- November 28, 2019
Please join us for the launch of Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West at Carleton University!
Date: Thursday Nov 28, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Carleton University Art Gallery, St. Patrick Building (1125 Colonel By Drive), Ottawa
Cost: FREE
Please join us for a discussion with a number of the book’s editors and contributors, including Heather Dorries, Julie Tomiak, David Hugill, Zoe Todd, Sharmeen Khan, and Brenda Macdougall. Hosted by Tonya Davidson.
This event made possible by the generous support of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies.
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.
David Hugill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University.
Julie Tomiak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University.
Sharmeen Khan lives in Toronto, Ontario and works at CUPE 3903. She organizes with No One Is Illegal-Toronto and is the founding editor of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action. She is also a trainer with Tools for Change.
Zoe Todd (Métis) is an artist and scholar from amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton) in the Treaty Six Area of Alberta, Canada. She writes about human-fish relations, Métis law, science, and environmental issues in Alberta and the Lake Winnipeg watershed.
Brenda Macdougall is the Chair of Métis Research at the University of Ottawa and has been researching Métis community histories for many years. She is the author of One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth Century Northwestern Saskatchewan (UBC Press, 2010) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. More recently she has collaborated to create an online database of historical resources related to Métis history called the Digital Archives Database (DAD) project.
