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Hayden King

Dr. Hayden King

Assistant Professor & Advisor to the Dean of Arts on Indigenous Education
EducationMA (Queen’s University), PhD (McMaster University)
OfficeJOR-122
Phone416-979-5000 x543483

Dr. Hayden King is Anishinaabe from Beausoleil First Nation on Gchi'mnissing, in Huronia Ontario.

Areas of Expertise:

Indigenous policy, law, governance & education; settler colonialism

Research:

Dr. Hayden King has a number of ongoing research projects revolving around renewing Indigenous relationships to the land. He is a co-lead on a SSHRC Partnership Grant seeking to understand Indigenous jurisdiction in modern treaty contexts; through Yellowhead Institute he is studying the practical strategies First Nation communities deploy to reclaim land and resources; and finally, Hayden is a student of Anishinaabeg law, working to re-articulate the legal relationships between hunters and the land. 

Courses:

  • FNTI (external link)  / PPA 124: Introduction to the Politics and Governance of Indigenous People
  • PD 9000: Is Reconciliation Dead? Contemporary Indigenous Policy in Canada

Graduate Program Membership:

  • Policy Studies

Community & Professional Service:

Recent Publications:

King, H. 2021. "Rising Like a Cloud: New Histories of Old Toronto" in Indigenous Toronto: Stories that Carry This Place, (external link)  edited by D. Bolduc, M. Gordon-Corbiere, R. Tabobondung and B. Wright-McLeod. Toronto: Coachhouse Books.

Zoe, J.B., H. King and J. Simpson. 2020. Gowhaedo Ginaewo (Ancestral ways): Mapping Modern Treaty Implementation. Northern Public Affairs 6(2). 

King, H., S. Pasternak and R. Yesno. 2019. Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper. (external link, opens in new window)  Toronto: Yellowhead Institute

King, H. and S. Pasternak. 2018.  Canada's Emerging Indigenous Rights Framework : A Critical Analysis. (external link, opens in new window)  Toronto: Yellowhead Institute. 

King, H. 2018. “Treaty Making and Breaking in Settler Colonial Canada” in Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada (external link, opens in new window)  (pp. 107-126), edited by J. Broadie. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

King, H. 2018. “Discourses of Conquest and Resistance: International Relations & Anishinaabe Diplomacy” in Race, Gender and Culture in International Relations: Postcolonial Perspectives, (external link, opens in new window)  edited by R.B. Persuad and A. Sajed. London, UK: Routledge.

King, H. 2016. “New Treaties, Same Old Dispossession: A Critical Assessment of Land and Resource Management Regimes in the North” in Canada: The State of the Federation 2013: Aboriginal Multilevel Governance (external link, opens in new window)  (pp. 83-98), edited by M. Papillion and A. Juneau. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.