Reading Schedule

Part I: Discipline and Method

Week 01/9 January:

  • Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (London:  Zed Books, 1999; rev. ed. 2012), chaps. 1, 8. PDF chap. 1  PDF chap 8
  • Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “R-words: Refusing Research,”223-247 in Humanizing research: Decolonizing qualitative inquiry with youth and communities, ed. D. Paris and M. T. Winn (Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage Publications, 2014). Tuck and Yang PDF
  • Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies (New York:  Routledge, 2017), chaps. 1, 3, 6. Sources & Methods PDF
  • Daniel Justice, “A Better World Becoming:  Placing Critical Indigenous Studies,” 19-32 in Critical Indigenous Studies:  Engagements in First World Locations, ed. Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2017). Justice PDF

Part II: Views from and of the NWC

Week 02 / 16 January

Facilitator: Dane

  • Susan Roy, These Mysterious People: Shaping History and Archaeology in a Northwest Coast Community (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010).

Week03 / 23 January

Facilitator: Vicki  Note:  Class meets this day from 11:00-12:30 so that everyone can attend the job talk.

  • Leslie A. Robertson, Standing Up With G’a’axsta’las:  Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom (Vancouver:  UBC Press, 2012).

Week04 / 30 January

Facilitator:  Nick  Note:  Class meets this day from 11:00-12:30 so that everyone can attend the job talk.

  • Elsie Paul, Paige Raibmon, and Harmony Johnson.  Written as I Remember It (Vancouver:  UBC Press, 2014). (Omit mink legends (176-183); chapter 8; and chapter 9).

Week05 / 6 February

Facilitator: Michael

  • Joshua L. Reid, the Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 2015).

Part III: Early views of North America

Week06 / 13 February

Facilitators: Paige and Coll

  • James Brooks, “Women, Men, and Cycles of Evenagelism in the Southwest Borderlands, A.D. 750-1750,” American Historical Review 118, 3 ( June 2013): 738–764. Brooks PDF
  • Julianna Barr, “There’s No Such Thing as Prehistory,” William and Mary Quarterly  74, 2 (April 2017: 203-240). Barr.PDF
  • Keith Thor Carlson, “Precedent and the Aboriginal Response to Global Incursions: Smallpox and Identity Formation among the Coast Salish,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 18, 2 (2007): 165-201. Carlson PDF
  • Coll Thrush and Ruth S. Ludwin, “Finding Fault: Indigenous Seismology, Colonial Science, and the Rediscovery of Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Cascadia,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 31, 4 (2007): 1-24.  Thrush.PDF

Week07 / No Class – Winter Break

Week 08 / 27 February

Facilitators: Paige and Coll

    • Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (New York: Cambridge University Press, rev. ed. 2010; 1991), selections.
    • Richard White, “Creative Misunderstandings and New Understandings,” The William & Mary Quarterly 63, 1 (2006): 9-14.  White.pdf
    • Philip J. Deloria, “What Is the Middle Ground, Anyway?” The William & Mary Quarterly 63, 1 (2006): 15-22. Deloria.pdf
    • Heidi Bohaker, “‘Nindoodemag’: The Significance of Algonquian Kinship Networks in the Eastern Great Lakes, 1600-1701,” The William & Mary Quarterly 63, 1 (2006): 23-52. Bohaker.pdf
    • Michael Witgen, “The Rituals of Possession: Native Identity and the Invention of Empire in Seventeenth-Century Western North America,” Ethnohistory 54, 4 (2007): 639-668. Witgen PDF

Part IV: Indigenous Modernitites

Week 09 / 6 March

Facilitator: Henry

  • Philip J. Deloria, Indians in Unexpected Places (Lawrence:  University Press of Kansas, 2004).
  • Mark Rifkin, Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination (Durham: Duke University Press), 2017), chap. 1. Rifkin, chap 1 pdf

Part V: Land, Sovereignty, Authority, and Jurisdiction

Week10 / 13 March

Facilitator: Nicole

  • Susan Hill,  The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2017).

Week 11 / 20 March

Facilitator: Rosie

  • Bonita Lawrence, Fractured Homeland: Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013).

Week 12 / 27 March

Facilitator: Elspeth

  • Glen S. Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014).

Week 13  / April 3

Facilitator: Jakub

  • Shiri Pasternak, Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).