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The University of Winnipeg

Mary Jane McCallum

Mary Jane McCallum Title: Professor, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous People, History and Archives
Phone: 204.786.9412
Office: 2B19
Building: Bryce
Email: m.mccallum@uwinnipeg.ca

Courses:

HIST-1007(3) Indigenous History Since 1900: Racism, Resistance, Renewal

HIST-3523(3) Indigenous Women’s History 

HIST-3542(6) Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Canadian History

HIST-3590(3) Indigenous Health History

HIST-4530(6) Canadian Social History

HIST-4514/GHIST-7014(6) Indigenous History – Advanced Studies: Indigenous Archives

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

I research modern Indigenous histories, particularly in southern Manitoba and Ontario, focusing on the areas of education, health, and labour.  I also teach, supervise, and mentor post-secondary students who study in these fields. I am a founding member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and Shekon Neechie, a website that promotes Indigenous history by Indigenous people. My most recent book deals with student labour at Mount Elgin Residential School. I'm currently working on several projects including:

  • Indigenous Histories of Tuberculosis In Manitoba, 1930-1970. Project website: https://indigenoustbhistory.ca
  • Reprint of Enos Montour's Brown Tom's School Days (1985), a student memoir of Mount Elgin Industrial School
  • Case studies on Indigenization, Equity and History Departments in Canadian Universities
  • Wahbunahkee: Chief Scobie Logan and Local, National and International Expressions of Lunaape Rights and Responsibilities, 1860-1930
  • The Indigenous Course Requirement Collection, an archive of the ICR at the University of Winnipeg Archives

Publications:

Selected works:

Brown Tom’s Schooldays. Approved for publication, University of Manitoba Press, Expected Fall 2024.

Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project. Missing Patient Research Guide. Winnipeg, 2023. https://indigenoustbhistory.ca/files/MITHPGuideDraft_June-202023.pdf

Nii Ndahlohke: Boys’ and Girls’ Work at Mount Elgin Industrial School 1890-1915. Altona: Friesen Press, 2023. Book and Audiobook. https://www.niindahlohke.ca

-- and Adele Perry. Structures D’Indifference: Vie Et Mort D’un Autochtone Dans Une Ville Canadienne. Québec City: Presses de l’Universite Laval, 2022. https://www.pulaval.com/livres/structures-d-indifference-vie-et-mort-d-un-autochtone-dans-une-ville-canadienne

“The MCC Summer Service Program and Clearwater Lake Indian Hospital.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 40, no. 2 (2022): 9-36. https://winnspace.uwinnipeg.ca/bitstream/handle/10680/2031/Clearwater%20Lake%20Hospital%2C%20JMS%202022.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

-- and Maureen Lux. “Medicare v Medicine Chest: Court Challenges and Treaty Rights to Healthcare.” In Medicare’s Histories: Origins, Omissions, and Opportunities in Canada First Fifty Years: Critical Historical Perspectives on Canada’s Public Health Care System, edited by Esyllt W. Jones, James Hanley, and Delia Gavrus, 103-152. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2022. https://uofmpress.ca/books/medicares-histories

-- and Jaime Cidro, Wendy McNab, Roberta Stout, and Lorena Sekwan Fontaine. “Everyday Stories on Extraordinary Times: History, Relationality and Indigenous Women’s Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” In Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19, edited by Andrea O’Reilly and Fiona Joy Green, 479-495. Toronto: Demeter, 2021. https://demeterpress.org/books/mothers-mothering-and-covid-19-dispatches-from-the-pandemic/

-- and Adele Perry. Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2018. Book and Audiobook (narrated by Wesley French).  https://uofmpress.ca/books/structures-of-indifference

“Starvation, Experimentation, Segregation and Trauma: Words for Reading Indigenous Health History.” Canadian Historical Review 98, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 96-113.    https://doi.org/10.3138/chr.98.1.McCallum

“’I would like the Girls At Home’: Domestic Labour and the Age of Discharge at Canadian Indian Residential Schools.” In Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Victoria K. Haskins and Claire Lowrie. New York and London: Routledge, 2014. https://winnspace.uwinnipeg.ca/bitstream/handle/10680/2100/Age%20of%20Discharge.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Indigenous Women, Work and History 1940-1980. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014.  https://uofmpress.ca/books/indigenous-women-work-and-history

The Complete Indian News 1954-1982. https://winnspace.uwinnipeg.ca/handle/10680/451

 

Curated Exhibitions:

-- and Julie Rae Tucker. “Nii Ndahlohke/I work.” Art Windsor-Essex. 26 September 2023 to 25 June 2023. The exhibit brought together existing works and new commissions by local First Nations artists.  The show explores the forced labour of students at Mount Elgin Industrial School and is based on Nii Ndahlohke: Boys’ and Girls’ Work at Mount Elgin Industrial School, 1890-1915.