Indigenous Writes

Chelsea Vowel is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne) Alberta, residing in amiskwacîwâskihikan (Edmonton). Mother to six girls, she has a BEd, an LLB, and a MA, and is a Cree language instructor at the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Chelsea is a public intellectual, writer, and educator whose work intersects language, gender, Métis self-determination, and resurgence. Author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada, she and her co-host Molly Swain produce the Indigenous feminist sci-fi podcast Métis in Space, and co-founded the Métis in Space Land Trust. Chelsea blogs at apihtawikosisan.com and makes legendary bannock.

• Contentskinanâskomitinâwâw/AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: How to Read This Book Part 1. The Terminology of Relationships Just Don’t Call Us Late for Supper Names for Indigenous PeoplesSettling on a Name Names for Non-Indigenous CanadiansPart 2. Culture and IdentityGot Status? Indian Status in CanadaYou’re Métis? Which of Your Parents Is an Indian? Métis IdentityFeel the Inukness Inuit IdentityHunter-Gatherers or Trapper-Harvesters? Why Some Terms MatterAllowably Indigenous: To Ptarmigan or Not to Ptarmigan When Indigeneity Is TransgressiveCaught in the Crossfire of Blood-Quantum Reasoning Popular Notions of Indigenous PurityWhat Is Cultural Appropriation? Respecting Cultural BoundariesCheck the Tag on That “Indian” Story How to Find Authentic Indigenous StoriesIcewine, Roquefort Cheese, and the Navajo Nation Indigenous Use of Intellectual Property LawsAll My Queer Relations Language, Culture, and Two-Spirit IdentityPart 3. Myth-BustingThe Myth of ProgressThe Myth of the Level Playing FieldThe Myth of TaxationThe Myth of Free Housing The Myth of the Drunken Indian The Myth of the Wandering NomadThe Myth of Authenticity Part 4. State ViolenceMonster The Residential-School LegacyOur Stolen Generations The Sixties and Millennial ScoopsHuman Flagpoles Inuit RelocationFrom Hunters to Farmers Indigenous Farming on the PrairiesDirty Water, Dirty Secrets Drinking Water in First Nations CommunitiesNo Justice, No Peace The Royal Commission on Aboriginal PeoplesPart 5. Land, Learning, Law, and TreatiesRights? What Rights? Doctrines of ColonialismTreaty Talk The Evolution of Treaty-Making in CanadaThe More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same Numbered Treaties and Modern Treaty-MakingWhy Don’t First Nations Just Leave the Reserve? Reserves Are Not the ProblemWhite Paper, What Paper? More Attempts to Assimilate Indigenous PeoplesOur Children, Our Schools Fighting for Control Over Indigenous Education

Indigenous Writes is a timely book…and contains enough critical information to challenge harmful assumptions and facilitate understanding. This is a book for everyone—but particularly for non-Indigenous people wishing to better understand their own place in the history of violence against Indigenous peoples, and to find ways to move toward true solutions and right relationships.