Metis and Indigenous against settler colonialism: Allyson Stevenson, ‘Dr Howard Adams’s Halfbreed Histories of Canadian Colonialism: An Indigenous Paradigm for Decolonization’, in Maurice Jr. Labelle (ed.), The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization: Post-Orientalism and the Politics of Difference, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023, pp. 25-41 | settler colonial studies blog

Metis and Indigenous against settler colonialism: Allyson Stevenson, ‘Dr Howard Adams’s Halfbreed Histories of Canadian Colonialism: An Indigenous Paradigm for Decolonization’, in Maurice Jr. Labelle (ed.), The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization: Post-Orientalism and the Politics of Difference, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023, pp. 25-41

28Apr24

Excerpt: Canada’s settler-colonial history haunts the cities, towns, and rural areas of Saskatchewan as nowhere else. Here, where Métis leader Louis Riel was hanged, Idle No More was birthed, and the statue of John A. Macdonald drips (symbolically) with blood, the past is ever present. The largely rural province straddles the Great Plains to the south and the boreal forest to the North, bisected by the North and South Saskatchewan River (kisiskāciwani-sīpiy, meaning “swift flowing river” in Cree). Saskatchewan has long been the epicentre of radical Indigenous political resistance and remarkable Indigenous cultural and political persistence. First Nations and Métis Peoples who encountered settler colonialism and cultural imperialism have generated creative, radical, and life-affirming responses that link local struggles for Indigenous justice, freedom, and decolonization to worldwide liberation movements.

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