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Carrying the burden of peace : reimagining Indigenous masculinities through story

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
McKegney, Sam
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Call Number
07.2 M19c
Author
McKegney, Sam
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xxxiii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Traditions
Masculinity
Canada
History
Abstract
Through rigorous engagement with Indigenous literary art, Carrying the Burden of Peace highlights the decolonial potential of Indigenous masculinities. Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honour song--one that celebrates rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic? Carrying the Burden of Peace answers affirmatively. Countering the perception that masculinity has been so contaminated as to be irredeemable, the book explores Indigenous literary art for understandings of masculinity that exceed the impoverished inheritance of colonialism. Carrying the Burden of Peace weaves together stories of Indigenous life, love, eroticism, pain, and joy to map the contours of diverse, empowered, and non-dominant Indigenous masculinities. It is from here that a more balanced world may be pursued. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Indigenous masculinities and story -- Shame and deterritorialization -- Journeying back to the body -- De(f/v)iant generosity: gender and the gift -- Masculinity and kinship -- Naked and dreaming forward: a conclusion.
ISBN
9780889777934
Accession Number
P2023.15
Call Number
07.2 M19c
Collection
Archives Library
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Country of poxes : three germs and the taking of territory

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Mukhopadhyay, Baijayanta
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Call Number
08.2 M91c
Author
Mukhopadhyay, Baijayanta
Responsibility
Foreword by Dr. Darlene Kitty
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
264 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Health
Disease
Pandemics
History
Canada
Abstract
Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox, and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a magnanimous cornerstone of the Canadian state, developed in lockstep with colonial control over Indigenous land and life. Pathogens are storytellers of their time. The 500 year-old debate over the origins of syphilis reflects colonial judgments of morality and sexuality that became formally entwined in medicine. Smallpox is notoriously linked with the project of land theft, as colonizers destroyed Indigenous land, economies and life in the name of disease eradication. And tuberculosis, considered the "Indian disease," aroused intense fear of contagion that launched separate systems of care for Indigenous peoples in a de facto medical apartheid, while white settlers retreated to sanatoria in the Laurentians and Georgian Bay to be cured from the disease. In this immersive and deeply reflective book, physician and activist Dr. Baijayanta Mukhopdhyay provides riveting insights into the biological and social relationships of disease and empire. Country of Poxes considers the future of health in Canada that heeds redress and healing for nations brutalised by the Canadian state.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
1. Pandemics past : how infections have defined humanity -- 2. Syphilis -- 3. Smallpox -- 4. Tuberculosis -- 5. Fevers future : how we respond to infections to come
ISBN
9781773635545
Accession Number
P2023.02
Call Number
08.2 M91c
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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Editor's Notebook: Getting Out There

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
July/August 2021
Author
Kylie, Aaron
Publisher
Aaron Kylie
Edition
Vol. 141
Call Number
P
Author
Kylie, Aaron
Edition
Vol. 141
Publisher
Aaron Kylie
Published Date
July/August 2021
Physical Description
p.8
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Alberta
Canada
Banff
Banff (townsite)
Banff National Park
Tourism
Travel
Abstract
Editor, Aaron Kylie's address for the issue discussing Banff National Park with an image at the top of Sulphur Mountain.
Notes
"In Canadian Geographic, volume 141, issue 4, July/August, 2021"
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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Feminism's fight : challenging politics and policies in Canada since 1970

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Call Number
08.1 C14f
Responsibility
Edited by Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
378 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Feminism
Women
Women's Rights
Canada
Equality
Human rights
Sexism
Gender
Abstract
Feminism's Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice through Canadian federal policy from the 1970s to the present. It tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and emerging alliances can advance a feminist agenda of social and economic equality. This timely collection examines the ideas that feminists have put forward in pursuit of the goal of equality and traces the shifting frameworks employed by governments in response. The authors evaluate changing government orientations through the 1970s to 2020, revealing the negative impact on women's lives and the challenges posed for feminists. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the sexism, misogyny, and related systemic inequalities that remain widespread. Yet it has also revived feminist mobilization and animated calls for a new and comprehensive equality agenda for Canada. Feminism's Fight asks two key questions: What are the lessons from feminist engagement with federal government policy over fifty years? And what kinds of transformative policy demands will achieve the feminist goal of social and economic equality? -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
From the Status of Women to Gender Justice for Women / Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton -- Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act: A Tool of Forced Assimilation / Shelagh Day and Pamela Palmater -- Feminism Meets Macroeconomic Policy / Barbara Cameron -- Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work in the Home / Meg Luxton -- Fifty Years for Farm Women: Gender and Shifting Agricultural Policy Paradigms in Canada / Amber J. Fletcher -- Policy Discourses on Sexual Violence: From the Royal Commission to the (Post-)Neoliberal State / Lise Gotell -- Responsibility and Reproduction after the Royal Commission / Alana Cattapan -- The Royal Commission and Immigration and Citizenship: A Missed Opportunity? / Christina Gabriel -- Securing Income, Sustaining Livelihoods: The Royal Commission, Social Reproduction, and Income Security / Ann Porter -- Strategic, Cynical, and Sinister Representation: Reconceptualizing and Recasting Women’s Representation / Alexandra Dobrowolsky -- The Royal Commission and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women’s Organizing, and Collective Agency / Linda Briskin -- Equality Instituted? Gender Equity, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Commissions / Nicole S. Bernhardt -- Federalism for the Twenty-First Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada / Tammy Findlay.
ISBN
9780774868037
Accession Number
P2023.11
Call Number
08.1 C14f
Collection
Archives Library
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Hard is the journey : stories of Chinese settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Chow, Lily
Publisher
Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
Call Number
08.3 C46h
Author
Chow, Lily
Publisher
Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Chinese
Women
Immigration
Canada
History
British Columbia
Abstract
In Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC and uncovers the history of the Chinese labourers who completed the deadly work of blazing the Dewdney Trail from Hope to Kootenay only to be dismissed, without any compensation, as soon as the project was completed. She also offers an intimate and inspiring look into the many ways Chinese immigrants survived, finding community, building resilience, and preserving their culture. Piecing together interviews with Kootenay residents and descendents of Chinese immigrants, government records and documents, and early newspaper articles, Chow bravely exposes dark parts of BC's history while shedding light on the struggles but also resilience and untold accomplishments of the Chinese immigrants who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today. Hard is the Journey is Chow's fourth book on the history of Chinese Canadians. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- The Wild Horse Creek gold rush: Fisherville -- The key city: Cranbrook -- Once the Farwell town: Revelstoke -- The queen city: Nelson -- The golden city: Rossland -- Afterword.
ISBN
9781773860749
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
08.3 C46h
Collection
Archives Library
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In the name of wild : one family, five years, ten countries, and a new vision of wildness

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Vannini, Phillip and April
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : On Point Press, an imprint of UBC Press
Call Number
02 V33i
Author
Vannini, Phillip and April
Responsibility
With Autumn Vannini
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : On Point Press, an imprint of UBC Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
xii, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Wilderness
Wildlife
Canada
Europe
Japan
Iceland
New Zealand
Patagonia
Abstract
Five continents. Ten countries. Twenty Natural World Heritage sites in five years. In the Name of Wild is the story of what happened when one family set out to learn what wildness means to people around the world. What draws us to seek out wild places? Do they mean the same to everyone? Part travelogue, part ethnography, this book takes us on a journey into the lives of the people who call places such as Tasmania, Patagonia, and Iceland home. They reveal that wildness isn't about the absence of people. It's about connections, kinship, and coexistence with the land. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
"Wild" can be a challenging word: Galápagos -- "Wild" can be an adjective: Tasmania -- Wild can be ephemeral: Aotearoa-New Zealand -- Wild can change: South Tyrol -- Wild can be reimagined: Belize -- Wild can be a foreign concept: Japan -- Wild can be alive: Patagonia -- Wild can be photogenic: Iceland -- Wildlife can be us: Thailand -- Wild can be someone's home: Canada.
ISBN
9780774890403
Accession Number
P2023.11
Call Number
02 V33i
Collection
Archives Library
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Intimate integration : a history of the Sixties Scoop and the colonization of Indigenous kinship

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Stevenson, Allyson D.
Publisher
Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 S4i
Author
Stevenson, Allyson D.
Publisher
Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xv, 328 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indian Act
Canada
Law
Colonialism
Kinship
Genocide
Cultural Genocide
Abstract
Privileging Indigenous voices and experiences, Intimate Integration documents the rise and fall of North American transracial adoption projects, including the Adopt Indian and Me´tis Project and the Indian Adoption Project. The author argues that the integration of adopted Indian and Me´tis children mirrored the new direction in post-war Indian policy and welfare services. She illustrates how the removal of Indigenous children from Indigenous families and communities took on increasing political and social urgency, contributing to what we now call the "Sixties Scoop." Intimate Integration utilizes an Indigenous gender analysis to identify the gendered operation of the federal Indian Act and its contribution to Indigenous child removal, over-representation in provincial child welfare systems, and transracial adoption. Specifically, women and children's involuntary enfranchisement through marriage, as laid out in the Indian Act, undermined Indigenous gender and kinship relationships. Making profound contributions to the history of settler-colonialism in Canada, Intimate Integration sheds light on the complex reasons behind persistent social inequalities in child welfare. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Bleeding heart of settler colonialism -- Adoptive kinship and belonging -- Rehabilitating the "subnormal [Me´tis] family" in Saskatchewan -- Green Lake Children's Shelter experiment : from institutionalization to integration in Saskatchewan -- Post-war liberal citizenship and the colonization of Indigenous kinship -- Child welfare as system and lived experience -- Saskatchewan's Indigenous resurgence and the restoration of Indigenous kinship and caring -- Confronting cultural genocide in the 1980s -- Conclusion : Intimate Indigenization -- Epilogue : Coming home -- Appendix: Road allowance communities in Saskatchewan.
ISBN
9781487520458
Accession Number
P2023.12
Call Number
07.2 S4i
Collection
Archives Library
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Living in Indigenous sovereignty

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Carlson-Manathara, Elizabeth and Rowe, Gladys
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Call Number
07.2 C21l
Author
Carlson-Manathara, Elizabeth and Rowe, Gladys
Responsibility
Foreword by Aime´e Craft, Leona Star and Dawnis Kennedy
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
302 pages ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Traditions
Canada
Abstract
This book advances the concept of living in Indigenous sovereignty as an ontological and relational framework for settlers, particularly white settlers, who wish to initiate or deepen their decolonial/anti-colonial work while living on Indigenous lands occupied by the Canadian state. Here, living in Indigenous sovereignty refers to living in accordance with the understanding that we are on Indigenous lands which contain their own stories, systems of governance, relationships, laws, knowledges, protocols, obligations, and opportunities which have been understood and practiced by Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. Living in Indigenous sovereignty means understanding that our responsibilities and opportunities as settlers on these lands involve learning and placing ourselves in accountable and loving relationship with Indigenous lands, peoples, and sovereignty. Based on a completed dissertation, the book enacts accountability and embodies living in Indigenous sovereignty by centering the work and perspectives of Indigenous scholars, Knowledge holders, and activists regarding settler colonialism and decolonization. Thus, the theoretical and practice perspectives that point to pathways of living in Indigenous sovereignty are based largely on Indigenous sources. This work also features life stories/narratives of white settler activists for whom anti-colonial and decolonial work is a major life focus. These stories are intended to serve as inspiration and guidance for white settlers who wish to initiate or deepen their anti-colonial and decolonial work. Ultimately, this book aims to contribute to decolonial social change, particularly in Canada. I believe Fernwood would be a great fit as a publisher of this book due to its focus on confronting oppression and exploitation toward creating a more socially just world. Scholarship regarding frameworks for settler roles in decolonization has been historically sparse, although it has increased in the past decade (see complementary books below). Although most of the ideas in this book have been present in various forms in activist and Indigenous circles, the book will provide a deep and accessible exploration of living in Indigenous sovereignty and what this entails, as well as some of the tensions present in the work. Further, the approach of using extended life narratives of decolonial settler activists as a way to inspire others and illustrate the principles of the work in practice is something I haven't yet seen in book form. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introductions / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Gladys Rowe -- Settler Colonialism and Resistance / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Introducing the Narratives / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara with Aime´e Craft, Dawnis Kennedy, Leona Star, and Chickadee Richard -- Monique Woroniak / Monque Woroniak and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Murray Angus / Murray Angus and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Steve Heinrichs / Steve Heinrichs and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Franklin Jones / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Anonymous -- Orienting Toward Indigenous Sovereignty / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Joy Eidse / Joy Eidse and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Adam Barker / Adam Barker and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Susanne McCrea McGovern / Susanne McCrea McGovern and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Kathi Avery Kinew / Kathi Avery Kinew and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Rick Wallace / Rick Wallace and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- What Indigenous Peoples Have Asked of Us / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- John Doe / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Anonymous -- Silvia Straka / Silvia Straka with Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Dave Bleakney / Dave Bleakney with Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Victoria Freeman / Victoria Freeman and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Honourings / Gladys Rowe and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Conclusions / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Gladys Rowe -- Afterword / Gladys Rowe, Sherry Copenance, Yvonne Pompana, and Chickadee Richard.
ISBN
9781773632384
Accession Number
P2023.02
Call Number
07.2 C21l
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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Queen of the maple leaf : beauty contests and settler femininity

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Gentile, Patrizia
Publisher
Vancouver, BC ; Toronto : UBC Press
Call Number
08.1 G29q
Author
Gentile, Patrizia
Publisher
Vancouver, BC ; Toronto : UBC Press
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Feminism
Women
History
Beauty contests
Canada
Abstract
As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous spectacles. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers how colonial power operated within the pageant circuit. In this astute critical investigation, Patrizia Gentile examines the interplay between local or community-based pageants and more prestigious provincial or national ones. Contests such as Miss War Worker, Miss Black Ontario, and Miss Civil Service often functioned as stepping stones to competitions such as Miss Canada. At all levels, pageants exemplified codes of femininity, class, sexuality, and race that shaped the narratives of the settler nation. A union-organized pageant such as Queen of the Dressmakers, for example, might uplift working-class women but immigrant women need not apply. Not unlike sports leagues linked from minor to major, pageants from local to national formed a network that entrenched white settler nationalism in the context of the beauty industrial complex. Queen of the Maple Leaf demonstrates that these contests are designed to connect female bodies to white, middle-class, respectable femininity and wholesomeness, and that their longevity lies squarely in their capacity to reassert the white heteropatriarchy at the heart of settler societies. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism -- Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness -- Labour of Beauty -- Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies -- Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler Anxiety.
ISBN
9780774864121
Accession Number
P2023.11
Call Number
08.1 G29q
Collection
Archives Library
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Through their eyes : a graphic history of Hill 70 and Canada's First World War

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Barrett, Matthew and Engen, Robert C.
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Call Number
08.1 B25t
Author
Barrett, Matthew and Engen, Robert C.
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
viii, 337 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
World War I
World War, 1914-1918
Graphic novel
History
Abstract
By the summer of 1917, Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge, but Allied offensives had stalled across many fronts of the Great War. To help break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Canadian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie, was tasked with capturing Hill 70, a German stronghold near the French town of Lens. After securing the hill on 15 August, Canadian soldiers endured days of shelling, machine-gun fire, and poison gas as they repelled relentless enemy counterattacks. Through Their Eyes depicts this remarkable but costly victory in a unique way. With full-colour graphic artwork and detailed illustration, Matthew Barrett and Robert Engen picture the battle from different perspectives -Currie's strategic view at high command, a junior officer's experience at the platoon level, and the vantage points of many lesser-known Canadian soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. This innovative graphic history invites readers to reimagine the First World War through the eyes of those who lived it and to think more deeply about how we visualize and remember the past. Combining outstanding original art and thought-provoking commentary, Through Their Eyes uncovers the fascinating stories behind this battle while creatively expanding the ways that history is shared and represented.-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9780228010579
Accession Number
P2023.07
Call Number
08.1 B25t
Collection
Archives Library
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