Professor and Canada Research Chair in Identity and Diversity: The Aboriginal Experience, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy

Evelyn J. Peters

Canada Research Chair Evelyn Peters is a bit of a risk-taker, in the style of Amelia Earhart. The urban aboriginal issues expert has a pilot's licence, and has spent 300 hours in the air. She has mainly flown Cessnas, but particularly loves piloting float planes, which land gently and almost silently on the water's surface. Evelyn has also spent 6,000 hours on the ground teaching, in addition to working on her many research projects: she and her graduate students have interviewed hundreds of aboriginal people in Saskatchewan to document their experiences. The interviews will be incorporated into her work on the identities of First Nations and Metis people in urban environments.

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Email: evelyn.peters@usask.ca
Phone: (306) 966-8677
Website: http://www.usask.ca/geography/faculty/epeters/index.htm
Designations
  • Ph.D. in Geography, Queen's University, 1988
  • M.A. in Geography, Queen's University, 1981
  • B.A. (Honours) in Geography, University of Winnipeg, 1978   

Areas of Interest
  • Urban Aboriginal issues
Recent Grants/Awards

Recent Research Funding 

  • SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada Program.  2009-2010 Indigenous Urbanization Internationally: Population, $19,276.
  • Department of Indian Affairs and the Office of the Federal Interlocutor for Métis and non-status Indians, 2008, Indigenous Enumeration in Censuses Internationally, $10,080.00.
  • SSHRC, Strategic Research Grant, Urban First Nations and Métis Identities, 2006-2009, $249,303.00. Partners: Central Urban Métis Federation Inc., Gabriel Dumont Institute, Saskatoon Indian and Metis Friendship Centre, Saskatoon Tribal Council 

Awards

  • Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, June - November, 2006
  • Canada Research Chair, 2001-2011
Select Publications

Books

  • PETERS, E.J. (forthcoming) I'm sweating with Cree culture not Saulteaux culture and there goes the beginning of Pan Indianism. In: Aboriginal Population in Transition--Social, Demographic and Epidemiological Dimensions, Frank Trovato and Anatole Romaniuc. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • PETERS, E.J. 2009 ‘Aboriginal Peoples in Urban Areas' in H. Hiller (ed.) Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives, Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press (in press)

Refereed Articles

  • PETERS, E.J. with the PRINCE ALBERT GRAND COUNCIL URBAN SERVICES INC. 2009 "Everything You Want Is There": The Place of the Reserve in First Nations' Homeless Mobility" Urban Geography 30, 4:1-29.
  • PETERS, E.J. and MCCREARY, T.A. 2009 ‘Poor Neighbourhoods and the Changing Geography of Food Retailing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1984-2004' Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 18, 1:78-106

Non-Refereed Articles

  • PETERS, E.J. with O. STARCHENKO, 2008 Neighbourhood Effects and Levels of Segregation of Aboriginal People in Large Cities in Canada. Ottawa: CMHC (74 pp).
Current Courses
  • PUBP 812: Aboriginal Peoples and Public Policy
Current Research
  • Urban Aboriginal policy
  • Aboriginal identities in cites, urban Aboriginal homelessness, history of urban Aboriginal organizations in Saskatoon