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Canada and Colonial Genocide

This volume offers scholarly analyses on the process of settler colonialism and its effects on the Indigenous communities within what is now called “Canada.” It covers various forms of colonial violence including residential schools, repressive governmental policy, ecological destruction, etc. (Andrew Woolford and Jeff Benvenuto eds., London, Routledge, 2017, 126 p.)

Subjects: Colonialism, Colonization, Indigenous authors, Indigenous peoples

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Contre le colonialisme dopé aux stéroïdes : le combat des Inuit du Québec pour leurs terres ancestrales

In this book, Zebedee Nungak provides his account of The Battle of James Bay from 1971-1975, where Inuit and Cree communities fought for their lands and waters against the Quebec government’s James Bay hydro project. (Zebedee Nungak, Montréal, Boréal, 2019, 181 p.)

Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous authors, Inuit, James Bay, Quebec

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Far off Metal River : Inuit lands, settler stories, and the makings of the contemporary Arctic

In analysing the way that the alleged Bloody Falls massacre assisted in shaping the colonial narrative of the Arctic, Emilie Cameron addresses the problematic notion of the North as a blank slate and the racist treatment of its Indigenous communities. (Emilie Cameron, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2015, 273 p.)

Subjects: Colonialism, Decolonization

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Impact: colonialism in Canada

A collection of both non-fiction and fiction writings by Indigenous authors reflecting on the impacts of settler colonialism in Canada. (Warren Cariou, Katherena Vermette, Niigaan James Sinclair eds, Winnipeg, Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc., 2017, 198 p. )

Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous authors

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Keetsahnak: our missing and murdered indigenous sisters

With essays from Indigenous women, this book analyses colonial violence within what is now called “Canada” and provides an anti-violence model from an Indigenous perspective. (Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell & Christi Belcourt eds., Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2018, 400 p. )

Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous authors, Indigenous women

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Les Innus et le territoire: Innu tipenitamun (BAnQ)

Book examining, from a territorial perspective, questions such as those of the universe of Innu society, its values and its legal order at the time of the arrival of Europeans and its subsequent transformation. The work is intended to be a contribution to the application of the principles of Innu and Nitassinan law.

Subjects: Innu territory, Land occupancy, Law

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