First Nations, First Thoughts

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Indigenous Thought in Canada / Annis May Timpson

Part 1: Challenging Dominant Discourses

1 First Nations Perspectives and Historical Thinking in Canada / Robin Jarvis Brownlie

2 Being Indigenous within the Academy: Creating Space for Indigenous Scholars / Margaret Kovach

Part 2: Oral Histories and First Nations Narratives

3 Respecting Oral Histories of First Nations: Copyright Complexities in Archiving Aboriginal Stories / Leslie McCartney

4 Nápi and the City: Siksikaitsitapi Narratives Revisited / Martin Whittles and Tim Patterson

Part 3: Cultural Heritage and Representation

5 Colonial Photographs and Postcolonial Relationships: The Kainai-Oxford Photographic Histories Project / Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown

6 Museums Taken to Task: Representing First Peoples at the McCord Museum of Canadian History / Stephanie Bolton

Part 4: Aboriginal Thought and Innovation in Subnational Governance

7 The Manitoba Government's Shift to "Autonomous" First Nations Child Welfare: Empowerment or Privatization? / Fiona MacDonald

8 Rethinking the Administration of Government: Inuit Representation, Culture, and Language in the Nunavut Public Service / Annis May Timpson

9 A Fine Balance? Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian North and the Dilemma of Development / Gabrielle A. Slowey

Part 5: Thinking Back, Looking Forward: Political and Constitutional Reconciliation

10 Civilization, Self-Determination, and Reconciliation / Michael Murphy

11 Take 35: Reconciling Constitutional Orders / Kiera L. Ladner

Contributors

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