WCGS

Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies, York University

PhD (Lancaster)

David T. McNab is a Métis historian who has worked for more than thirty-five years on Aboriginal land and treaty rights issues in Canada. David teaches Indigenous and Canadian Studies in the Department of Equity Studies/Humanities in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University in Toronto. He has also been a claims advisor for Nin.Da.Waab.Jig., Walpole Island Heritage Center, Bkejwanong First Nations since 1992. In addition to over eighty articles, David has published: Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory (editor) (1998); Circles of Time: Aboriginal Land Rights and Resistance in Ontario (1999) as well as the co-edited Blockades and Resistance: Studies in Actions of Peace and the Temagami Blockades of 1988-89 (2003), Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and their Representations (2005), The Long Journey of Canada's Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories (2007), all with WLU Press. In 2008 he published the Fourth Edition (with Olive Patricia Dickason), of Canada's First Nations, (Oxford University Press) and in 2009 he published No Place for Fairness: Indigenous Land Rights and Policy in the Bear Island Case and Beyond, with McGill-Queens University Press. He is currently working on the fifth edition of Canada's First Nations which is selected for publication late in 2013.