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Breaking new ground in Indigenous art histories, Wendat Women's Arts is the first book to bring together a full, richly illustrated history of the Wendat embroidery artform. De Stecher argues for the central role of Wendat women artists in the narrative of community events and ceremony to challenge the historical anonymity of Indigenous women.

Indigenous art. --- Women artists. --- Ancestral. --- Anthropology. --- Artworks. --- Ceremonial. --- Collectors. --- Colonialism. --- Community. --- Craft. --- Economy. --- Embroidery. --- Ethnography. --- First Nation. --- Heritage. --- Indigenous. --- Justice. --- Knowledge. --- Objects. --- Quebec. --- Seventeenth. --- Wendake. --- Women. --- anonymity.

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In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains were relatively small multicultural communities that actively maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship practices. These practices were governed by the Law of the People as described in the traditional stories of Wîsashkêcâhk, or Elder Brother, that outlined social interaction, marriage, adoption, and kinship roles and responsibilities.In Elder Brother and the Law of the People, Robert Innes offers a detailed analysis of the role of Elder Brother stories in historical and contemporary kinship practices in Cowessess First Nation, located in southeastern Saskatchewan. He reveals how these tradition-inspired practices act to undermine legal and scholarly definitions of "Indian" and counter the perception that First Nations people have internalized such classifications. He presents Cowessess's successful negotiation of the 1996 Treaty Land Agreement and their high inclusion rate of new "Bill-C31s" as evidence of the persistence of historical kinship values and their continuing role as the central unifying factor for band membership.Elder Brother and the Law of the People presents an entirely new way of viewing Aboriginal cultural identity on the northern plains.

Indigenous peoples --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Kinship --- Cowessess First Nation. --- Première nation de Cowessess --- Aboriginal. --- Assiniboine. --- Bill C-31. --- Cree. --- Indian. --- Ojibwa. --- Saskatchewan. --- Treaties. --- culture. --- identity.

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"The Dane-zaa people have lived in the Peace River area of northern British Columbia for thousands of years. Elders documented the people's history and worldview in oral narratives and passed on their knowledge through storytelling. Language loss in the youngest generation, however, threatens to break the bonds of knowledge transmission. At the request of the Doig River First Nation, anthropologists Robin and Jillian Ridington present a history of the Dane-zaa people based on oral histories collected over a half century of fieldwork. Taking a poetic form that does justice to the rhythm of Dane-zaa storytelling, these powerful stories span the full length of history, from the story of creation to the fur trade, from the arrival of missionaries to cases heard in the Supreme Court of Canada. Elders document key events as they explain the very nature of the universe and how people and animals learned to live together on the land. These oral histories, told by one of the last First Nations to experience the effects of colonialism, not only preserve traditional knowledge for future generations, they also tell the inspiring story of how the Dane-zaa learned to succeed in the modern world"--Publisher's description.

Indians of North America --- Wyandot Indians --- Guyandot Indians --- Huron Indians --- Wanat Indians --- Wandot Indians --- Weinondot Indians --- Wendat Indians --- Wundat Indians --- Wyandott Indians --- Wyandotte Indians --- Iroquoian Indians --- History --- Indigenous peoples --- Wyandot --- Tsattine Indians --- Oral tradition --- Oral history --- History. --- Doig River First Nation. --- Blueberry River First Nation. --- Oral biography --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Beaver Indians --- Dane-zaa Indians --- Dreamer Indians --- Dunne-za Indians --- Dunneza Indians --- Athapascan Indians --- Methodology

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Many argue that the Lubicon, a small Cree nation in northern Alberta, have been denied their unalienable right to self-determination by the Canadian government. In a country such as Canada, some see the plight of the Lubicon people as an enduring reminder that certain democratic principles and basic freedoms are still kept from minorities, indigenous groups in particular.The Lubicon Lake Nation strives, through a critique of historically-constructed colonial images, to analyze the Canadian government's actions vis-à-vis the rights of the Lubicon people. Dawn Martin-Hill illustrates the power of indigenous knowledge by contrasting the words, ideas, and self-conceptualizations of the Lubicon with official versions of Lubicon history as documented by the state. In doing so, she offers a genuine sense of the gravity of their lived experiences. By giving voice to the Lubicon, this study seeks to develop an exclusively indigenist framework in which the circumstances facing the people can be described and analyzed more accurately than they can using popular conceptions of native rights as put forth by the government.The Lubicon Lake Nation is a story of one culture and the pursuit of indigenous rights in Canada as told from the perspective of those who know the situation best, the Lubicon themselves.

Cree Indians --- Cree philosophy. --- Indians of North America --- Algonquian Indians --- Philosophy, Cree --- Philosophy, Canadian --- History. --- Historiography. --- Government relations. --- Government relations --- Philosophy --- Lubicon Lake Indian Nation --- Lubicon Lake Indian Band --- Lubicon Lake Nation --- Lubicon Lake Cree Nation --- Lubicon Nation --- Lubicon Lake (First Nation)

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Navigating Neoliberalism argues that neoliberalism, which drives government policy concerning First Nations in Canada, can also drive self-determination. And in a globalizing world, new opportunities for indigenous governance may transform socioeconomic well-being. Gabrielle Slowey studies the development of First Nations governance in health, education, economic development, and housing. Contrary to the popular belief that First Nations suffer in an age of state retrenchment, privatization, and decentralization, Slowey finds that the Mikisew First Nation has successfully exploited opportunities for greater autonomy and well-being that the current political and economic climate has presented.

Cree Indians --- Neoliberalism --- Self-determination, National --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Autochtones --- Néo-libéralisme --- Politics and government. --- Economic conditions. --- Government relations. --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Conditions économiques --- Politique et gouvernement --- Relations avec l'État --- Mikisew Cree First Nation. --- Première nation des Mikisew Cree. --- Indiens d'Amerique --- Neo-liberalisme --- Conditions economiques --- Relations avec l'Etat --- Premiere nation des Mikisew Cree.