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EDITORS" FOREWORD In fact, Gill-Lacroix’s paper introduces the reader to the second thematic node of the book: the one dwelling on Native Peoples. Miklés Vassanyi’s “Second Contact: Patterns of ‘Second Encounters’ with the Inuit in Early Modernity. An Anthropological Analysis of the Cases of Henry Hudson and William Baffin” provides an anthropological lens to discuss 17 century European second contact with the Greenland and Hudson Bay Inuit. Using sources on Henry Hudson’s voyage of 1610-11 and William Baffin’s voyage of 1612, this paper is a quest to better understand the nature of the conflicts such encounters entailed. Applying post-colonial theory and drawing on the work of necrogeographical scholars Laqueur and Francaviglia, through case studies from interior BC (Cheslatta Carrier Nation), Southwestern and Southern Ontario (Black communities), William Felepchuk’s paper, “Unearthing Racial Necrogeographies: Burial Places and the Dispossession of Minorities in Canada” stresses the importance of minorities’ “successfully reconsecratling] spaces of acknowledgement, remembrance, and peace through tending to burial places,” in the face of the challenges this endeavour may entail. Eric Smith’s “Safely Embracing Culture: The Adequacy of the Cultural Safety Paradigm in Canadian and American Indigenous Healthcare” investigates how health care services for indigenous people could be improved through providers’ better knowledge and understanding of indigenous culture(s) beyond the current practice of cultural safety. The last paper in this block is Denisa Krasna’s “Jay Treaty: Indigenous Rights of Free Cross-Border Passage between Canada and the USA”, which examines how the implementation of the Canada-US border has affected indigenous communities residing in the area, and how Jay Treaty (1794) and the rights granted by it may be interpreted in multiple and interculturally conflicting ways. Importantly, the paper also presents several examples of indigenous cross-border cooperation. The volume closes with two papers featuring literary reflections on the inter- and transcultural influences affecting Indigenous identity. Written by Krisztina Kod6, “Indigenous Humor and Transcultural Identity Shifts and Mix-ups within the Timeframe of Past, Present and Future in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Dramatic Writing” considers four plays, The Bootlegger Blues (1991), The Baby Blues (1999), Education is our Right (1990) and Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock (1990) and looks into their characters’ identity shifts realizing between the dominant and the minority culture. The paper highlights the role humour and Gothic features play in the process in Taylor’s works. Finally, mixed ethno-cultural identity construction and indigenous interracial relations lie at the heart of Judit Agnes Kadar’s “The Shifting Sites of Identity Negotiation in Boyden’s Three Day Road”. Her paper analyzes the journeys paved by rituals and ceremonies of transformation, Boyden’s protagonists Xavier and Elijah take.
