties and Modern Treaty-Making -- 29. Why Don't First Nations Just Leave the Reserve? -- Reserves Are Not the Problem -- 30. White Paper, What Paper? -- More Attempts to Assimilate Indigenous Peoples -- 31. Our Children, Our Schools -- Fighting for Control Over Indigenous Education
Summary "In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel initiates myriad conversations about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada. An advocate for Indigenous worldviews, the author discusses the fundamental issues--the terminology of relationships; culture and identity; myth-busting; state violence; and land, learning, law and treaties--along with wider social beliefs about these issues. She answers the questions that many people have on these topics to spark further conversations at home, in the classroom, and in the larger community."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Issued also in print format
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Sep. 24, 2018)
Online resource; title from PDF version (Library and Archives Canada Electronic Collection, viewed July 13, 2020)
Subject Indigenous peoples -- Canada.
Indians of North America -- Canada.
Inuit -- Canada.
Métis.
Indians of North America -- Mixed descent -- Canada.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Indians of North America -- Mixed descent
Indigenous peoples
Indians of North America
Inuit
Métis
Canada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781553796848
1553796845
9781553797043
1553797043
9781553796893
1553796896
Other Titles Guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit issues in Canada