Book Review: Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember
Reviewed by Karl Hele It is now 100 years since the opening of the completed Winnipeg aqueduct brought fresh water to a growing city through...
Book review: Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This is Our Territory
By Karl Hele Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This is Our Territory is a wonderful book by Anishinaabe Elder and teacher, Gidigaa Migizi (Doug Williams) as he...
Book Review: The First Nations of Ontario: Social and Historical Transitions
Reviewed by Karl Hele As a book, The First Nations of Ontario falls flat. Hedican optimistically takes up the challenge to trace the social and...
Book Review: Onigamissing: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year
Reviewed by Karl Hele Onigamissing is an insightful sharing of Anishinaabeg wisdom and teaching through the stories of Elder and academic Linda LeGrande Grover. This...
Book review: Indigenous Research: Theories, Practices, and Relationships
Reviewed by Karl Hele Indigenous Research: Theories, Practices, and Relationships, is a great recent contribution to understanding, elaborating, and developing Indigenous research methodologies. It is...
Book review: Land Too Good For Indians – Northern Indian Removal
Reviewed by Karl Hele Land Too Good For Indians offers the reader an examination of northern Indian removal that has largely escaped mainstream memory. Thus...
Book review: Two Families
Reviewed by Karl Hele Two Families is a wonderfully refreshing Nihiyaw (Cree) perspective on the Indigenous-Canadian relationship as explained by Johnson. Throughout his easily readable...
‘Indigenous Thought and Mobility in a Contentious World’ theme for this year’s CINSA
By Karl Hele For the third time since the relaunching of the Canadian Indigenous Native Studies Association (CINSA) in 2015, participants attended a three-day conference...
Opinion: Sinixt Hunting Rights decision has potential for wider impact
By Karl Hele Ruling in March 2017, that a member of the ‘extinct’ Sinixt First Nation has existing Indigenous rights to hunt, a judge in...
Book Review: This is Indian Land
By Karl Hele Drawing inspiration and its title from Garden River’s CP Rail Bridge with its message “THIS IS INDIAN LAND”, the book seeks to...
Book Review: Price Paid
Submitted by Karl Hele Bev Sellars brings us another marvelous book drawing on her and her people’s experiences with Indian policy since the beginning. While...
Book Review: The Victory With No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
Submitted by Karl Hele On November 4, 1791, a coalition of First Nations from the Great Lakes to the Ohio Valley destroyed the American army....
Book Review: Nobility Lost
Submitted by Karl Hele Christian Ayne Crouch’s Nobility Lost examines how arguments over empire, conflict, and honour during the Seven Years War (1755-1760/3) led to...
Book Review: Red Dreams, White Nightmares: Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind
Reviewed by Karl Hele Robert Owens’ Red Dreams, White Nightmares adeptly examines Euro-American fears of an Indigenous to create a Pan-Indian alliance to oppose American...
Book Review: Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
Reviewed by Karl Hele Masters of Empire is a masterful work sure to annoy many scholars of early America. Instead of following the tried and...