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Aboriginal TM : the cultural and economic politics of recognition

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25713
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Adese, Jennifer
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
07.2 A3a
Author
Adese, Jennifer
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous People
Indigenous Traditions
Tourism
Language
Politics
Abstract
In Aboriginal™, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term "Aboriginal" and its displacement by the word "Indigenous." In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term's express purpose was to speak to the "aboriginal rights" acknowledged in Section 35(1). Yet in the wake of the Constitution's passage, Aboriginal, in its capitalized form, became far more closely aligned with Section 35(2)'s interpretation of which specific groups held those rights, and was increasingly used to describe and categorize people. More than simple legal and political vernacular, the term Aboriginal (capitalized or not) has had real-world consequences for the people it defined. Aboriginal™ argues the term was a tool used to advance Canada's cultural and economic assimilatory agenda throughout the 1980s until the mid-2010s. Moreover, Adese illuminates how the word engenders a kind of "Aboriginalized multicultural" brand easily reduced to and exported as a nation brand, economic brand, and place brand--at odds with the diversity and complexity of Indigenous peoples and communities. In her multi-disciplinary research, Adese examines the discursive spaces and concrete sites where Aboriginality features prominently: the Constitution Act, 1982; the 2010 Vancouver Olympics; the "Aboriginal tourism industry"; and the Vancouver International Airport. Reflecting on the term's abrupt exit from public discourse and the recent turn toward Indigenous, Indigeneity, and Indigenization, Aboriginal™ offers insight into Indigenous-Canada relations, reconciliation efforts, and current discussions of Indigenous identity, authenticity, and agency. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Aboriginal, aboriginality, aboriginalism, aboriginalization: what's in a word? -- Aboriginalized multiculturalism tm: Canada's olympic national brand -- Selling Aboriginal experiences and authenticity: Canadian and Aboriginal tourism -- Marketing aboriginality and the branding of place: the case of Vancouver international airport -- Conclusion: thoughts on the end of aboriginalization and the turn to indigenization.
Notes
Title appears with the trademark symbol after the word "Aboriginal".
ISBN
9781772840056
Accession Number
P2023.09
Call Number
07.2 A3a
Collection
Archives Library
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Adjusting the lens : Indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25525
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
Call Number
07.2 L62a
Responsibility
Edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
vi, 312 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Art
Indigenous Photography
Politics
Heritage
Colonialism
Abstract
Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call attention to how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record. Adjusting the Lens presents original research in this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary across a range of geographically and culturally distinctive contexts. The transnational perspective of this exciting collection challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 / Carol Williams ; Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adentures in Sami Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen ; Negotiating Meaning: John Moller's Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg Hovik ; Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigenous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers ; Distruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greehorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson ; "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sami Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola ; The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander People by Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham ; On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Chrisitne Sy ; Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sami Political Community by Laura Junka-Aikio ; Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye ; Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery of Sapmi - Becoming a Nation at the Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer Stein ; Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards
ISBN
9780774866613
Accession Number
P2022.04
Call Number
07.2 L62a
Collection
Archives Library
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The alpine regions of Switzerland and the neighbouring countries : a pedestrian's noteson their physical features, scenery, and natural history

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1896
Author
Bonney, T. G.
Publisher
Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, and Co.
Edition
1st edition
Call Number
02.2 B64a
Author
Bonney, T. G.
Responsibility
Illustrations by E. Whymper
Edition
1st edition
Publisher
Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, and Co.
Published Date
1896
Physical Description
351 pages ; 15 ill. ; 5 plates
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Switzerland
Geology
Italy
Glaciers
Animals
Avalanches
Botany
Folklore
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
02.2 B64a
Collection
Archives Library
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Ancestors : indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25527
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Responsibility
Edited by Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
x, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Photography
History
History of Alberta
Western Canada
Colonialism
Abstract
This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, artwork, humour, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs. Some serve as records of cherished landscapes that may have been altered. Others provide links to ancestors: revered leaders, soldiers, healers, thinkers, and orators. The curators hope that the process of identifying the people in these photographs, only begun here, will continue. (Provided by Publisher)
Contents
Foreword / Chief Willie Littlechild ; The nature of the collection and its challenges ; Western Canada in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries ; The aims of the curators ; The Exhibition
ISBN
9781551954547
Accession Number
P2022.05
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Collection
Archives Library
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Anthropology on the Great Plains

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26190
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1980
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Call Number
07.2 W86a
Responsibility
Edited by W. Raymond Wood and Margot Liberty
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Published Date
1980
Physical Description
vii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous People
Indigenous Traditions
Turtle Island
History
Abstract
Native American tribes living on the Great Plains have long attracted the attention of Euro-American scholars, inspiring over the years a vast quantity of research. The contributors to this volume discuss and evaluate all the major works of scholarship devoted to the culture of Plains Indians, from the arrival of these peoples on the North American grasslands thousands of years ago, through their subsequent Village and High Plains lifeways, to their present-day adaption to reservation and urban life. Toghether, the twenty-two authors undertake a comprehensive survey of the state of anthropology on the Plains: what it has been, what it is now, and what it may offer theory and method in the future. -- From interior dustjacket
Contents
The Plains setting / B. Miles Gilbert -- The influence of Plains ethnography on the development of anthropological theory / E. Adamson Hoebel -- The Plains culture area concept / Richard Scaglion -- Prehistoric studies on the Plains / Alfred E. Johnson and W. Raymond Wood -- An overview of Great Plains physical anthropology / David V. Hughey -- Studies in Plains linguistics : a review / Robert C. Hollow and Douglas R. Parks -- Plains trade in prehistoric and protohistoric intertribal relations / W. Raymond Wood -- The ethnohistorical approach in Plains area studies / Mildred Mott Wedel and Raymond J. DeMallie -- Plains economic analysis : the Marxist complement / Alan M. Klein -- Morgan's problem : the influence of Plains ethnography on the ethnology of kinship / John H. Moore -- Social control on the Plains / Garrick Bailey -- The Sun Dance / Margot Liberty -- The Ghost Dance / Omer C. Stewart -- The Native American church / Omer C. Stewart -- Plains Indian art / Mary Jane Schneider -- Plains Indian music and dance / William K. Powers -- Psychological anthropology / Margot Liberty and Robert Morais --The formal education of Plains Indians / Janet Goldenstein Ahler -- Plains Indian women : an assessment / Katherine M. Weist -- Research in health and healing in the Plains / Luis S. Kemnitzer -- Peoples of the Plains / compiled by Douglas R. Parks, Margot Liberty, and Andrea Ferenci.
ISBN
9780803247086
Accession Number
2022.17
Call Number
07.2 W86a
Collection
Archives Library
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The audubon society field guide to North American mushrooms

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1981
Author
Lincoff, Gary H.
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Edition
1st
Call Number
04.1 L63m
Author
Lincoff, Gary H.
Responsibility
Illustrated by Carol Nehring
Edition
1st
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Published Date
1981
Physical Description
926 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Audubon Society Field Guide Series
Subjects
Botany
Identification
Science
Illustrations
Mushroom
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
ISBN
0394519922
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04.1 L63m
Collection
Archives Library
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The audubon society field guide to North American trees

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1980
Author
Little, Elbert L.
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Edition
1st
Call Number
04.1 L73t
Author
Little, Elbert L.
Responsibility
Illustrated by Susan Rayfield and Olivia Buehl
Edition
1st
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Published Date
1980
Physical Description
926 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Audubon Society Field Guide Series
Subjects
Botany
Dendrology
Identification
Science
Illustrations
Trees
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
ISBN
0394507614
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04.1 L73t
Collection
Archives Library
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Authorized heritage : place, memory, and historic sites prairie Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25510
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Coutts, Robert
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
08.1 C83a
Author
Coutts, Robert
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Memory
Heritage
Historic sites
Nationalism
Colonialism
Abstract
Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research in Parks Canada records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national and conventional messages that commonly reflect colonialist visions of the past. Throughout western Canada there are vivid examples of original and official views of what constitutes a national narrative. Yet many of the places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler colonial histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks, and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious. At these heritage sites, Indigenous perceptions of the past confront the conventions of settler colonial history and denote the fluid cultural perspectives that must define the shifting ground of heritage space. Robert Coutts brings his many years of experience as a Parks Canada historian to this detailed examination of heritage sites across the prairies. He shows how the process of commemoration reflects social and cultural perspectives that privilege a confident and progressive national narrative. He also examines how class, gender, and sexuality often remain apart from the heritage discourse. Most notably, Authorized Heritage examines how governments became the mediators of what is heritage and, just as significantly, what is not. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Landscapes of Memory in Prairie Canada ; Memory Hooks: Commemorating Indigenous Cultural Landscapes ; National Dreams: Commemorating the Fur Trade in Manitoba ; "We Came. We Toiled. God Blessed": Settler Colonialism and Constructing Authenticity ; Contested Space: Commemorating Indigenous Places of Resistance ; Heritage Place: The Function of Modernity, Gender, and Sexuality ; History, Memory, and the Heritage Discourse
ISBN
9780887559266
Accession Number
P2022.02
Call Number
08.1 C83a
Collection
Archives Library
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Bead by bead : constitutional rights and Métis community

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
Call Number
07.2 B71b
Responsibility
Edited by Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xii, 221 pages ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Metis
Canada
Politics
Colonialism
Identity
Abstract
What does the phrase Me´tis peoples mean in constitutional terms? As lawyers and scholars dispute forms of Me´tis identity, and debate the nature and scope of Me´tis rights under the Canadian Constitution, understanding Me´tis experience of colonization is fundamental to achieving reconciliation. In Bead by Bead, contributors address the historical denial - at both federal and provincial levels - of outstanding Me´tis concerns and Aboriginal rights claims, in particular with respect to land, resources, and governance. Tackling such themes as ongoing colonial policies, the invisibility of Me´tis women in court decisions, identity politics, and racist legal principles, they uncover the troubling issues that plague Me´tis aspirations for a just future. This nuanced analysis of the parameters that current Indigenous legal doctrines place around Me´tis rights discourse moves beyond a one-size-fits-all definition of Me´tis or a uniform approach to Aboriginal rights. By raising critical questions about self-determination, colonization, kinship, land, and other essential aspects of Me´tis lived reality, these clear-eyed essays go beyond legal theorizing and create pathways to respectful, inclusive Me´tis-Canadian constitutional relationships. (Provided by Publisher)
Contents
Me´tis identity captured by law: struggles over use of the category Me´tis in Canadian law / Se´bastien Grammond ; Recognition and reconciliation: recent developments in Me´tis rights law / Thomas Isaac ; Shifting the status quo: the duty to consult and the Me´tis of British Columbia / Christopher Gall and Brodie Douglas ; The resilience of Me´tis title: rejecting assumptions of extinguishment / Karen Drake and Adam Gaudry ; Where are the women? Analyzing the three Me´tis Supreme Court of Canada decisions / Brenda L. Gunn ; Manitoba Me´tis Federation and Daniels: "post-legal" reconciliation and Western Me´tis / Jeremy Patzer ; Colonial ideologies: the denial of Me´tis political identity in Canadian law / D'Arcy Vermette ; Me´tis Aboriginal rights: four legal doctrines / Darren O'Toole ; Suzerainty, sovereignty, jurisdiction: the future of Me´tis ways / Signa A. Daum Shanks.
ISBN
9780774865975
Accession Number
P2022.04
Call Number
07.2 B71b
Collection
Archives Library
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Blackfoot ways of knowing : the worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26211
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Bastien, Betty
Publisher
Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Edition
9th printing
Call Number
07.2 B29b
Author
Bastien, Betty
Responsibility
Ju¨rgen W. Kremer, editor ; Duane Mistaken Chief, language consultant.
Edition
9th printing
Publisher
Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
xx, 235 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Blackfoot
Siksikaitsitapi
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous People
Indigenous Traditions
Indigenous Language
Abstract
The worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of coming home to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty Bastien offers us a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experiencing the world. As a scholar and researcher, Bastien is also able to place Blackfoot tradition within the context of knowledge building among indigenous peoples generally, and within an historical context of precarious survival amid colonial displacement and cultural genocide. -- From back cover
Contents
Context -- Introduction -- Innahkootaitsinnika'topi -- History of the Blackfoot-speaking tribes -- Introductory remarks -- Iitotasimahpi Iimitaiks -- The era of the dog or the time of the ancestors (Pre-eighteenth century) -- Ao'ta'sao'si Ponokaomita -- the era of the horse (eighteeneth century to 1880) -- Ao'maopao'si -- from when we settled in one place (1880) to today -- Cultural destruction -- policies of ordinary genocide -- Tribal protocol and affirmative inquiry -- Niinohkanistssksinipi -- Speaking personally -- Traditional knowledge in academe -- Cultural affirmation -- Protocol of affirmative inquiry -- Affirmation of indigenous knowledge -- Kakyosin -- traditional knowledge -- Kiitomohpiipotoko -- ontological responsibilities -- Siksikaitsitapi ways of knowing -- epistemology -- Knowledge is coming to know Ihtsipaitapiiyo'pa -- Kakyosin/Mokaksin -- Indigenous learning -- Niisi'powahsinni-language -- Aipommotsspistsi -- transfers -- Kaaahsinnooniksi -- grandparents -- Conclusion: renewal of ancestral responsibilities as antidote to genocide -- Deconstructing the colonized mind -- Eurocentred and Niitsitapi identity -- Reflections and implications.
ISBN
9781552381090
Accession Number
P2023.25
Call Number
07.2 B29b
Collection
Archives Library
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Blood memory : the tragic decline and improbable resurrection of the American Buffalo

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Duncan, Dayton and Burns, Ken
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf
Call Number
08 D91b
Author
Duncan, Dayton and Burns, Ken
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Buffalo
Pablo-Allard buffalo round-up
Conservation
Indigenous
Colonialism
Environment
Ecology
Abstract
The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today--a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo--our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals. Newcomers to the continent found the buffalo fascinating at first, but in time they came to consider them a hindrance to a young nation's expansion. And in the space of only a decade they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides, with their carcasses left to rot on the prairies. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would be rescued by a motley collection of Americans, each of them driven by different--and sometimes competing--impulses. This is the rich and complicated story of a young republic's heedless rush to conquer a continent, but also of the dawn of the conservation era--a story of America at its very best and worst -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Part 1: The Trail to Extinction -- The Buffalo and the People -- Strangers -- Omen in the Skies -- The Iron Horse -- Kills Tomorrow -- Part 2: Back From the Brink -- A Death Wind for My People -- Just in the Nick of Time -- Changes of Heart -- Ghosts -- The Last Refuge -- Blood Memory -- Big Medicine.
Notes
Dayton Duncan ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan ; with an introduction by Ken Burns ; picture research by Emily Mosher and Susan Shumaker ; design by Maggie Hinders.
Whyte Museum archival collections utilized.
ISBN
9780593537343
Accession Number
P2023.25
Call Number
08 D91b
Collection
Archives Library
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The boreal herbal : wild food and medicine plants of the North

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2011
Author
Gray, Beverley
Publisher
Whitehorse, Yukon : Aroma Borealis Press
Call Number
02.7 G78b
Author
Gray, Beverley
Publisher
Whitehorse, Yukon : Aroma Borealis Press
Published Date
2011
Physical Description
440 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Botany
Plants, Medicinal
Plants, Edible
Medicine
Harvesting
Preserving
Survival
Contents
Part I: Getting started -- Part II: Plant profiles -- Part III: Preparations and recipes -- Part IV: Economics -- Part V: For reference.
Notes
Many of the plants included in this publication can be found in the Canadian Rockies.
ISBN
9780986827105
Accession Number
P2024.01
Call Number
02.7 G78b
Collection
Archives Library
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Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teaching of plants

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25485
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2013
Author
Wall Kimmerer, Robin
Publisher
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
Call Number
07.2 W15b
Author
Wall Kimmerer, Robin
Publisher
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
Published Date
2013
Physical Description
390 pages ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Traditional Knowledge
Science
Botany
Abstract
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.
Contents
Planting Sweetgrass ; Skywoman falling ; The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod ; Learning the grammar of animacy ; Tending Sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; A mother's work ; The consolation of water lilies ; Allegiance to gratitude ; Picking Sweetgrass ; Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest ; Braiding Sweetgrass ; In the footsteps of Nanabozho: becoming indigenous to place ; The sound of silverbells ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Umbilicaria : the belly button of the world ; Old-growth children ; Witness to the rain ; Burning Sweetgrass ; Windigo footprints ; The sacred and the superfund ; People of corn, people of light ; Collateral damage ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo ; Epilogue: Returning the gift
ISBN
978-1-57131-356-0
Accession Number
P2022.01
Call Number
07.2 W15b
Collection
Archives Library
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Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Wall Kimmerer, Robin
Publisher
Minneapolis : Zest Books
Call Number
07.2 W15s
Author
Wall Kimmerer, Robin
Responsibility
Adapted by Monique Gray Smith ; Illustrations by Nicole Neidhardt
Publisher
Minneapolis : Zest Books
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous People
Abstract
Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Meeting sweetgrass. An invitation to remember ; Skywoman falling ; Wiingaashk -- Planting sweetgrass. The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod -- Tending sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; Allegiance to gratitude -- Picking sweetgrass.Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest -- Braiding sweetgrass. In the footsteps of Nanabozho : becoming indigenous to place ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Old-growth children -- Burning sweetgrass. Windigo footprints People of corn, people of light ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo.
ISBN
9781728458991
Accession Number
P2023.03
Call Number
07.2 W15s
Collection
Archives Library
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Brave like the buffalo

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26206
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Allan, Melissa
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
07.2 Al5b
07.2 Al5b reference copy
Author
Allan, Melissa
Responsibility
Illustrated by Jadyn Fischer-McNab
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2023
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Children
Buffalo
Wildlife
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Cree
Abstract
Brave Like the Buffalo is a children’s book with a message that will inspire all readers to face the storms in their life with the help of their support systems and with a brave mindset. Baby buffalo is surprised and scared when a storm on the prairies passes through. Mama buffalo puts on a brave face and demonstrates how to use courage and bravery to get through the literal and metaphorical storms we may face in life. Written by Melissa Allan and illustrated by Cree illustrator Jadyn Fischer-McNab, this story uses a powerful animal, the buffalo, as a symbolic message and connection to Indigenous ways of knowing and being that helps to create a wonderful narrative rich with Indigenous ties and a heartwarming message around facing adversity. Brave Like the Buffalo is intended for audiences aged 4-8, to be used educationally as a way to intertwine Indigenous ways of knowing and being through story. -- From publisher
ISBN
9781771606448
Accession Number
P2023.25
Call Number
07.2 Al5b
07.2 Al5b reference copy
Location
Reference copy located in Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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Brotherhood to nationhood : George Manuel and the making of the modern indian movement

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25528
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
McFarlane, Peter and Manuel, Doreen
Publisher
Toronto : Between the Lines
Call Number
07.2 M16a
Author
McFarlane, Peter and Manuel, Doreen
Publisher
Toronto : Between the Lines
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xxvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
History
History-Canada
Colonialism
Politics
Abstract
George Manuel was the strategist and visionary behind the modern Indigenous movement in Canada. A three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, he laid the groundwork for what would become the Assembly of First Nations and was the founding president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Authors Peter McFarlane and Doreen Manuel follow him on a riveting journey from his childhood on a Shuswap reserve through three decades of fierce and dedicated activism. In these pages, an all-new foreword by celebrated Mi'kmaq lawyer and activist Pam Palmater is joined by an afterword from Manuel's granddaughter, land defender Kanahus Manuel. This edition features new photos and previously untold stories of the pivotal roles that the women of the Manuel family played--and continue to play--in the battle for Indigenous rights.
ISBN
9781771135108
Accession Number
P2021.02
Call Number
07.2 M16a
Collection
Archives Library
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Canada's place names and how to change them

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25683
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Beck, Lauren
Publisher
Montreal, Quebec : Concordia University Press
Call Number
02.1 B39c
Author
Beck, Lauren
Publisher
Montreal, Quebec : Concordia University Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
ix, 251 pages ; 21 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geography
Names, Geographical
Place names
Colonialism
Canada
Abstract
The first book to demonstrate how inadequately place names and visual emblems represent the presence of women, people of colour, and people living with disabilities, Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them provides an illuminating overview of where these names came from and what they reflect. This book disentangles the distinct cultural, religious, and historical naming practices and visual emblems in Canada’s First Nations, provinces, territories, municipalities, and federal lands. Starting with a discussion of Indigenous place knowledge and naming practices from several Indigenous and Inuit groups spanning the country, it foregrounds the breadth of possible ways to name places. Lauren Beck then illustrates the naming practices introduced by Europeans and how they misunderstood, mis-rendered, and appropriated Indigenous place names, while scrutinizing the histories of Columbian names, missionary names, and the secular and commemorative names of the last two centuries. She studies key symbols and emblems such as maps, flags, and coats of arms as visual equivalents of place names to show whose identities powerfully inform Canada’s place nomenclature. This book also documents the policies and authorities that have traditionally governed the creation and modification of names and examines case studies of institutions and communities who have changed their names to demonstrate pathways to change.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Knowing in Place -- A Brief History of Settler-Colonial Naming Practices in Canada -- Gender and Canada’s Place Names -- Indigenous Names in a Settler-Colonial Context -- Marginalized Groups and Canada’s Place Names -- How to Discuss and Change Names.
ISBN
9781988111391
Accession Number
P2023.01
Call Number
02.1 B39c
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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The Canadian mountain assessment : walking together to enhance the understanding of mountains in Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26222
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Calgary, AB : University of Calgary Press
Edition
2023
Call Number
04 M14c
Responsibility
Graham McDowell (Project Lead), Madison Stevens, Shawn Marshall [and 70 others]
Edition
2023
Publisher
Calgary, AB : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
xvii, 355 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), color maps ; 28 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountains
Ecology
Science
Indigenous People
Environment
Abstract
The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountains, as well as findings from an extensive assessment of pertinent academic literature. Its inclusive knowledge co-creation approach brings these multiple forms of evidence together in ways that enhance our collective understanding of mountains in Canada, while also respecting and maintaining the integrity of different knowledge systems. The Canadian Mountain Assessment is a text-based document, but also includes a variety of visual materials as well as access to video recordings of oral knowledges shared by Indigenous individuals from mountain areas in Canada. The assessment is the result of over three years of work, during which time the initiative played an important role in connecting and cultivating relationships between mountain knowledge holders from across Canada. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Mountain environments -- 3. Mountains as homelands -- 4. Gifts of the mountains -- 5. Mountains under pressure -- 6. Desirable mountain futures.
Notes
Staff member Dawn Saunders Dahl contributed to this publication.
2022-2023 Lillian Agnes Jones Scholarship Recipient, Kate Hanly contributed to this publication.
Publication utilized Whyte Museum Archives and Special Collections materials.
ISBN
9781773855097
Accession Number
P2024.01
Call Number
04 M14c
Collection
Archives Library
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Cascadia field guide : art, ecology, poetry

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26219
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Call Number
04 B73c
Responsibility
Edited by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, Derek Sheffield
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Poetry
Nature
Literature
Botany
Zoology
Writing
Abstract
A literary field guide of art, poetry, and natural history for 128 of the Beings that live in the thirteen biogregions that make up Cascadia, a region that ranges from southeast Alaska to northern California and from the Pacific coast to the Continental Divide"-- Provided by publisher."Through engaging natural history, poetry, and art, Cascadia Field Guide celebrates [more than 120 beings in the Cascadia region], exploring how they interconnect. It's a useful guide to understanding behavior, appearance, and adaptation, as well as an inspirational anthology - a book that embraces science, while appealing to the mind and heart. This is a guide to be savored and treasured, bringing an imaginative perspective to our "known" natural world"....Also featured is a diverse community of regional voices - more than 100 poets and writers, along with fourteen artists, who speak for, and with, the natural world: Colleen J. McElroy, Theodore Roethke, Rena Priest, David James Duncan, Claudia Castro Luna, Tess Gallgher, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Doyle, Chris Dombrowski, Kim Heacox, Claire Emery, Joe Feddersen, Raya Friday, and more. -- From interior
ISBN
9781680516227
Accession Number
P2024.01
Call Number
04 B73c
Collection
Archives Library
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Cataloguing culture : legacies of colonialism in museum documentation

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25523
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Turner, Hannah
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia
Call Number
00 T85c
Author
Turner, Hannah
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
xiii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Museums
Cataloguing
Colonialism
Inclusion
Abstract
How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying, and cataloguing--hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and tribal affiliations --much of it wrong. Cataloguing Culture examines how colonialism operates in museum bureaucracies. Using the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History as her reference, Hannah Turner organizes her study by the technologies framing museum work over 200 years: field records, the ledger, the card catalogue, the punch card, and eventually the database. She examines how categories were applied to ethnographic material culture and became routine throughout federal collecting institutions. As Indigenous communities encounter the documentary traces of imperialism while attempting to reclaim what is theirs, this timely work shines a light on access to and return of cultural heritage. -- Provided by publishe
Contents
Introduction: "The Making of Specimens Eloquent" ; Writing Desiderata: Defining Evidence in the Field ; On the Margins: Paper Systems of Classification ; Ordering Devices and Indian Files: Cataloguing Ethnographic Specimens ; Pragmatic Classification: The Routine Work of Description after 1950 ; Object, Specimen, Data: Computerization and the Legacy of Dirty Data ; Conclusion: A Museum Data Legacy for the Future
ISBN
9780774863933
Accession Number
P2022.04
Call Number
00 T85c
Collection
Archives Library
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