Part 1: Introduction
1 Introduction / Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber
Part 2: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in the Canadian Political Space
2 Canadian Sovereignty and Universal History / Michael Asch
3 Historicizing Narratives of Arrival: The Other Indian Other / Audrey Macklin
4 The Conceit of Sovereignty: Toward Post-Colonial Technique / Brenna Bhanda
Part 3: Narratives and Narrative Form
5 Show Me Yours / Richard Van Camp
6 Horseflies, Haireaters, and Bulldogs: In Conversation with Richard Van Camp / Blanca Schorcht
7 Counter-Narratives of Arrival and Return: Testing the Interstices of Resistance / Sneja Gunew
8 Common Ground around the Tower of Babel / J. Edward Chamberlin
Part 4: Contact and Its Narratives
9 Juxtaposing Contact Stories in Canada / Anne Godlewska
10 Native Women, the Body, Land, and Narratives of Contact and Arrival / Kim Anderson
11 The Batman Legend: Remembering and Forgetting the History of Possession and Dispossession / Bain Attwood
12 Layered Narratives in Site-Specific Wild Places / Jacinta Ruru
Part 5: Arrival and Its Narratives
13 Narratives of Origins and the Emergence of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt
14 Robbed of a Different Life: Alternative Histories, Interrupted Futures / Susan Bibler Coutin
Part 6: Institutional Implications: How Would We Do Things Differently If We Took Narrative Seriously?
15 Toward a Shared Narrative of Reconciliation: Developments in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law / S. Ronald Stevenson
16 Hoquotist: Reorienting through Storied Practice / Johnny Mack
17 Proof and Narrative: Reproducing the Facts in Refugee Claims / Donald Galloway
Part 7: Theoretical Implications: Where Do We Go from Here?
18 Differentiating Liberating Stories from Oppressive Narratives: Memory, Land, and Justice / Martha Nandorfy
Contributors; Index