Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Unsettling Canadian Art History 3
6. Unsettling Settler Methodologies, Re-centring Decolonial Knowledge
7. White Settler Tautologies and Pioneer Lies in Mi'kma'ki 45
8. Notes to a Nation: Teachings on Land through the Art of Norval Morrisseau 65
9. Embodying Decolonial Methodology: Building and Sustaining Critical Relationality in the Cultural Sector 87
10. Silence as Resistance: When Silence Is the Only Weapon You Have Left 112
11. Excavating and Creating Decolonial Archives
12. Truth Is No Stranger to (Para)fiction: Settlers, Arrivants, and Place in Iris Häussler´s He Named Her Amber, Camille Turner´s BlackGrange, and Robert Houle´s Garrison Creek Project 141
13. “Ran away from her Master … a Negroe Girl named Thursday”: Examining Evidence of Punishment, Isolation, Trauma, and Illness in Nova Scotia and Quebec Fugitive Slave Advertisements 160
14. “Miner with a Heart of Gold”: Native North America, Vol. 1 and the Colonial Excavation of Authenticity 179
15. Excavation: Memory Work 195
16. Reclaiming Sexualities, Tracing Complicities
17. Bear Grease, Whips, Bodies, and Beads: Community Building and Refusing Trauma Porn in Dayna Danger's Embodied 2Spirit Arts Praxis 215
18. Coming Out a l'Oriental: Diasporic Art and Colonial Wounds 241
19. Indian Americans Engulfing “American Indian”: Marking the “Dot Indians'” Indianness through Genocide and Casteism in Diaspora 270
20. Figures 293
21. Bibliography 297
22. Contributors 327
23. Index 329