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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
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- 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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A´kaitsinikssiistsi = Blackfoot stories of old
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25057
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Heavy Shields Russel, Lena (author)
- Genee, Inge (author)
- Singer, William (illustrator)
- Publisher
- Regina (Saskatchewan), Canada : University of Regina Press
- Call Number
- 05 R91ak
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- Responsibility
- Lena Heavy Shields Russell - Ikkinainihki
- Inge Genee - Piitaakii
- William Singer - Api'soomaahka
- Publisher
- Regina (Saskatchewan), Canada : University of Regina Press
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 68 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Blackfoot
- First Nations
- Abstract
- The third volume in the First Nations Language Readers series--meant for language learners and language users--this collection presents eight Blackfoot stories told by Lena Russell, a fluent speaker of Blackfoot from the Kainai (Blood) reserve in southern Alberta. In contract with other Algonquian languages, such as Cree and Saulteaux (Ojibwe), Blackfoot is not usually written in syllabics, so these stories are presented in the Blackfoot language using the Roman alphabet, together with the English translation. The spelling system is based on the conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet, and should be transparent for native speakers of Blackfoot as well as for linguists. The Reader includes a Blackfoot-to-English glossary containing all the nouns, verbs, adjuncts, etc. , found in the texts, as well as stress or pitch accents over the vowel or vowels which bear the accent. (from University of Regina Press website)
- Contents
- 1. Omohto´'totama'piihpi aahkssawa´ tsto'si Niitsi´'powahsini Why the Blackfoot language is important to preserve -- 2. Aatsi´moi'hkaani Prayer -- 3. Ni´nna Aka´o´hkitopiiwa #1 My Father, Rides-Many-Horses #1 -- 4. Ni´nna Aka´o´hkitopiiwa #2 My Father, Rides-Many-Horses #2 -- 5. Ami´i´ ohki´ni ki ama´a´ya na´i´i´pisstsiitapiima A finger bone and a rag doll -- 6. Ksi´ssta'pssiwa A Spirit -- 7. Isstoyi´i´si Cold Weather -- 8. O´mahksisttsi´i´ksiinaiksi Rattlesnakes -- Blackfoot -- English Glossary.
- ISBN
- 9780889773189
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 05 R91ak
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on University of Regina Press website
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Hill, Greg. A
- Publisher
- Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada
- Call Number
- 06.1 H55a
1 website
- Author
- Hill, Greg. A
- Responsibility
- Greg A. Hill
- Publisher
- Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 202 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- First Nations
- Abstract
- Pertains to the artwork and art history of Alex Janvier, an Indigenous man from the Cold Lake First Nations, Treaty 6 Territory. While reflecting his strong Indigenous culture, his art combines both Indigenous and Canadian stylistic elements. His art is deeply representative of his connection to nature, as well as the struggles imposed upon Indigenous Peoples through colonial relations. Parallels can be drawn when considering the effects of colonial relations on Indigenous Peoples and communities, such as those who resided in and around the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
- Contents
- Foreword -- Where the land begins / Greg A. Hill -- The landlord / Lee-Ann Martin -- The narrative murals of Alex Janvier : Abstraction, representation and oral history / Chris Dueker -- Plates -- Chronology : The life and work of Alex Janvier / Jaime Koebel -- List of works -- Exhibitions -- Further references.
- ISBN
- 9780888849427
- Accession Number
- 2019.46
- Call Number
- 06.1 H55a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- An online resource dedicated to Alex Janvier, offering insight into the history of both himself and his art work.
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An adventurous woman abroad : the selected lantern slides of Mary T. S. Schaffer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14122
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Lang, Michale
- Publisher
- Victoria B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books; copyright Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1a
- Author
- Lang, Michale
- Responsibility
- Michale Lang
- Publisher
- Victoria B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books; copyright Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 275 p. : col. ill., maps, ports
- Series
- The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies presents
- Subjects
- Asia
- Exploration
- First Nations
- Jasper
- Women
- Notes
- Includes magic lantern slide show scripts "In the heart of the Canadian Rockies with horse and camera, part I and part II" by Mary S. Warren. Most images used in book were scanned from original lantern slides taken or collected by Mary Schaffer Warren
- ISBN
- 978-1-926855-21-9
- Accession Number
- gratis - Reference copy 2012
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Annie Pootoogook: cutting ice
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19837
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Campbell, Nancy
- Publisher
- Fredericton, NB : Goose Lane Editions ; Kleinburg, ON : McMichael Canadian Art Collection
- Call Number
- 06.1 C14a
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- Author
- Campbell, Nancy
- Responsibility
- Nancy Campbell
- Publisher
- Fredericton, NB : Goose Lane Editions ; Kleinburg, ON : McMichael Canadian Art Collection
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 173 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) : 27 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- First Nations
- Inuit
- Canadian art
- Subjects
- Art
- First nations - Artists
- Abstract
- This exhibition celebrates the strength and contemporaneity of Pootoogook’s work but also uncovers how it has influenced her peers. Alongside works by Pootoogook, this exhibition will include works of art by Shuvinai Ashoona, Itee Pootoogook, Jutai Toonoo, Ohotaq Mikkigak and Siassie Kenneally, showing how Annie Pootoogook made it possible to begin a different conversation that celebrates Inuit art in new ways in Canada and the world. Bringing these artists’ works and words together in the Cutting Ice exhibition, will celebrate Annie Pootoogook as an important creative catalyst in contemporary art. (Taken from McMichael: Canadian Art Collection)
- Contents
- Director's foreword / Ian A.C. Dejardin -- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative President's foreword / Pingwartok Ottokie -- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative: a short history / Nancy Campbell, in consultation with West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative -- Dear Annie... / Nancy Campbel.
- ISBN
- 9781773100692
- Accession Number
- 2019.46
- Call Number
- 06.1 C14a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
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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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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
1 website
- 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
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- 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
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publication on Rocky Mountain Book's website
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Banff : a history of the park and town
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14457
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Hart, E. J
- Publisher
- Banff : Summerthought
- Call Number
- 08.3 H25b Reference copy
- 08.3 H25b c.1
- 08.3 H25b c.2
- Author
- Hart, E. J
- Responsibility
- E. J. (Ted) Hart
- Publisher
- Banff : Summerthought
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 283 p. : ill., map, ports
- Subjects
- Canada. Department of Interior
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Depression
- Douglas, Howard
- First Nations
- Highways
- National parks
- Recreation
- Ski areas
- Stewart, George
- Tourism
- Town of Banff
- World War II
- Notes
- Includes bibliographic references and index
- ISBN
- 978-1-92698312-7
- Accession Number
- P2015-06-12 Limited edition - #140/1000
- summerthought limited edition - #1/1000 and #2/1000
- Call Number
- 08.3 H25b Reference copy
- 08.3 H25b c.1
- 08.3 H25b c.2
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Black apple : a novel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14772
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Crate, Joan
- Publisher
- Toronto : Phyllis Bruce Editions, Simon & Schuster
- Call Number
- 05.2 C85b
- Author
- Crate, Joan
- Publisher
- Toronto : Phyllis Bruce Editions, Simon & Schuster
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 326p
- Subjects
- First Nations
- Residential schools
- ISBN
- 978-1-4767-9516-4 (bound)
- Accession Number
- P2016-73,000-01
- Call Number
- 05.2 C85b
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- Archives Library
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