First Nations

What can the past teach us about First Nations’ education?

December 2, 2011

As an historian of the eighteenth century studying Aboriginal engagement with European forms of higher education, modern-day statistics on First Nations education are startling.

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Returning Home: Repatriation and Missing Children

August 24, 2011

Last week the remote Northern Ontario community of Peawanuck First Nation welcomed home Charlie Hunter.  Charlie passed away in 1974 while attending St. Anne’s Residential School in Fort Albany.  He died while saving a fellow student who had fallen through ice near the school.  Following his death Charlie Hunter was buried in Moosoonee without the [...]

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Kill the “Indian” and Save the “Wild”: Vocabularies with Political Consequences in Indigenous Studies

October 7, 2010

Active History contributor Britt Luby looks at manomin, ‘wild’ rice and vocabularies with political consequences in Indigenous Studies.

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The Queen Among the Mohawks

July 9, 2010

The the gift of two peals of handbells to the Mohawk Chapel during the Queen’s most recent visit to Canada demonstrates the continuity of a relationship that pre-dates the existence of Canada by more than 150 years.

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Remembering Oka

July 5, 2010

The twentieth anniversary of the Oka Crisis provides an opportunity to reflect on how Canada, Canadians and Aboriginal people engage with each other and each other’s past.

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