Col. ill. on cover linings.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [281]-284.

Part One: Theoretical foundations -- Colonial stains on our existence / Taiaiake Alfred -- Eurocentrism and the European ethnographic tradition / Marie Battiste and Sakej Henderson -- Delcolonizing antiracism / Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua -- Part Two: Nation building and the deeply racialized other -- 'Idea of Indianness' and once upon a time: the role of Indians in history / Deborah Doxtator -- You're not the Indian I had in mind / Thomas King -- Colonialism and First Nations women in Canada / Winona Stevenson -- Part Three: Race, space, and territoriality -- Urban native communities and the nation: before and after the Royal Commission on Aboriginal peoples / Chris Anderson and Claude Denis -- Rewriting histories of the land: colonization and indigenous resistance in Eastern Canada / Bonita Lawrence -- Iroquois women's rights with respect to matrimonial property on Indian reserves / Martha Montour.

Part Four: Racialism, sexism and indigenous identites -- Revisiting histories of legal assimilation, racialized in Canada / Martin J. Cannon -- Mixed-blood urban native people and the rebuilding of indigenous nations / Bonita Lawrence -- I am a Lakota womyn / Beverly Little Thunder -- Part Five: Family, belonging, and displacement -- Marriage, divorce, and family life / Kim Anderson -- Canada's Indian residential schools and their impacts on mothering / Rosalind Ing -- Strong spirit, fractured identity: an Ojibway adoptee's journey to wholeness / Sandra Spears -- Part Six: Indigenous rights, citizenship, and nationalism -- Being indigenous: resurgences against contemporary colonialism / Taiaiake Alfred and Jeff Corntassel -- On ethnographic refusal: indieneity, 'voice', and colonial citizenship / Audra Simpson -- Moving beyond the feminism versus nationalism dichotomy: an anti-colonial feminist perspective on aboriginal liberation struggles / Lina Sunseri.

Part Seven: Decolonizing indigenous education -- Micmac literacy and cognitive assimilation / Marie Battiste -- 'Killing the Indian in the child": four centuries of church-run schools / Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey -- Rethinking culture theory in Aboriginal education / Verna St. Denis -- Part Eight: Poverty, economic marginality, and community development -- Aboriginal youth talk about structural determinants as the cause of their homelessness / Cyndy Baskin -- Aboriginal economic development and the struggle for self-government / Cora Voyageur and Brian Calliou -- Sharing community, and decolonization: urban Aboriginal community development / Jim Silver ... [et al.] -- Part Nine: Violence and the construction of criminality -- From Stonechild to social cohesion: antiracist challenges for Saskatchewan / Joyce Green -- Aboriginal peoples and Canadian criminal law: rethinking justice / Patricia Monture-Okanee and Mary Ellen Turpel -- Sexual violence as a tool of genocide / Andrea Smith.

"This unique new collection of works by Indigenous scholars explores how the interplay of racism and colonialism has shaped the lives of Indigenous people in areas such as family relations, criminal justice, territorial rights, identity, citizenship, and relations with settler colonialists. With an emphasis on the Two-Row Wampum treaty--a pact between Western and Indigenous nations--the book discusses the historic and contemporary meaning of key terms like race and racism, and identifies how these factors were and continue to be at play in the lives of Indigenous peoples living in a colonized nation. The editors' objective is to provide insight into what can be done to address historic wrongdoings, while also showing how much can be gained by working across differences, revitalizing original partnerships and agreements, and coming together collectively as Canadians to combat racism."--pub. desc.