Indigenous Healing as Paradox: Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony

Indigenous healing is a paradox in the liberal settler colony where efforts to foster well—being can simultaneously undermine distinct Indigenous societies. This book examines the prominence of "Indigenous healing" in Canadian public discourse through a historical and ethnographic lens. It focuses on late twentieth—century Indigenous social histories in Treaty 3 territory and cities in northern and southern Ontario to show practices of re—membering—drawing on traditional ways of being and k...