Adam Gaudry
Adam Gaudry, Ph.D. is Vice-Dean and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. He is Métis and his family is from the Lake-of-the-Woods in Northwestern Ontario and he grew up near Hamilton. He is a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation.
Adam received his Ph.D. from the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria and completed his MA in Sociology and BAH in Political Studies from Queen’s University. He is a past Henry Roe Cloud Fellow at Yale University.
Adam has diverse research interests and he is currently working on several different projects. He is writing a book on nineteenth-century Métis political thought and the Métis-Canada “Manitoba Treaty” of 1870, currently under contract with the University of Manitoba Press. He is leading a large collaborative and community-driven research partnership to build a Teetł’it Gwich’in bush school in Teetł’it Zheh, NWT. He has also published extensively on Métis identity, Indigenous research methodologies, and indigenization policy in Canadian post-secondary education.
Adam’s work has been published in Native American and Indigenous Studies, American Indian Quarterly, AlterNative, Critical Ethnic Studies, The Wicazo Sa Review, aboriginal policy studies, the Canadian Journal of Native Education, the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, The Canadian Encyclopedia, and numerous edited collections. He tweets at @adamgaudry
Adam received his Ph.D. from the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria and completed his MA in Sociology and BAH in Political Studies from Queen’s University. He is a past Henry Roe Cloud Fellow at Yale University.
Adam has diverse research interests and he is currently working on several different projects. He is writing a book on nineteenth-century Métis political thought and the Métis-Canada “Manitoba Treaty” of 1870, currently under contract with the University of Manitoba Press. He is leading a large collaborative and community-driven research partnership to build a Teetł’it Gwich’in bush school in Teetł’it Zheh, NWT. He has also published extensively on Métis identity, Indigenous research methodologies, and indigenization policy in Canadian post-secondary education.
Adam’s work has been published in Native American and Indigenous Studies, American Indian Quarterly, AlterNative, Critical Ethnic Studies, The Wicazo Sa Review, aboriginal policy studies, the Canadian Journal of Native Education, the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, The Canadian Encyclopedia, and numerous edited collections. He tweets at @adamgaudry
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These vivid constructs pose significant political problems for contemporary Indigenous claims to self- determination insofar as they receive a sympathetic hearing from dominant white settler societies. These “new Métis” identities are essentialized in ways that capitalize on settler puzzlement over forms of Indigeneity based on kinship and belonging and replace these forms with an imagined past of racial mixedness leading to supposed societal unification. This article therefore examines what we call the “evocation" of métissage,” that is, the tactical use of long- ago racial mixing to reimagine a “Métis” identity that prioritizes mixed- race ancestry and disregards the historical development of Métis peoplehood.
1. Research is grounded in, respectful of, and ultimately seeks to validate Indigenous worldviews.
2. Research output is geared towards use by Indigenous peoples, and in Indigenous communities.
3. Research processes and final products are ultimately responsible to Indigenous communities, meaning that Indigenous communities are the final judges of validity and effectiveness of insurgent research.
4. Research is action-oriented and works as a motivating factor for practical and direct action among Indigenous people, and in Indigenous communities.
This article discusses the role of research within Indigenous communities, grounded in an Indigenous knowledge system, and proposes an alternative to traditional extraction-oriented research methods that form the basis for mainstream academic research protocols.
Thesis and Dissertation by Adam Gaudry
Commentary and Opinion-Editorials by Adam Gaudry
Book Reviews by Adam Gaudry
Published in The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 35.1 (2015).
Editor's Introductions by Adam Gaudry
Books by Adam Gaudry
These vivid constructs pose significant political problems for contemporary Indigenous claims to self- determination insofar as they receive a sympathetic hearing from dominant white settler societies. These “new Métis” identities are essentialized in ways that capitalize on settler puzzlement over forms of Indigeneity based on kinship and belonging and replace these forms with an imagined past of racial mixedness leading to supposed societal unification. This article therefore examines what we call the “evocation" of métissage,” that is, the tactical use of long- ago racial mixing to reimagine a “Métis” identity that prioritizes mixed- race ancestry and disregards the historical development of Métis peoplehood.
1. Research is grounded in, respectful of, and ultimately seeks to validate Indigenous worldviews.
2. Research output is geared towards use by Indigenous peoples, and in Indigenous communities.
3. Research processes and final products are ultimately responsible to Indigenous communities, meaning that Indigenous communities are the final judges of validity and effectiveness of insurgent research.
4. Research is action-oriented and works as a motivating factor for practical and direct action among Indigenous people, and in Indigenous communities.
This article discusses the role of research within Indigenous communities, grounded in an Indigenous knowledge system, and proposes an alternative to traditional extraction-oriented research methods that form the basis for mainstream academic research protocols.
Published in The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 35.1 (2015).