JPI201H1S L0101
Indigenous Politics in Canada
Themes
This course focuses on the legal and political relationship between Canada’s Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state. The course provides a detailed genealogy of the relevant legal and political touchstones of the relationship from the Hawthorn Report in 1966 to the present-day Unist’ot’en roadblocks on Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia. Students will gain a sense of the historical and ongoing pendulum-like legal and political relationship between the Canadian state and Indigenous communities. Students will become familiar with a shortlist of relevant legal and political concepts: Aboriginal rights, treaty relationship, nation-to-nation, reconciliation, resurgence, honour of the Crown, duty to consult, and Indigenous spirituality.
Texts
JR Miller, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Native-Newcomer Relations in Canada, Fourth Edition, University of Toronto Press, 2018 (Only this edition)
Format and Requirements
Weekly lectures, two short essays, final take home essay during final assessment period
Preparation
POL214H1 or POL224H1
Prerequisites
4.0 credits, or 1.0 credit in POL/ JPA/ JPF/ JPI/ JPR/ JPS/ JRA courses, or INS201Y1