Indigenous Peoples in the Twenty-First Century

Note: each chapter includes:
- Learning objectives
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- Questions for critical thought
- Suggested readings
- Suggested websites
- Suggested films
1. Knowing Your History
· Privilege and Responsibility
· Who Writes History?
· Indigenous History
· First Nations and Inuit peoples before 1500
· Contact and European Settlement
· Widespread Settlement
· Government Action and Inaction
· Current State of Affairs
· Resistance and Indigenous Place in Canadian Society NEW
2. Who Are You?
· History of Who Is Indigenous
· Making the Definition
· The Indian Act
· "Indians" and "First Nations"
· Identity
· Stereotypes and Control NEW
3. Indigenous Ways of Knowing
· Epistemological Questions, or How We Know What We Know
· Science versus Indigenous Ways of Living in Nature
· Cosmologies and Chaos Theory
4. Indigenous Residential Schools: Compensation, Apologies, and Truth and Reconciliation
· A History of Residential Schools
· Attempts to Resolve the Issue
· Justice and the Clash of Cultures
· Restorative Justice?
· The Settlement
· The Apology
· Truth and Reconciliation Commission
· The Sixties Scoop: Collateral Damage NEW
5. Intergenerational Trauma and Indigenous Resistance
· The Role of Culture
· Trauma and Intergenerational Trauma
· The Consequences of Trauma
· Confronting Trauma: The Aboriginal Healing Foundation
· Resistance and Resiliency
· National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls NEW
6. "Hear" Today, Gone Tomorrow: Indigenous Languages
· Language and Culture
· Language Structure and Ethos NEW
· Indigenous Languages and the Future
· The Link between Social Structure and Language NEW
· Language Shift, Continuity, and Fluency
· Determinants of Aboriginal Languages
· A New Era?
7. Well-Being and Health
· Introduction
· Indigenous Perspectives
· Etiology in Society
· Urban Indigeneity and Well-Being NEW
· Cultural Continuity
· Health and Well-Being: Community Infrastructure NEW
· The Health System
8. The Duty of Government: Responsibility and Treaties
· History of Government Duty
· Fiduciary Duty
· The Courts Speak and the Government Reconsiders
· Treaties
· Comprehensive Treaties
· Specific Claims
· Extending the Concept of Fiduciary Duty
· The Duty to Consult
· Governance
· The Rejection of the First Nations Governance Act
· Community Governance
9. The Bureaucracy: Government Relations with Indigenous Peoples
· The Evolution: Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada to Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada & Indigenous Services Canada NEW
· Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
· Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs
· Policy Initiatives and the New Departments
· Fiscal Arrangements NEW
· Changing Priorities
· Accountability and Goal Achievement
· The Auditor General and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
· David versus Goliath
10. Aboriginal Rights, Self-Government, and the Inherent Rights of Indigenous Peoples
· Governance and Accountability
· Aboriginal Rights, Self-Government, and the Courts
· Inherent Rights and the Courts
· Self-Government
· Self-Determination
· Change in the Wind
· The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and Self-Government (RCAP, 1996)
· Indigenous Sovereignty NEW
11. The Political Economy of Indigenous Peoples
· The Genesis of the Problem
· Labour Markets and Indigenous Peoples in Canada
· The Current Picture
· Indigenous Youth and the Labour Market NEW
- Urban Economic Development NEW
· Casinos NEW
· New Models of Economic Development: The Harvard Project
· Indigenous Economic Progress Report NEW
· The Federal Approach
12. Surviving in the Contemporary World: The Future of Indigenous People in Canada
· How Many Indigenous People?
· Residence
· Population Growth and Size: Fertility, Mortality, and Migration
· Demographic Profile of Indigenous People
· Implications of Demographic Changes
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

PowerPoint Slides:
For each chapter:
- 25-30 slides
- Includes all figures, tables, and maps from the text
Test Bank:
- 25 multiple choice questions
- 20 true-or-false questions
- 15 short answer questions
- 8 essay questions
E-Book ISBN 9780199033201

James S. Frideres is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Calgary. During his tenure, he was the Director of the International Indigenous Studies program and held the Chair in Ethnic Studies. Over the past two decades, Frideres has been a major researcher in the area of Indigenous Studies. His numerous articles on Indigenous identity, language, and health have contributed to the base knowledge of the discipline. He has worked with a number of Indigenous communities in supporting their research efforts and worked on land use policies in the Treaty 8 area. Frideres was one of the founders of the pan-Canadian Aboriginal Knowledge Learning Centre that was established in 2005. He has served on the editorial board of several journals and is also the author of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, 9e (with Rene Gadacz), published by Pearson.

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Special Features

• Concise overview of key historical issues - moving from basic foundational material to discussions of key sociological topics - provides students with the background information required to understand a range of current and controversial topics.
• Current coverage of treaties, Indigenous titles, policies, and court rulings, as well as Indigenous resistance, health and well-being, identity, and culture, makes this the most up-to-date text available.
• Considers the future of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, examining how the continually evolving move from colonialism to reconciliation will have a significant impact on Canadian society as a whole.
• Thematic organization highlights key topics so that contents can be studied in the order that best suits individual courses, providing flexibility for instructors.
• Written in a clear, easy-to-read style that will help students develop a basic understanding of complex topics, including legal and technical issues facing Indigenous Peoples in the twenty-first century.
• Engaging pedagogy - including learning objectives, key terms, critical thinking questions, suggested readings and websites, and informative box features - will deepen students' understanding of the material.

New to this Edition

• Increased coverage of Métis and Inuit Peoples, as well as non-status and urban Indigenous Peoples, gives students a more complete picture of Indigenous Peoples' experiences in Canada.
• New and updated coverage of current issues such as:
• - Indigenous self-govenment
• - Contemporary court cases
• - Language revitalization
• - The legacy of the Sixties Scoop
• - The Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• - The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
• New end-of-chapter lists of suggested films offer students a unique alternative approach to exploring topics under discussion.