Overview

A bold, forward-thinking collection exposing the colonialist ideology embedded within the Canadian settler state—and building strategies to dismantle it On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Relations & Resistances presents strategies for carving pathways to decolonial futures. It builds on the landmark work On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands & Peoples, which reckons with the legacy of the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Final Report and lays a foundation for understanding the settler state and society. Bringing together Indigenous, racialized settler, immigrant settler, and white settler perspectives, the book cultivates a dialogue on how reconciliation can become a lived and shared reality. Contributors offer approaches on seeking solutions outside of the settler state, honouring Treaty responsibilities, centering Indigenous knowledge systems, and making space for Indigenous self-determination. On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Relations and Resistances poses essential questions: what do decolonial efforts look like on the ground today? How do we meaningfully support Indigenous resurgence movements? And what are the responsibilities of the settler in the ongoing work of decolonization?

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Author:   Emily Grafton (University of Regina) ,  David MacDonald (University of Guelph) ,  Gina Starblanket
Publisher:   University of Regina Press
Imprint:   University of Regina Press
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781779400697

ISBN 10:   1779400691
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   05 May 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Contributor Biographies Introduction—Emily Grafton and David MacDonald SECTION 1. DECOLONIZING EDUCATION PROCESSES On Codifying the Traditional Laws of Indigenous Nations in Canada—Leo Baskatawang Reflections on Anti-Asian Racism and Settler Colonialism in Canadian Universities—Heena Mistry Education as a Policy Tool for Reconciliation: Why our View of Mind Matters—Kurtis Boyer Settler Researchers: From a Place of Not Knowing—Rosemary Nagy SECTION TWO. PROSPECTS FOR RECONCILIATION AND RELATIONAL DECOLONIZATION Land Acknowledgements in an Era of Reconciliation—Enakshi Dua and Elaine Coburn Honouring Treaty Responsibilities in Rural Saskatchewan: The Treaty Land Sharing Network—Naomi Beingessner, Emily Eaton, and Martha Jane Robbins Treaty Relations as a Foundation for Reconciliation: Indigenous and Settler Perspectives in Treaty #3 Territory—Jeff Denis She Helped Herself: Rendering Empowerment through Birth Sovereignty—Vanda Fleury SECTION THREE. SETTLER COLONIAL RELATIONALITIES, IDENTITIES, AND BELONGING Sikh Responsibilities and Dreams: Disrupting Settler Colonialism, Bigger than Settler Colonialism—Rita Dhamoon On the Merits of Being an Asshole—Peter Morin and Ayumi Goto Who Are We Here? Settler colonialism, mobility, and relationships across distance—Emma Battell Lowman and Adam J Barker A Settler Twice Over in a Changing Canadian Landscape: The Importance of Knowledge, Acknowledgement and Respect to Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation—Huma Haider SECTION FOUR. INDIGENOUS RELATIONAL KNOWLEDGES IN SETTLER CONTEXTS Nikāwiy to ôtānisa Narratives- Cree mother to daughter stories: Calendar of Life, miyo-pimātisiwin (good life)—Evelyn Poitras and Alma Poitras tâpwîwin ikwa wâkôwîcihiwîwin – Truth and Reconciliation” and “Where is the Love?—Solomon Ratt Rights and Responsibilities: Indigenous Realities, Indigenous Priorities—Joyce Green Indigenous Women, settler colonial state-sanctioned gendered violence, and reconciliation in Canada—Emily Grafton  Gina Starblanket, Afterword Index

Reviews

""On Settler Colonialism in Canada disrupts the Euro-settler/Indigenous reconciliation narrative to include racialized un/settlers. The book’s polyphony of voices, styles, and experiences stitches patches of critical truth to samples of non-colonial difference to swatches of practical uplift. This diverse collection, this unsettling quilt, this dis-comforter, is not a display item but a sturdy necessity designed for everyday use."" -- David Garneau ""A thoughtful, indispensable multi-perspective contribution to the work of decolonizing settler-Indigenous relations and depowering settler colonialism in Canada through truth, self-reflection, and resurgence."" -- Alan Hanna

Author Information

Emily Grafton is of Métis ancestry, raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and an Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina (Saskatchewan). David B. A. MacDonald is an Indo-Trinidadian and Scottish political science professor at the University of Guelph and was previously on faculty at the University of Ōtago, Aotearoa (New Zealand). He was raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, on Treaty 4 territory.

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