Dr. Hayden King
Dr. Hayden King is Anishinaabe from Beausoleil First Nation on Gchi'mnissing, in Huronia Ontario.
Dr. King is on leave from September 2025-August 2026.
Areas of Expertise
Indigenous policy, law, governance & education; settler colonialism
Research
Dr. Hayden King has a number of ongoing research projects. He is a co-lead on a SSHRC Partnership Grant considering the extent of Indigenous control of lands and resources in modern treaty contexts. Related to this work is the publication of an interactive Treaty Map website designed to offer Indigenous perspectives on every treaty in Canada dating back to 1763. Phase Two of this work is now ongoing.
Courses
- / PPA 124: Introduction to the Politics and Governance of Indigenous People
- PD 8300: Is Reconciliation Dead? Contemporary Indigenous Policy in Canada
Graduate Program Membership
Community & Professional Service
- Executive Director,
- Co-founder,
- Editor, zaagige (an imprint of Coach House Books)
- Founder,
- Coordinator, Governance at
Recent Publications
King, H. et al. 2024. Toronto: Yellowhead Institute.
Inutiq, K., H. King and S. Fox (eds). 2024. Toronto: Yellowhead Institute.
Hill, P. and H. King. 2024. Toronto: Yellowhead Institute.
King, H. 2024. 鈥淪overeignty.鈥� In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory, edited by M. Kreiswirth et al. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
King, H. & D. Thomas. 2024. "A Pedagogy of Erasure: International Relations and Indigenous Peoples.鈥� In (pp. 51-66), edited by H.A. Smith, M.A. Boyer & D.J. Hornsby. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Alexander, M., D. Edwards, H. King, L. Pinnock, and R. Reece. 2023. Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 32(1): 27-45.
King, H. 2022. 鈥淐onceptualizing Indigenous Freedom.鈥� In , edited by J. Jean-Pierre, V. Watts, C.E. James, P. Albanese, X. Chen & M. Graydon. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Inutiq, K. & H. King. 2022. Considering Inuit Self-Government in Nunavut. Iqaluit: Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.
King, H. 2021. "Rising Like a Cloud: New Histories of Old Toronto" in (pp. 9-16), edited by D. Bolduc, M. Gordon-Corbiere, R. Tabobondung and B. Wright-McLeod. Toronto: Coachhouse Books.
Zoe, J.B., H. King and J. Simpson. 2020. Gowhaedo Ginaewo (Ancestral ways): Mapping Modern Treaty Implementation. Northern Public Affairs 6(2).
King, H., S. Pasternak and R. Yesno. 2019. Toronto: Yellowhead Institute
King, H. and S. Pasternak. 2018. Toronto: Yellowhead Institute.
King, H. 2018. 鈥淭reaty Making and Breaking in Settler Colonial Canada鈥� in (pp. 107-126), edited by J. Broadie. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
King, H. 2018. 鈥淒iscourses of Conquest and Resistance: International Relations & Anishinaabe Diplomacy鈥� in edited by R.B. Persuad and A. Sajed. London, UK: Routledge.