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Karl Hele

Professor
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Hart Hall 217
Office hours
Thursday, 2-4 p.m.

Biography

Karl S. Hele, a member of Garden River First Nation, is a professor in Canadian Studies who specializes in Indigenous Studies.  He joined Mount Allison in 2018.

His areas of research, publication, and teaching focus on Indigenous history, politics, law, and contemporary issues.  He has served as the joint editor of the Algonquian Proceedings (39th, 40th, and 41st), edited four collections, as well as published and presented numerous papers on the history of the Anishinaabeg and Metis of the Sault Ste. Marie region. He currently has an edited collection, Engaging Indigenous Communities: Conference Proceedings and a jointly edited collection with Dr. M.-P. Bousquet,  La blessure qui dormait 脿 poings ferm茅s : l鈥檋茅ritage des pensionnats autochtones au Qu茅bec accepted for publication. Additionally, Dr. Hele publishes a monthly column 鈥淗idden Histories鈥 in the Sault Star and is a regular article and review contributor to Anishinaabeg News.

Publications

Monograph:

  • 2011 - An Overview of Garden River First Nation鈥檚 Lands. Sault Ste. Marie: Garden River First Nation Community Trust.

Edited Collections: 

  • 2021 - Engaging Indigenous Communities:  Resources, Rebellions, and Resurgence:  Conference Proceedings.  Winnipeg:  Aboriginal Issues Press.
  • 2019 - La blessure qui dormait 脿 poings ferm茅s: l'heritage des pensionnats autochtones au Qu茅bec. Montreal:  Recherches Amerindiennes au Qu茅bec.
  • 2017 - Survivance and Reconciliation: 7 Forward / 7 Back. 
  • 2015 - Canadian Indigenous Native Studies Association Conference Proceedings. Winnipeg: Aboriginal Issues Press. 
  • 2016 - This is Indian Land: The Robinson Treaties of 1850. Winnipeg: Aboriginal Issues Press.
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  • 2013 - The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature: Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.  
  • 2008 - Lines Drawn Upon the Water: The First Nations Experience in the Great Lakes' Borderlands.  Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Articles: 

  • 2021 - "Becoming Christian:  The Sault Anishinaabeg Missionary Experience, c. 1828-1871."  In Engaging Indigenous Communities:  Resources, Rebellions, and Resurgence.  Conference Proceedings.  Edited by Karl Hele.  Winnipeg:  Aboriginal Issues Press, pp.
  • 2018 - 鈥淣ation Making/Nation Breaking: 鈥楨ffective Control鈥 of Aboriginal Lands and Peoples by Settlers in Transition.鈥 In Hemispheric Sovereignties: Indigeneity in the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Canada. Co-edited  by Mil茅na Santoro and Erick Langer. University of Nebraska Press (November 1, 2018)  
  • 2016 - 鈥淭he Robinson Treaties: A Brief Contextualization.鈥 In This is Indian Land: The Robinson Treaties of 1850. Winnipeg: Aboriginal Issues Press, pp. 1-42.   
  • 2016 - 鈥溾業s it marked in the Bible, that the English and American should draw a line and do what so he pleases with the natives?鈥: The 1850 Treaty as an International Document.鈥 In This is Indian Land: The Robinson Treaties of 1850. Winnipeg: Aboriginal Issues Press, pp. 91-136.  
  • 2015 - 鈥淎n Era鈥檚 End?: Imposing/Opposing Control in the Sault Ste. Marie Borderlands. 鈥 In Tecumseh鈥檚 Vision: Indigenous Sovereignty and Borders Since the War of 1812. Co-edited by Ute Lischke, David T. McNab, and Paul-Emile McNab. Winnipeg: Aboriginal Issues Press from the University of Manitoba, pp. 47-70.  
  • 2012 - 鈥淪eeding Civilization: Garden River First Nation鈥檚 Agricultural Fairs, c.1917-1950.鈥 In Anishinaabewin Niizh: Culture Movements, Critical Moments, 2011, eds. Alan Corbiere, Deborah McGregor and Crystal Migwans. M鈥機higeeng, ON: Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, pp.114-139.  
  • 2008 - 鈥溾楩ully Equal to a Mission in Herself鈥: Charlotte Johnston McMurray鈥檚 Missionary Labours at Bawating, 1827-1838.鈥 In Papers of the 39th Algonquian Conference, eds. Karl S. Hele and Regna Darnell. London: Algonquian Society, pp. 316-57.

Articles (not peer reviewed):   

  • 2022 - "Mary Two-Axe Earley:  A Rights' Champion," Geoscope 53:1 (Spring/Summer 2022): 21-28.
  • 2022 - "Enfranchisement:  Unmarried women's capacity to voluntarily Enfranchise," Inequality and the Indian Act:  A History of Harm and the Healing Path Forward (Ottawa:  Native Women's Association of Canada).
  • 2021 - "Hardships and Rewards:  Women at the Sault Ste. Marie Missions," Michigan History 105:4 (Jul./Aug. 2021): 45-50.
  • 2021 - "Profile:  James D. Cameron," Michigan History 105:1 (Jan./Feb. 2021): 13
  • 2018 - 鈥淐anada鈥檚 Indigenous Policies as Genocide.鈥 Geoscope 49:1 (Fall): 6-22.  
  • 2014 - 鈥淩efugees in Nineteenth-Century Canada Who Fled American Oppression.鈥 Geoscope 45:1 (Fall): 52-61. 
  • 2013 - 鈥淭he Indian Act - From 1876 to Today.鈥 Geoscope 44:1 (Fall): 6-17.

Newspaper Contributions: 

  • 2014 - Articles, Garden River First Nation Community Newsletter    
  • 2013 -  Opinion Column, 鈥淗idden Histories鈥, in the Sault Star (Sault Ste. Marie, ON)    
  • 2012 - Articles, Anishinabek News (North Bay, ON)

Encyclopedia Entries:

  • "Reserves in Ontario," "Nebenaigoching," "Mica Bay Incident," "Robinson Treaties of 1850," "Darren Zack," "Anishinaabe," "Pennefather Treaties," "Treaty of Niagara, 1764," "Indigenous Elders in Canada," "Land Cession"  In The Canadian Encyclopedia

 

Education

PhD History, McGill University (2003)

MA History, University of Toronto (1994)

BA History and Political Science, University of Waterloo (1993)

Teaching

  • INDG 1001
  • INDG/CANA/HIST 2801
  • INDG/CANA 3501: Aboriginal Political and Legal Issues
  • CANA/HIST/INDG 3821: The Indian Act: Law, Policy, and Canadian First Peoples
  • INDG/HIST/CANA 3831: Indigenous Canada: Historical Perspectives
  • CANA/HIST/INDG 3841: Borderlands
  • INDG/ CANA 4101: Indigenous Canada: Advanced Topics

Research

  • Indigenous Borderlands (primary focus is US/Canada Border)
  • Upper Great Lakes
  • Anishinaabeg History
  • Metis Identity & History in the Upper Great Lakes
  • Performance
  • Indian Act, Policy, Laws
  • Treaties
  • Missions and Missionaries (Non-Indigenous and Indigenous)

Grants, awards & honours

  • 2023 - Paul Par茅 Excellence Award, 正品蓝导航, Sackville, NB.
  • 2022 - Paul Par茅 Medal, 正品蓝导航, Sackville, NB.
  • 2022 - Canadian History of Education Association/Association Canadienne d'histoire de l'education best French-language book in the field of educational history for the years 2018 to 2020 for Le Blessure qui Dormait 脿 Poings Ferm茅s:  L'heritage des pensionnats autochtones au Qu茅bec (Montreal:  Recherches Amerindiennes au Qu茅bec, 2019).
  • 2018 - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture Diversity Research Travel Stipends.  Reviewing the holdings relating to Sault Ste. Marie held by the Royal Ontario Museum. 2018-2019
  • 2017 - The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church Grant. Documenting Hannah Foulkes Chance鈥檚 role as an Episcopalian missionary. 2017-2018.
  • 2017 - United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History鈥檚 Racial/Ethnic Research Grant. Methodist Missions at the Sault: An Investigation into their Relationships with the Anishinaabeg as well as Canadian and American States in the Borderlands. 2017-2018. 
  • 2016 - Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society. Indian Pageants in the Borderlands of Sault Ste. Marie (Ontario and Michigan).