The Iconic North: Cultural Constructions Of Aboriginal Life In Postwar Canada

Synopsis

Images Of The Indigenous North Were Also Integral To Nation-building Efforts Which Attempted To Integrate Aboriginal Peoples Into An Expanded Version Of Canadian History And Citizenship, Though Still On Terms That Were Ultimately Racialized, Gendered, And Colonial. The Resilient And Changing Constructions Of Northern Aboriginal Life Are Explored In Contact Zones Through An Analysis Of Television And Documentary Film, As Well As Textual Sources Such As Women's Travel Narratives, Popular Anthropology And History, Fictional Writing, And Northern Testimony From The Royal Commission On The Status Of Women. Grounded In Archival And Documentary Research, And Informed By Interdisciplinary Writing On Culture, Contact Zones Argues That These Forms Of Cultural Production Must Be Seen As Both Instruments And Reflections Of Colonial Consolidation.