Decolonizing and Indigenizing

Faculty, staff, and students at Queen鈥檚 University are committed to addressing the of the , as well as the recommendations of the Queen鈥檚 University Truth and Reconciliation Commission Task Force Final Report Yakwanastahent茅ha / Aankenjigemi / Extending the Rafters. If you are interested in taking action, there are many paths available, many directions you might go. This website offers a few starting points focused specifically on teaching and learning.

What are Decolonization and Indigenization?

What are Decolonization and Indigenization?

Land Acknowledgements

Land Acknowledgements

Resources To Get Started

Resources To Get Started

Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Kuokkanen, Rauna. Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Responsibility of the Gift. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007.

Mackey, Eva. Unsettled Expectations: Uncertainty, Land, and Settler Decolonization. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2016.

_____. The House of Difference. London: Routledge, 1999.

Moreton-Robinson, Eileen. The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

Ontario Human Rights Commission. Under Suspicion: Research and consultation report on racial profiling in Ontario. Available: http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/under-suspicion-research-and-consultation-repor...
Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.

Snelgrove, Corey, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, and Jeff Corntassel. 鈥淯nsettling settler colonialism: The discourse and politics of settlers, and solidarity with Indigenous nations.鈥 Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society 3/2 (2014): 1-32.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty and Sarah Harasym. The post-colonial critic: interviews, strategies, dialogues. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Ottawa, 2015), available: http://nctr.ca/assets/reports/Final%20Reports/Executive_Summary_English_...

Tuck, Eve and K. Wayne Yang. 鈥淒ecolonization is not a metaphor.鈥 Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1/1 (2012). Available: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630

Veracini, Lorenzo. Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Wolfe, Patrick. 鈥淪ettler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.鈥 Journal of Genocide Research 8/4 (2006).

____. Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event. London: Cassell, 1999.

 

Authorship and Acknowledgments

This webpage was written by Robin Attas, Ph.D, settler educational developer in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Queen鈥檚 University. Assistance and ideas came from Lindsay Brant (Mohawk), Ian Fanning (Algonquin-Settler), Laura Maracle (label-resister and mixed-race woman consciously living in Haudenosaunee tradition at Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory), Tim Yearington (Algonquin-M茅tis), and various Indigenous and non-Indigenous members of the Indigenous Knowledge, Curriculum, and Research Working Group of the Indigenous Council of Queen鈥檚 University.