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The boreal herbal : wild food and medicine plants of the North
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26221
- 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.
- 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
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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
- 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
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- Archives Library
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Canadian law and indigenous self-determination : a naturalist analysis
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25724
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Christie, Gordon
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 C46c
- Author
- Christie, Gordon
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- vi, 440 pages ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority. Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination demonstrates how, over the last few decades, Canadian law has attempted to remove Indigenous sovereignty from the Canadian legal and social landscape. Adopting a naturalist analysis, Gordon Christie responds to questions about how to theorize this legal phenomenon, and how the study of law should accommodate the presence of diverse perspectives. Exploring the socially-constructed nature of Canadian law, Christie reveals how legal meaning, understood to be the outcome of a specific society, is being reworked to devalue the capacities of Indigenous societies. Addressing liberal positivism and critical postcolonial theory, Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination considers the way in which Canadian jurists, working within a world circumscribed by liberal thought, have deployed the law in such a way as to attempt to remove Indigenous meaning-generating capacity. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Setting the stage -- Canadian law and its puzzles -- Differing understandings and the way forward -- Remarks on theorizing and method -- Problems with theorizing about the law -- Liberal positivism and aboriginal rights -- Characterizing and defining 'existing' aboriginal rights -- The place of aboriginal rights in Canada -- Postcolonial theory and aboriginal law.
- ISBN
- 9781442628991
- Accession Number
- P2023.12
- Call Number
- 07.2 C46c
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The carbon cycle : crossing the Great Divide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26209
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Rawles, Kate
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 02.8 R21c
- Author
- Rawles, Kate
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 336 pages ; 15 cm
- Abstract
- In 2006 “outdoor philosopher” Kate Rawles cycled 4553 miles from Texas to Alaska, following the spine of the Rocky Mountains as closely as possible. Cycling across unforgiving but starkly beautiful landscapes in both the United States and Canada – deserts, high mountain passes, glaciers and eventually down to the sea – she encountered bears, wolves, moose, cliff-swallows, aspens and a single, astonishing lynx. Along the way, she talked to North Americans about climate change – from truck drivers to politicians – to find out what they knew about it, whether they cared, and if they did, what they thought they could do. Kate tells the story of a trip in which she has to deal with the rigours of cycling for ten hours a day in temperatures often in excess of 100° F, fighting punctures, endless repairs and inescapable, grinding fatigue … . But in recounting the physical struggle of such a journey, she also does constant battle with her own ideas and assumptions, helping us to cross the great divide between where we are on climate change and where we need to be. Can we tackle climate change while still keeping our modern Western lifestyles intact? Should we put biofuel in our camper vans and RVs? Or do we need much deeper shifts in lifestyles, values and worldviews? -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781927330777
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 02.8 R21c
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Common spiders of North America
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25514
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Bradley, Richard A.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press
- Call Number
- 04 B72c
- Author
- Bradley, Richard A.
- Responsibility
- Illustrations by Steve Buchanan
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- x, 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
- Subjects
- Spiders
- Arachnida
- North America
- Abstract
- Spiders are among the most diverse groups of terrestrial invertebrates, yet they are among the least studied and understood. This first comprehensive guide to all 68 spider families in North America beautifully illustrates 469 of the most commonly encountered species. Group keys enable identification by web type and other observable details, and species descriptions include identification tips, typical habitat, geographic distribution, and behavioral notes. A concise illustrated introduction to spider biology and anatomy explains spider relationships. This book is a critical resource for curious naturalists who want to understand this ubiquitous and ecologically critical component of our biosphere. -- from back cover
- ISBN
- 9780520315310
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 04 B72c
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Confessions of a ski bum : Kicking Horse Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25506
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Call Number
- 01 B23k
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 125 pages
- Series
- Confessions of a Ski Bum
- Abstract
- A modern backcountry ski guide for day trips in the Kicking Horse Pass area found at the border of Banff and Yoho National Parks. Includes detailed descriptions, directions, terrain photos and maps for everything from tree skiing to no fall glacier descents. -- from back cover
- Contents
- North Side
- Mount Bosworth Closure
- Bath Exit Valley
- Padget Peak
- Ogden South
- Ogden North
- South Side
- Great Divide Creek
- Narrao & Popes Peaks
- Cathedral
- Collier Peak
- Mount Victoria, North Summit
- ISBN
- 9780991748525
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 01 B23k
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Confessions of a ski bum : the Icefields Parkway Lake Louise to Bow Summit
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25505
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Call Number
- 01 B23i
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 251 pages
- Series
- Confessions of a Ski Bum
- Abstract
- A modern backcountry ski guide for the roadside areas found along The Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park. Includes detailed descriptions, directions, terrain photos and maps of hundreds of options from chill yoyo laps to committing, no fall, ski lines.-- from back cover
- Contents
- East Side ; Hector South Ridge ; Hector South Peak ; Mount Hector Roadside ; Hector Pass ; Noseeum Creek ; Mosquito Creek ; Helen Creek ; Helen Shoulder ; Crystal Ridge Roadside ; Crystal Ridge Backside ; Cirque Forepeak ; Observation Sub Peak ; Observation Peak ; The Pulpit Knobs ; Pulpit 1 Knob ; Pulpit 2 Knob ; Pulpit 3 Knob ; Pulpit 4 Knob ; Pulpit 5 Knob ; Pulpit 6 Knob ; Bow Peak Roadside ; Crowfoot Pass ; Bow Lakeside ; Ferris Glacier ; Wapta Icefield ; Mount Jimmy Jr. ; Bow Summit ; Day Traverses
- ISBN
- 9780991748518
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 01 B23i
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Discovering numbers : english, french, cree
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25490
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4o
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 17 cm
- Abstract
- Neepin Auger's books for children contain original, brightly coloured images and early-education concepts familiar to everyone. In addition to the English words presented, the French and Cree equivalents are also given, making these some of the most dynamic and useful board books on the market, perfectly suitable for the classroom, library and nursery.
- ISBN
- 9781771603317
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4o
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Discovering people : english, french, cree
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25491
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4b
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 17 cm
- Subjects
- Language
- French
- Cree
- Indigenous
- Abstract
- Introduces basic words in English, French, and Cree relating to familiar people at home and in the community
- ISBN
- 9781771603270
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4b
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Discovering words : english, french, cree
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25492
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4a
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 30 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 17 cm
- Abstract
- Neepin Auger's books for children contain original, brightly coloured images and early education level concepts familiar to everyone. Playful and bold, this dynamic series will educate and entertain preschoolers, parents, and teachers alike. In addition to the English words presented, the French and Cree equivalents are also given, making these some of the most dynamic and useful board books on the market, perfectly suitable for the classroom, library, and nursery.
- ISBN
- 9781771603294
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4a
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Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in museums
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25521
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Baltimore, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield
- Call Number
- 00 C67d
- Responsibility
- Edited by Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Laura L. Lott
- Publisher
- Baltimore, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 170 pages
- Series
- American Alliance of Museums
- Subjects
- Diversity
- Equity
- Accessibility
- Inclusion
- Museums
- Abstract
- Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in all aspects of museums’ structure and programming are top issues in the field today – and in the overall arts/culture sector. Much has been written, from various perspectives, over several decades. Yet, a lack of diversity remains and exclusive practices and inequities persist in all types of museums. A go-to resource for readers interested in learning about diversity and inclusion work in the field – past, present and future. This edited collection of the most important essays, speeches, and reports on these topics seeks to facilitate a much-needed intergenerational dialogue that builds on lessons from the past, broadens thinking about the many different facets of this complex work, and ignites inspiration for continuing to correct inequities across museums of all types, sizes, and locations. In this book compiled and edited by Dr. Johnnetta Betch Cole, who has served as both director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and as the president of both historically Black colleges for women in the United States, Spelman College and Bennett College (a distinction she alone holds) and Laura Lott, president and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums, (the first woman to the lead the organization), thought leaders in the museum field present their research, analysis and work to answer some of the most challenge questions facing the museum field. Why do these problems persist? How can a new generation of museum leaders champion change to better represent the communities that museums strive to serve and engage? What can we learn from those who have been observing, experiencing, and writing about these issues? -- From back cover
- Contents
- Flies in the Buttermilk: Museums, Diversity, and the Will to Change / Lonnie G. Bunch III ; Museums, Racism, and the Inclusiveness Chasm / Carlos Tortolero ; Museums, Diversity, and Social Value / Johnnetta Betsch Cole ; Women's Locker Room Talk: Gender and Leadership in Museums / Kaywin Feldman ; Twin Threats: How Ignorance and Instrumentality Create Inequality and Injustice / Darren Walker ; The Leadership Imperative: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion as Strategy / Laura L. Lott ; History That Promotes Understanding in a Diverse Society / Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko ; Pipeline Is a Verb: Field Notes on the Spelman College Curatorial Studies Pilot Program / Andrea Barnwell Brownlee ; Museums and ADA at 25: Progress and Looking Ahead / Beth Bienvenu ; Catalyzing Inclusion: Steps toward Sustainability in Museums / Natanya Khashan ; It's Time to Stop and Ask "Why" / Lisa Sasaki ; Much Has Been Taken, but All Is Not Lost: The Restorative Promise of First-Voice Representation / Eduardo Diaz ; No Longer Hiding in Plain Sight / William Underwood Eiland ; The National Museum of the American Indian: Whence the "Art Object"? / W. Richard West Jr. ; Disability and Innovation: The Universal Benefits of Inclusive Design / Haben Girma ; Maybe This Time: A Personal Journey toward Racial Equity in Museums / Elaine Heumann Gurian ; Museum Musings: Inclusion Then and Now / Celine Shellman
- ISBN
- 9781538118627
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 00 C67d
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Edible & medicinal plants of the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25518
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Kershaw, Linda
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Lone Pine Publishing and Partners Publishing
- Call Number
- 04.1 K47e 2016
- Author
- Kershaw, Linda
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Lone Pine Publishing and Partners Publishing
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 270 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Guidebooks
- Medicine
- Abstract
- Throughout human history, plants have provided us with food, clothing, medicine and shelter. The Rocky Mountains are home to a diversity of plant species that have helped First Nations peoples and settlers survive through the centuries. Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies describes 333 common trees, shrubs, flowers, ferns, mosses and lichens that have been used by people from ancient times to present. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Trees
- Shrubs
- Herbs
- Mosses & Lichens
- Poisonous Plants
- ISBN
- 9781772130188
- Accession Number
- 37000
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 04.1 K47e 2016
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Finding directions west : readings that locate and dislocate Western Canada's past
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25531
- 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
- 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
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Forgotten warriors
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25286
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2014 NFB
- 1997 film
- Author
- Todd, Loretta
- Publisher
- Canada : National Film Board of Canada
- Call Number
- 06.3 F48w DVD
1 website
- Author
- Todd, Loretta
- Responsibility
- Directed by Loretta Todd; written by Loretta Todd; produced by Carol Geddes, Michaeldoxtater, Jerry Kerepakavich
- Narrated by Gordon Tootoosis
- A National Film Board of Canada production
- Publisher
- Canada : National Film Board of Canada
- Published Date
- 2014 NFB
- 1997 film
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (51:05 min:sec) : sound, color
- Abstract
- Although they could not be conscripted, when World War II was declared, thousands of Canadian Indigenous men and women elisted and fought alongside their non-Indigenous countrymen. While they fought for freedom for others, ironically the Indigenous soldiers were not allowed equality in their own country. As a reward for fighting the Canadian Soldier Veteran's Settlement Act allowed returning soldiers to buy land at a cheap price. However, many of the Indigenous solders were never offered, nor told about the land entitlelement. Some returned home to find the government had seized parts of their own reserve land to compensate non-Indigenous war veterans. With narrator Gordon Tootoosis providing a historical review, Indigenous veterans poignantly share thier unforgettable war memories and their heailing process. We join them as they travel back to Europe to perform a sacred circle for friends left behind, but not forgotten,in foreign grave sites.
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- 2019-109
- Call Number
- 06.3 F48w DVD
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Honouring the strength of Indian women : plays, stories, poetry
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25710
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Manuel, Vera
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 M31h
- Author
- Manuel, Vera
- Responsibility
- Vera Manuel = Kulilu Pal ki, Edited by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene A. Manuel ; introduction by Emalene A. Manuel ; afterwords by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, and Joanne Arnott.
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xii, 391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous Art
- Indigenous Peoples
- Indigenous Traditions
- Women
- Ktunaxa
- Secwepemc
- Abstract
- This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact and devastating legacy of Canada's Indian residential schools, Vera Manuel wrote about it as part of her personal and community healing. She became a grassroots leader addressing the need to bring to light the stories of survivors, their journeys of healing, and the therapeutic value of writing and performing arts. A collaboration by four Indigenous writers and scholars steeped in values of Indigenous ethics and editing practices, the volume features Manuel's most famous play, "Strength of Indian Women"--First performed in 1992 and still one of the most important literary works to deal with the trauma of residential schools-along with an assemblage of plays, written between the late 1980s until Manuel's untimely passing in 2010, that were performed but never before published. The volume also includes three previously unpublished short stories written in 1988, poetry written over three decades in a variety of venues, and a 1987 college essay that draws on family and community interviews on the effects of residential schools. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction / Emalene A. Manuel -- Plays. Strength of Indian women -- Song of the circle -- Journey through the past to the future -- Echoes of our Mothers' past -- Every warrior's song -- Stories. That grey building -- Theresa -- The letter -- The abyss -- Poetry. The storm -- Woman without a tongue -- Ghosts & predators -- L.A. Obsession song -- Addictions -- Lies -- Life abuse of girls -- The woman I could be -- Fools -- Loneliness -- Abused mothers, wounded fathers -- Hunger -- The Catholic Church -- Deadly legacy -- Keeping Secrets -- Forgiveness -- When I first came to know myself -- When my sister & I dance -- The girl who could catch fish with her hands -- Two brothers -- La Guerra -- Keepers in the dark -- Inheritance -- For the child who knew -- Never ever tell -- Ottawa -- The truth about colonization -- Justice -- Beric -- Christmas inside of me -- Spring fever -- Megcenetkwe -- Dying -- Afterwords. Narrative acts of truth and reconciliation: teaching the healing plays of Vera Manuel / by Michelle Coupal -- Embedded teachings: Vera Manuel's recovered short stories / Deanna Reder -- "Through poetry a community is brought together": Vera Manuel's poetry, poetry activism, and poetics / Joanne Arnott -- Appendix. Indians and residential school: a study of the breakdown of a culture / Vera Manuel
- Notes
- The "l " in Vera Manuel's (Kulilu Pal ki's) name on the title page appears as the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for palatoalveolar click.
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- 9780887558368
- Accession Number
- 2023.09
- Call Number
- 07.2 M31h
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Horse woman : notes on living well & riding better
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25537
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- McLean, Lee
- Publisher
- Carstairs, Alberta : Red Barn Books
- Edition
- Deluxe Edition
- Call Number
- 02.8 M22h
- Author
- McLean, Lee
- Edition
- Deluxe Edition
- Publisher
- Carstairs, Alberta : Red Barn Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 207 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Horses
- Cowboys
- Animals
- Mental Health
- Abstract
- Lee McLean was born to ride ... and to write. In these pages, you will enter the world of a master horsewoman and ride with her through the seasons of the year, and the ages and stages of life. The stories come from a riding journal kept for over forty-five years, and the best of her Keystone Equine blogs. Distilled into one year, but made up of many, they reflect a life lived in the saddle. As much about human nature as about horses, this book will become a resource you turn to, again and again. It offers sound technical advice, paired with storytelling, humour and the gift of healing. -- From inside cover
- Contents
- Winter: Hope ; Spring: Wellness ; Summer: Learning ; Autumn: Reflection
- ISBN
- 9781999108779
- Accession Number
- 2022.14
- Call Number
- 02.8 M22h
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The Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, correspondence, and reports, 1806-1821
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25541
- 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
- Series
- Edmonton House Journals
- 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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Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, reports from the Saskatchewan district including the Bow River expedition, 1821-1826
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25542
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Calgary, A.B. : Historical Society of Alberta
- Call Number
- 08.2 B51e
- Responsibility
- Edited with an Introduction and Commentaries by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens
- Publisher
- Calgary, A.B. : Historical Society of Alberta
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 440 pages
- Abstract
- During the 1820s, Edmonton House re-emerged as the headquarters of a much larger Saskatchewan trading District of the Hudson's Bay Company. Its fur-gathering larger hinterland extended from the southern edges of the boreal forest near present-day Westlock, Alberta, south to the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, and from the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers west to the Rocky Mountains - in short, virtually all of what is now central and southern Alberta, and parts of Saskatchewan and Montana. [...] The Bow River Expedition, 1822-1823 Seeking to expand the fur trade more completely into what is now southern Alberta, and northern Montana, the Hudson's Bay Company dispatched an expedition of officers and men up the South Saskatchewan River in 1822, with excursions to the Red Deer, Bow, and Oldman Rivers. Through circumstances, such as hostilities by certain Aboriginal groups and the scarcity of timber, persuaded the Company not to build a permanent post during this time, the journal of the expedition contains a wealth of information about the land and the people living on it. --From back cover
- Contents
- Edmonton House Post Journals, 1821-26 ; Edmonton District Reports, 1823-24 ; Bow River Expedition Journal ; Bow River District Reports
- ISBN
- 9781553834380
- Accession Number
- P2022.08
- Call Number
- 08.2 B51e
- Collection
- Archives Library
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I^ethkai^ha^ yawabi = counting in Stoney
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25494
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Wesley, Natasha
- Wesley, Tanisha
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alta. : Durvile
- Call Number
- 05 W51i Reference copy 05 W51o copy 2
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- Author
- Wesley, Natasha
- Wesley, Tanisha
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alta. : Durvile
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 29 pages : color illustrations
- Subjects
- First Nations
- Stoney Nakoda
- Languages
- Animals
- Teachers
- Abstract
- This simple yet precious Îethkaîhâ book of numbers provides a beautiful narrative of counting. Author Natasha Wesley and her artist sister, Tanisha Wesley, portray the numbers 1 to 20 through their way of life. -- Back cover
- Notes
- The mentors and publishers of this series have supported the First Nations authors to share their stories under the guidance of traditional language speakers and Elders.
- ISBN
- 9781999294748
- Accession Number
- P2020.09
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 05 W51i Reference copy 05 W51o copy 2
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Treaty 7 Language Books via Calgary Public Library
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In this together : fifteen stories of truth & reconciliation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25657
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Victoria, B. C. : Brindle & Glass Publishing, an imprint of TouchWood Editions
- Call Number
- 07.2 M56i
- Responsibility
- Edited by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
- Publisher
- Victoria, B. C. : Brindle & Glass Publishing, an imprint of TouchWood Editions
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 215 pages ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- History
- Canada
- Abstract
- A collection of essays about reconciliation and anti-racism by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada.
- Contents
- Introduction / Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail; The importance of rivers / Carleigh Baker; Dropped, not thrown / Joanna Streetly; Drawing lines / Erika Luckert; Jawbreakers / Donna Kane; This many-storied land / Kamala Todd; The perfect tool / Zacharias Kunuk; To kill an Indian / Steven Cooper with Twyla Campbell; Two-step / Katherin Edwards; Echo / Carol Shaben; Mother tongues / Katherine Palmer Gordon; White Aboriginal woman / Rhonda Kronyk; Colonialism lived / Emma Larocque; Marking the page / Lorri Neilsen Glenn; Lost fires still burn / Carissa Halton; From Aha to AHO! / Antione Mountain; A conversation between Shelagh Rogers and the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair.
- ISBN
- 9781927366448
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 07.2 M56i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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