Ken Coates

Ken Coates is a Canadian historian focused on the history of the Canadian North and Aboriginal rights and indigenous claims. His other areas of specialization include Arctic sovereignty; science, technology and society, with an emphasis on Japan; world and comparative history; and post-secondary education. Coates is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, and Director, International Centre for Northern Governance and Development at the University of Saskatchewan. In 2015, Coates was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. While Coates was dean of arts at the University of Waterloo, he played an integral role in the development of the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus and was a member of the Waterloo Stratford Campus Advisory Board. *Source: Wikipedia* <h2>Contributions to Other Works</h2> - *“A Very Imperfect Means of Education”*: Indian Day Schools in the Yukon Territory, 1890-1955” in Jean Barman, Y. Hebert and D. McCaskill, eds., [Indian Education in Canada, Vol. 1: The Legacy](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8080471M/) , 132-149 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986). - *“More Than a Matter of Blood: The Federal Government, the Churches and the Mixed Blood Populations of the Yukon and the Mackenzie River Valley, 1890-1950”*, in F.L. Barron and J.B. Waldram, [1885 and After: Native Society in Transition](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17943666W/), 132-49. (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1986). With W.R. Morrison. - *“On the Move: Reflections on the Impact of Non-Native Transciency on the Yukon Territory, in Arctic Institute of North America”*, [Old Pathways and New Directions: Towards a Sustainable Future](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12449359W/) (Calgary: Arctic Institute of North America, 1989), 1-14. - *“Transiency in the Far Northwest: The Sinking of the Princess Sophia,”* in Ken Coates and W.R. Morrison, eds., Interpreting the Canadian North (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1989). With W.R. Morrison. - *“The Federal Government and Economic Development in the Yukon Territory: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,”* in Ken Coates and W.R. Morrison, eds., For the Purposes of Dominion: Essays on Government and the Canadian North (Toronto: Captus Press, 1989). - *“Yukon and Northwest Territories: The Emerging North of Native and Non-Native Societies,”* in Peter Jull, ed., [The Challenge of Northern Regions](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18886412W/), 147-182. (Canberra: Australian National University, 1991). - *“Academic Versus Community-Based Scholarship in the Canadian North: Reflections on an Uneasy Relationship”*, and *“Scientific Knowledge and Northern Megaprojects: the Role of Academics and Scientists in the Construction of the Alaska Highway and Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Projects”*, [The Role of Circumpolar Universities in Northern Development: Proceedings of the First Annual Conference of the Association of Circumpolar Universities](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12563638W/), Thunder Bay, Ontario, 24-26 November 1989, 175-181. (Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 1991). With W.R. Morrison. - *“Towards a Methodology of Disasters: The Case of the Princess Sophia,”* in Ray Browne et al., eds. [Digging into Popular Culture: Theories and Methodologies in Archaeology, Anthropology and Other Fields](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18282186W/), 71-83. (Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1991). With W.R. Morrison. - *“So Far From Power: The Politics of the Yukon Territory,”* in K. Brownsey and M. Howlett, eds. Politics in the Provinces: Social Change and Canada's Provincial Governments. (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1992). With W.R. Morrison. - *“Indigenous Battles for Land and Cultural Rights in Australia and Canada,”* Henry Reynolds, ed., [Indigenous Rights in the Pacific and North America: Race and Nation in the Late Twentieth Century](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18327