Coming Home Through Stories: Indigenous and Metis Peoples from the Middle of the 20th to the Beginning of the 21st Century

Alexis E.

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This fact provides a systematic overview of Indigenous peoples fight for rights from World War One to the present. It also maps Canadian government policies attempts to criminalize those efforts, to assimilate Indigenous peoples into the settler state. The author calls for the re-writing of history to center Indigenous perspectives, stories and resurgence.

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  • Alfred, T. "First Words." Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom. Toronto: Broadview Press, (2005): 19-38. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ctheory/article/view/14533/5380

  • Alfred. T. "Modern Treaties: A Path to Assimilation." Peace, Power and Indigenous Manifesto. Toronto: Oxford University Press (1999): 119-128. https://archive.org/details/TaiaiakeAlfredPeacePowerRighteousnessAnIndigenousManifestoFirstEdition1

  • Moreton-Robinson, Alieen. "Virtuous Racial States: The possessive Logic of Patriarchal White Sovereignty and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;• Griffith Law Review 20.3 (2011): 641-658.

  • Obomsawin, A. [Director]. Trick or Treaty. Toronto: National Film Board of Canada (2014). https://www.nfb.ca/film/trick_or_treaty/

  • Sitara, Georgia. "Coming Home Through Stories: Indigenous and Metis Peoples from the middle of the twentieth to the beginning of the twenty-first century 1:· PowerPoint presentation via The University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, March 15, 2021.

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