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Fall 2021

Meloche, Katherine

This dissertation examines contemporary Indigenous cultural production as it mediates conversations within Indigenous and settler legal discourses concerning continuance and change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in Canada. It argues that attention to Indigenous cultural production is...

Fall 2016

Bear, Tracy L

This dissertation explores how Indigenous articulations of sensuality, sexuality and gender form erotic expressions and act as decolonizing mechanisms. I address the question, “If this is my body, where are my stories?” by arguing for the recovery and what I call the practice of an Indigenous...

Fall 2020

Humble, Shaina N

The dissertation is concerned with how Inuit artists are reclaiming knowledge from early ethnographic texts. Early ethnographic texts, such as the writing, photographs, and cultural products produced or acquired by Danish-Greenlandic explorer Knud Rasmussen during the Fifth Thule Expedition...

Fall 2012

Cline, Kayleigh

Published in 2010 in the wake of the Indigenous Literary Nationalism, Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations, as compiled by Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra, represents a shift in critical approaches to studying Indigenous trickster figures. Rather than decontextualizing...

Spring 2018

Brandvold, Sarah

Although the pan-Inuit unikkaaqtuaq (story) of the origin of the Sea Woman is quite well-known among anthropologists, folklorists, and Religious Studies scholars, to date very little attention has been given to either the broader Sedna tradition, or its individual performances, as serious,...

Fall 2021

Brandsma, Nicole D.

The places of northwestern British Columbia, and the Indigenous and settler peoples who find work, build homes, establish communities, and sustain culture in these places, are often perceived as peripheral or overlooked, existing on the edge or outside of the notice, care, and understanding of...