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New studies of Canadian folklore

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1904
Author
Beaugrand, H.
Publisher
Montreal : E. M. Renouf
Call Number
08.1 B38n
Author
Beaugrand, H.
Responsibility
Illustrations by Raoul Barrett
Publisher
Montreal : E. M. Renouf
Published Date
1904
Physical Description
130 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Folklore
Canada
Storytelling
Colonialism
Contents
The Goblin Lore of French Canada ; Macloune ; Indian Picture and Symbol Writing ; Legend of the North Pacific
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
08.1 B38n
Collection
Archives Library
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The rise of American civilization : Volume One

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1930
Author
Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
Publisher
New York : The MacMillan Company
Call Number
08 B38t
Author
Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
Responsibility
Decorations by Wilfred Jones
Publisher
New York : The MacMillan Company
Published Date
1930
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
American
American Civil War
History
Colonialism
War
Politics
Contents
I. England's Colonial Secret ; II. Laying the Structural Base of the Thirteen Colonies ; III. The Growth of Economic and Poltical Power ; IV. Provincial America ; V. The Clash of Metropolis and Colony ; VI. Independence and Civil Conflict ; VII. Populism and Reaction ; VIII. The Rise of National Parties ; IX. Agricultural Imperialism and the Balance of Power ; X. The The Young Republic ; XI. New Agricultural States ; XII. Jacksonian Democracy -- A Triumphant Farmer-Labor Party ; XIII. Westward to the Pacific ; XIV. The Sweep of Economic Forces ; XV. The Politics of the Economic Drift ; XVI. Democracy: Romantic and Realistic
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
08 B38t
Collection
Archives Library
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The golden grindstone : the adventures of George M. Mitchell

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1935
Publisher
Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
Call Number
08.2 G76g
Responsibility
Recorded by Angus Graham
Publisher
Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
Published Date
1935
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Exploration
Pioneer life
Travel
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Colonialism
Contents
I. The general idea -- II. The geographical problem -- III. The immigrant train -- IV. Edmonton -- V. Athbasca landing -- VI. The Athabasca River -- VII. Grand rapids -- VIII. The Slave River -- IX. Great Slave Lake -- X. Fort Simpson -- XI. The Mackenzie River -- XII. Fort McPherson --XIII. The Eskimo -- XIV. The first traffic with the Indians -- XV. The Peel River -- The upper Peel River and the valley of noises -- XVII. Gold -- XVIII. The winter camp -- XIX. Prospecting and exploration -- XX. Bears and wolves -- XXI. The winter night -- XXII. The Indians' visit -- XXIII. Dogs -- XXIV. The broken knee -- XXV. The last of the white men -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVII. Caribou -- XXVIII. The old lady -- XXIX. Famine and riot -- XXX. Mitchell becomes an Indian -- XXXI. An Indian "Veillee" -- XXXII. Women -- XXXIII. The closest shave of all -- XXXIV. The skin boats -- XXXV. Summer hunting -- XXXVI. Mitchell remains an Indian -- XXXVII. The last of the Indians.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
08.2 G76g
Collection
Archives Library
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The indians of Canada : their manners and customs

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1970
Author
McLean, John
Publisher
Toronto : Coles Publishing Company
Call Number
07.2 M22 1970
Author
McLean, John
Publisher
Toronto : Coles Publishing Company
Published Date
1970
Physical Description
351pages : ill., port
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Traditions
Colonialism
Accession Number
2022.17
Call Number
07.2 M22 1970
Collection
Archives Library
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Finding directions west : readings that locate and dislocate Western Canada's past

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
07.2 c71f
Responsibility
Edited by George Colpitts and Heather Devine
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
ix, 266 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
History-Canada
History of Alberta
Migration
Colonialism
Feminism
Banff Centre
Women's Rights
Abstract
Western Canada has figured historically as a focus point for new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys of both a substantial and transcendental nature. The essays in Finding Directions West interrogate the meaning of those journeys, their reality, their memory, and their constructed identities within Western Canada itself. The book situates landscapes and peopled places in the West within the larger study of Western Canada and its transborder relationships. It draws scholars from a vareity of disciplines within history, from gender studies, to museum studies, to environmental history, in order to examine afresh Western Canada as a place for finding new directions in the human experience. -- From back cover
Contents
Partial List of Contents: Colonizer or Compatriot?: A Reassessment of Reveren John McDougall / Will Pratt ; "The Country Was Looking Wonderful": Insights on 1930s Alberta from the Travel Diary of Mary Beatrice Rundle / Sterling Evans ; Mountain Capitalists, Space, and Modernity at the Banff School of Fine Arts / PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall
ISBN
9781552388808
Accession Number
P2021.05
Call Number
07.2 c71f
Collection
Archives Library
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The Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, correspondence, and reports, 1806-1821

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta
Call Number
08.2 B51t
Responsibility
Edited with an introduction by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
530 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Edmonton House Journals
Subjects
Hudson's Bay Company
Politics
Colonialism
History-Canada
History of Alberta
Indigenous
Abstract
In 1795 the Hudson's Bay Company established Edmonton House and the North West Company Fort Augustus a few kilometres downstream from the present day city of Edmonton. Although both posts were moved several times, they operated side by side as the major administrative, trade, and provisioning centres on the North Saskatchewan River from 1795 to 1821, when the companies merged. The post journals and district reports from Edmonton House for the period from 1806 to 1821 are reproduced verbatim in this volume. Long available only to researchers with access to the collections of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, these journals and district reports provide a detailed day-by-day account of the operations of Edmonton House during this crucial period. They provide direct insight into the Aboriginal, social, and economic history of the region, and new information on the foundation of the Red River settlement adn the struggle for control of the trade in the Athabasca region. -- From back cover
Contents
Edmonton House Post Journals, 1806-1921 ; District Reports, 1816-1821
ISBN
9780929123202
Accession Number
P2022.08
Call Number
08.2 B51t
Collection
Archives Library
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Talking back to the indian act : critical readings in settler colonial histories

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Kelm, Mary-Ellen and Smith, Keith D.
Publisher
Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 K27t
Author
Kelm, Mary-Ellen and Smith, Keith D.
Publisher
Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
218 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Politics
Legislation
Colonialism
Abstract
Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive "how-to" guide for engaging with historical evidence. The book helps readers develop the skills necessary for conversing with primary sources in refined and profound ways. As a piece of legislation that is central to Canada's relationship with Indigenous peoples and communities, the Indian Act is uniquely positioned to act as a vehicle for this kind of focused reading. Through an analysis of over thirty documents addressing governance, gender, enfranchisement, and land, the authors provide a deep understanding of this pivotal piece of legislation, as well as insight into the dynamics incolved in its creation and maintenance. The book includes a timeline, maps, and images. -- From back cover
ISBN
9781487587352
Accession Number
P2021.04
Call Number
07.2 K27t
Collection
Archives Library
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Words have a past : the English language, colonialism, and the newspapers of Indian boarding schools

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Griffith, Jane
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 G87w
Author
Griffith, Jane
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Peoples
Colonialism
Schools
Newspapers
Language
Abstract
For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled narratives there also existed sites of resistance. This book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth-century to the present day, post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Bury the lede: introduction -- Printer's devil: the trade of newspapers -- Indigenous languages did not disappear: English language instruction -- "Getting Indian words": representations of indigenous languages -- Ahead by a century: time on paper -- Anachronishm: reading the nineteenth century today -- Layout: space, place, and land -- Concluding thoughts.
ISBN
9781487521554
Accession Number
P2023.12
Call Number
07.2 G87w
Collection
Archives Library
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Picturing indians : native Americans in film, 1941-1960

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Black, Liza
Publisher
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska
Call Number
07.2 B57p
Author
Black, Liza
Publisher
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xxi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Film making
History
Colonialism
Abstract
Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post-World War II American films and production studios, which cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face-to-face with mainstream representations of "Indianness." -- From by publisher
Contents
"Just Like a Snake You'll Be Crawling in Your Own Shit": American Indians and White Narcissism ; "Indians Agree to Perform and Act as Directed": Urban Indian (and Non-Indian) Actors ; "Not Desired by You for Photographing": The Labor of American Indian (and Non-Indian) Extras ; "White May Be More Than Skin Deep": Whites in Redface ; "A Bit Thick": The Transformation of Indians into Movie Indians ; "Dig Up a Good Indian Historian": The Search for Authenticity
ISBN
9780803296800
Accession Number
P2022.02
Call Number
07.2 B57p
Collection
Archives Library
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Brotherhood to nationhood : George Manuel and the making of the modern indian movement

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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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Authorized heritage : place, memory, and historic sites prairie Canada

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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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Museums as agents of change : a guide to becoming a changemaker

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Murawski, Mike
Publisher
Laham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield
Call Number
00 M94m
Author
Murawski, Mike
Publisher
Laham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
132 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
American Alliance of Museums
Subjects
Museums
Community Engagement
Diversity
Inclusion
Colonialism
Abstract
Museums everywhere have the potential to serve as agents of change—bringing people together, contributing to local communities, and changing people’s lives. So how can we, as individuals, radically expand the work of museums to live up to this potential? How can we more fiercely recognize the meaningful work that museums are doing to enact change around the relevant issues in our communities? How can we work together to build a stronger culture of equity and care within museums ? Questions like these are increasingly vital for all museum professionals to consider, no matter what your role is within your institution. They are also important questions for all of us to be thinking about more deeply as citizens and community members. This book is about the work we need to do to become changemakers and demand that that our museums take action toward positive social change and bring people together into a more just, equitable, compassionate, and connected society. It is a journey toward tapping the energies within all of us to make change happen and proactively shape a new future. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Museums Are Us ; Let Your Community In ; Community at the Core: A Conversation with Nina Simon ; Interrupting White Dominant Culture in Museums ; Museums Are Not Neutral: A Conversation with La Tanya S. Autry ; Leading toward a Different Future ; Building a New Model: A Conversation with Lori Fogarty ; Collaborative Leadership That Works: A Conversation with Lauren Ruffin, Molly Alloy, and Nathanael Andreini ; Care and Healing ; Let's Talk about Community Care: A Conversation with Monica Montgomery ; Propelled by Love
ISBN
9781538108949
Accession Number
P2022.02
Call Number
00 M94m
Location
Reading Room
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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Adjusting the lens : Indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage

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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 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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Ancestors : indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs

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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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Royally wronged : the Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Call Number
08.1 B12r
Responsibility
Edited by Constance Backhouse, Cynthia E. Milton, Margaret Kovach, and Adele Perry
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xvii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Royal Society of Canada
Indigenous
Canada
History
Colonialism
Abstract
The Royal Society of Canada's mandate is to elect to its membership scholars in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences, lending its seal of excellence to those who advance artistic and intellectual knowledge in Canada. Duncan Campbell Scott, one of the architects of the Indian residential school system in Canada, served as the society's president and dominated its activities; many other members - historically overwhelmingly white men - helped shape knowledge systems rooted in colonialism that have proven catastrophic for Indigenous communities. Written primarily by current Royal Society of Canada members, these essays explore the historical contribution of the RSC and of Canadian scholars to the production of ideas and policies that shored up white settler privilege, underpinning the disastrous interaction between Indigenous peoples and white settlers. Historical essays focus on the period from the RSC's founding in 1882 to the mid-twentiethcentury; later chapters bring the discussion to the present, documenting the first steps taken to change damaging patterns and challenging the society and Canadian scholars to make substantial strides toward a better future. The highly educated in Canadian society were not just bystanders: they deployed their knowledge and skills to abet colonialism. Royally Wronged dives deep into the RSC's history to learn why academia has more often been an aid to colonialism than a force against it, posing difficult questions about what is required to move meaningfully toward reconciliation.
Contents
Foreword / Cindy Blackstock ; Introduction: the Royal Society of Canada and the marginalization of Indigenous knowledge / Constance Backhouse and Cynthia E. Milton ; Rather of promise than of performance: tracing networks of knowledge and power through the Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1882-1922 / Ian Wereley ; Duncan Campbell Scott and the Royal Society of Canada: the legitimation of knowledge / Constance Backhouse ; "Perhaps the white man's God has willed it so": reconsidering the "Indian" poems of Pauline Johnson and Duncan Campbell Scott / Carole Gerson ; "Sooner or later they will be given the privelage [sic] asked for": Duncan Campbell Scott and the dispossession of Shoal Lake 40, 1913-14 / Adele Perry ; Three fellows in Mi'kma'ki: the power of the avocational / John G. Reid ; "Not a little disappointment": forging postcolonial academies from emulation and exclusion / Cynthia E. Milton ; Nostra culpa? Reflections on "The Indian in Canadian Historical Writing" / James W. St G. Walker ; Forensic anthropology and archaeology as tools for reconciliation in investigations into unmarked graves at Indian residential schools / Katherine L. Nichols, Eldon Yellowhorn, Deanna Reder, Emily Holland, Dongya Yang, John Albanese, Darian Kennedy, Elton Taylor, and Hugo F.V. Cardoso ; Confronting "Cognitive Imperialism": what reconstituting a contracts law school course is teaching me about law / Jane Bailey ; Murder they wrote: unknown knowns and Windsor Law's statement regarding R. v. Stanley / Reem Bahdi ; History in the public interest: teaching decolonization through the RSC Archive / Jennifer Evans, Meagan Breault, Ellis Buschek, Brittany Long, Sabrina Schoch, and David Siebert ; Cause and effect: the invisible barriers of the Royal Society of Canada / Joanna R. Quinn ; Memorandum to the Royal Society of Canada (2019) / Marie Battiste and James Sákéj Youngblood Henderson, endorsed / John Borrows, Margaret Kovach, Kiera Ladner, Vianne Timmons, and Jacqueline Ottmann ; Golden Eagle Rising: a conversation on Indigenous knowledge and the Royal Society of Canada / Shain Jackson and Cynthia E. Milton ; Afterword: closing circle words / Margaret Kovach
ISBN
9780228009115
Accession Number
P2022.13
Call Number
08.1 B12r
Collection
Archives Library
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Inhabited : wildness and the vitality of the land

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Phillip Vannini and April Vannini
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Call Number
04 V33i
Author
Phillip Vannini and April Vannini
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
UNESCO
Environement
Anthropology
Natural Heritage
Colonialism
Indigenous
Abstract
People are key elements of wild places. At the same time, human entanglements with wild ecologies involve extractivism, the growth of resource-based economies, and imperial-colonial expansion, activities that are wreaking havoc on our planet. Through an ethnographic exploration of Canada's ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. As we are introduced to local inhabitants and their perspectives, Phillip Vannini and April Vannini ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the received meaning of wild, challenging us to reimagine wildness as relational and rooted in vitality. Over the three years they spent in and around these sites, they learned from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples about their entanglements with each other and with non-human animals, rocks, plants, trees, sky, water, and spirits. The stories, actions, and experiences they encountered challenge conventional narratives of wild places as uninhabited by people and disconnected from culture and society. While it might be tempting to dismiss the idea of wildness as outdated in the Anthropocene era, Inhabited suggests that rethinking wildness suggests a better - if messier - way forward. Part geography and anthropology, part environmental and cultural studies, and part politics and ecology, Inhabited balances a genuine love of nature's vitality with a culturally responsible understanding of its interconnectedness with more-than-human ways of life.-- Provided by publisher
Contents
Vitality and Relationality ;Ecological Heritage ; Interlude: Fog ; Entanglement ; Intensity ; Inhabitation ; Interlude: Bear Spray ; Atmosphere ; Interlude: The Lonsome Loon ; Exhaustion ; Interlude : NOT Alone ; Aliveness ; Sacred Ways of Life
ISBN
9780228008965
Accession Number
P2022.13
Call Number
04 V33i
Collection
Archives Library
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Stampede : misogyny, white supremacy, and settler colonialism

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Williams, Kimberly A.
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Call Number
08.2 W67s
Author
Williams, Kimberly A.
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
ix, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Calgary
Calgary Exhibition and Stampede
Colonialism
Feminism
Human Trafficking
Women's Rights
Abstract
The annual Calgary Stampede, Canada's largest Western heritage festival, and the City of Calgary's premier tourist attraction, is generally considered universally beneficial to the city and, by extension, those who live here. But development studies scholars have increasingly pointed to tourism as a key catalyst of the global sex industry, and scholars working in the area of critical tourism studies have demonstrated that the festival atmosphere generated around events like the Calgary Stampede often contributes to the reification of the exploitative ideologies that undergird rape culture, thus dramatically increasing rates of gender-based sexualized violence. Neither of these perspectives have yet been considered with regard to the Calgary Stampede--despite the fact that this annual event is infamous, too, for its seedy underside: each year, local media outlets report the increased rates of sexually transmitted infections, divorces, pregnancies, sexual harassment, and sexual assaults, and prostitution busts during and in the weeks immediately following the annual Stampede. Not surprisingly, these problems have been normalized in a city that is consistently ranked by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives as among the worst urban areas in Canada to be a woman--even without explicitly considering the role of the Calgary Stampede. Additionally, this appallingly low ranking does not take into account differential experiences among women in Calgary based on skin colour, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristics usually considered in an intersectional analysis. The absence of such an analysis is particularly troubling because Calgary, one of Canada's most prosperous and fastest-growing cities, 2 is located at the heart of the Blackfoot Confederacy, in the territory ceded in 1877's Treaty 7 between the British Crown and the five First Nations of Southern Alberta. Not only, then, is there no consideration of the particular social and economic precarity of Southern Alberta's Indigenous women, already vulnerable as a consequence of centuries' worth of ongoing colonial projects (including, I contend, the Calgary Stampede), there has been little concern among municipal policy makers for addressing the roots of the widespread gender-based problems that plague our city. And there has been no scholarly consideration of the Calgary Stampede's role in either creating or sustaining them. My book, Selling Sex: Gender Matters at the Calgary Stampede, will address these gaps by turning an intersectional feminist lens on the gendered, racialized dynamics of the contemporary Calgary Stampede. This analysis forces a reckoning with the long-standing assumption that the Calgary Stampede is a family-friendly event, universally beneficial to all Calgarians. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. What the F*ck? -- Feminist Questions -- Structure and Argument -- So What? -- Note -- 2. Petro-Cowboys and the Frontier Myth -- Settler Colonialism -- Stampede or Else -- Men and Masculinities -- Greatest Together -- Truck Nuts and Petro-Cowboys -- Note -- 3. Who's G reatest Together? -- Method and Approach -- The 2012 Parade -- Making Whiteness Visible -- Allowably Indigenous -- Performing and Prescribing Gender -- Settler Colonial Lessons -- 4. Colonial Redux: The Calgary Stampede's "Imaginary Indians" -- Context and Companions -- Arguments -- A Caveat: I'm Human -- Elbow River Camp -- A Miniature Reserve -- The Calgary Stampede's Very Own Indian Princess -- Who's Listening? -- Notes -- 5. Sexcapades and Stampede Queens -- Gender Matters -- Stampede Effects -- Consent -- Misogyny + Racism = MMIWG -- 6. Conclusion: Now What? -- Note.
ISBN
9781773632056
Accession Number
P2023.02
Call Number
08.2 W67s
Location
Reading Room
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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Cataloguing culture : legacies of colonialism in museum documentation

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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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