First Nations, First Thoughts

Annis May Timpson is Director of the Centre of Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh.Contributors: Stephanie Bolton, Alison K. Brown, Robin Jarvis Brownlie, Margaret Kovach, Kiera L. Ladner, Fiona MacDonald, Leslie McCartney, Michael Murphy, Tim Patterson, Laura Peers, Gabrielle A. Slowey, and Martin Whittles

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Indigenous Thought in Canada / Annis May TimpsonPart 1: Challenging Dominant Discourses1 First Nations Perspectives and Historical Thinking in Canada / Robin Jarvis Brownlie2 Being Indigenous within the Academy: Creating Space for Indigenous Scholars / Margaret KovachPart 2: Oral Histories and First Nations Narratives3 Respecting Oral Histories of First Nations: Copyright Complexities in Archiving Aboriginal Stories / Leslie McCartney4 Nápi and the City: Siksikaitsitapi Narratives Revisited / Martin Whittles and Tim PattersonPart 3: Cultural Heritage and Representation5 Colonial Photographs and Postcolonial Relationships: The Kainai-Oxford Photographic Histories Project / Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown6 Museums Taken to Task: Representing First Peoples at the McCord Museum of Canadian History / Stephanie BoltonPart 4: Aboriginal Thought and Innovation in Subnational Governance7 The Manitoba Government's Shift to "Autonomous" First Nations Child Welfare: Empowerment or Privatization? / Fiona MacDonald8 Rethinking the Administration of Government: Inuit Representation, Culture, and Language in the Nunavut Public Service / Annis May Timpson9 A Fine Balance? Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian North and the Dilemma of Development / Gabrielle A. SloweyPart 5: Thinking Back, Looking Forward: Political and Constitutional Reconciliation10 Civilization, Self-Determination, and Reconciliation / Michael Murphy11 Take 35: Reconciling Constitutional Orders / Kiera L. LadnerContributorsIndex

First Nations, First Thoughts affirms the priority of Indigenous thought in understanding and developing public discourses in Canada, and constitutes another step forward in ensuring that Indigenous and Settler people continue to work towards a truly postcolonial future.- Emma Battell Lowman (Studies in Social Political Thought, Vol 18, Winter 2010)