INDG-0012 Indigenous Perspectives Assessments

This book explores how liberal capitalist values were used to facilitate and justify colonization, their effects on Indigenous economic, political, social, and spiritual lives, and how they were resisted.

This book explores the histories of Indigenous peoples in what is now Canada, from ancient times to the present.

Geographically, demographically, and politically, South Africa and Canada are two countries that are very far apart. What they have in common are indigenous populations, which, because of their historical and ongoing experience of colonization and dispossession, share a hunger for land and human dignity. Based on extensive research carried out in both countries, A Common Hunger is a comparative work on the history of indigenous land rights in Canada and post-apartheid South Africa. Joan Fairweather has constructed a balanced examination of the impact of land dispossession on the lives of indigenous peoples in both countries and their response to centuries of European domination. By reclaiming rights to the land and an equitable share in the wealth-producing resources they contain, the first peoples of Canada and South Africa are taking important steps to confront the legacies of poverty that characterize many of their communities. A Common Hunger provides historical context to the current land claim process in these two former British colonies and examines the efforts of governments and the courts to ensure that justice is done.

This book, written for post-secondary students but also accessible to late high school students and the general public, explores Indigenous values, Indigenous economic history, the effects of colonization, and the legal and political realities that constrain Indigenous economic development today. Topics include housing, infrastructure, borrowing, land use, and the special challenges of remote communities.

Request issues or articles from the Assiniboine Library. The journal publishes anthropological, historical, sociological, political, legal, educational and cultural issues affecting First Nations people. Although the majority of articles deal with Indigenous peoples in Canada, it also publishes articles dealing with Indigenous peoples world-wide.