Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Tribal Canoe Journeys and Indigenous Cultural Resurgence: A Story from the Heiltsuk Nation
• Chapter 2 “This is What Makes Us Strong”: Canoe Revitalization, Reciprocal Heritage, and the Chinook Indian Nation
• Chapter 3 Wha Dǫ Ehtǫ K’è
• Chapter 4 Listening to Model Canoes: Language and Survivance in E. Tappan Adney’s Ethnography
• Chapter 5 Ginawaydaganuc, Algonquin Teachings of the Birch Bark Canoe: The Canoe in Indigenous Community Revitalization and Reconciliation
• Chapter 6 Pathways to the Forest: Meditations on the Colonial Landscape
• Chapter 7 Beyond Birch Bark: How Lahontan’s Images of Unfamiliar Canoes Confirm His Remarkable Western Expedition of 1688
• Chapter 8 Monumental Trip: Don Starkell’s Canoe Voyage from Winnipeg to the Mouth of the Amazon
• Chapter 9 The Dam that Wasn’t: How the Canoe Became Political on the Petawawa River
• Chapter 10 Unpacking and Repacking the Canoe: Canoe as Research Vessel

About the Author

Bruce Erickson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba. His work investigates the cultural politics of recreation and tourism within the context of settler colonialism in Canada and beyond. He is the author of Canoe Nation: Nature, Race and the Making of a National Icon.

Sarah Wylie Krotz is an Associate Professor of English literature at the University of Alberta. Her research explores the complex web of relations among literature, land, and ecological thought. She is the author of Mapping with Words: Anglo-Canadian Literary Cartographies, 1789-1916.

Reviews

"The Politics of the Canoe, like the books that inspired it, advocates a new, progressive politics of the canoe: one that rejects the old nation-building icon in favour of an ancient, multiform watercraft that speaks to Indigenous accomplishment and Native history."--David Massell "American Review of Canadian Studies"

"This book is poised to create positive ripples among its readers. It simultaneously appeals to lovers of the canoe and challenges them to examine their assumptions about canoeing as an activity that happens somewhere out there, in "nature," which many of the contributors remind us is a Euro-colonial construct. Politics of the Canoe is an invitation to learn, and I suggest the editors have accomplished a difficult task: speaking to the non-converted, creating critical conversations, and promoting deeper learning about the canoe and the ways it is tied to our colonial histories."--Leigh Potvin "BC Studies"