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Aboriginal Peoples and Canada/Les Peuples Autochtones Et Le Canada Editorial Board / Comité de rédaction Editor-in-Chief Rédacteur en chef Kenneth McRoberts, York University, Canada Associate Editors Rédacteurs adjoints Lynette Hunter, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Danielle Juteau, Université de Montréal, Canada Robert S. Schwartzwald, University of Massachusetts, U.S.A. Managing Editor Secrétaire de rédaction Guy Leclair, ICCS/CIEC, Ottawa, Canada Advisory Board / Comité consultatif Alessandro Anastasi, Universita di Messina, Italy Michael Burgess, University of Keele, United Kingdom Paul Claval, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France Dona Davis, University of South Dakota, U.S.A. Peter H. Easingwood, University of Dundee, United Kingdom Ziran He, Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages, China Helena G. Komkova, Institute of the USA and Canada, USSR Shirin L. Kudchedkar, SNDT Women’s University, India Karl Lenz, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Gregory Mahler, University of Mississippi, U.S.A. James P. McCormick, California State University, U.S.A. William Metcalfe, University of Vermont, U.S.A. Chandra Mohan, University of Delhi, India Elaine F. Nardocchio, McMaster University, Canada Satoru Osanai, Chuo University, Japan Manuel Parés I Maicas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Espagne Réjean Pelletier, Université Laval, Canada Gemma Persico, Universita di Catania, Italy Richard E. Sherwin, Bar Ilan University, Israel William J. Smyth, St. Patrick’s College, Ireland Sverker Sörlin, Umea University, Sweden Oleg Soroko-Tsupa, Moscow State University, USSR Michèle Therrien, Institut des langues et civilisations orientales, France Gaëtan Tremblay, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Hillig J.T. van’t Land, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Pays-Bas Mel Watkins, University of Toronto, Canada Gillian Whitlock, Griffith University, Australia Donez Xiques, Brooklyn College, U.S.A. ii International Journal of Canadian Studies Revue internationale d’études canadiennes 12, Fall / Automne 1995 Aboriginal Peoples and Canada Les peuples autochtones et le Canada Table of Contents/Table des matières Kenneth McRoberts Introduction / Présentation .........................5 Gerald McMaster Object (to) Sanctity: The Politics of the Object ..............11 Anne Whitelaw Land Spirit Power: First Nations Cultural Production and Canadian Nationhood.................................31 Denys Delâge Les principaux paradigmes de l’histoire amérindienne et l’étude de l’alliance franco-amérindienne aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles........51 Charles E. Reasons and Dennis Pavlich The Legal and Social Alienation of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada ....69 Joyce A. Green Towards A Detente With History: Confronting Canada’s Colonial Legacy ...................................85 Russel Lawrence Barsh The Aboriginal Issue in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1984-1994......107 Armand Garnet Ruffo From Myth to Metafiction, a Narratological Analysis of Thomas King’s “The One About Coyote Going West” ..................135 Danielle Schaub “Trapped. Emiserated. Resigned”: Native Women’s Lost Social Status in Lee Maracle’s “Bertha”..........................155 Armando E. Jannetta Métis Autobiography: The Emergence of a Genre amid Alienation, Resistance and Healing in the Context of Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed (1973) ...................................169 iii Sylvie Berbaum Spiritualité et musique chez les Ojibwa .................183 Karl Neuenfeldt First Nations and Métis Songs As Identity Narratives ..........201 William Hamley The Nunavut Settlement: A Critical Appraisal ..............221 Nicholas P. Lovrich, John C. Pierce, Brent S. Steel, Mary Ann E. Steger and John Tennert Native Claims and Public Attitudes: The Politics of Context and Culture in British Columbia and Washington State................235 Joseph Mensah Geography, Aboriginal Land Claims and Self-government in Canada ..................................261 Peter H. Russell The Research Program of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples ..................................277 Alan Cairns Citizens, Scholars and the Canadian Constitution ............285 iv Introduction Présentation In recent years, Aboriginal Peoples Au cours des dernières années, les and their relationship with Canada relations entre les peuples have become major issues in autochtones et le Canada ont public debate. Indeed, these commencé à s’imposer à l’ordre du questions have assumed a central jour des débats publics. Ces place in constitutional discussions, questions ont même été au centre albeit without being resolved. A des discussions constitutionnelles, Royal Commission on Aboriginal sans toutefois trouver de solution. Peoples is about to produce its Après des années d’efforts, la report, the fruit of several years of Commission royale sur les peuples effort. In fact, the struggle to autochtones est sur le point de renegotiate the relationship publier son rapport. En fait, la lutte between Aboriginal Peoples and engagée pour renégocier les Canada extends to all domains, relations entre les peuples cultural, social and economic, as autochtones et le Canada s’étend à well as political. tous les secteurs : la culture, la Not surprisingly, an ever growing société, l’économie, en plus de la number of scholars have become politique. engaged in the study of these Il n’est donc pas surprenant qu’un questions. Accordingly, this issue nombre d’universitaires aient of the IJCS brings together the entrepris d’étudier ces questions. work of close to twenty scholars, Ainsi, ce numéro de la Revue coming from a wide variety of internationale d’études canadiennes disciplines and based not just in (RIÉC) regroupe les travaux de près Canada but six other countries as d’une vingtaine d’universitaires de well. différentes disciplines et qui The contradictions and proviennent non seulement du complexities of Aboriginal Canada, mais de six autres pays. Peoples’ relationship with Canada Les contradictions et la complexité have been displayed with des relations entre les peuples particular clarity in the continuing autochtones et le Canada ressortent debate over the place of très clairement du débat sur la place Aboriginal art in Canada’s cultural de l’art autochtone qui se poursuit institutions. There, culture is dans les institutions culturelles closely intertwined with politics, canadiennes. Là, la culture est as reflected in the legacy of state étroitement liée à la politique, assimilationist policies or the comme le démontre l’héritage des struggle among competing politiques gouvernementales national identities. In the opening d’assimilation, ou le conflit des piece, Gerald McMaster explores identités nationales concurrentes. the meaning invested in Dans le premier texte, Gerald Aboriginal art, both traditional and McMaster s’interroge sur la contemporary. He contrasts it with signification investie dans l’art the assumptions and practices that autochtone, traditionnel ou historically have guided the contemporain, et il l’oppose aux International Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue internationale d’études canadiennes 12, Fall/Automne 1995 IJCS / RIÉC collection of Aboriginal art by non- hypothèses et aux pratiques qui Aboriginal institutions. Anne ont historiquement guidé la Whitelaw assesses the extent to collection d’art autochtone par les which a recent exhibit Land Spirit institutions non autochtones. Pour Power broke with the established sa part, Anne Whitelaw essaie resistance of Canadian art institutions d’évaluer la mesure dans laquelle to accept contemporary Native art. une exposition récente, intitulée She finds this departure hesitant and Land Spirit Power, a rompu avec conjunctural, much like the la résistance, bien ancrée dans les incorporation of Aboriginal leaders in institutions d’art canadiennes, the 1992 constitutional negotiations. d’ignorer l’art autochtone contemporain. Cette nouvelle For social scientists, the challenge orientation lui paraît hésitante et has been to find concepts and circonstancielle, et elle lui theoretical approaches which can rappelle beaucoup l’inclusion des comprehend both Aboriginals’ own chefs autochtones dans les experience and their relationship to négociations constitutionnelles de Canada. Focusing on the 17th and 1992. 18th centuries, Denys Delâge explores alternative paradigms of Pour les spécialistes des sciences Aboriginal Peoples and of their sociales, le défi est de dégager des dealings with Europeans. He seeks a approches conceptuelles et balance between traditional history, théoriques qui peuvent englober à which has tended to obscure the la fois l’expérience des Aboriginals’ own dynamic, and a autochtones eux-mêmes et leurs political correctness which has relations avec le Canada. Denys encouraged an unduly “positive” Delâge se penche sur les portrayal of Aboriginal societies. For paradigmes de rechange qui their part, Reasons and Pavlich pourraient s’appliquer aux develop the concept of alienation and peuples autochtones et à leurs seek to demonstrate how it is well relations avec les Européens, aux suited to capture the Aboriginal 17e et 18e siècles. Il tente de condition. They show, moreover, trouver un point d’équilibre entre how Aboriginal Peoples are seeking l’historiographie traditionnelle, to redress this alienation through land qui tend à éclipser la dynamique litigation, both in Canada and autochtone, et le courant Australia. In the same vein, Joyce « politiquement correct » qui nous Green argues that colonial encourage à brosser un portrait assumptions about the place of excessivement positif des sociétés Aboriginal Peoples have been autochtones.
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