Table Of Contentreclaiming indigenous planning
mcgill-queen’s native and northern series
(in memory of bruce g. trigger)
sarah carter and arthur j. ray, editors
1 When the Whalers Were Up North 11 When the North Was Red
Inuit Memories from the Aboriginal Education
Eastern Arctic in Soviet Siberia
Dorothy Harley Eber Dennis A. Bartels and Alice L.
Bartels
2 The Challenge of Arctic Shipping
Science, Environmental Assessment, 12 From Talking Chiefs to a
and Human Values Native Corporate Elite
Edited by David L. VanderZwaag The Birth of Class and Nationalism
and Cynthia Lamson among Canadian Inuit
Marybelle Mitchell
3 Lost Harvests
Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers 13 Cold Comfort
and Government Policy My Love Affair with the Arctic
Sarah Carter Graham W. Rowley
14 The True Spirit and
4 Native Liberty, Crown Sovereignty
Original Intent of Treaty 7
The Existing Aboriginal Right of
Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council
Self-Government in Canada
with Walter Hildebrandt, Dorothy
Bruce Clark
First Rider, and Sarah Carter
5 Unravelling the Franklin Mystery
15 This Distant and
Inuit Testimony
Unsurveyed Country
David C. Woodman
A Woman’s Winter at
6 Otter Skins, Boston Ships, Baffin Island, 1857–1858
and China Goods W. Gillies Ross
The Maritime Fur Trade
16 Images of Justice
of the Northwest Coast, 1785–1841
Dorothy Harley Eber
James R. Gibson
17 Capturing Women
7 From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare
The Manipulation of Cultural
The Story of the Western
Imagery in Canada’s Prairie West
Reserves
Sarah A. Carter
Helen Buckley
18 Social and Environmental Impacts
8 In Business for Ourselves
of the James Bay Hydroelectric
Northern Entrepreneurs
Project
Wanda A. Wuttunee
Edited by James F. Hornig
9 For an Amerindian Autohistory
19 Saqiyuq
An Essay on the Foundations
Stories from the Lives of
of a Social Ethic
Three Inuit Women
Georges E. Sioui
Nancy Wachowich in collaboration
10 Strangers Among Us with Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda
David Woodman Kaukjak Katsak, and Sandra Pikujak
Katsak
20 Justice in Paradise 31 The Heavens Are Changing
Bruce Clark Nineteenth-Century Protestant
Missions and Tsimshian
21 Aboriginal Rights and
Christianity
Self-Government
Susan Neylan
The Canadian and Mexican
Experience in North American 32 Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers
Perspective The Transformation of Inuit
Edited by Curtis Cook and Juan D. Settlement in the Central Arctic
Lindau David Damas
22 Harvest of Souls 33 Arctic Justice
The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism On Trial for Murder –
in North America, 1632–1650 Pond Inlet, 1923
Carole Blackburn Shelagh D. Grant
23 Bounty and Benevolence 34 The American Empire and
A History of Saskatchewan Treaties the Fourth World
Arthur J. Ray, Jim Miller, and Frank Anthony J. Hall
Tough
35 Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of
24 The People of Denendeh
Hudson Bay
Ethnohistory of the Indians of
Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, and Mary
Canada’s Northwest Territories
Houston
June Helm
36 Uqalurait
25 The Marshall Decision and
An Oral History of Nunavut
Native Rights
Compiled and edited by John
Ken Coates
Bennett and Susan Rowley
26 The Flying Tiger
37 Living Rhythms
Women Shamans and
Lessons in Aboriginal Economic
Storytellers of the Amur
Resilience and Vision
Kira Van Deusen
Wanda Wuttunee
27 Alone in Silence
European Women in the 38 The Making of an Explorer
Canadian North before 1940 George Hubert Wilkins and
Barbara E. Kelcey the Canadian Arctic Expedition,
1913–1916
28 The Arctic Voyages of Martin Stuart E. Jenness
Frobisher
An Elizabethan Adventure 39 Chee Chee
Robert McGhee A Study of Aboriginal Suicide
Alvin Evans
29 Northern Experience and the
Myths of Canadian Culture 40 Strange Things Done
Renée Hulan Murder in Yukon History
Ken S. Coates and William R.
30 The White Man’s Gonna Getcha
Morrison
The Colonial Challenge to the Crees
in Quebec 41 Healing through Art
Toby Morantz Ritualized Space and Cree Identity
Nadia Ferrara
42 Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing 54 Kiviuq
Coming Home to the Village An Inuit Hero and His Siberian
Peter Cole Cousins
Kira Van Deusen
43 Something New in the Air
The Story of First Peoples Television 55 Native Peoples and Water Rights
Broadcasting in Canada Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in
Lorna Roth Western Canada
Kenichi Matsui
44 Listening to Old Woman Speak
Natives and Alternatives in 56 The Rediscovered Self
Canadian Literature Indigenous Identity and Cultural
Laura Smyth Groening Justice
Ronald Niezen
45 Robert and Francis Flaherty
A Documentary Life, 1883–1922 57 As affecting the fate of my absent
Robert J. Christopher husband
Selected Letters of Lady Franklin
46 Talking in Context
Concerning the Search for the Lost
Language and Identity in
Franklin Expedition, 1848–1860
Kwakwaka’wakw Society
Edited by Erika Behrisch Elce
Anne Marie Goodfellow
58 The Language of the Inuit
47 Tecumseh’s Bones
Syntax, Semantics, and Society in
Guy St-Denis
the Arctic
48 Constructing Colonial Discourse Louis-Jacques Dorais
Captain Cook at Nootka Sound
59 Inuit Shamanism and Christianity
Noel Elizabeth Currie
Transitions and Transformations in
49 The Hollow Tree the Twentieth Century
Fighting Addiction with Traditional Frederic B. Laugrand and Jarich G.
Healing Oosten
Herb Nabigon
60 These Mysterious People
50 The Return of Caribou to Ungava Shaping History and Archaeology in
A.T. Bergerud, Stuart Luttich, and a Northwest Coast Community
Lodewijk Camps Susan Roy
51 Firekeepers of the Twenty-First 61 Aleut Identity
Century Tradition and Modernity in an
First Nations Women Chiefs Indigenous Fishery
Cora J. Voyageur Katherine Reedy-Mascher
52 Isuma 62 Earth into Property
Inuit Video Art Colonization, Decolonization, and
Michael Robert Evans Capitalism
Anthony J. Hall
53 Outside Looking In
Viewing First Nations Peoples in 63 Collections and Objections
Canadian Dramatic Television Series Aboriginal Material Culture in
Mary Jane Miller Southern Ontario, 1791–1914
Michelle A. Hamilton
64 These Mysterious People 68 Women’s Work, Women’s Art
Shaping History and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Northern
a Northwest Coast Community Athapaskan Clothing
Susan Roy Judy Thompson
65 Telling It to the Judge 69 Warriors of the Plains
Taking Native History to Court The Arts of Plains Indian Warfare
Arthur J. Ray Max Carocci
66 Aboriginal Music in Contemporary 70 Reclaiming Indigenous Planning
Canada Edited by Ryan Walker, Ted Jojola,
Echoes and Exchanges and David Natcher
Edited by Anna Hoefnagels and
Beverley Diamond
67 In Twilight and in Dawn
A Biography of Diamond Jenness
Barnett Richling
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Reclaiming Indigenous
Planning
Edited by
Ryan Walker, Ted Jojola, and
David Natcher
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montreal & Kingston London Ithaca
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© McGill-Queen’s University Press 2013
ISBN 978-0-7735-4193-1 (cloth)
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Canada. Funding has also been received from the Publications Fund at the University
of Saskatchewan and from the Canadian Pacific Partnership Program in Aboriginal
Community Planning.
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the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the
Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.
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Reclaiming Indigenous planning / edited by Ryan Walker, Ted Jojola, and David Natcher.
(McGill-Queen’s Native and northern series ; 70)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
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1. Indians of North America – Land tenure – Canada – Planning. 2. Indigenous peoples
– Land tenure – Planning. 3. Community development – Canada – Planning.
4. Community development – Planning. 5. Land use – Canada – Planning. 6. Land
use – Planning. 7. Traditional ecological knowledge – Canada. 8. Traditional ecological
knowledge. I. Natcher, David C., 1967–, editor of compilation II. Walker, Ryan
Christopher, 1975–, editor of compilation III. Jojola, Theodore S. (Theodore Sylvester),
editor of compilation IV. Series: McGill-Queen’s native and northern series ; 70
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Contents
Tables and Figures xiii
Foreword xv
Aaron Aubin
Preface xvii
Ryan Walker, Ted Jojola, and David Natcher
1 Theorizing Indigenous Planning 3
Hirini Matunga
Part One Indigenous Communities
2 Reconstituting Native Nations: Colonial Boundaries and
Institutional Innovation in Canada, Australia, and the United
States 35
Stephen Cornell
3 The Past as Present: Film as a Community Planning Intervention
in Native/Non-Native Relations in British Columbia,
Canada 60
Leonie Sandercock and Giovanni Attili
4 Culture and Economy: The Cruel Choice Revisited 94
Michael Hibbard and Robert Adkins
5 Community-Based and Comprehensive: Reflections on Planning
and Action in First Nations 113
Laura Mannell, Frank Palermo, and Crispin Smith
