Peter Kulchyski

Full Professor

BA (Hons) University of Winnipeg 1980
MA York University 1981
PhD York University 1988

Office:   443 University College
Phone:  (204) 474-6333
Fax:      (204) 474-7657
Email:    kulchysk@cc.umanitoba.ca

Peter Kulchyski in scene from the documentary film  Green Green Water  (Click here to view video clip)

For a short autobiography, see:  Bush Life.  Canadian Dimension Magazine, May/June 2005.

Aboriginal cultural politics; political development in the NWT and Nunavut; contemporary critical theory; land claims and self-government; Inuit history and performance studies

NATV 2220 - Native Societies and the Political Process
NATV 3290 - History and Culture in Cumberland Sound
NATV 3310 - Canadian Law and Aboriginal Peoples
NATV 7210 - Colonialism and Post-Colonial Theory
NATV 7220 - Critical Theory and Native Studies

Instructor for the 'pangnirtung bush school'

Publications: Books

Kiumajuk [Talking Back]: Game Management and Inuit Rights in Nunavut 1900 to 1970, with Frank Tester (Vancouver: UBC Press 2007).

the red indians: an episodic, informal collection of tales from the history of aboriginal people's struggles in canada (winnipeg: arbeiter ring press, 2007).

Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut. Winnipeg; U Manitoba P, 2006.

In the Words of the Elders: Aboriginal Cultures in Transition. Toronto; U Toronto P, 1999. Co-edited and co-wrote the introduction, with Don McCaskill et. al.

Tammarniit [Mistakes]: Inuit and Relocation Eastern Arctic 1939 to 1963, with Frank Tester. Vancouver; U British Columbia, 1994.

Unjust Relations: Aboriginal Rights in Canadian Courts, edited by Peter Kulchyski. Toronto; Oxford U P, 1994.

Publications: Academic Articles

"A Step Back: the Nisichawayasihk Cree and the Wuskwatwim Project" in Power Struggles, edited by Thibault Martin and Steven Hoffman. Winnipeg; U Manitoba Press, 2008.

"Aboriginal Rights", "Cree", "Dene","Treaties", "The Northern Flood Agreement", in The Encyclopedia of Manitoba. Winnipeg; Great Plains Publishing, 2007.

"Violence, Gender and Community in Attanarjuat" in Film, History and Cultural Citizenship, edited by Tina Chen and David Churchill. New York; Routledge, 2007.

“hunting stories” in The Culture of Hunting, edited by Jean Manore. Vancouver; U British Columbia P, 2007.

"The Town That Lost Its Name: The Impact of Hydroelectric Development on Grand Rapids, Manitoba" with Ramona Neckoway, Gerald McKay and Robert Buck in Doing Community Economic Development, edited by John Loxley, Jim Silver and Kathleen Sexsmith. Winnipeg; Fernwood, 2006.

“six gestures” in Critical Inuit Studies edited by Pam Stern and Lisa Stevenson. Lincoln; U Nebraska P, 2006.

"The Long Road From Fort Simpson to Liidli Ko". Pushing the Margins, edited by Jill Oakes, Rick Riewe, Marilyn Bennet and Brenda Chisholm. (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2000).

"What is Native Studies". Expressions in Native Studies, edited by Ron F. Laliberte et al. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Press, 2000.

"Arctic Abstersion: The Book of Wisdom for Eskimo, modernism and Inuit assimilation" with Paule McNicoll and Frank Tester. Inuit Studies. Volume 23, Numbers 1-2, 1999.

"Bush/Lands: Some Problems with Defining the Sacred". Sacred Lands, edited by Jill Oakes, Rick Riewe, Kathi Kinew and Elaine Maloney. Alberta: Canadian Circumpolar Institute, 1998.

"From Appropriation to Subversion: Aboriginal Culture in the Age of Postmodernism". American Indian Quarterly, Volume 21, Number 4, Summer 1997.

"Bush Culture for a Bush Country: An Unfinished Manifesto". Journal of Canadian Studies. Vol 31, No 3, Fall 1996.

"Anthropology at the Service of the State: Diamond Jenness and Indian Policy in the Early Twentieth Century". Journal of Canadian Studies. Fall, 1993.

"Primitive Subversions: Totalization and Resistance in Native Canadian Politics". Cultural Critique. Number 21. Spring 1992.

"The Postmodern and the Palaeolithic: Notes on Technology and Native Community in the Far North". The Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory. Vol. 13, No. 3 (1989).

"'A Considerable Unrest': F.O. Loft and the League of Indians". Native Studies Review. Vol. 4, Nos. 1 & 2 (1989)

Academic and Community Service

• Board Member, Canadian Dimension
• Board Member, Topia
• Board Member, Dialectical Anthropology
• Board Member, Canadian Journal of Native Studies
• Board Member, Manitoba Research Alliance
• Board Member, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics
• Board Member, New Directions, Winnipeg
• Board Member, Aboriginal History Series, University of Manitoba Press

Peter Kulchyski during an information picket concerning the Six Nations Caledonia land dispute at the midtown bridge, Winnipeg, spring 2006

Current Projects

• Co-Investigator, Climate Change and Inuit Knowledge (with Chris Trott and Ian Mauro) SSHRC Northern Communities Strategic Grant
• Political Development in Denendeh, SSHRC Standard Research Grant
• SSHRC funded study of four northern communities with innovative self government models who are facing resource conflicts.  Study has just been completed, results to be written up over the next year.
• SSHRC Aboriginal Strategies funded study, in co-operation with Keewatin Tribal Council, of ‘An Oral History of the Northern Manitoba Treaties’.
• Draft articles on Marx's anthropology, on Aboriginal history and trauma theory, on representations of Inuit women, and on women's bodies and representations of emancipation.
• Completed research and have first draft of manuscript on Begade Shuhtagot'ine land conflicts.
• Research towards a re-reading of the Royal Proclamation of 1763.

• Like the Sound of a Drum was winner of the Isbister Prize for best non-fiction book in Manitoba in March 2006.
• Tammarniit was Winner of Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize of the American Society for Ethnohistory in November 1995 for best book in ethnohistory. Acknowledged by Gustavus Meyer Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America in 1998 as an 'outstanding book'.
• Junior Fellow, A.D. White Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1994-95.

Other Achievements

• Non Aboriginal Educator's Award, Winnipeg Aboriginal Education Circle, February 2009
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Frontier School Division, 2003