- January 31, 2020
Please join us for the launch of Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West at McNally Robinson Booksellers.
Date: Friday January 31, 7:00 pm
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers (1120 Grant Avenue), Winnipeg.
Cost: FREE
Featuring editors Heather Dorries, Robert Henry, David Hugill, and Tyler McCreary as well as contributor Elizabeth Comack. Light refreshments provided.
About the Book
While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler colonialism.
Although such cities have been denigrated as “ordinary” or banal in the broader urban literature, they are exceptional sites to study Indigenous resurgence. The urban centres of the continental plains have featured Indigenous housing and food co-operatives, social service agencies, and schools. The American Indian Movement initially developed in Minneapolis in 1968, and Idle No More emerged in Saskatoon in 2013.
The editors and authors of Settler City Limits, both Indigenous and settler, address urban struggles involving Anishinaabek, Cree, Creek, Dakota, Flathead, Lakota, and Métis peoples. Collectively, these studies showcase how Indigenous people in the city resist ongoing processes of colonial dispossession and create spaces for themselves and their families.
Working at intersections of Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, urban studies, geography, and sociology, this book examines how the historical and political conditions of settler colonialism have shaped urbandevelopment in the Canadian Prairies and American Plains. Settler City Limits frames cities as Indigenous spaces and places, both in terms of the historical geographies of the regions in which they are embedded, and with respect to ongoing struggles for land, life, and self-determination.
About the Presenters
Heather Dorries is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and the Centre for Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto.
Robert Henry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary.
David Hugill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University.
Tyler McCreary is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Florida State University.
Elizabeth Comack is a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Manitoba with a four-decade career of researching and teaching about social justice issues.
