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Expanding horizons : painting and photography of American and Canadian landscape, 1860-1918
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24957
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Goldfarb, Hilliard T.
- Publisher
- [Montreal] : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Call Number
- 06.1 G11e O.S.
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- Author
- Goldfarb, Hilliard T.
- Responsibility
- Hilliard T. Goldfarb (editor)
- Publisher
- [Montreal] : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 318 pages : illustrations (some color), maps
- Subjects
- Art
- Landscapes
- Artists
- Photographers
- Photography
- Exhibitions
- Canada
- United States
- North America
- Abstract
- Catalogue of an exhibition first held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from June 18 to Sept. 27, 2009 and then travelling to Vancouver Art Gallery, from Oct. 17, 2009 to Janu. 17, 2010. Issued also in French under title: Grandeur nature : peinture et photographie des paysages ame´ricains et canadiens de 1860 a` 1918.
- Contents
- Endangered horizons / Nathalie Bondil -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Crossed destinies: manifesting the paths of nationhood in the United States and Canada through Landscapes, 1860-1918 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Flexible frontiers: expansion, contraction, regeneration / T.J. Jackson Lears -- Nature transcendent -- The most northerly horizon / Rosalind Pepall -- The forest, Niagara and the sublime / Franc¸ois-Marc Gagnon -- Works -- The stage of history and the theatre of myth -- Looking at landscape in athe age of environmentalism / Lynda Jessup -- Too silent to be real / Richard Hill -- Works -- Man versus nature -- Painting and photography in British Columbia, 1871-1916: some observations / Ian Thom -- Works -- Nature domesticated -- Word and image: North American landscape in nineteenth-century illustrated publications / Brian Foss -- John Singer Sargent's adventurous summer in the Canadian Rockies: the visit to rh Yoho Valley in 1916 / Hilliard T. Goldfarb -- Works -- The urban landscape -- "To pavements and homesteads here" : landscape, photography, and the transcendence of time and space / Philip Brookman -- Works -- The return of nature -- Introduction -- Works.
- ISBN
- 9782891923347
- Accession Number
- 2019.94
- Call Number
- 06.1 G11e O.S.
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Review and synopsis on Canadian Architect website
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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
- 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
- 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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That never happened : Canada's first national internment operations
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25003
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Boyko, Ryan
- Cofini, Diana
- Publisher
- Orangeville, ON : McIntyre Media
- Call Number
- 08.1 B63t DVD
1 website
- Author
- Boyko, Ryan
- Cofini, Diana
- Publisher
- Orangeville, ON : McIntyre Media
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, colour and black and white
- Abstract
- Follows the story of Canada's first national internment operations between 1914 and 1920, when over 88,000 people were forced to register and more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in internment camps across Canada, not for anything they had done but because of where they came from. In 1954, the public records were destroyed.
- Notes
- Director of photography, Oleksandr Kryshtalovych ; editor, Peter Chrapka ; music by Evan MacDonald.
- Accession Number
- 2019.113
- Call Number
- 08.1 B63t DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Amistice Films
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21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act : Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25007
- 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
- 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
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25008
- 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
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- [vii], 362 pages : facsimiles
- 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
- URL Notes
- Summary at University of Manitoba Press website
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No surrender : the land remains Indigenous
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25009
- 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
- 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
1 website
- Author
- Vowel, Chelsea
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, MB, Canada : HighWater Press
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- xii, 290 pages : illustrations, map
- 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
- URL Notes
- Summary on Highwater Press / Portage & Main Press website
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Metis and the medicine line : creating a border and dividing a people
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25011
- 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
- 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
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- Archives Library
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- Summary on University of Regina Press website
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Surviving Canada : indigenous peoples celebrate 150 years of betrayal
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25058
- 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
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : ARP Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 462 pages : illustrations (some colour)
- 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
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- Archives Library
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- Summary on ARP Books website
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Unsettled expectations : uncertainty, land and settler decolonization
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25062
- 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
- 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
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- Archives Library
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- Summary on Fernwood Publishing website
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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
- Publisher
- Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- xii, 145 pages
- 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
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- Archives Library
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- Summary on Fernwood Publishing website
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A crown of maples : constitutional monarchy in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25103
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Canadian Heritage
- Publisher
- Gatineau, PQ : Canadian Heritage
- Call Number
- 08.1 C16a PAM
1 website
- Author
- Canadian Heritage
- Publisher
- Gatineau, PQ : Canadian Heritage
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 63, xviii pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Pertains to how the Constitutional Monarchy functions in Canada
- Contents
- Introduction The Canadian Crown - An Overview The Modern Reality of Constitutional Monarchy The Role and Powers of the Canadian Crown Today Canadian Representatives of the Crown Comparison with Other Systems of Government The Visual Presence of the Canadian Crown Conclusion The Royal Anthem - “God Save the Queen” Appendices Photographic Credits Glossary Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9780662460121
- Accession Number
- TBD
- Call Number
- 08.1 C16a PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- 2015 version available online via the Government of Canada
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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
- 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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- University of Regina Press website
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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
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- Author
- Foster, Cecil
- Responsibility
- Cecil Foster
- Edition
- First, revised
- Publisher
- Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 296 pages
- 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
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- Archives Library
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North of the color line : migration and Black resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25244
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Mathieu, Sarah-Jane
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 M42n
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- Author
- Mathieu, Sarah-Jane
- Responsibility
- Sarah-Jane Mathieu
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
- Physical Description
- xv, 280 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs
- Abstract
- North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the firsthand accounts of former sleeping car porters, Mathieu shows that porters often found themselves leading racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism. Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, Mathieu historicizes Canadian racial attitudes, and explores how black migrants brought their own sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political discourse there. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction. Birth of a nation: race, empire, and nationalism during Canada's railway age -- Drawing the line: race and Canadian immigration policy -- Jim Crow rides this train: segregation in the Canadian workforce -- Fighting the empire: race, war, and mobilization -- Building an empire, uplifting a race: race, uplift, and transnational alliances -- Bonds of steel: depression, war, and international brotherhood.
- ISBN
- 9780807871669
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 M42n
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Pourin' down rain : a Black woman claims her place in the Canadian West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25245
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Foggo, Cheryl
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Edition
- 30th anniversary edition. Second edition.
- Call Number
- 08.1 F68p
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- Author
- Foggo, Cheryl
- Responsibility
- Cheryl Foggo
- Edition
- 30th anniversary edition. Second edition.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Physical Description
- x, 118 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, genealogical table
- Subjects
- History
- History-Canada
- Canada
- Racism
- Women
- Abstract
- First published in 1990, Pourin' Down Rain is a coming-of-age memoir about growing up in prairie communities with small Black populations. It thematizes the family, civil rights, and the learned art of Black Canadian storytelling. She drew much of the material from an unpublished manuscript called "The Story of My Father's Life," written by Daisy Smith Mayes Williams, Foggo's grandfather's sister. This manuscript remains in Foggo's personal archive. Pourin' Down Rain was a finalist for the Alberta Culture Non-Fiction Prize in 1990. A revised and updated 30th anniversary edition of Pourin' Down Rain is going to be released in 2020 by Brush Education and an audiobook is being released by ECW press as part of its Bespoke series of Canadian classics (From publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781550598339
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 F68p
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- Archives Library
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Howdy, I'm John Ware : and this is the story of my cowboy life
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25246
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Clough, Ayesha
- Rookwood, Hugh
- Publisher
- Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
- Call Number
- 08.1 C62h
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- Author
- Clough, Ayesha
- Rookwood, Hugh
- Responsibility
- Ayesha Clough (author)
- Hugh Rookwood (illustrator)
- Publisher
- Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 39 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, colour maps, portraits
- Abstract
- Howdy, I’m John Ware is a children's book about Canada's legendary Black cowboy. The story, ideal for ages 6-12, brings the real-life legend to a new generation of kids. Despite experiencing enslavement, war and discrimination, this gifted horseman blazed a trail of kindness, becoming one of Alberta’s most loved and respected pioneer ranchers. (From publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781999108786
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 08.1 C62h
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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
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- Author
- Forkey, Neil S.
- Responsibility
- Neil S. Forkey
- Publisher
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 157 pages
- 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
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Edward W. D. Holway : a pioneer of the Canadian Alps
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19831
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Palmer, Howard
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
- Call Number
- 01.4 Pa18e
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- Author
- Palmer, Howard
- Responsibility
- Howard Palmer
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 81p. : ill., port., map
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Canada
- Selkirk Range
- Botany
- Abstract
- Mountaineers will find in this little volume the authentic account of the ascents in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks which made the name of E. W. D. Holway so well known to the climbing fraternity not many years ago. Readers who may never have seen a mountain will enjoy the book simply as the true tale of a remarkable man whogave up commercial pursuits to become a professor of botany and an explorer of little-known Alpine ranges. The book is composed largely of Mr. Holway’s intimate letters and diaries which tell his story with an engaging touch that continually makes light of the dangers, difficulties and hardships inseparable from pioneer work. The trials and tribulations of “backpacking” are graphically portrayed by the author. The book was designed to cover, as a part of a well-rounded biography, the mountaineering experiences of its subject. We think that the task has been well done and commend the work to the attention of readers interested in the Canadian Alps. Mr. Palmer’s book, with an introduction by the late Professor J. Arthur Harris, former head of the Department of Botany at the University of Minnesota, is enriched with illustrations of many of the peaks referred to in the text. It is very well printed and attractive in format. (From American Alpine Club)
- Contents
- Preface
- A pioneer of the Canadian Alps
- Earliest climbs
- The maturity of mountaineer
- The first expedition into the Cariboos
- Conclusion
- Supplementary letters
- List of ascents and explorations by Edward W.D. Holway
- Mountaineering papers by Edward W.D. Holway
- Notes
- Annotated by Ernest Feuz
- Accession Number
- 2019.43
- Call Number
- 01.4 Pa18e
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- Book review as per the American Alpine Club
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Country post : rural postal service in Canada, 1880 to 1945
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19833
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Amyot, Chantal and John Willis
- Publisher
- Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Postal Museum
- Call Number
- 08.1 Am1c
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- Responsibility
- Chantal Amyot and John Willis
- Publisher
- Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Postal Museum
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 210 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Postal services
- History
- Canada
- Abstract
- Pertains to the ways in which rural postal service combat isolationism in rural communities across Canada while using examples in Alberta. References and/or photos pertaining to Alberta include the following locations, Bently, Beverly, Big Valley, Capon, Claresholm, Consort, Coronation, Cressman, Gadsby, Hanna, Kinnodale, Lacombe, Ogden, Rapid City, Lethbridge, Red Lodge, Richdale, Rimbey, Stand Off, Troche, Wardlow and Worsley. The book draws similarities to the isolationism that was likely to exist in the Rocky Mountains at the time of early settlement, and the ways in which rural postal services increased communication among communities.
- Contents
- Foreword -- Canadian Postal Museum -- Foreword -- Canada post -- Foreword -- Canadian postmasters and assistants association -- Ch. 1. The transformation of rural society in Canada and the post office -- Ch. 2. The significance and symbolism of post offices and their locations -- Ch. 3. The rural postmaster -- Ch. 4. Social role of the post -- Ch. 5. Sending saving, and spending money -- Conclusion : whither the rural post office?
- Notes
- References and/or photographs of locations in Alberta can be found on the following pages Bently (98), Beverly (103), Big Valley (132), Capon (80), Claresholm (109), Consort (123), Coronation (114), Cressman (43), Gadsby (107), Hanna (98 and 124), Kinnodale (57 and 59), Lacombe (51), Lethbridge (89), Ogden (88), Rapid City (59), Red Lodge (59), Richdale (85), Rimbey (98), Stand Off (41), Troche (116), Wardlow (105) and Worsley (97)
- ISBN
- 0660189984
- Accession Number
- 2019.44
- Call Number
- 08.1 Am1c
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- Archives Library
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- Avaliable through online subscription to jstor
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