Recent Publications

The Culture of Hunting, principal editor, Vancouver: UBC Press, pp.276

Cross-Currents:  Hydro-electricity and the Engineering of Northern Ontario, Waterloo:  Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp.209.

“The Historical Erasure of an Indigenous Identity in the Borderlands:  The Western Abenaki of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Quebec,” in Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol.26: no.2, (August, 2011), pp.179-196.

Liberalism and the Numbered Treaties, Aboriginal Policy Research: a History of Treaties and Policy, Jerry B. White et al., eds., Toronto:  Thompson Educational Publishing, Vol.VII, pp.41-57

“Modernity’s Contested Terrains of space and place:  Hunting and Algonquin Park, 1890-1950,” in The Culture of Hunting, Jean L. Manore and Dale G. Miner, eds., Vancouver:  UBC Press, chp.9, pp.121-147.

“Rivers as Text: From Pre-Modern to Post-Modern Understandings of Development, Technology and the Environment in Canada and Abroad,” in A History of Water, The World of Water, Vol.III, T.Tvedt and T. Oestigaard, eds., London: I.B. Taurus & Co. Ltd., pp.229-253.

“The Construction of Rivers and Community Transformation:  An Alternative History of the St. Francis River,” in Journal of the Eastern Townships, No.23, Fall/Automne, 2003, pp.27-40.

“The Promise of Hydro?  Comparative and contrasting hydro-electric development in Ontario and Quebec,” in Canada Confederation to Present, Chris Hackett and Robert Hesketh eds., CD-Rom, Edmonton: Chinook Multimedia Productions.

"Indian Reserves vs. Indian lands:  Contrasting Views of Reserves, Crown Lands and Natural Resource Use in northeastern Ontario, 1906-1990," in Ontario since Confederation, Edgar-Andre Montigny and Lori Chambers eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 195-213.

Treaty #3 and the interactions of landscape and memory in the Rainy River area during the late nineteenth century, CHA, New Brunswick.

« Le Traité no 9 et la perméabilité des frontières entre les rapports oraux et écrits des négociations, » Paper to be presented at the ACFAS Annual Conference, May, Sherbrooke ACFAS Sherbrooke.

“Treaties as tools for modern state formation?  Aboriginal arguments to the contrary in Treaty #3 and #9” American Society for Ethnohistory, Ottawa.

“Indigeneity meets Industrialism: Contrasting and Colliding Views of a Canadian northern hinterland, 1870-1930” forthcoming (August), International Congress on Environmental History, Copenhagen.

“Liberalism and The Numbered Treaties,” Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, Ottawa: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada/University of Western Ontario.

“Treaty 9 and the Borderland of Northern Ontario: Liberalism, Colonialism and Native Resistance to State Expansion,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Conference, University of Saskatchewan.

“Treaty 9:  Is it or is it not part of Canada’s ‘Liberal Order Framework?’”  Wanapitae Annual Aboriginal Conference, Temagami Ontario.

“Foreigners in their own Land: The erasure of Abenaki history in the Eastern Townships,” for Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, University of Western Ontario.

“Professing an interest in First Nations History: Reflections on Teaching and Researching Native/settler Relations in a Canadian University” for “First Nations, First Thoughts,” School of Canadian Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh.

“The Technology of Rivers and Community Transformation:  An Alternative History of the St. Francis,” ETRC annual conference, Bishop’s University.

Modernity’s Contested Terrains of space and place:  Hunting and Algonquin Park, 1890-1950,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Laval.

“Rivers as text: from pre-modern to post-modern understandings of development, technology and the environment in Canada and abroad,” International Water History Association Conference, Bergen, Norway.

“The Numbered Treaties,” Report prepared for Treaty Policy Directorate, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pp.250.

Kanai First Nation First Nation Specific Claim re WWII Bombing and Gunnery Range, pp.62 plus appendices.

TLE Review: North Caribou Lake First Nation, pp.65, Joint Research for Specific Claims, Indian and Northern Affairs and Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat.

Island Claim re: Fawn Island, 36pp. plus appendices; Surrenders for Timber, 42pp. plus appendices; Dock and Sawmill, 17pp. plus appendices.

Munsee-Delaware First Nation Reserve Allocation Claim, for Specific Claims, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, 85pp. plus appendices.

“Overview of Euro-Canadian Understandings of Treaty #9, 22pp., for Treaty Policy and Review, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

“Mohawks of Akwesasne Specific Claim to Cairn Island,” Research Report for the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, pp.19 plus appendices.

“Pabineau First Nation Specific Land Claim to Gould Island,” Research Report for the Department of Indian And Northern Affairs, pp.49 plus appendices.

“Walpole Island First Nation Claim to Peche (Peach) Island,” Research Report for the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, pp.46 plus appendices.

“Sandy Lake First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Review,”  Research Report for the Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat, pp.75 plus appendices.

“Eabematoong First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Review,” Research Report for Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada and the Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat, pp.120 plus appendices.

“Chapleau Ojibway First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Review,” Research Report for Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada and the Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat, pp.109 plus appendices.

"Missanabie Cree Land Entitlement" and "Chapleau Cree Land Entitlement,"  Research Reports for the Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat, pp.24 and 18.

"Treaty 9:  Its origins and interpretations," Report for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, pp.100.