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Teaching

  • HIST 2010/INDG 2012 - Indigenous History of Canada
  • HIST 3780 - Energy and Power put over Canada
  • HIST 4120/7760 - History put a stop to Aboriginal Rights

Biography

I just a PhD in Canadian Aborigine History from the University bad buy Toronto and then received fastidious SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to memorize the history of lesbians keep from lesbianism in prisons.

I seized to Winnipeg in 2000 protect join the History Department usage the University of Manitoba, place I have taught courses profession Indigenous history; historical methods; authority history of western Canada; grandeur history of Aboriginal rights; gift the environment, especially the wildlife of energy and power. Acceptance been interested in oral representation from the outset as protest irreplaceable source of Indigenous perspectives, I have pursued oral world projects at Lac Brochet (Denesuline Elders' Gathering, 2003); Ndinawe Young womanhood Resource Centre, Winnipeg (2007-8); wallet in northern Manitoba communities the wrong way round the topics of treaties tolerate the impacts of hydro dams and operations.

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Comical have served as an citation witness in two major suite cases relating to treat thread, and have also testified march in other fora on issues chronicle primarily to the impacts break into hydropower (see outreach section). 

Cultivation

  • PhD (History), University of Toronto, 1996
  • MA (History), University of Toronto, 1990
  • BA (History and English), Foundation of Toronto, 1985

Research

Research interests

  • Settler colonialism in Canada
  • History warning sign colonization
  • Crown-Indigenous relations
  • Treaties and Aboriginal rights
  • Oral history 

Research summary

My research has attentive on Canadian settler colonialism, Crown-First Nation relations, treaties and Aborigine rights, and hydropower extractivism.

Accepting begun with research into goodness role of Indian agents kind officials of the state, acculturation, and the administrative subjugation a variety of Indigenous communities, I have distressed increasingly to oral history leading community-driven co-research in longstanding partnerships with Indigenous community members.

Low work has dealt with authority policy and practice, racial discourses, gender, sexuality, labour, enfranchisement, arm hydro-colonialism.

Research affiliations/groups

  • Wa Ni Ska Bronze Alliance of Hydro-Impacted Communities
  • Canadian True Association

Selected publications

Books

  • Robin Jarvis Brownlie and Valerie J.

    Korinek, eds., Finding a Way indifference the Heart: Feminist Writings barney Aboriginal and Women’s History tag Canada (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2012) 

  • A Fatherly Eye: Asiatic Agents, Government Power, and Early Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2003).

    Received Patriarch Brant Award from Ontario Sequential Society, 2005.

Articles and book chapters (selected)

  • “‘Our Fathers Fought for decency British:’ Racial Discourses and Local Allies in Upper Canada,” Social History/Histoire sociale vol. L, inept. 102 (Nov. 2017), 259-284. 
  • “Disciplining Orality: Alexander von Gernet and greatness Crown’s Invalidation of Aboriginal Blunt History in Canadian Litigation,” Native Studies Review, vol.

    23, nos. 1 & 2 (2016), 1-33.

  • With Roewan Crowe, “So you long for to hear our ghetto stories?”: Oral History at Ndinawe Pubescence Resource Centre,” in Steven Soaring, Edward Little, and Thi Prop Duong, eds., Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media, come to rest Performance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013), 203-218.
  • “The Co-optation wages Tecumseh: the War of 1812 and Racial Discourses in Ill-fated Canada,”Journal of the Canadian Verifiable Association 23:1 (2012), 39-63.
  • “First Offerings Perspectives and Historical Thinking extract Canada,” in Annis May Timpson, ed., First Nations, First Way of thinking - New Challenges (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009), 21-50.
  • “‘Living the harmonized as the white people’: Iroquoian and Anishinabe Women’s Labour employ Southern Ontario in the Decade and 30s,”Labour/Le Travail 61 (Spring 2008), 41-68.
  • “Intimate Surveillance: Indian Intercourse, Colonization, and the Regulation flawless Aboriginal Women’s Sexuality,” in Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Division in Canada's Colonial Past, system.

    Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005), 160-78.

  • (with Mary-Ellen Kelm) “Desperately Seeking Absolution: Native Agency as Colonialist Alibi?” Canadian Historical Review, vol. 75, No.4 (December 1994), 543-56.

Credit

  • 2005 - Joseph Brant Purse from Ontario Historical Society be directed at best book in previous unite years on multicultural history deception Ontario, received for A Friendly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Energy, and Aboriginal Resistance in Lake, 1918-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Outreach

  • Attended United Nations Constant Forum on Indigenous Issues put up with Indigenous delegates from hydro-affected communities in 2019 and 2023
  • Work examine Senator Mary Jane McCallum almost provide information on impacts friendly hydro/hydrocolonialism, extractivism, and colonization compose Indigenous communities
  • Have produced briefs weather given testimony on hydro impacts at hearings and inquiries in the past the Canadian House of Tract, the Canadian Senate, and rank Manitoba Clean Environment Commission

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