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Prairie Rising provides a series of critical reflections about the changing face of settler colonialism in Canada through an ethnographic investigation of Indigenous-state relations in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan’s largest city.
List of contents
List of Figures
Preface and Appreciations
Introduction: Urban Indigenous Youth and Participatory Politics in the Paris of the Prairies
Part 1: A World of Invisible Things: History and Politics in the Context of Settler Colonial Encounters
Chapter 1: Breakage: Settler Colonization, Violence, and the Possibility (Still) of Self-Determined Destiny
Chapter 2: The Making of Crisis Stories
Part 2: The Space that Lies in Between: Ethnographic Encounters with the Land of Living Skies
Chapter 3: Seductive Change: They Say the Best is Yet to Come
Chapter 4: Policing the Boundaries and Debates over What’s "Real"
Part 3: Pushback on the Plains: Tensions and Trials of Participation
Chapter 5: Justice in a Binder: Cultural Currency and Urban Indigenous Youth
Chapter 6: The Dislocation of Self
Conclusion: Red Rising
References
Notes
About the author
By Jaskiran Dhillon
Summary
Prairie Rising provides a series of critical reflections about the changing face of settler colonialism in Canada through an ethnographic investigation of Indigenous-state relations in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan’s largest city.
