Indigenous Content Syllabus Materials - A Resource for Political Science Instructors in Canada

A report by the CPSA Reconcilliation Committee

The Reconciliation Committee of the Canadian Political Science Association encourages all educators, and especially political scientists, to incorporate materials into their syllabi, graduate reading lists, and research agendas, as part of a broader effort to reflect upon, and challenge, the role that education has played in the genocides of Indigenous Peoples.

The articles included here are from Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique and are available free of charge until the end of April 2023.

They are intended to counter the weight of political science's and cognate disciplines' scholarship on Indigenous matters, so as to privilege a liberatory, critical race, post-and anti-colonial, and/or an Indigenous feminist theoretical framework; to privilege Indigenous-led scholarship that fits with that framework or that addresses the experience and consequences of the colonial experience. The objective is to construct a curated list amenable to revision, and directed at assisting the professoriate to improve its understanding, teaching, research and supervision by developing competence on these matters and be able to more carefully engage the political science canon; and to assist student scholars to develop similar competence and comfort with these materials and this approach as they proceed in their own careers.

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