William Wicken, York University

Research

Canada Southwest Ontario history United States New York State history Six Nations demography Aboriginal women and domestic service movement off reserve

Latest funding

History of Mi'kmaw political activism in Nova Scotia between 1960 and 2007
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$25,000
Becoming white, urban, and working class: Clinton Claus, the Six Nations, and moving off reserve 1871-1921
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$77,203

All 2 grants and awards

History of Mi'kmaw political activism in Nova Scotia between 1960 and 2007

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Young, Tuma W.

Keywords: Indigenous; oral history; Indigenous knowledge transfer; archival research; promote; protect and disseminate Indigenous knowledge; development of a research agenda

$25,000

Becoming white, urban, and working class: Clinton Claus, the Six Nations, and moving off reserve 1871-1921

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Wicken, William

Keywords: Canada; Southwest Ontario history; United States; New York State history; Six Nations; demography; Aboriginal women and domestic service; movement off reserve; Aboriginal men and war service; renouncement of Indian status

$77,203

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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