Beginnings
Part 1: Pan-Indigenous Unity
1 Unity: “United we stand, divided we perish”
2 Authority: “Ordinary Indians” and “the private club”
3 Money: “A blessing and a golden noose”
Part 2: A Philosophical Revolution and Competing Nationalisms
4 Refusal: “Empty words and empty promises”
5 Protest: Direct Action through “Militant May”
6 Sovereignty: “If you really believe that you have the right, take it!”
Reflections
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Sarah A. Nickel is Tk’emlupsemc (Kamloops Secwépemc), French Canadian, and Ukrainian. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan and has contributed to American Indian Quarterly and BC Studies.
"Assembling Unity offers a great deal to scholars interested not
only in the Canadian context but more broadly in Indigenous
politics and Indigenous feminisms. Nickel’s conceptual framework
stands as a model to inspire other scholars who seek to use
insights from Indigenous studies in order to reframe old debates
and frameworks."
*Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal*
Assembling Unity is an important book. Sarah Nickel’s
timely study of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs was shortlisted for
the Canadian Historical Association’s 2020 Best Scholarly Book in
Canadian History Prize and was recently announced the winner of
this year’s CHA Indigenous History Book Prize. Both accolades
are much deserved.
*Ormsby Review*
A rich examination of the work Indigenous political leaders
and grassroots organizers did to negotiate unity as part of a
longer history of political activism in the context of continued
settler colonialism.
*Herizons, Fall 2019*
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