Free Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Indigenous Americas) by Glen Sean Coulthard Page B

colleagues. The unwavering support and intellectual guidance provided by professors James Tully and Taiaiake Alfred warrant special mention. If there are any insights to be gleaned from Red Skin, White Masks , it’s due in large part to the support I received from these two outstanding scholars. I consider both of them to be friends and mentors of the highest order.
    I would also like to thank the many people I have met over the years who have influenced my thinking in innumerable ways. In particular, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my close friends and esteemed colleagues Dory Nason, John Munro, Robert Nichols, Jakeet Singh, and Rita Dhamoon. Your thoughtful comments on various incarnations of this project have been invaluable. You have all been crucial to my intellectual and personal development in ways that I cannot possibly express here.
    There are, of course, many others whose words of encouragement and support have indelibly shaped this book. In particular, I would like to start by acknowledging my friends and colleagues in the First Nations Studies Program at the University of British Columbia: Dory Nason, Sheryl Lightfoot, Daniel Justice, Linc Kesler, (the forthcoming) Johnny Mack, Janey Lew, Jie Ie Baik, Hannah Butson, and Tanya Bob. I look forward to many more conversations in the future.
    Special thanks are also due to my editor, Jason Weidemann, at the University of Minnesota Press, as well as the series editor for Indigenous Americas, Robert Warrior. Your collective support for this project struck the perfect balance between persistence and compassion.
    Credit is also due to the many illuminating conversations I have had over the years with these brilliant interlocutors: Erin Freeland Ballantyne, Leanne Simpson, Audra Simpson, Andy Smith, J. P. Fulford, Duncan Ivison, Melissa Williams, Jeff Corntassel, Michael Asch, Avigail Eisenberg, Jeremy Webber, Chris Andersen, Peter Kulchyski, Paul Patton, Kevin Bruyneel, Richard Day, Harsha Walia, David Dennis, Cliff Atleo, Ivan Drury, Elizabeth Povinelli, Laura Janara, Barbara Arneil, Bruce Baum, Jeffery Webber, Nikolas Kompridis, Brad Brian, Sylvia Federici, Andrej Grubacic, Dylan Rodriguez, Brendan Hokowhitu, Vince Diaz, Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, Francois Paulette, Stephen Kakfwi, Kyla Kakfwi Scott, Amos Scott, Melaw Nakehk’o, Modeste and Therese Sangris, Toby Rollo, Am Johal, Shyla Seller, Matt Hern, Geoff Mann, Mike Krebs, Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Scott Morgensen, Shiri Pasternak, Chris Finley, Arthur Manuel, Val Napoleon, Mandee McDonald, Siku Allooloo, Nina Larrson, and Jarrett Martineau.
    A shout-out is also due to my students at the University of British Columbia and elsewhere. Thanks to Kelsey Wrightson and Matthew Wildcat for the care they put into helping prepare the text, both intellectually and physically, for publication. I have also learned so much from my conversations in and outside of the classroom with Daniel Voth, Jessica Rosinski, Derek Kornelsen, Jessica Hallenbeck, Dawn Hoogeveen, Kelly Aguirre, and Charlotte Kingston.
    Finally, I could not have completed this project without the love and support of Amanda Dowling; our children, Hayden and Tulita Dowling-Coulthard; and my mother, Christine Coulthard. This book is for all of you.
    I dedicate Red Skin, White Masks to the loving memory of my father, Richard Park Coulthard (1942–2012). I miss you more than words can say. Mahsi cho!

Glen Sean Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene) is an assistant professor in the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.