Publications:

          Monographs:

The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018)

*Awarded the 2019 Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences Canada Prize
*Awarded the 2018 Canadian Studies Book Prize 
*Awarded the 2019 Honourable Mention for the CHA’s Indigenous History Book Prize
*Short-listed for the 2019 Wilson Institute’s Canadian History Book Prize
Downey, Allan. The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood.  Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. https://bit.ly/2qygGCR

           Digital Animations:

Rotinonshonni Ironworkers. Directed by Carlee Loft and Allan Downey. Digital animation. 6:30 min. Independent Digital Animation, 2020.  Available from http://www.indigenousironworkers.com

*Awarded the 2020 Best Animated Short, American Indian Film Festival
*Offical Selection, Montreal International Animation Film Festival, Nov 2022
*Official Selection, Plam Springs International Animation Festival, Dec 2021
*Finalist, New York Animation Film Awards, Dec 2021

          Scholarly Articles and Chapters:  

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
November 2023
Downey, Allan. “To Know the Indigenous Other: A Century of Indians in Canadian History.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 33, 1 (2023).https://tinyurl.com/mr4d8jp6

American Quarterly
March 2023
Downey, Allan. “Indigenous Brooklyn: Ironworking, Little Caughnawaga, and Kanien’keha:ka Nationhood in the Twentieth Century.” American Quarterly 75, 1 (March 2023). https://tinyurl.com/4azymrrp

Journal of Settler Colonial Studies  
Fall 2018 
Arellano, Alexandra, and Allan Downey.  “Sport-for-Development and the Failure of Aboriginal Subjecthood: Lacrosse as Resurgence in Indigenous Communities.” Journal of Settler Colonial Studies (October 2018). https://bit.ly/2EWUWdz

Making Men, Making History 
May 2018
Downey, Allan. “Claiming ‘Our Game’: Squamish Lacrosse and the Performance of Indigenous Nationhood in the Early 20th Century” in Robert Rutherdale and Peter Gossage, ed., Making Men, Making History: Canadian Masculinities across Time and Place.  Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. https://bit.ly/2qxeOue

Journal of Canadian Studies
August 2016 
*Awarded the 2017 CHA Indigenous History Article Prize  (bit.ly/2rM8FLy)
Downey, Allan. “Playing the Creator’s Game on God’s Day: The Controversy of Sunday Lacrosse Games in Haudenosaunee Communities, 1916-1924.” Journal of Canadian Studies (Fall 2015): 111-143. http://bit.ly/2aArQ4q

Canadian Journal of History
Winter 2015
Downey, Allan, and Susan Neylan. “Raven Plays Ball: Situating ‘Indian Sports Days’ within Indigenous and Colonial Spaces in Twentieth-Century Coastal British Columbia.” Canadian Journal of History  50, no. 3 (2015): 442-468.  http://bit.ly/2aA6SQ0

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
May 2013                             
Downey, Allan. “Engendering Nationality: Haudenosaunee Tradition, Sport, and the Lines of Gender.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 23, no. 1 (2012): 319-354.
http://bit.ly/2aA6Pnm

         Non-Refereed Articles

Chronos McGill: Magazine of the Department of History and Classical Studies
September 2016                             
Downey, Allan. “Mobilizing Indigenous Self-Determination in Unexpected Places” Chronos McGill 2 (2016), 3-5. bit.ly/2oPn2hY

Iorì:wase: Kahnawake News
July 2016                             
Downey, Allan. “Remembering One of Kahnawake’s Greatest Lacrosse Rivalries” Iorì:was, 7 July 2016.  http://bit.ly/2agVlCR

University of Toronto Press Journals Blog
April 2016
Downey, Allan, and Susan Neylan. “Racialized and Sporting Spaces on Canada’s West Coast.” UTP Journals Blog (April 2016). http://bit.ly/2b9sYco