Michael A. Robidoux. Stickhandling through the Margins: First Nations Hockey in Canada. (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2012, Pp. 176, ISBN 978-1-4426-1338-6)

Canada's Iron Creek meteorite, a 320 lb (145 kg) Group IIIAB medium octahedrite iron, was long venerated by the First Nations in Alberta as their sacred Manitou Stone, but it was taken without authority from them by Methodist missionaries in 1866. That began the meteorite's long odyssey, as it was transferred first to the Methodist Mission in Victoria (now Pakan) Alberta; then to the Red River Mission in Winnipeg, Manitoba; then to the Wesleyan Methodist Church's Mission Rooms in Toronto, Ontario; then to Victoria College in Cobourg, Ontario; then to the campus of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario; then to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto; and finally to the Provincial Museum of Alberta (now the Royal Alberta Museum) in Edmonton. In recent years, a First Nations movement to repatriate the meteorite to a place near its original find site has been initiated. As of now, the meteorite remains on display at the Royal Alberta Museum's Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture, where it is a prized showpiece. The present paper explores the curious history and cultural significance of this fabled meteorite, its long odyssey, the issues surrounding the claims for its repatriation, the Royal Alberta Museum's present policy, and a possible way forward.

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Indigenous Librarianship: Interview with Jeff Kiyoshk Ross

The iJournal: Graduate Student Journal of the Faculty of Information ◽

10.33137/ijournal.v6i1.35268 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Lo Humeniuk ◽

Jeff Kiyoshk Ross

Keyword(s):

First Nations ◽

Traditional Knowledge ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

The University

Jeff Kiyoshk Ross is an Anishinaabe Ojibway educator and the Resource Centre Coordinator at First Nations House at the University of Toronto, which currently houses a small non-circulating library of books as well as documents and other materials. In this interview conducted in the fall of 2019, he spoke of his role, the balance and distinctions between traditional knowledge and Western pedagogy, programming, curating, and more.

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A Glimmer of Hope: A Review of Recent Works on the Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Settler SocietyCompact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada. By J.R. Miller. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 448 pp. $35.00 (paper) ISBN 9780802095152.Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land. By Hans M. Carlson. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. 344 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 9780774814942. $34.95 (paper) ISBN 9780774814959.The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915. By Sarah Carter. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press and Athabasca University Press, 2008. 383 pp. $34.95 (paper) ISBN 9780888644909.The Indian Commissioners: Agents of the State and Indian Policy in Canada’s Prairie West, 1873-1932. By Brian Titley. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2009. 266 pp. $39.95 (cloth) ISBN 9780888644893.Lament for a First Nation: The Williams Treaties of Southern Ontario. By Peggy Blair. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. 352 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 9780774815123. $34.95 (paper) ISBN 9780774815130.Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925. By Douglas C. Harris. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. 256 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 9780774814195. $34.95 (paper) ISBN 9780774814201.Lines Drawn upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands. Ed. Karl S. Hele. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008. 378 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 9781554580040.Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations. By John Sutton Lutz. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. 448 pp. $85.00 (cloth) ISBN 9780774811392. $34.95 (paper) ISBN 9780774811408.The Red Indians: An Episodic, Informal Collection of Tales from the History of Aboriginal People’s Struggles in Canada. By Peter Kulchyski. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2007. 158 pp. $19.95 (paper) ISBN 9781894037259.

Journal of Canadian Studies ◽

10.3138/jcs.44.2.219 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 219-229

Author(s):

Keith Smith

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

First Nations ◽

Indian Policy ◽

Fishing Rights ◽

University Of Alberta ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

University Of British Columbia ◽

James Bay Cree ◽

History Of ◽

Prairie West

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After This, Nothing Happened: Indigenous Academic Writing and Chickadee Peoples’ Words

First Peoples Child & Family Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal Honouring the Voices, Perspectives, and Knowledges of First Peoples ◽

10.7202/1069338ar ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 144-151 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Steve Koptie

Keyword(s):

First Nations ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Academic Writing ◽

Aboriginal People ◽

Indian Reservations ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

Lee Maracle ◽

Positive Identity ◽

Special Programs ◽

Self Discovery

Canadian Indigenous scholars valiantly search for stores of resilience and strength in contemporary Canada to demystify the tragic place of Indians in Canada. It is very much a journey of self-discovery and recovery of a positive identity and lost human dignity that allows the restoration of pride to succeed with the gifts Creation provides to Indigenous peoples. Cook- Lynn (2007) addresses this quest to locate safe places of connecting to those stories in her important work Anti-Indianism in Modern America: Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth, where she writes about the obligation of Indigenous scholars to project strong voices to people who “believe in the stereotypical assumption that Indians are ‘damned’.. vanished, or pathetic remnants of a race” and “let’s get rid of Indian reservations” or “let’s abrogate Indian treaties.” Instead of feeling inspired to find places of good will far too much energy is sapped escaping spaces of hate, indifference and inexcusable innocence. The cultural, historical and social confusion of a one-sided portrayal of Canadian colonization creates for researchers/witnesses at all levels of education huge gaps in understanding the unresolved pain and injury of Canada’s colonial past on Canada’s First Nations. Indigenous peoples are invisible in most areas of academic study, normally relegated to special programs like Aboriginal Studies as if Indigenous world-views, knowledge, culture and vision for Canada’s future required mere comma’s in course material that feel like “oh yea, then there are aboriginal people who feel” that stand for inclusion but feel like after thoughts only if a visible “Indian” finds a seat in the class. Indigenous students’ experience within the academy has is often a ‘Dickenish’ tale. It is a tale of two extremes; the best of times and the worst of times mostly simultaneously as each glorious lesson learned carries the lonely burden of responsibility to challenge the shame and humiliation of each racist, ignorant and arrogant colonial myth perpetuated. Like Oliver Twist we want more. This paper was conceived out of an invitation by Indigenous author Lee Maracle at the 2009 University of Toronto SAGE (Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement) writing retreat where Lee and the Cree Elder Pauline Shirt spun webs of stories to encourage Indigenous scholars to explore and express our survival of vicious, traumatic and intentional cultural upheavals.

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