Ken Coates

Biographic Data

ID100360
NAMEKen Coates
GIVEN NAMESKen
FAMILY NAMECoates
SIGNATURECOATES K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Saskatchewan
ORCID0000-0003-0308-1515
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS74
TOTAL CITATIONS92
AUTHOR COUNT73
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Indigenous Peoples and International Law in the Era of UNDRIP

    Ken CoatesCHAPTER2026

    The passage of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in 2007 was a watershed moment in the global struggle for Indigenous rights. The adoption by most countries was cheered by Indigenous leaders and organizations as representing a momentum-creating initiative that would empower Indigenous peoples and set new directions in social policy, economic engagement, and Indigenous empowerment. The cautious excitement …

  • Social and environmental aspects of resource extraction of energy-transition minerals

    Open AccessDatu Buyung Agusdinata, Anabel Marín et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    The global energy transition is accelerating demand for critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, and copper. Although essential for low-carbon technologies, the extractions of these mineral resources create significant socio-environmental costs. The 11 Letters curated in this Focus Issue of Environmental Research Letters bring interdisciplinary perspectives to highlight the social and environmental complexities of energy-transition mineral extr…

  • Where Exactly are all the First Nation Businesses: Interpreting the First Nation Business Environment in Yukon, 2008-2021

    Open AccessKen Coates, Greg FinbeganARTICLEJournal of Aboriginal Economic…2024

    The Yukon has one of the fastest growing, albeit smallest, economies in Canada, with an increasing population and a tight labour market. Modern treaties and self-government agreements have empowered First Nations government and Supreme Court decisions and treaty rights secured Indigenous governments a significant place in the resource sector. Yet Yukon First Nation businesspeople are not yet benefiting fully from this positive political and econo…

  • The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Aboriginal Economic Development Corporations (Aedcs), 2019–2021: An Interview-based Perspective with CEOs

    Open AccessKen Coates, Greg FinneganARTICLEJournal of Aboriginal Economic…2023

    Collaborating with the Canadian Council on Aboriginal Business (CCAB), the authors investigate how Aboriginal Economic Development Corporations (AEDCs) responded to and, in most cases, weathered the commercial disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Working from survey interviews, supplemented by business data from previous CCAB national surveys and other governmental information, the authors explore the challenges that CEOs faced and …

  • Northern Sweden and Economic Development

    Open AccessKen Coates, Carin HolroydARTICLEJournal of Northern Studies2021

    Governments around the Circumpolar world are attempting to ensure the long-term viability of northern economies, generally by supporting the natural resource economy and seeking opportunities to promote “new economy” commercial development. The challenge is formidable, in large measure because few Arctic or sub-Arctic regions have the research capability, highly skilled personnel, venture capital, accessible markets and entrepreneurial drive nece…

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics

    Open AccessKen Coates, Ken S Coates et al.BOOKThe Palgrave Handbook of Arctic…2020

  • Do You See Ice? Inuit and Americans at Home and Away

    Open AccessKen CoatesARTICLEJournal of American History2020

  • Jeffers Lennox. Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690–1763

    Open AccessKen CoatesARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    Northeastern North America, homeland to many Indigenous peoples, stretching across what is now the Canadian and United States boundary and incorporating a lengthy history of colonial entanglements, is a fascinating historical and historiographical space. The boundary has had a profound impact on historical study in the region. What is now the American part of the area is one of the richest historiographical fields in North America, particularly f…

  • Playing to the numbers

    Open AccessKen CoatesARTICLEPrometheus2016

  • Ipperwash: The tragic failure of Canada's Aboriginal policy

    Ken CoatesARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2015

  • The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā encounters, 1642–1840

    Ken CoatesARTICLEJournal of Pacific History2013

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsKen CoatesUniversity of Saskatchewan

  • North American Indigenous Peoples’ Encounters

    Ken CoatesBOOKThe Oxford Handbook Of The…2012

  • Japan in the age of globalization

    Carin Holroyd, Ken CoatesBOOKJapan in the age of globalization2011

    "The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades. But so, it must be said, has Japan influenced a variety of critical global developments - globalization is not a one-way street, particularly for a nation as economically influential and technologically advanced as Japan. The chapters in this collection examine the impact of globalization on Japan and the impact of Japan on the forc…

  • Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North

    Ken Coates, P Whitney Lackenbauer Ken Coates et al.BOOKArctic Front2008

  • Alberta Formed, Alberta Transformed

    Ken Coates, Michael Payne et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2007Cited by: 8

  • The UN, Civil Society and the Peace Movements

    Open AccessKen CoatesARTICLEPeace Review2006

  • Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon

    Ken Coates, Ken S Coates et al.BOOKLand of the Midnight Sun2005

    While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon's long and diverse history attracts little attention. Important developments such as Herschel Island whaling, pre-1900 fur trading, the post-World War II resource boom, a lengthy struggle for responsible government, and the emergence of Aboriginal political protest remain poorly understood

  • Introduction: Indigenous Peoples in the Age of Globalization

    Open AccessKen Coates, Ken S CoatesCHAPTERGlobal History of Indigenous…2004

    Among the many challenging aspects of understanding indigenous peoples is the fundamental difficulty of defining just who is an indigenous person. The concept has been widely used and there is no consensus as to the precise meaning of the term. The United Nations Working Group on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, for example, could not agree on a formal definition. They opted (or opted out) to leave the issue unresolved; each group could, they de…

  • Spiritual Contests: Missionaries, Christianity, and Indigenous Societies

    Open AccessKen Coates, Ken S CoatesCHAPTERGlobal History of Indigenous…2004

    Human societies devote an enormous amount of social and cultural energy attempting to understand and explain the nature and authority of the spiritual world. Highly structured and ceremonial religions like Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam have left their mark on history through prominent spiritual buildings, central religious texts, and elaborate codes of social and public conduct. Much less well-known are the hundreds, if not thousands, of spir…

  • Biological Changes: Ecological Imperialism and the Transformation of Tribal Worlds

    Open AccessKen Coates, Ken S CoatesCHAPTERGlobal History of Indigenous…2004

    For generations, understanding of the impact of colonial expansion focused on the most obvious elements of the intrusion. Writers celebrated the work of explorers and chronicled the adventures of soldiers and traders. They often memorialized the lives and times of the early settlers and spoke warmly of the efforts of missionaries and government agents to “civilize” the frontier districts. Little was said or known about an equally dramatic transfo…

  • Continuing the Struggle: Indigenous Protests, Legal Agendas, and Aboriginal Internationalism

    Open AccessKen Coates, Ken S CoatesCHAPTERGlobal History of Indigenous…2004

    Aboriginal people have protested incursions by outsiders for centuries. A 1973 confrontation between the United States government and the Sioux Indians of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota lifted the struggle to a new level. The location — Wounded Knee — was auspicious, for it was the site of a nineteenth-century massacre of the Sioux by the US army. The American Indian Movement had established itself as a strong national voice on aborig…

  • Uncertainties: The Future of Indigenous Societies

    Open AccessKen Coates, Ken S CoatesCHAPTERGlobal History of Indigenous…2004

    The indigenous struggle to survive and to adapt to continually changing worlds continues across the globe, but the battleground has shifted. From an over-heated and crowded office on the outskirts of Moscow, the staff of Riapon (the Russsian Association of Indigenous Peoples) struggle with the complexities of developing economic development training courses, seek ways to ensure indigenous participation in the expanding Russian electoral process, …

  • Resistance and Adaptation: Indigenous Reaction to Newcomer Occupations

    Open AccessKen Coates, Ken S CoatesCHAPTERGlobal History of Indigenous…2004

    The process of mutual discovery sparked a critical era in the history of newcomer-indigenous relations. Before the first outsiders happened into aboriginal territory, the original peoples lived in limited worlds. While they typically had extensive contact with neighboring and nearby indigenous populations, these localized peoples had little information on societies from distant lands. Word filtered across indigenous lands as newcomers made first …

  • Peoples of the Land: Spiritual and Cultural Roots of Indigenous Societies

    Open AccessKen Coates, Ken S CoatesCHAPTERGlobal History of Indigenous…2004

    At no time in history have human populations been static. From the earliest centuries, societies expanded, contracted, fought, cooperated, merged, conquered, collapsed, struggled, adapted, and innovated. Peoples of a variety of cultural backgrounds undertook lengthy explorations and sought to impose their will on neighbors or distant societies, often with little success. The indigenous societies of historic times (that is, typically and inaccurat…

  • Final Invasions: War, Resource Development, and the Occupation of Tribal Territories

    Open AccessKen Coates, Ken S CoatesCHAPTERGlobal History of Indigenous…2004

    The invasion of indigenous territories occurred in broad, sweeping waves, spread over hundreds of years. For sheer intensity, sweep, and impact, however, few generations in history have witnessed the dramatic transformations of the period between 1940 and 1970. In these thirty years, indigenous peoples insulated by distance, geography, and climate from outside populations faced unprecedented pressures and technological change. The combination of …