11 Indigenous Migrations

How does a focus on Indigenous mobility, or lack thereof, shape our understanding of migration history more generally?

Coll Thrush, Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016), ch. 2-3.

Cecilia Morgan, Travellers Through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada (Montreal: MQUP, 2017).

Gerhard Ens, “Dispossession or Adaptation? Migration and Persistence of the Red River Metis, 1835‑1890“. Historical Papers 23, no. 1 (1988): 120–144.

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Jean Teillet, “The Internal Migrations of the Métis of the Canadian Northwest,” Canadian Diversity 8(6) (2011): 13.

Sylvia Van Kirk, “From “Marrying-In” to “Marrying-Out”: Changing Patterns of Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Marriage in Colonial Canada,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, 3 (2002): 1-11.

Evelyn Peters, “Our City Indians: Negotiating the Meaning of First Nations Urbanization in Canada” Journal of Historical Geography (2002), 75-92.

Victoria Freeman, ““Toronto Has No History!” Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Historical Memory in Canada’s Largest City” Urban History Review 38, 2 (2010), 21–35.

Jordan Stanger-Ross, “Municipal Colonialism in Vancouver: City Planning and the Conflict over Indian Reserves, 1928–1950s,” Canadian Historical Review 89, 4 (2008), 541-580.

Resources

Alex Williams, The Pass System, 50 min.

Benjamin Hoy, “Little Bear’s Cree and Canada’s Uncomfortable History of Refugee Creation,” in Daniel Ross, ed., Confronting Canadian Migration History (Active History, 2019).

Fort Odanak: http://www.fort-odanak.ca/index-eng

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Fort Odanak : http://www.fort-odanak.ca/index-fra