Blockades and Resistance

by Hodgins, Bruce W.; McNab, David; Lischke, Ute

• ISBN13: 9780889203815
• ISBN10: 0889203814
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

Summary

This book examines Aboriginal resistance movements on Canada, focussing especially on the Temagami and Oka blockades.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction Actions of Peace	1	(12)
Ute Lischke
David T. McNab
Part 1: Personal Reflections
The Life and Times of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai	13	(4)
James Twain
The Joy of Unfolding Commitment: A Woman's View of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai Blockades	17	(2)
June Twain
Gary G. Potts	19	(4)
Bruce W. Hodgins
The Temagami Blockades of 1989: Personal Reflections	23	(8)
Bruce W. Hodgins
Remembering an Intellectual Wilderness: A Captivity Narrative at Queen's Park in 1988-89	31	(24)
David T. McNab
You Can't Chop Peace Down: Planting the White Pine Tree at West Virginia University, 1992-99	55	(16)
Ellesa Clay High
Part 2: Historical Perspectives on Resistance
Aboriginal Resistance in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Anishinabe, Their Allies, and the Closing of the Mining Operations at Mica Bay and Michipicoten Island	71	(14)
Rhonda Telford
Barter, Bible, Bush: Strategies of Survival and Resistance among the Kingston/Bay of Quinte Mississauga, 1783-1836	85	(20)
Brian S. Osborne
Intentional Resistance or Just ``Bad Behaviour'': Reading for Everyday Resistance at the Alderville First Nation, 1837-76	105	(22)
Michael Ripmeester
``White Gold'' versus Aboriginal Rights: A Longlac Ojibwa Claim against Damages Caused by the 1937 Diversion of the Kenogami River into Lake Superior	127	(20)
Susan Campbell
Part 3: Varieties of Contemporary Resistance
Aboriginal Title on the Ground: Establishing and Protecting Occupation of Land	147	(10)
Kent McNeil
Space, Strategy, and Surprise: Thinking about Temagami Ten Years after the Blockades	157	(36)
James Lawson
Echoes of Resistance: Coercion and Injustices in Canadian Prisons	193	(8)
Peggy O'Reilly-Shaughnessy
Female Narratives of Resistance: The Significance of Gender and Food in the Writings of Louise Erdrich	201	(20)
Ute Lischke
The Resistance of Little Charlie Wenjack and His Legacy at Trent University	221	(8)
Bruce W. Hodgins
John S. Milloy
Epilogue The Struggle Continues	229	(6)
Bruce W. Hodgins
Notes	235