Blockades and Resistance
Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89
Will be published approx. on 30. January 2003
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-88920-381-5 (ISBN)
Description
Ten years ago Canada witnessed one of the most disturbing incidents in its history -- the armed occupation at Oka. After Oka came Ipperwash and Burnt Church. Yet relatively little has been written on the Aboriginal resistance movements and very little has changed in Canada for Aboriginal people. The goal of this book is to help amend these conditions. Part One focuses on the experiences of participants, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, in the Temagami blockades in 1988-1989 as well as to a lesser degree in Oka in 1990. In Part Two, themes of resistance are reviewed in their historical context and examples from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are analyzed to develop those themes. Part Three analyzes contemporary aspects of resistance, including resistance in the justice system, the courts and Aboriginal title, education, language, and literature. If we are to avoid a repetition of these events, we need to know more about them, about Aboriginal people, and about their relationships with non-Aboriginal people. Blockades and Resistance evokes strong memories of the Temagami and Oka blockades, but also provides us with realistic views and practical applications. It is essential reading for all Canadians who seek to understand the causes of these blockades and the deep roots of Aboriginal peoples' resistance movements in Canada.
Reviews / Votes
``By making connections between the Temagami protest and others that have happened over the last decade, Oka and Burnt Church for example, the editors of this volume lay down a foundation on which a discussion about Native resistance may be built....The reader will gain a great deal from the many perspectives on the continued resistance of Natives and their continued struggle to have their voices heard in the national and provincial discourses in Canada.'' -- Hans A. Carlson, University of Maine -- American Review of Canadian Studies, 200409 ``Blockades and Resistance comprises an interesting and informative mix of essays.'' -- J.R. Miller -- Canadian Book Review Annual, 2006, 200702 ``Blockades and Resistance not only highlights examples of Aboriginal efforts at establishing peaceful relations but is, in itself, a vehicle of peace because its primary function is to educate its readers, to explain why and how Aboriginal resistance occurs.'' -- Jean L. Manore, Bishop's University -- Canadian Historical Review, 85:3, September 2004, 200409 ``Particularly useful in this collection are the writings, opinions and reflections of TAA [Teme-Augama Anishnabai] elders and leaders on the Red Squirrel Blockade and earlier times when the TAA were sufficient....Blockades and Resistance offers insight into an issue that will not disappear any time soon.'' -- David Calverley -- University of Toronto Quarterly, Letters in Canada 2004, 200606More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9525 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88920-381-5 (9780889203815)
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Persons
Bruce W. Hodgins is professor emeritus of history, Trent University, and recipient of the Canadian Historical Association's Clio Award for the North, 2000. Ute Lischke teaches German literature, film studies and cultural perspectives at Wilfrid Laurier University where she is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies. Lischke is the author of Lily Braun, 1865-1916 German Writer, Feminist, Socialist (2000). Her most recent books, edited with David T. McNab, include Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89 (2003), Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and their Representations (2005), and The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Metis Identities and Family Histories, (2007) all with WLU Press. David T. McNab is a Metis historian who has worked for three decades on Aboriginal land and treaty rights issues in Canada. McNab teaches in the School of Arts and Letters in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University in Toronto where he is Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies. He has also been a claims advisor for Nin.Da.Waab.Jig., Walpole Island Heritage Center, Bkejwanong First Nations since 1992. In addition to more than seventy articles, McNab has published Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory (editor) (1998) and Circles of Time: Aboriginal Land Rights and Resistance in Ontario (1999) as well as the co-edited (with Ute Lischke) Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89 (2003), Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and their Representations (2005), and The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Metis Identities and Family Histories,
Content
Table of Contents for Blockades and Reistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89, edited by Bruce W. Hodgins, Ute Lischke, and David T. McNab Preface Introduction: Actions of Peace | Ute Lischke and David T. McNab Part 1: Personal Reflections 1. The Life and Times of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai | James Twain 2. The Joy of Unfolding Commitment: A Woman's View of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai Blockades | June Twain 3. Gary G. Potts | Bruce W. Hodgins 4. The Temagami Blockades of 1989: Personal Reflections | Bruce W. Hodgins 5. Remembering an Intellectual Wilderness: A Captivity Narrative at Queen's Park in 1988-89 | David T. McNab 6. You Can't Chop Peace Down: Planting the White Pine Tree at West Virginia University, 1992-99 | Ellesa Clay High Part 2: Historical Perspectives on Resistance 7. Aboriginal Resistance in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Anishnabe, Their Allies, and the Closing of the Mining Operations at Mica Bay and Michipicoten Island | Rhonda Telford 8. Barter, Bible, Bush: Strategies of Survival and Resistance among the Kingston/Bay of Quinte Mississauga, 1783-1836 | Brian S. Osborne 9. Intentional Resistance of Just "Bad Behaviour": Reading for Everyday Resistance at the Alderville First Nation, 1837-76 | Michael Ripmeester 10. "White Gold" versus Aboriginal Rights: A Longlac Ojibwas Claim against Damages Caused by the 1937 Diversion of the Kenogami River into Lake Superior | Susan Campbell Part 3: Varieties of Contemporary Resistance 11. Aboriginal Title on the Ground: Establishing and Protecting Occupation of Land | Kent McNeil 12. Space, Strategy, and Surprise: Thinking About Temagami Ten Years after the Blockades | James Lawson 13. Echoes of Resistance: Coercion and Injustices in Canadian Prisons | Peggy O'Reilly-Shaughnessy 14. Female Narratives of Resistance: The Significance of Gender and Food in the Writings of Louise Erdich | Ute Lischke 15. The Resistance of Little Charlie Wenjack and His Legacy at Trent University | Bruce W. Hodgins and John S. Milloy Epilogue: The Struggle Continues | Bruce W. Hodgins Notes