Joyce Green

Professor Emerita

PhD (University of Alberta); MA (University of Calgary); BA/BSc (University of Lethbridge)

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Joyce Green is Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of Regina. Her research interests focus on Aboriginal-settler relations and the possibility of decolonization in Canada; and a transformative ecology of relationship with place, epitomized by many traditional Aboriginal conceptions of land and place. Her publications on these matters include

“Always Coming Home: Indigenous Identity, Indigenous Feminism, Scholarship and Life”, in Gina Starblanket (ed.). Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (3^rd). Fernwood Publishing: Halifax and Winnipeg.
2025: "Enacting Reconciliation". In Gina Starblanket and David Long, eds. Visions of the Heart Toronto: Oxford University Press. (revised from the 2019 chapter of the same name, in the 5th edition). pp. 237- 251
2025: "Being and Knowing Home". In MacDonald, David and Emily Grafton, eds. On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples. University of Regina Press, pages 259-272.
2026: "Rights and Responsibilities: Indigenous Realities, Indigenous Priorities". In Emily Grafton and David MacDonald, eds. Relations and Resistances. Forthcoming, May 2026.

Her work challenges colonialism, and includes

Elaine Coburn, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Joyce Green, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, and Gina Starblanket. “Anti-racist and Indigenous Feminism and the Generative Power of Disruption”. In Alana Cattapan, Ethel Tungohan, Nisha Nath, Fiona MacDonald and Stephanie Paterson, eds. Feministing in Political Science: University of Alberta Press, Edmonton.
“The Impossibility of Citizenship Liberation for Indigenous Peoples” in Jatinder Mann (ed.), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective. 2017. Pp. 175-187.

She is the editor of Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (2007, and 2^nd ed, 2017) and of Indivisible: Indigenous Human Rights (2014), both through Fernwood Publishing.

She lives in Cranbrook, B.C., known as ʔa·kiskaqⱡi?it – “where two trails meet on the prairie”, in ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa – the unceded and stolen territory of the Ktunaxa Nation. She is a citizen of the Ktunaxa Nation and a member of Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡiʔit (Tobacco Plains Indian Band). Dr. Green is of English, Ktunaxa, and Cree-Scots halfbreed ancestry.