Week 3
Indigenous Peoples and Decolonization
Required readings
Fortin, David. “From Indian to Indigenous Agency: Opportunities and Challenges for Architectural Design.” In Design and Agency: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices, edited by John Potvin and Marie-Ève Marchand, 243-58. London; New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.
Burdett-Moulton, Harriet, Wanda Dalla Costa, Kelly Edzerza-Bapty, and Ouri Scott. “Indigenous Perspectives on the Notions of Architecture.” Interview by Tiffany Shaw-Collinge. The Site Magazine, June 13, 2018. http://www.thesitemagazine.com/read/indigenous-perspectives
Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1-9. https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630
Further readings
Vowel, Chelsea. Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: HighWater Press, 2016. *A great primer on Indigenous issues is the blog âpihtawikosisân by Métis writer Chelsea Vowel, as is her book, Indigenous Writes, which is available as an ebook through McGill: https://apihtawikosisan.com/blog/
Indigenous Architectures Check out the list of sources here (bottom of post): https://canada-architecture.org/from-the-archives-indigenous-architectures/. Settler-Colonial Architectures
Fortin, David, Jason Surkan, and Danielle Kastelein. “Métis Domestic Thresholds and the Politics of Imposed Privacy.” In Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture, edited by Rebecca Kiddle, luugigyoo patrick stewart, and Kevin O’Brien, 76–84. Novato, California: ORO Editions, 2018.
Swentzell, Rina. “Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School.” Places Journal 7, no. 1 (1990). https://placesjournal.org/article/the-santa-clara-pueblo-and-day-school/
Tanner, Adrian. “Architecture Without Rooms: Cree Dwellings and Social Order.” Together We Survive: Ethnographic Intuitions, Friendships, and Conversations, edited by John S. Long and Jennifer S.H. Brown, 71–90. McGill Queen’s University Press, 2016.
Settler Colonialism
Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani. “‘A Structure, Not an Event’: Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity.” Lateral 5, no. 1 (2016). https://doi.org/10.25158/L5.1.7
Razack, Sherene, ed. Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002.
Rifkin, Mark. “Settler Common Sense.” Settler Colonial Studies 3, no. 3–4 (November 1, 2013): 322–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2013.810702
Simmons, Kristen. “Settler Atmospherics.” Cultural Anthropology 32, no. 4 (November 2017). https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1221-settler-atmospherics
Simpson, Audra. “Settlement’s Secret.” Cultural Anthropology, vol 26, no. 2 (2011): 205 17. https://www.jstor.com/stable/41238320
Wolfe, Patrick. “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.” Journal of Genocide Research, vol 8, no. 4 (December 2006): 387–409. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520601056240
Indigenous Literature
Elliott, Alicia, et al. This Place: 150 Years Retold. HighWater Press, 2019.
Nixon, Lindsay. Nîtisânak. Montreal: Metonymy Press, 2018.
https://www.cbc.ca/books/35-books-to-read-for-national-indigenous-history-month-1.5585489. *recommended list by CBC
