[nativestudies-l] Call for Book chapters-Northern Aboriginal Communities

[Lowe, Shelly C]

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Northern Aboriginal Communities: Key Issues, Challenges, & Visions for the Future in Canada.

Editors: Herman Michell, PhD and Cathy Wheaton

This book project intends to create provide a multi-disciplinary dialogue on Northern Aboriginal community issues, challenges, and visions for the future.

The editors of the book invite voluntary submissions of scholarly essays and manuscripts that draw upon existing literature in relation to the social, historical, cultural, economic, and political realities of Aboriginal communities in northern contexts.

The contents of the book will be used as university resource material focused on basic understandings of Canada¹s northern Aboriginal peoples and communities from a variety of academic viewpoints. The audience for the book is for 1st and 2nd year university students.
Full details pertaining to this edited book are available at http://kitaskino.wordpress.com

Submission Themes

Other topics may be considered as long as they are relevant to each thematic area below.

Theme #1. Pre-contact northern Indigenous cultures, philosophies, & ways of knowing
€ Northern Aboriginal cultural traditions and languages;
€ Perspectives on northern Aboriginal cultural identity;
€ Traditional land use and sustainable life styles in northern contexts;
€ Traditional education in northern Aboriginal communities;
€ Traditional principles that underpin northern Aboriginal ways of being;
€ Traditional seasonal calendars, cycles, and survival activities;
€ Place-based stories that teach and transmit intergenerational lessons;

Theme #2. Contact, Treaties, Colonialism, Residential Schools
€ Treaty-making in Canada¹s north;
€ Impacts of colonialism in northern Aboriginal communities;
€ Fur Trade history and Settlement in northern contexts;
€ The role of Aboriginal women during the Fur Trade era;
€ Metis history and contemporary realities in northern communities;
€ Impacts of Education policy & Residential schools in the north;

Theme #3. Contemporary Issues in Northern Aboriginal Contexts
€ Comparative developments in northern communities provincially, nationally, and internationally;
€ Political trends, social movements, and contemporary hot button topics in northern Aboriginal communities;
€ The use of diverse theoretical frameworks to examine the past, present, and future of northern Aboriginal communities;
€ Impact of resource extraction activities in northern contexts;
€ Best practices in working with northern Aboriginal communities;
€ History and state of Aboriginal education in northern communities;

Theme #4. Research Trends in Northern Aboriginal contexts
€ A survey of northern research trends from contact to post-colonial times;
€ Community-based research approaches in northern contexts;
€ Northern Aboriginal research methodologies;
€ Bridging western science and northern Aboriginal ways of knowing;
€ Intellectual property rights and Indigenous knowledge;

Please send questions regarding the book to:
Dr. Herman Michell.
Kitaskino ­ Co-Editor
Box 5000
NORTEP-NORPAC
La Ronge, SK S0J 1L0

Email: hmichell at nortep-norpac.sk.ca<mailto:hmichell at nortep-norpac.sk.ca>
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