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Iroquois in the west
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25488
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Barman, Jean
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 B23i
- Author
- Barman, Jean
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xv, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Fur trade
- Indigenous
- colonialism
- Travel
- Abstract
- Iroquois principally from Caughnawaga, today's Kahnawa`:ke, were recruited now two centuries ago on a par with Whites to man the large canoes taking trade goods west from nearby Montreal, coming back with animal pelts. While some soon returned home, others stuck with the fur trade, yet others made their lives across the west so far as possible on their own terms. Their stories speak to Indigenous self-determination and self-sufficiency. The book tracks four Iroquois clusters or bands across time, place, and generations. Set down among Montana Flatheads, Iroquois responded to their host's desire for the Catholicism they brought with them from Quebec by four expeditions to St. Louis in search of a Jesuit missionary, who no sooner arrived than lost interest, leaving Iroquois once again to mentor their hosts. The fur trade's economic imbalance impelled a second group, whose words quite remarkably survive as they were spoken, to overturn the status quo to the advantage of employees, they themselves engaging the American west. A third group opted for the Pacific Northwest fur trade, those doing so on the American side of a border put in place in 1846 discovering their long service mattered for naught when they sought to settle among their White counterparts, those in British territory faring somewhat better. Repeatedly lauded in travelers' accounts, a fourth cluster was displaced on their homeland becoming Jasper National Park, again on their new locale an Alberta boom town, yet still today self-identify as Iroquois.
- Contents
- Self-determining their lives ; Heading West, maybe forever, maybe not ; Bringing Catholicism to the Flatheads ; Challenging a fur monopoly ; Committing to the Pacific Northwest ; Disappearing into a changing Pacific Northwest ; Becoming Jasper Iroquois ; Persisting in Jasper's shadow
- ISBN
- 9780773556256
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 B23i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Tides : a climber's voyage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25737
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- Sheffield : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- 02.8 T87t
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- Sheffield : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- viii, 246 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Tides, the award-winning follow-up to Nick Bullock's critically acclaimed debut book Echoes, is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one's life to climbing.
- ISBN
- 9781911342533
- Accession Number
- P2023.19
- Call Number
- 02.8 T87t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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No map could show them
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25489
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Mort, Helen
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus
- Call Number
- 05.1 M84n
- Author
- Mort, Helen
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 70 pages ; 22 cm
- Abstract
- A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2016. 'When we climb alone en cordee feminine, we are magicians of the Alps - we make the routes we follow disappear'. The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale and the distances we run, the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves. Here are odes to the women who dared to break new ground - from Miss Jemima Morrell, a young Victorian woman from Yorkshire who hiked the Swiss Peaks in her skirts and petticoats, to the modern British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2. Distinctive and courageous, these are poems of passion and precipices, of edges and extremes. No Map Could Show Them confirms Helen Mort's position as one of the finest young poets at work today.
- Contents
- An Easy Day for a Lady ; How to Dress ; Miss Jemima's Swiss Journal ; Ode to Bob ; Height ; The Fear ; Scale ; Beryl the Peril ; My Diet ; Difficult ; The Old Dungeon Ghyll ; Hill ; Black Rocks ; Descent ; Prayer ; Kiss ; Solo ; Nordwand ; Home ; At Night ; Above Cromford ; Route ; Dear Alison ; Engineer ; Lethal Roy ; Bloodhound ; Skirt ; Rachel in Attercliffe ; King's Cross ; Ink ; What Will Happen ; Ablation ; Hathersage ; Kalymnos ; Loutro ; Alport Castles ; Eagle Owl ; Royal Mile ; Kinder Scout ; Murmuration ; Big Lil ; Lil's dream ; What the papers said ; Lil's answer ; Lil's last word ; Tom Hulatt's Mile ; Heinrich Harrer's Motorbike ; How Much Can You Carry? ; Everest ; Oxygen ; Beck Weathers ; Sherpa ; Lene Gamelgaard ; First ; Rope
- ISBN
- 9781784740641
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 05.1 M84n
- Collection
- Archives Library
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