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Photography in Canada 1960-2000

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24959
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Canadian Photography Institute
Publisher
Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Photography Insitute : National Gallery of Canada
Call Number
06.4 C16ph
  1 website  
Author
Canadian Photography Institute
Responsibility
Andrea Kunard
National Gallery of Canada
Publisher
Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Photography Insitute : National Gallery of Canada
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
175 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
Canada - After 1914
Canadian art
Photography
Exhibition catalogue
Exhibitions
Collection
Abstract
This fifth and final volume in the series dedicated to the National Gallery of Canada's immense photography collection documents the emergence of the medium as a recognized artistic discipline in Canada. The creation and growth of this unique collection reflects the enormous development in the practice, collection and display of photography over the latter half of the 20th century. Prior to this time, government institutions, commercial establishments and the legal, medical and journalism professions prized it for its documentary value. As a result, photographs rarely entered the collections of major institutions. This changed in the 1960s when art became more vigorous and dynamic. Photography especially articulated probing, contentious ideas of art, the artist, identity, sexuality and community. Art institutions, themselves undergoing radical transformation, acted as an interface between artist and public, and attempted to articulate movements and trends in art and photography. With dozens of full-page plates each accompanied by an individual abstract, the publication offers a scholarly essay providing artistic, cultural and historical context. Artists featured include those at the forefront of the changes in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as more contemporary figures who continue to push at the limits of the definition of the medium. They include Roy Arden, Raymonde April, Ed Burtnysky, Carol Conde´ and Karl Beveridge, Evergon, General Idea, Rodney Graham, Angela Grauerholz, Geoffrey James, Suzy Lake, Ken Lum, Gabor Szilasi, N.E. Thing Co, Ian Wallace and Jin-me Yoon.
Contents
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Photography in Canada, 1960-2000: a selection from the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and National Gallery of Canada Collections -- Catalogue -- Note.
Notes
Features photographs by Jin-me Yoon taken in Banff National Park
Features photographs by Edward Burtynsky - Whyte Museum has Burtynsky's in art collection
ISBN
9780888849489
Accession Number
2019.95
Call Number
06.4 C16ph
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
National Gallery of Canada website for publication
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21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act : Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Joseph, Bob
Publisher
Port Coquitlam : Indigeneous Relations Press
Call Number
08.1 J77t
  1 website  
Author
Joseph, Bob
Publisher
Port Coquitlam : Indigeneous Relations Press
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
189 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
First Nations
Politics
Abstract
Since its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has dictated and constrained the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Peoples, and is at the root of many enduring stereotypes. Bob Joseph's book comes at a key time in the reconciliation process, when awareness from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities is at a crescendo. Joseph examines how Indigenous Peoples can return to self-government, self-determination, and self-reliance--and why doing so would result in a better country for every Canadian. He dissects the complex issues around the Indian Act, and demonstrates why learning about its cruel and irrevocable legacy is vital for the country to move toward true reconciliation
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Indian Act
Part 1 - Dark Chapter
The Beginning
Resistance is Futile
Tightening Control
"They rose against us"
And Its Days Are Numbered
Part 2 - Dismantling the Indian Act
If Not the Indian Act, Then What?
Looking Forward to a Better Canada
Appendix 1 - Terminology
Appendix 2 - Indian Residential Schools: A Chronology
Appendix 3 - Truth and Reconciliation Commision of Canada: Calls to Action
Appendix 4 - Classroom Activities, Discussion Guide, and Additional Reading
Appendix 5 - Quotes from John A. Macdonald and Duncan Campbell Scott
Notes
Index
ISBN
9780995266520
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
08.1 J77t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Associated blog post and link to order book
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Seeing red : a history of Natives in Canadian newspapers

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2011
Author
Cronlund Anderson, Mark
Robertson, Carmen L.
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
08.1 C87s
  1 website  
Author
Cronlund Anderson, Mark
Robertson, Carmen L.
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2011
Physical Description
[vii], 362 pages : facsimiles
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Newspapers
Canada
History
First Nations
Abstract
Seeing Red is a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English-language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day. It assesses a wide range of publications on topics that include the sale of Rupert’s Land, the signing of Treaty 3, the North-West Rebellion and Louis Riel, the death of Pauline Johnson, the outing of Grey Owl, the discussions surrounding Bill C-31, the “Bended Elbow” standoff at Kenora, Ontario, and the Oka Crisis. The authors uncover overwhelming evidence that the colonial imaginary not only thrives, but dominates depictions of Aboriginal peoples in mainstream newspapers. The colonial constructs ingrained in the news media perpetuate an imagined Native inferiority that contributes significantly to the marginalization of Indigenous people in Canada. That such imagery persists to this day suggests strongly that our country lives in denial, failing to live up to its cultural mosaic boosterism. (from U of M Press website)
Contents
This land is mine : The Rupert's Land purchase, 1869 -- Fifty-six words : Treaty 3, 1873 -- "Our little war" : The North-west Rebellion, 1885 -- The golden rule : The Klondike Gold Rush, 1898-1905 -- Poet, princess, possession : Remembering Pauline Johnson, 1913 -- Disrobing Grey Owl : The death of Archie Belaney, 1938 -- "Potential Indian citizens?" : Aboriginal people after World War II, 1948 -- Cardboard characters : The White Paper, 1969 -- Bended Elbow news : The Anicinabe Park Standoff, 1974 -- Indian princess/Indian "Squaw" : Bill C-31, 1985 -- Letters from the edges : The Oka Crisis, 1990 -- Back to the future : A Prairie centennial, 1905-2005 -- Conclusion : Return of the native.
ISBN
9780887557279
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
08.1 C87s
Collection
Archives Library
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No surrender : the land remains Indigenous

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Krasowski, Sheldon
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press
Call Number
07.2 K85t
  1 website  
Author
Krasowski, Sheldon
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
xviii, 368 pages : illustrations, map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Canada
Land use
Landscapes
Abstract
Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners and Indigenous chiefs, but newly uncovered eyewitness accounts show that the Canadian government had a strategic plan to deceive over the "surrender clause" and land sharing. According to Sheldon Krasowski's research, Canada understood that the Cree, Anishnabeg, Saulteaux, Assiniboine, Siksika, Piikani, Kainaa, Stoney and Tsuu T'ina nations wanted to share the land with newcomers--with conditions--but were misled over governance, reserved lands, and resource sharing. Exposing the government chicanery at the heart of the negotiations, No Surrender demonstrates that the land remains Indigenous. (from U of R Press website)
Contents
The numbered treaties in historical context : "Our dream is that one day our peoples will be clearly recognized as nations" -- Treaties One and Two and the outside promise : "The loyalty which costs nothing is worth nothing" -- Treaty Three : The North-West Angle Treaty : "I take off my glove to give you my hand to sign the treaty" -- Treaties Four and Five : the Fort Qu'Appelle and Lake Winnipeg treaties, 1874 and 1875 : "The Treaties should be Canada's Magna Carta" -- Treaty Six : the Treaty of Forts Carlton and Pitt : "I want to hold the treaty we made with the Queen" -- Treaty Seven : the Blackfoot Crossing treaty : "The great spirit and not the great mother gave us this land" -- As long as the sun shines : "An everlasting grasp of her [the Queen's] hand."
ISBN
9780889776067
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
07.2 K85t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Summary on University of Regina Press website
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Indigenous writes : a guide to First Nations, Metis & Inuit issues in Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25010
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Author
Vowel, Chelsea
Publisher
Winnipeg, MB, Canada : HighWater Press
Call Number
07.2 V85i
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Author
Vowel, Chelsea
Publisher
Winnipeg, MB, Canada : HighWater Press
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
xii, 290 pages : illustrations, map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Canada
Writing
Abstract
In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel initiates myriad conversations about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada. An advocate for Indigenous worldviews, the author discusses the fundamental issues--the terminology of relationships; culture and identity; myth-busting; state violence; and land, learning, law and treaties--along with wider social beliefs about these issues. She answers the questions that many people have on these topics to spark further conversations at home, in the classroom, and in the larger community. (from publisher)
Contents
Introduction : how to read this book -- Part 1. The terminology of relationships -- 1. Just don't call us late for supper : names for Indigenous peoples -- 2. Settling on a name : names for non-Indigenous Canadians -- Part 2. Culture and identity -- 3. Got status? : Indian status in Canada -- 4. You're Me´tis? Which of your parents is an Indian? : Me´tis identity -- 5. Feel the Inukness : Inuit identity -- 6. Hunter-gatherers or trapper-harvesters? : why some terms matter -- 7. Allowably Indigenous : to ptarmigan or not to ptarmigan : when indigeneity is transgressive -- 8. Caught in the crossfire of blood-quantum reasoning : popular notions of Indigenous purity -- 9. What is cultural appropriation? : respecting cultural boundaries -- 10. Check the tag on that "Indian" story : how to find authentic Indigenous stories -- 11. Icewine, roquefort cheese, and the Navajo Nation : Indigenous use of intellectual property laws -- 12. All my queer relations : language, culture, and two-spirit identity -- Part 3. Myth-busting -- 13. The myth of progress -- 14. The myth of the level playing field -- 15. The myth of taxation -- 16. The myth of free housing -- 17. The myth of the drunken Indian -- 18. The myth of the wandering nomad -- 19. The myth of authenticity -- Part 4. State violence -- 20. Monster : the residential-school legacy -- 21. Our stolen generations : the sixties and millenial scoops -- 22. Human flagpoles : Inuit relocation -- 23. From hunters to farmers : Indigenous farming on the prairies -- 24. Dirty water, dirty secrets : drinking water in First Nations communities -- 25. No justice, no peace : the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples -- Part. 5. Land, learning, law, and treaties -- 26. Rights? What rights? : doctrines of colonialism -- 27. Treaty talk : the evolution of treaty-making in Canada -- 28. The more things change, the more they stay the same : numbered treaties and modern treaty-making -- 29. Why don't First Nations just leave the reserve? : reserves are not the problem -- 30. White paper, what paper? : more attempts to assimilate Indigenous peoples -- 31. Our children, our schools : fighting for control over Indigenous education.
ISBN
9781553796800
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
07.2 V85i
Collection
Archives Library
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Summary on Highwater Press / Portage & Main Press website
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Metis and the medicine line : creating a border and dividing a people

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2015
Author
Hogue, Michel
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Call Number
08.1 H65m
  1 website  
Author
Hogue, Michel
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Published Date
2015
Physical Description
ix, 328 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Metis
Geography
Canada
History
Surveyors
Surveys
Surveys and Mapping
Abstract
Metis and the Medicine Line is a sprawling, ambitious look at how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to indigenous lands. It is also an intimate story of individuals and families, brought vividly to life by history writing at its best. It begins with the emergence of the Plains Metis and ends with the fracturing of their communities as the Canada-U. S. border was enforced. It also explores the borderland world of the Northern Plains, where an astonishing diversity of people met and mingled: Blackfoot, Cree, Gros Ventre, Lakota, Dakota, Nez Perce, Assiniboine, Anishinaabes, Metis, Europeans, Canadians, Americans, soldiers, police, settlers, farmers, hunters, traders, bureaucrats. In examining the battles that emerged over who belonged on what side of the border, Hogue disputes Canada's peaceful settlement story of the Prairie West and challenges familiar bromides about the "world's longest undefended border. (From U of R Press website)
Contents
Emergence : creating a Metis borderland -- Exchange : trade, sovereignty, and the forty-ninth parallel -- Belonging : land, treaties, and the boundaries of race -- Resistance : dismantling Plains Metis borderland settlements, 1879-1885 -- Exile : scrip and enrollment commissions and the shifting boundaries of belonging, 1885-1920.
ISBN
9780889773806
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
08.1 H65m
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
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Surviving Canada : indigenous peoples celebrate 150 years of betrayal

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Ladner, Kiera L. (editor)
Tait, Myra (editor)
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : ARP Books
Call Number
08.1 L12s
  1 website  
Author
Ladner, Kiera L. (editor)
Tait, Myra (editor)
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : ARP Books
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
462 pages : illustrations (some colour)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
History
First Nations
Politics
Abstract
Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples' complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how-even 150 years after Confederation-the fight for recognition of their treaty and Aboriginal rights continues. Through essays, art, and literature, Surviving Canada examines the struggle for Indigenous Peoples to celebrate their cultures and exercise their right to control their own economic development, lands, water, and lives. The Indian Act, Idle No More, and the legacy of residential schools are just a few of the topics covered by a wide range of elders, scholars, artists, and activists. Contributors include Mary Eberts, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Leroy Little Bear. (from ARP books)
Contents
Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal / Kiera L. Ladner Myra J. Tait -- Acknowledgements -- Nokomis and the Law in the Gift: Living Treaty Each Day / Aaron Mills -- Reconcile Your State of Mind / Rebecca Thomas -- Don't Read the Comments: The Role of Modern News Media in Bridging the Divide Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People in Canada / Waubgeshig Rice -- Canada is a Pretend Nation: REDx Talks- What I Know Now About Canada / Leroy Little Bear -- Anthem / Erin Freeland -- Inclusion is Just the Canadian Word for Assimilation: Self-Determinism and the Reconciliation Paradigm in Canada / Rachael Yacaa?al George -- The Path to Self-Determinism / Natan Obed -- Can Canada Retrieve the Principles of its First Confederation? / Peter H. Russell -- Celebrating Canada's 150th Birthday: A Play in One Act / Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox -- Kapyong and Treaty One First Nations: When the Crown Can Do No Wrong / Myra J. Tait -- Canada, I can cite for you / Christie Belcourt -- "To Honour the Lives of Those Taken From Us": Restor(y)ing Resurgence and Survivance through Walking With Our Sisters / Shalene Jobin Tara Kappo -- Lament for Confederation / Dan George -- Language Rights as Aboriginal Rights: From Words to Action / Karen Drake -- Canada's History Goes Beyond 150 Years / Doug Cuthand -- Forgetting to Celebrate: Genocide and Social Amnesia as Foundational to the Canadian Settler State / David B. MacDonald -- Kahwa´:tsire: Canada 150 Through The Lens of Mohawk Motherhood / Kehente Horn-Miller / Waneek Miller -- Canada: Portrait of a Serial Killer / Jeff Corntassel Christine Bird -- Her 210 / Jana-Rae Yerxa -- Because It's 1951: The Non-History of First Nations Female Band Suffrage and Leadership / Mary Jane Logan McCallum Shelisa Klassen -- My Country 'tis of Thy People You're Dying / Buffy Sainte-Marie -- Reconciliation on Trial: Evaluating What Reconciliation Means in the Context of Aboriginal Justice / David Milward -- Got Tolerance? / Felicia Sinclair -- Drinking Dispossession: Shoal Lake 40, Winnipeg, and the Making of Canada / Adele Perry.
ISBN
9781894037891
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
08.1 L12s
Collection
Archives Library
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Unsettled expectations : uncertainty, land and settler decolonization

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Author
Mackey, Eva
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Call Number
07.2 M11u
  1 website  
Author
Mackey, Eva
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
x, 224 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Canada
Politics
Land use
Abstract
What do local conflicts about land rights tell us about Indigenous-settler relations and the challenges and possibilities of decolonization? In Unsettled Expectations, Eva Mackey draws on ethnographic case studies about land rights conflicts in Canada and the U.S. to argue that critical analysis of present-day disputes over land, belonging and sovereignty will help us understand how colonization is reproduced today and how to challenge it. Employing theoretical approaches from Indigenous and settler colonial studies, and in the context of critical historical and legal analysis, Mackey urges us to rethink the assumptions of settler certainty that underpin current conflicts between settlers and Indigenous peoples and reveals settler privilege to be a doomed fantasy of entitlement. Finally, Mackey draws on case studies of Indigenous-settler alliances to show how embracing difficult uncertainty can be an integral part of undoing settler privilege and a step toward decolonization. (from Fernwood Publishing website)
Contents
Part one. Contact zones and the settler colonial present -- Introduction : settler colonialism and contested homelands -- 1. Genealogies of certainty and uncertainty -- 2. Fantasizing and legitimating possession -- Part two. Ontological uncertainties and resurgent colonialism -- Introduction : unsettled feelings and communities -- 3. Defending expectations -- 4. Settler jurisdictional imaginaries in practice : equality, law, race and multiculturalism -- Part three. Imagining otherwise : embracing settler uncertainty -- Introduction : treaty as a verb -- 5. "Turning the doctrine of discovery on its head" : the Onondoga land rights action -- 6. Creative uncertainty and decolonizing relations -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
ISBN
9781552668894
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
07.2 M11u
Collection
Archives Library
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Settler : identity and colonialism in 21st century Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25063
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2015
Author
Battell Lowman, Emma
Barker, Adam J.
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Call Number
08.1 B31s
  1 website  
Author
Battell Lowman, Emma
Barker, Adam J.
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Published Date
2015
Physical Description
xii, 145 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Canada
History
Abstract
Canada has never had an “Indian problem”— but it does have a Settler problem. But what does it mean to be Settler? And why does it matter? Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous nations, Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada explains what it means to be Settler and argues that accepting this identity is an important first step towards changing those relationships. Being Settler means understanding that Canada is deeply entangled in the violence of colonialism, and that this colonialism and pervasive violence continue to define contemporary political, economic and cultural life in Canada. It also means accepting our responsibility to struggle for change. Settler offers important ways forward — ways to decolonize relationships between Settler Canadians and Indigenous peoples — so that we can find new ways of being on the land, together. This book presents a serious challenge. It offers no easy road, and lets no one off the hook. It will unsettle, but only to help Settler people find a pathway for transformative change, one that prepares us to imagine and move towards just and beneficial relationships with Indigenous nations. And this way forward may mean leaving much of what we know as Canada behind. (from Fernwood Publishing website)
Contents
1. Why say settler? -- 2. Canada and settler colonialism -- 3. It's always all about the land -- 4. "Settling' our differences -- 5. Fear, complicity, and productive discomfort -- 6. Decolonization and dangerous freedom.
ISBN
9781552667781
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
08.1 B31s
Collection
Archives Library
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100th anniversary of the formation of The Rocky Mountains Park Branch of the Great War Veterans’ Association - The Banff Legion - Saturday March 31, 2018

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25093
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
The Banff Legion
Publisher
The Banff Legion
Call Number
08.3 B22o PAM
Author
The Banff Legion
Responsibility
The Banff Legion
Publisher
The Banff Legion
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
14 pages ; photographs
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History of Alberta
Canada
World War I
World War II
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1939-1945
World Wars
Banff
Banff (residents)
Abstract
Pertains to the history of the Banff Legion, celebrating 100 years of the Great War Veterans’ Association
Accession Number
TBD
Call Number
08.3 B22o PAM
Collection
Archives Library
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Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Indigenous life

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25209
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Daschuk, James W.
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Edition
New edition
Call Number
08.1 D26c
  1 website  
Author
Daschuk, James W.
Responsibility
James W. Daschuk
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
xxxvi, 362 pages : illustrations, maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Health
First Nations
Canada
Government
Abstract
Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream. " It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, an opening by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and explanations of the book’s influence by leading Canadian historians. Called “one of the most important books of the twenty-first century” by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a “Book of the Year” by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers’ Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others. (From University of Regina Press website)
Contents
Bozhoo Indinawemaganidog : An Invitation to All Our Relations by Niigaan James Sinclair
Foreward by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Introduction to the 2019 Edition
Introduction to the 2013 Edition
Chapter 1 - Indigenous Health, Environment and Disease Before Europeans
Chapter 2 - The Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease
Chapter 3 - Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740-82
Chapter 4 - Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars, 1783-1821
Chapter 5 - Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821-69
Chapter 6 - Canada, the Northwest and the Treaty Period, 1869-76
Chapter 7 - Treaties, Famine and the Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877-82
Chapter 8 - Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883-85
Chapter 9 - The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886-91
Conclusion
ISBN
9780889776227
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08.1 D26c
Collection
Archives Library
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They call me George : the untold story of black train porters and the birth of modern Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25243
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Foster, Cecil
Publisher
Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
Edition
First, revised
Call Number
08.1 F81t
  1 website  
Author
Foster, Cecil
Responsibility
Cecil Foster
Edition
First, revised
Publisher
Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
296 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Railways
Labour
Racism
Canada
History
Travel
Transportation
Abstract
Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards—a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense—the so-called Pullmen of the country’s rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today. Drawing on the experiences of these influential black Canadians, Cecil Foster’s They Call Me George demonstrates the power of individuals and minority groups in the fight for social justice and shows how a country can change for the better. (From publisher's website)
ISBN
9781771962612
Accession Number
P2020.7
Call Number
08.1 F81t
Collection
Archives Library
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Canadians and the natural environment to the twenty-first century

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25269
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2012
Author
Forkey, Neil S.
Publisher
Toronto : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
04 F74c
  1 website  
Author
Forkey, Neil S.
Responsibility
Neil S. Forkey
Publisher
Toronto : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2012
Physical Description
157 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Ecology
Politics
History
Canada
Environment
Environmental conservation
Abstract
Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history (from publisher's website)
Contents
Introduction -- The classification of Canada's environments (1600s to early 1900s) -- Natural resources, economic growth, and the need for conservation (1800s and 1900s) -- Romanticism and the preservation of nature (1800s and 1900s) -- Environmentalism (1950s to 2000s) -- Aboriginal Canadians and natural resources : an overview -- Conclusion.
ISBN
9780802090225
Accession Number
P2020.08
Call Number
04 F74c
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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In this together : fifteen stories of truth & reconciliation

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25657
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Publisher
Victoria, B. C. : Brindle & Glass Publishing, an imprint of TouchWood Editions
Call Number
07.2 M56i
Responsibility
Edited by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Publisher
Victoria, B. C. : Brindle & Glass Publishing, an imprint of TouchWood Editions
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
215 pages ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
History
Canada
Abstract
A collection of essays about reconciliation and anti-racism by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada.
Contents
Introduction / Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail; The importance of rivers / Carleigh Baker; Dropped, not thrown / Joanna Streetly; Drawing lines / Erika Luckert; Jawbreakers / Donna Kane; This many-storied land / Kamala Todd; The perfect tool / Zacharias Kunuk; To kill an Indian / Steven Cooper with Twyla Campbell; Two-step / Katherin Edwards; Echo / Carol Shaben; Mother tongues / Katherine Palmer Gordon; White Aboriginal woman / Rhonda Kronyk; Colonialism lived / Emma Larocque; Marking the page / Lorri Neilsen Glenn; Lost fires still burn / Carissa Halton; From Aha to AHO! / Antione Mountain; A conversation between Shelagh Rogers and the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair.
ISBN
9781927366448
Accession Number
P2022.14
Call Number
07.2 M56i
Collection
Archives Library
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Making a scene : lesbians and community across Canada, 1964-84

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25719
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2015
Author
Millward, Liz
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Call Number
08.1 M62m
Author
Millward, Liz
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Published Date
2015
Physical Description
x, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Lesbian
History
Canada
culture
Abstract
Documents the lesbian movement that developed in Canada between 1964 and 1984. Not just a story of big-city life, it chronicles the spaces lesbians created across rural and urban Canada, from physical locations such as lesbian and gay centres, drop-ins at women's centres, communal houses, bookstores, bars, cafes, and private members' clubs, to the ephemeral sites women travelled to in order to meet each other such as conferences, workshops, festivals, and Dykes in the Streets marches. Included are interviews and a wealth of primary sources, including diaries, letters, newsletters, reports, and minutes. This book also brings to life the exuberance of these young women and the challenges they faced during this transformational period in Canadian history. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
"The Lesbian, Drinking, Is Never at Her Best": Beer Parlours, Taverns, and Bars -- "No Drugs, No Straights": Members-Only Clubs -- "Let's Decide What We Are -- A Drop-In or a Cafe with Entertainment": Buildings -- "It Was an Incredible Conference": Getting Together -- "An Event That is Talked About as Far Away as Toronto": Claiming Public Space -- "Be Daring -- Live the Unbelievable and Challenging Life of a Rural Lesbian!": Outside the Big City.
ISBN
9780774830676
Accession Number
P2023.11
Call Number
08.1 M62m
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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Canadian law and indigenous self-determination : a naturalist analysis

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25724
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Christie, Gordon
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 C46c
Author
Christie, Gordon
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
vi, 440 pages ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous Peoples
Law
Canada
Abstract
For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority. Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination demonstrates how, over the last few decades, Canadian law has attempted to remove Indigenous sovereignty from the Canadian legal and social landscape. Adopting a naturalist analysis, Gordon Christie responds to questions about how to theorize this legal phenomenon, and how the study of law should accommodate the presence of diverse perspectives. Exploring the socially-constructed nature of Canadian law, Christie reveals how legal meaning, understood to be the outcome of a specific society, is being reworked to devalue the capacities of Indigenous societies. Addressing liberal positivism and critical postcolonial theory, Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination considers the way in which Canadian jurists, working within a world circumscribed by liberal thought, have deployed the law in such a way as to attempt to remove Indigenous meaning-generating capacity. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Setting the stage -- Canadian law and its puzzles -- Differing understandings and the way forward -- Remarks on theorizing and method -- Problems with theorizing about the law -- Liberal positivism and aboriginal rights -- Characterizing and defining 'existing' aboriginal rights -- The place of aboriginal rights in Canada -- Postcolonial theory and aboriginal law.
ISBN
9781442628991
Accession Number
P2023.12
Call Number
07.2 C46c
Collection
Archives Library
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Producing predators : wolves, work, and conquest in the northern Rockies

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26243
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Author
Wise, Michael D.
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Call Number
08.3 W75p
Author
Wise, Michael D.
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
xxiii, 184 pages ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
History-Canada
Rocky Mountains
Wolves
Conservation
Abstract
Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward. The history of these anti-predator programs was significant not only for their ecological effects, but also for their enduring cultural legacies of colonialism in the Northern Rockies.
Contents
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Wolves and whiskey -- 2. Beasts of bounty -- 3. Making meat -- 4. The place that feeds you -- 5. Unnatural hunger -- Conclusion.
ISBN
9780803249813
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
08.3 W75p
Collection
Archives Library
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Lorenzo Grassi in ' Merica. Un umile eroe falmentino in Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19777
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Costa, Elio and Gabriele Scardellato
Publisher
Verbania, Italy : Tarara' Edizioni Associazione Culturale
Call Number
01 Co81l
Author
Costa, Elio and Gabriele Scardellato
Responsibility
Elio Costa and Gabriele Scardellato
Publisher
Verbania, Italy : Tarara' Edizioni Associazione Culturale
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
167 pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Biography
Mountaineering
History
Canada
Italy
Rocky Mountains
Abstract
Italian edition of "Lawrence Grassi : from Piedmont to the Rocky Mountains"
Contents
Nota Introduttiva
Prefazione
Premessa
Gli Inizi : Falmenta, La Val Cannobina, E L'Emigrazione
Caro Figlio Scrivimi : Quelli Lasciati Alle Spalle E Vita Nel North Shore
Lawrence Grassi Sulle Montagne
Il Tracciatore di Sentieri
Epilogo : Simbolo e Leggenda Delle Montagne Rocciose Canadesi
Alcune Lettere da Falmenta
Ringraziamenti
ISBN
978-88-97795-35-3
Accession Number
2019.22
Call Number
01 Co81l
Collection
Archives Library
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The book of lists : revised and updated and even more Canadian

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19778
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Basen, Ira (editor), Jane Farrow (editor), David Wallenchinsky (editor), Amy Wallace (editor)
Publisher
Canada : Penguin Random House, Knopf Canada
Call Number
08.1 Ba29t
Author
Basen, Ira (editor), Jane Farrow (editor), David Wallenchinsky (editor), Amy Wallace (editor)
Responsibility
edited by Ira Basen, Jane Farrow, David Wallenchinksy, Amy Wallace
Publisher
Canada : Penguin Random House, Knopf Canada
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
482 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
History
Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
Harris, Lawren
Riggall Bert
Pack trips
Abstract
Pertains to Wilf Carter and his time with the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, Lawren Harris's paintings and their prices sold at auction, "Grub List" by Bert and Dora Riggall dated 1917
Contents
Introduction and Acknowledgements
People
The Screen
The Arts
Music
Food and Health
Animals
Work and Money
Sex, Love and Marriage
Crime and Justice
Politics and World Affairs
Places
Literature and Words
Sports
Death
Miscellaneous
Credits
Index
ISBN
978-0-7352-7306-1
Accession Number
2019.23
Call Number
08.1 Ba29t
Collection
Archives Library
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Canadians and the natural environment to the twenty-first century

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19797
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2012
Author
Forkey, Neil Stevens
Publisher
Toronto : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
08.1 Fo74c
Author
Forkey, Neil Stevens
Responsibility
Neil Stevens Forkey
Publisher
Toronto : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2012
Physical Description
157 pages ; 22 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Nature
Canada
History
History-Canada
Canadian Rockies
Alpine Club of Canada
Group of Seven
Harris, Lawren
Parker, Elizabeth
National parks
Canadian Pacific Railway
Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
Abstract
"Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history."--Publisher's website.
Contents
Introduction -- The classification of Canada's environments (1600s to early 1900s) -- Natural resources, economic growth, and the need for conservation (1800s and 1900s) -- Romanticism and the preservation of nature (1800s and 1900s) -- Environmentalism (1950s to 2000s) -- Aboriginal Canadians and natural resources : an overview -- Conclusion.
ISBN
978-0-8020-9022-5
Accession Number
p2019-18
Call Number
08.1 Fo74c
Collection
Archives Library
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