Biography

About Me

Peter Campbell

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

George Orwell, “Looking Back on the Spanish War.”

Peter Campbell is retired from the History Department at Queen’s University, where he taught Canadian history, including the history of Indigenous Peoples and the history of Québec. He has a BA in Native Studies from Trent University, where he studied the Ojibwe language with Fred Wheatley and Ojibwe culture and society with Harvey McCue (Waubageshig). Peter has an MA from Laurentian University in Sudbury and a PhD from Queen’s University in Kingston.

Peter began reading about Native Americans around 1960 and has maintained his interest in Indigenous history, culture, and identity.

He is somewhat bewildered by all these white people half his age who have suddenly become experts in Indigenous history.

Readers who want to know more about his ideas can read “Not as a White Man, Not as a Sojourner” James A. Teit and the Fight for Native Rights in British Columbia, 1884-1922,” left history, vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall 1994), and “Forty Canoes of Women: The Lives and Legacy of the Algonquian Women of 17^th Century New France,” Labour/Le Travail, 90 (Fall 2022)