The thesis that follows is a work of historical fiction, depicting a time and place four hundred years ago. It was written with a point of breaking down social barriers, classifications, and stereotypes. Although binary ...

Indigenous women and girls in Canada live in a society which poses a risk to their safety because they are women and Aboriginal. The issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) has been gaining notoriety ...

Sacred story has historically been essential to the proper functioning of Anishinaabe society. These represent the ways humans should live and act in the world in harmony with others, the land, and the spirit world. The ...

During the mid-1800s, a small influx of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionaries set up in the areas of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota where the Anishinaabe people lived and travelled. A nuanced ...

After years of existing in jurisdictional limbo, the Métis have finally been handed down a Supreme Court declaration affirming that they too, alongside the Inuit and First Nations peoples, fall under the federal government’s ...

Ethnographic and storytelling methodology is crucial in the representation of Indigenous veterans and their experiences because these narratives reside at the intersection where military and Indigenous cultures meet. There ...

Completing a comprehensive survey of the education clauses in forty-one self-governance agreements between different First Nations and the Canadian government regarding educational sovereignty demonstrates that these ...

Abstract This thesis investigates issues of representation and the social identity of the colonized by conducting a textual analysis of a fictive, construct that I dub the halfbreed girl, and of the ways in which selected ...

The community of Aklavik, North West Territories, was known as the “Gateway to the North” throughout the first half of the Twentieth Century. In 1959, the Canadian Federal Government decided to relocate the town to a new ...