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Spring 2016

Niemi-Bohun, Melanie A

This dissertation highlights the responses of Indigenous leaders and communities to the emergence of the colonial order on the Canadian prairies between 1870 and 1890. The complexities of their actions reveal significant points of weakness in the colonial order. Colonial governance strategies for

the administration of Indigenous populations in western Canada intersected with Indigenous tactics in the face of the overwhelming economic transitions and other pressures of settler colonialism, and this resulted in unexpected outcomes. Paylist data, contextualized by other historical sources, reveal

the various ways in which Indigenous peoples used both mobility and manipulation of status categories as forms of tactical resistance to the implementation of government administrative strategies. Indigenous contestation of the colonial order was intertwined with elements of adaptation to new economic

Fall 2020

Hawkins, Cole

The impacts of the transatlantic movement of Indigenous Peoples and goods has yet to be fully realized by scholars of the early modern world. Beginning in the sixteenth century, thousands of Indigenous Peoples and an immeasurable amount of goods and technologies moved eastward to Europe. Upon

arrival, Indigenous Peoples, goods, and technologies transformed European cultures and peoples on the continent. While part of a larger phenomenon, this thesis focuses on the physical and material presences of Indigenous Peoples in early modern England as articulated by expressions of Haudenosaunee

diplomacy and diplomatic tobacco use in London. Rooted in Indigenous methodologies, material culture analysis, and Indigenous perspectives of diplomacy and identity, this work shows how formal and informal expressions of Haudenosaunee diplomatic protocols and the Kayanerenkó:wa (The Great Law of Peace) were

Fall 2022

Lightning, Inez L.

designed to engage youth in addressing issues of inequality and poverty through community development. In this thesis I argue that out of the work of the CYC, Indigenous leaders emerged to become catalysts of change, and in addition, the CYC became the vehicle for these youthful volunteers to promote

Indigenous rights and identity. The thesis will also examine the CYC and its relationship with Indigenous Peoples in Western Canada, specifically in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Northwest Territories. In the many CYC projects, relationships and interactions did occur with Indigenous organizations

, such as the Indian Association of Alberta (IAA), the National Indian Council (NIC), the Metis Association of Alberta (MAA) and the Canadian Indian Youth Council (CIYC). These will be discussed. In Alberta, Indigenous and non-Indigenous members of the CYC soon became embroiled in a host of causes

Fall 2019

Crystal Gail Fraser

Through archival sources, interviews, and my own experience as the daughter and grandaughter of Gwichyà Gwich’in women who were institutionalized in Inuuvik and Aklavik, I explore the uniquely northern experience of Indigenous children who were consigned to Inuuvik’s Indian Residential Schools

coercive policies that were designed to remove Indigenous peoples from their lands, eliminate their sovereignty, and assimilate them into the broader Canadian settler-society remained. My training in both History and Indigenous Studies allowed me to draw upon new methods to investigate how children were

embedded in this colonial framework experienced student life by exploring topics like bodies, health, hygiene, sports, and sexual violence. The resistance and activism of Indigenous parents and children were foundational to the survival of the students and our cultures. Resisting damage-centered research

Spring 2021

Longley, Hereward

interviews with members and administrators from Fort Chipewyan Métis, Fort McKay First Nation, and Mikisew Cree First Nation. It argues that conflicts between Indigenous peoples, the state, and the oil sands industry were rooted in an evolving system of control and regulation of land and resources, which

marginalized Indigenous land use and encouraged bitumen extraction with limited environmental regulation. I show how bitumen exploration influenced the Dominion of Canada’s use of cartography, resource regulations, and Treaty 8 to extend sovereignty over the Athabasca region. The global energy and economic

crises of the 1970s drove the Alberta Progressive Conservative government to invest in developing the oil sands, which created a conflict of interest that undermined environmental policy. Meanwhile, Indigenous peoples resisted the environmental destruction of bitumen extraction and fought for economic

Spring 2023

McMillan, Bethany

eighteenth century. Fidler and Thompson developed different conceptions of the Rocky Mountains from their eastern slope, which is evident in their fur trade and exploration journals. Several factors influenced their conceptions of the mountains. Indigenous inhabitants of the Plains shared maps and

navigational knowledge of the landscape with Fidler, who did not have the opportunity to survey the region himself, as trade was the top priority for the HBC. Thompson, surveyed for the NWC, and employed Indigenous people, as hunters and guides, to help him expand the reaches of the NWC into new territory as

he surveyed the landscape along the way. Ultimately, Thompson demonstrated a tenaciously European and western view of the Rocky Mountains whereas Fidler’s conception of the Rocky Mountains portrayed an early appreciation for Indigenous knowledge as well as a hybrid style of mapping that married

Fall 2018

Green, Heather

Yukon. Throughout this period the state imposed southern colonial bureaucracies and administration in the Yukon that favoured colonial ideologies and practises of land use over local Indigenous practises that led to the displacement and relocation of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in peoples from previously used areas

. State imposition often clashed with colonial authority on the ground, creating a complicated history of colonization of environment and humans in the Yukon. This study also examines the various ways in which Indigenous Yukoners shaped the structure of colonialism in the Yukon through a variety of

responses. It argues that the Klondike Gold Rush began a pattern of long-term systemic alienation of Yukon First Nations from traditionally used resources and areas; in part this resulted from the physical impacts that mining had on the environment of the central Yukon, but Indigenous displacement also

Fall 2020

Ortiz, Sofia

reform secondary education, creating a series of agricultural and vocational training schools that would ensure the productivity of the working-class population. Alvarado’s education policies were also accompanied by a series of moralizing and racialized reforms that aimed to ensure that the Indigenous

population became de-Indianized, rational, sober, and hygienic. The assumption was that the Indigenous population was responsible for Yucatán’s backwardness, and that education would transform them into proper citizens and valuable members of society. Alvarado’s education reforms faced opposition from the

training the Indigenous population should receive. Yucatán’s education system also struggled to survive as it lacked the necessary funds to ensure that all schools had supplies, equipment, and staff to run effectively. For these reasons, Alvarado’s education reforms ultimately did not fully endure past

Fall 2010

Henderson, Tanya Kim

monumental Roman architecture, viewing them as an active agent in visually, culturally, and socially asserting Roman hegemony over subjugated Italic peoples. Neither of these methods address the active participation of indigenous peoples in selecting which social and cultural institutions and material

immersion pools, the variation of bathing methods available to users, and space for moderate exercise is an indigenous contribution to the standard Greek Hellenistic public bath structure. Both the social customs of the Campanians and domestic bath architecture predating the first public baths in the area

2001

Funston, Shelly Lee Katherine.