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Anthropocene : Burtynsky, Baichwal, de Pencier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19825
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Hackett, Sophie (curator), Andrea Kunard (curator), Urs Stahel (curator)
- Publisher
- Toronto : Art Gallery of Ontario ; Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions
- Call Number
- 06.4 H11a
1 website
- Responsibility
- Curated by Sophie Hackett, Andrea Kunard, Urs Stahel
- Publisher
- Toronto : Art Gallery of Ontario ; Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Photographers
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- Video art - Exhibitions
- Abstract
- "A catalogue to accompany the exhibition Anthropocene, a collaboration by the artists and filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, and Nicholas de Pencier, including film, photography, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Anthropocene is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada, in partnership with Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia (Fondazione MAST)."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Foreword / Stephan Jost, Marc Mayer, and Isabella Sera`gnaoli -- Far and near : new views of the anthropocene / Sophie Hackett -- The anthropocene and its "golden spike" / Colin Waters & Jan Zalasiewicz -- "How anthropo-scenic!" : concerns and debates about the age of the human / Karla McManus -- Works -- Life in the anthropocene / Edward Burtynsky -- Our embedded signal / Jennifer Baichwal -- Evidence / Nicholas de Pencier -- Adams, Adams, Baltz, Burtynsky : the role of landscape in North America photography / Urs Stahel -- The art museum and the anthropocene / Andrea Kunard.
- ISBN
- 978-1-988788-04-3
- Accession Number
- 2019.36
- Call Number
- 06.4 H11a
- Collection
- Art Library
- URL Notes
- Website for the Anthropocene multidisciplinary work by Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier
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A'pistotooki kii Ihkitsik Kaawa?pomaahkaa = Creator and the seven animals, why are we here
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25235
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Many Fingers, Crystal
- Soop, Alex
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alta. : Durvile
- Call Number
- 05 M11a
1 website
- Author
- Many Fingers, Crystal
- Soop, Alex
- Responsibility
- Crystal Many Fingers (author)
- Alex Soop (illustrator)
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alta. : Durvile
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 25 pages : color illustrations
- Abstract
- A’pistotooki kii Ihkitsik Kaawa’pomaahkaa is a delightful modern story about animals, their gifts, and why they were put on earth. (back cover)
- Notes
- The mentors and publishers of this series have supported the First Nations authors to share their stories under the guidance of traditional language speakers and Elders
- ISBN
- 9780969448969
- Accession Number
- P2020.12
- P2023.17 reference copy (2)
- Call Number
- 05 M11a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Treaty 7 Language Books via Calgary Public Library
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Around the world in a dugout canoe : the untold story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24995
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- MacFarlane, John
- Salmon, Lynn J.
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing
- Call Number
- 02.1 M11a
1 website
- Author
- MacFarlane, John
- Salmon, Lynn J.
- Responsibility
- John M, MacFarlane
- Lynn J. Salmon
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 268 p.
- Abstract
- "For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage--and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment--is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- John Claus Voss -- Treasure Hunting in the Xora -- Norman Kenny Luxton -- “Out-Slocuming” Joshua Slocum -- Preparing to Voyage -- Across the Pacific -- Penrhyn Island and Beyond -- The Mate Walter Louis Begent -- Australia -- New Zealand -- South Africa -- Brazil and up the Atlantic to England -- Repatriation to Victoria -- The Sea Queen, the Tilikum II and Voss’s Last Years.
- Notes
- Contains materials from the Luxton family fonds from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library
- Signed by John MacFarlane
- ISBN
- 9781550178791
- Accession Number
- 2019.106
- Call Number
- 02.1 M11a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to publication on publisher's website
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Art inspired by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains and Selkirk Mountains 1809-2012
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20143
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Townshend, Nancy
- Publisher
- Calgary : Bayeux Arts
- Call Number
- N T69 A78
1 website
- Author
- Townshend, Nancy
- Responsibility
- Nancy Townshend
- Publisher
- Calgary : Bayeux Arts
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- vi, 136p, 40 plates : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Art
- Artists
- O'Brien, Lucius
- Notman, William & Son
- Thompson, David
- Harmon, Byron
- Harris, Lawren
- MacDonald, J.E.H
- Sargent, John Singer
- Whyte, Peter
- Whyte, Catharine Robb
- Rocky Mountains
- Purcell Mountains
- Selkirk Mountains
- Abstract
- Nancy Townshend's book on art inspired by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell Mountains, and Selkirk Mountains presents these mountains' justifiable prominence in world art. For over two centuries, Canadian artists have admired their magnitude and grandeur, their endlessly changing light and atmospheric conditions, their four distinct seasons, and myriad other aspects. The book is organized chronologically into three eras: traditional (1809 –1899), Modern (1900–1973) and contemporary (1974–2012). From David Thompson's watercolours in the early nineteenth century (c. 1809) of the East Kootenays to Jan Kabatoff's multimedia art of the early twenty-first century that addresses the impact of global warming on glaciers, Townshend's book presents a whole gamut of Canadian art inspired by these great mountains. Featuring three comprehensive overviews and thirteen chapters on both central and western Canadian artists, as well as a chapter on American artist John Singer Sargent, the book offers insights into their art and inspirations. What did two centuries of artistic exploration in the infinitely facetted Canadian Rockies, Purcells and Selkirks yield? How did the resulting works of art serve to build a unique western Canadian identity? How does the West inform Canadians about themselves, about their own place in the world at this critical time in world history? Townshend answers these questions in this significant reference book for decades to come. Over the past two hundred years, a shift from the exploitative view of Canada's mountain West during the traditional era to the contemporary creative genesis of this area has occurred. Because of the contemporary artists' commitment to wildlife conservation and environmental issues, the contemporary era is more outward looking and expansive, concerned about the world's future. Townshend's all-encompassing text and selected stunning images confirm John Ruskin's observation that mountains are "the beginning and end of all natural scenery." That Canada's mountain West is indeed a place to be revered, a place from which we can learn about ourselves now and in the future. (from author's website)
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction to the Traditional Era (1809-1899):
- Chapter One - Lucius O'Brien (1832-1899)
- Chapter Two - William McFarlane Notman (1857-1913)
- Chapter Three - Frederic Bell-Smith (1846-1923)
- Chapter Four - David Thompson (1770-1857)
- Chapter Five - Richard Henery Trueman (1856-1911)
- Chapter Six - Byron Harmon (1976-1942)
- Introduction to the Modern Era (1900-1971):
- Chapter Seven - Lawren Stewart Harris (1885-1970)
- Chapter Eight - J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932)
- Chapter Nine - John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
- Chapter Ten - Peter Whyte (1905-1966)
- Chapter Eleven - Catharine Robb Whyte (1906-1979)
- Introduction to the Contemporary Era (1972-2012):
- Chapter Twelve - Kent Monkman (1965-)
- Chapter Thirteen - Jin-Me Yoon (1960-)
- Chapter Fourteen - Jan Kabatoff (1948-)
- Conclusion
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by author
- ISBN
- 978-1-897411-37-7
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- N T69 A78
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Author's website
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The art of Robert Bateman
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20148
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Derry, Ramsay
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Allen Lane / Penguin Books
- Call Number
- N D47 A78 oversize
1 website
- Author
- Derry, Ramsay
- Responsibility
- Ramsay Derry (author), Roger Tory Peterson (introduction)
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Allen Lane / Penguin Books
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 178 p. : ill. (some col.)
- Subjects
- Art
- Wildlife
- Bateman, Robert
- Abstract
- Pertains to the art of Robert Bateman
- Contents
- Introduction
- Profile
- Plates and Commentaries
- Sketchbooks
- Appendix
- Notes
- Signed by Ramsay Derry and Robert Bateman
- ISBN
- 0713914335
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- N D47 A78 oversize
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to artist website
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The artist herself : self-portraits by Canadian historical women artists
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19841
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Boutilier, Alicia and Tobi Bruce
- Publisher
- Kingston, ON : Agnes Etherington Art Centre ; Hamilton, ON : Art Gallery of Hamilton
- Call Number
- 06.1 B66t
1 website
- Variant Title
- L'artiste elle-me^me : autoportraits de femmes artistes au Canada
- Responsibility
- Alicia Boutilier and Tobi Bruce
- Publisher
- Kingston, ON : Agnes Etherington Art Centre ; Hamilton, ON : Art Gallery of Hamilton
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 173 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- Subjects
- Artists - Canada
- Exhibitions
- Art
- Women artists
- Abstract
- Drawing upon our fascination with self-portraits, The Artist Herself expands the genre’s definition by moving beyond the human face to propose other forms of self-representation, from both settler and Indigenous perspectives. The result is a thought-provoking selection of 55 works by 42 women artists in a range of media, including paintings, textiles, photographs and film. Both renowned and lesser-known artists are featured: Pitseolak Ashoona, Simone Mary Bouchard, Emily Carr, Paraskeva Clark, Martha Eetak, Artis Lane, Caroline Gros Louis, Alice Egan Hagen, Frances Anne Hopkins, E. Pauline Johnson, Maud Lewis, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Hannah Maynard, Daphne Odjig, Princess Louise, Mary Hiester Reid and Marian Dale Scott. From Johnson’s performance costumes representing her dual Mohawk and Euro-Canadian identity to Carr’s painting of herself from the back at her easel, from Maynard’s playful photographs of her multiple selves to Ashoona’s sly comment on her participation in the Inuit art market, these works open up new avenues of inquiry and new understandings of the realities and perspectives of women in Canadian society before 1970. Most important, the exhibition reveals the ways in which women artists have given profound expression to their identities
- Contents
- Foreword / Avant-propos -- Lenders / Pre^teurs -- Acknowledgements / Remerciements -- The artist herself = L'artiste elle-me^me / Alicia Boutilier & Tobi Bruce -- Cree dolls / Sherry Farrell Racette -- Elizabeth Simcoe / Erin Wall -- Katherine Jane Ellice / Arlene Gehmacher -- Shanawdithit / Fiona Polack -- Mary Ann Scrimes & Elizabeth Jane Turner / Janice Helland -- Lady Belleau & Lady Glover / Andrea Kunard -- Frances Anne Hopkins & Princess Louise / Kristina Huneault -- E. Pauline Johnson / Carla Taunton -- E. Pauline Johnson / Paula Whitlow -- Hannah Maynard / Jennifer Salahub -- Maud Darling / Jennifer Salahub -- Bertha May Ingle / Mary Thompson & David Beattie -- Mattie Gunterman / Susan Close -- Caroline Gros Louis / Annette de Stecher -- Emily Carr / Lisa Baldiserra -- Martha (Muqyunnik) Eetak / Maureen Matthews -- Marion Long / Janice Anderson -- Margaret Watkins / Mary O'Connor -- Dorothea Mitchell / Kelly Saxberg -- Sylvia Daoust / Joyce Millar -- Paraskeva Clark / Panya Clark -- Pegi Nicol MacLeod / Laura Brandon -- Simone Mary Bouchard / Laurier Lacroix -- Marian Dale Scott / Esther Tre´panier -- Maud Lewis / Erin Morton -- Elizabeth Harrison / Dorothy Farr -- Suzanne Duquet / Miche`le Grandbois -- Artis Lane / Artis Lane -- Molly Lamb Bobak / Amber Lloydlangston -- Cecil Buller / Sandra Dyck -- Jessie Oonark & Inuit Doll / Heather Igloliorte -- Kenojuak Ashevak / Kenojuak Ashevak -- Christiane Pflug / Georgiana Uhlyarik -- Daphne Odjig / Greg Hill -- Margaret Frank & Marion Wilson / Andy Everson -- Pitseolak Ashoona / Norman Vorano -- Exhibition list = Liste des œuvres -- Contributors = Contributeurs.
- Notes
- Some of the essays are in English, while others are in French
- ISBN
- 9781553394075
- Accession Number
- 2019.46
- Call Number
- 06.1 B66t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- The URL pertains to the website in which the abstract was drawn from
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As above, so below : a climbing story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25049
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Kalman, Christ (author)
- Muderlak, Craig (illustrator)
- Publisher
- Herndon, VA : Mascot Books
- Call Number
- P A83 K35
1 website
- Publisher
- Herndon, VA : Mascot Books
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- vii, 103 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Mountaineering
- Patagonia
- Abstract
- As Above, So Below is a 103 page fictional climbing story set in Argentine Patagonia. When something goes wrong high up a mountain, one man is forced to face his inner demons along the way to the summit. This beautiful hardbound book was published in 2018 as a limited edition of 1000 copies. The story was illustrated by the immensely talented Craig Muderlak, and edited and revised at the The Banff Centre’s prestigious Mountain and Wilderness Writing Workshop. As Above, So Below has been described as "Jack London's To Build a Fire for climbing", and reminiscent of James Salter's Solo Faces. In September of 2018, it was nominated for the Mountain Fiction Award at the Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival in Banff, Canada. (from author's website)
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Day One
- Day Two
- Day Three
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2018 finalist for Mountain Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781684019694
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- P A83 K35
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on author's website
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At home in nature : a life of unknown mountains and deep wilderness
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25052
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Wood, Robert Julian
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Call Number
- G512 A84 W66
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- Author
- Wood, Robert Julian
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Abstract
- Rob Wood grew up in a village on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, where he eventually developed a preoccupation with rock climbing. After studying architecture for five years at the Architectural Association School in London, England, he made his way to Montreal and ended up in Calgary. During his time in Calgary, Rob became a pioneer of ice climbing and posted numerous first ascents in the Rockies during the early 1970’s. Eventually, life in corporate Alberta proved unfulfilling and Rob realized that he needed to find a place where he could reconnect with nature, which brought him to the remote reaches of Canada’s West Coast. Settling on Maurelle Island, he and his wife built an off-the-grid homestead and focussed on alternative communities and developing a small house-design practice specializing in organic and wholesome building techniques. At Home in Nature is a gentle and philosophical memoir that focuses on living a life deeply rooted in the natural world, where citizens are connected to the planet and individuals work together to help, enhance and make the world a better — and sustainable — place. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Leaving the old country
- Allegiance to nature
- Settling down
- Cosmic shack
- Back to the land community
- Island schooling
- Domestic animals
- Wild animals
- Fiordland boat
- Mystery mountain
- Deep wilderness
- Cancer
- Aorta attack
- Outer islands community
- Off-grib homestead
- Organic house
- Heavy weather
- Flight of the imagination
- Legend of Kayak Bill
- Whirlpools in the tide
- ISBN
- 9781771602501
- Accession Number
- A639
- Call Number
- G512 A84 W66
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Summary on Rocky Mountain Books
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Bad law : rethinking justice for a postcolonial Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25143
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Reilly, John
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First edition
- Call Number
- 07.2 R27bl
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- Author
- Reilly, John
- Responsibility
- John Reilly
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 231 pages
- Abstract
- From the bestselling author of Bad Medicine and its sequel Bad Judgment comes a wide-ranging, magisterial summation of the years-long intellectual and personal journey of an Alberta jurist who went against the grain and actually learned about Canada’s indigenous people in order to become a public servant. ”Probably my greatest claim to fame is that I changed my mind,” writes John Reilly in this broadly cogent interrogation of the Canadian justice system. Building on his previous two books, Reilly acquaints the reader with the ironies and futilities of an approach to justice so adversarial and dysfunctional that it often increases crime rather than reducing it. He examines the radically different indigenous approach to wrongdoing, which is restorative rather than retributive, founded on the premise that people are basically good and wrongdoing is the aberration, not that humans are essentially evil and have to be deterred by horrendous punishments. He marshalls extensive evidence, including an historic 19th-century US case that was ultimately decided according to Sioux tribal custom, not US federal law. And then he just comes out and says it: “My proposition is that the dominant Canadian society should scrap its criminal justice system and replace it with the gentler, and more effective, process used by the indigenous people.” Punishment; deterrence; due process; the socially corrosive influence of anger, hatred and revenge; sexual offences; the expensive futility of “wars on drugs”; the radical power of forgiveness—all of that and more gets examined here. And not in a bloodlessly abstract, theoretical way, but with all the colour and anecdotal savour that could only come from an author who spent years watching it all so intently from the bench. (From Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- The beginning -- Learning -- Getting to know the Stoneys -- Restorative justice -- The origins of processes -- The evil Cornwallis -- Milton Born With a Tooth -- The right thing -- Respect -- Paradigm change -- Crow Dog v. Spotted Tail -- Rupert Ross -- Punishment -- Deterrence -- Due process -- Sawbonna -- Rev. Dale Lang -- To forgive or not to forgive -- Anger, hatred, vengeance -- Advocacy vs. conversation -- Polarization -- Drug prohibitions -- Sexual offences -- One size fits all -- Shifting focus from judicial solutions to community solutions -- The TRC -- FAQ.
- ISBN
- 9781771603348
- Accession Number
- P2020-6
- Call Number
- 07.2 R27bl
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- Archives Library
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- Publication on Rocky Mountain Books website
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Bad medicine : a judge's struggle for justice in a First Nations community - revised & updated
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25142
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Reilly, John
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First Edition - revised & updated
- Call Number
- 07.2 R27b 2019
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- Author
- Reilly, John
- Edition
- First Edition - revised & updated
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 261 p. : map
- Subjects
- Crime
- Education
- Morley
- Snow, John
- Stoney Nakoda
- First Nations
- Contents
- This revised and updated edition details the latest legal developments surrounding tribal leadership and the state of governance on Canadian reserves. When Bad Medicine first appeared in 2010 it was an immediate sensation, a Canadian bestseller that sparked controversy and elicited praise nationwide for its unflinchingly honest portrayal of tribal corruption in a First Nation in Alberta. Now, in a new, revised and updated edition, retired Alberta jurist John Reilly sketches the latest legal developments surrounding tribal leadership at Morley and the state of governance on Canadian reserves, as well as national developments such as Canada’s long-delayed assent to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, currently wending its way through the Senate, and the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Early in his career, Judge John Reilly did everything by the book. His jurisdiction included a First Nations community plagued by suicide, addiction, poverty, violence and corruption. He steadily handed out prison sentences with little regard for long-term consequences and even less knowledge as to why crime was so rampant on the reserve in the first place. In an unprecedented move that pitted him against his superiors, the legal system he was part of, and one of Canada’s best-known Indian chiefs, the Reverend Dr. Chief John Snow, Judge Reilly ordered an investigation into the tragic and corrupt conditions on the reserve. A flurry of media attention ensued. Some labelled him a racist; others thought he should be removed from his post, claiming he had lost his objectivity. But many on the Stoney reserve hailed him a hero as he attempted to uncover the dark challenges and difficult history many First Nations communities face. (From Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-258) and index. The Stoney people are comprised of three bands: the Wesley First Nation, the Chiniki First Nation and the Bearspaw First Nation
- Accession Number
- P2020-6
- Call Number
- 07.2 R27b 2019
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- Archives Library
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- Publication on Rocky Mountain Book's website
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