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Howdy, I'm John Ware : and this is the story of my cowboy life

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25246
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Clough, Ayesha
Rookwood, Hugh
Publisher
Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
Call Number
08.1 C62h
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Author
Clough, Ayesha
Rookwood, Hugh
Responsibility
Ayesha Clough (author)
Hugh Rookwood (illustrator)
Publisher
Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
39 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, colour maps, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History-Canada
Canada
Racism
Cowboys
Ranching
Horses
Biography
Abstract
Howdy, I’m John Ware is a children's book about Canada's legendary Black cowboy. The story, ideal for ages 6-12, brings the real-life legend to a new generation of kids. Despite experiencing enslavement, war and discrimination, this gifted horseman blazed a trail of kindness, becoming one of Alberta’s most loved and respected pioneer ranchers. (From publisher's website)
ISBN
9781999108786
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08.1 C62h
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
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No surrender : the land remains Indigenous

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25009
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Krasowski, Sheldon
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press
Call Number
07.2 K85t
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Author
Krasowski, Sheldon
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
xviii, 368 pages : illustrations, map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Canada
Land use
Landscapes
Abstract
Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners and Indigenous chiefs, but newly uncovered eyewitness accounts show that the Canadian government had a strategic plan to deceive over the "surrender clause" and land sharing. According to Sheldon Krasowski's research, Canada understood that the Cree, Anishnabeg, Saulteaux, Assiniboine, Siksika, Piikani, Kainaa, Stoney and Tsuu T'ina nations wanted to share the land with newcomers--with conditions--but were misled over governance, reserved lands, and resource sharing. Exposing the government chicanery at the heart of the negotiations, No Surrender demonstrates that the land remains Indigenous. (from U of R Press website)
Contents
The numbered treaties in historical context : "Our dream is that one day our peoples will be clearly recognized as nations" -- Treaties One and Two and the outside promise : "The loyalty which costs nothing is worth nothing" -- Treaty Three : The North-West Angle Treaty : "I take off my glove to give you my hand to sign the treaty" -- Treaties Four and Five : the Fort Qu'Appelle and Lake Winnipeg treaties, 1874 and 1875 : "The Treaties should be Canada's Magna Carta" -- Treaty Six : the Treaty of Forts Carlton and Pitt : "I want to hold the treaty we made with the Queen" -- Treaty Seven : the Blackfoot Crossing treaty : "The great spirit and not the great mother gave us this land" -- As long as the sun shines : "An everlasting grasp of her [the Queen's] hand."
ISBN
9780889776067
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
07.2 K85t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Summary on University of Regina Press website
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Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Indigenous life

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25209
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Daschuk, James W.
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Edition
New edition
Call Number
08.1 D26c
  1 website  
Author
Daschuk, James W.
Responsibility
James W. Daschuk
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
xxxvi, 362 pages : illustrations, maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Health
First Nations
Canada
Government
Abstract
Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream. " It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, an opening by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and explanations of the book’s influence by leading Canadian historians. Called “one of the most important books of the twenty-first century” by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a “Book of the Year” by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers’ Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others. (From University of Regina Press website)
Contents
Bozhoo Indinawemaganidog : An Invitation to All Our Relations by Niigaan James Sinclair
Foreward by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Introduction to the 2019 Edition
Introduction to the 2013 Edition
Chapter 1 - Indigenous Health, Environment and Disease Before Europeans
Chapter 2 - The Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease
Chapter 3 - Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740-82
Chapter 4 - Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars, 1783-1821
Chapter 5 - Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821-69
Chapter 6 - Canada, the Northwest and the Treaty Period, 1869-76
Chapter 7 - Treaties, Famine and the Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877-82
Chapter 8 - Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883-85
Chapter 9 - The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886-91
Conclusion
ISBN
9780889776227
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08.1 D26c
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
University of Regina Press website
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They call me George : the untold story of black train porters and the birth of modern Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25243
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Foster, Cecil
Publisher
Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
Edition
First, revised
Call Number
08.1 F81t
  1 website  
Author
Foster, Cecil
Responsibility
Cecil Foster
Edition
First, revised
Publisher
Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
296 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Railways
Labour
Racism
Canada
History
Travel
Transportation
Abstract
Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards—a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense—the so-called Pullmen of the country’s rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today. Drawing on the experiences of these influential black Canadians, Cecil Foster’s They Call Me George demonstrates the power of individuals and minority groups in the fight for social justice and shows how a country can change for the better. (From publisher's website)
ISBN
9781771962612
Accession Number
P2020.7
Call Number
08.1 F81t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
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21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act : Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25007
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Joseph, Bob
Publisher
Port Coquitlam : Indigeneous Relations Press
Call Number
08.1 J77t
  1 website  
Author
Joseph, Bob
Publisher
Port Coquitlam : Indigeneous Relations Press
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
189 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
First Nations
Politics
Abstract
Since its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has dictated and constrained the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Peoples, and is at the root of many enduring stereotypes. Bob Joseph's book comes at a key time in the reconciliation process, when awareness from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities is at a crescendo. Joseph examines how Indigenous Peoples can return to self-government, self-determination, and self-reliance--and why doing so would result in a better country for every Canadian. He dissects the complex issues around the Indian Act, and demonstrates why learning about its cruel and irrevocable legacy is vital for the country to move toward true reconciliation
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Indian Act
Part 1 - Dark Chapter
The Beginning
Resistance is Futile
Tightening Control
"They rose against us"
And Its Days Are Numbered
Part 2 - Dismantling the Indian Act
If Not the Indian Act, Then What?
Looking Forward to a Better Canada
Appendix 1 - Terminology
Appendix 2 - Indian Residential Schools: A Chronology
Appendix 3 - Truth and Reconciliation Commision of Canada: Calls to Action
Appendix 4 - Classroom Activities, Discussion Guide, and Additional Reading
Appendix 5 - Quotes from John A. Macdonald and Duncan Campbell Scott
Notes
Index
ISBN
9780995266520
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
08.1 J77t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Associated blog post and link to order book
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Dining with Canadian Railways : Volume I - Canadian Pacific chinaware

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19845
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Smith, Will
Publisher
[Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
Call Number
08.5 Sm5d
  1 website  
Author
Smith, Will
Responsibility
Will Smith
Publisher
[Nanaimo, British Columbia], Canada : David William (Will) Smith and Ralph Beaumont
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
[248 pages] : illustrations (some colour), map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Railways
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
Restaurants
Travel
Canada
Industry
History
History-Canada
Hotels
Abstract
Pertains to the chinaware used by the Canadian Pacific Railway on affiliated trains, steamships, hotels, restaurants, airlines with focus on history and specific patterns used on ceramics
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Scope and arrangement of book
Chapter 2 - Research sources
Chapter 3 - Railway
Chapter 4 - Steamships
Chapter 5 - Hotels, resorts and restaurants
Chapter 6 - Airline
Chapter 7 - The evolution of CPR's chinaware logos
Chapter 8 - The scope of chinaware and its movement withing CPR's operations
Chapter 9 - Where did al that chinaware go?
Chapter 10 - Souvenir chinaware
Chapter 11 - Fakes and reproductions
Chapter 12 - Market value
Chapter 13 - Interpreting the individual pattern listing
Chapter 14 - Railway, steamship, hotel and restaurant patterns
Chapter 15 - Affiliated Dominion Atlantic & Quebec Central patterns
Chapter 16 - Airline patterns
Appendix A - Manufacturers and their abbreviation codes
Appendix B - Patterns by manufacturer
Appendix C - Patterns by decade of introduction
Appendix D - Patterns by CPR operations
Appendix E - Hotels, resorts, bungalow camps and rest/tea houses by province
Appendix F - Railway station restaurants by province: 1892, 1907, 1920 & 1956
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
ISBN
9781999382100
Accession Number
2019.27
Call Number
08.5 Sm5d
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Credit Valley Railway Company Ltd. distributes publication
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Photography in Canada 1960-2000

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24959
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Canadian Photography Institute
Publisher
Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Photography Insitute : National Gallery of Canada
Call Number
06.4 C16ph
  1 website  
Author
Canadian Photography Institute
Responsibility
Andrea Kunard
National Gallery of Canada
Publisher
Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Photography Insitute : National Gallery of Canada
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
175 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
Canada - After 1914
Canadian art
Photography
Exhibition catalogue
Exhibitions
Collection
Abstract
This fifth and final volume in the series dedicated to the National Gallery of Canada's immense photography collection documents the emergence of the medium as a recognized artistic discipline in Canada. The creation and growth of this unique collection reflects the enormous development in the practice, collection and display of photography over the latter half of the 20th century. Prior to this time, government institutions, commercial establishments and the legal, medical and journalism professions prized it for its documentary value. As a result, photographs rarely entered the collections of major institutions. This changed in the 1960s when art became more vigorous and dynamic. Photography especially articulated probing, contentious ideas of art, the artist, identity, sexuality and community. Art institutions, themselves undergoing radical transformation, acted as an interface between artist and public, and attempted to articulate movements and trends in art and photography. With dozens of full-page plates each accompanied by an individual abstract, the publication offers a scholarly essay providing artistic, cultural and historical context. Artists featured include those at the forefront of the changes in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as more contemporary figures who continue to push at the limits of the definition of the medium. They include Roy Arden, Raymonde April, Ed Burtnysky, Carol Conde´ and Karl Beveridge, Evergon, General Idea, Rodney Graham, Angela Grauerholz, Geoffrey James, Suzy Lake, Ken Lum, Gabor Szilasi, N.E. Thing Co, Ian Wallace and Jin-me Yoon.
Contents
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Photography in Canada, 1960-2000: a selection from the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and National Gallery of Canada Collections -- Catalogue -- Note.
Notes
Features photographs by Jin-me Yoon taken in Banff National Park
Features photographs by Edward Burtynsky - Whyte Museum has Burtynsky's in art collection
ISBN
9780888849489
Accession Number
2019.95
Call Number
06.4 C16ph
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
National Gallery of Canada website for publication
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That never happened : Canada's first national internment operations

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25003
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
2017
Author
Boyko, Ryan
Cofini, Diana
Publisher
Orangeville, ON : McIntyre Media
Call Number
08.1 B63t DVD
  1 website  
Author
Boyko, Ryan
Cofini, Diana
Publisher
Orangeville, ON : McIntyre Media
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, colour and black and white
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Canada
World War I
World War, 1914-1918
World Wars
Internment Camps
Film making
Films
Abstract
Follows the story of Canada's first national internment operations between 1914 and 1920, when over 88,000 people were forced to register and more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in internment camps across Canada, not for anything they had done but because of where they came from. In 1954, the public records were destroyed.
Notes
Director of photography, Oleksandr Kryshtalovych ; editor, Peter Chrapka ; music by Evan MacDonald.
Accession Number
2019.113
Call Number
08.1 B63t DVD
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Amistice Films
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Surviving Canada : indigenous peoples celebrate 150 years of betrayal

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25058
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Ladner, Kiera L. (editor)
Tait, Myra (editor)
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : ARP Books
Call Number
08.1 L12s
  1 website  
Author
Ladner, Kiera L. (editor)
Tait, Myra (editor)
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : ARP Books
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
462 pages : illustrations (some colour)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
History
First Nations
Politics
Abstract
Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples' complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how-even 150 years after Confederation-the fight for recognition of their treaty and Aboriginal rights continues. Through essays, art, and literature, Surviving Canada examines the struggle for Indigenous Peoples to celebrate their cultures and exercise their right to control their own economic development, lands, water, and lives. The Indian Act, Idle No More, and the legacy of residential schools are just a few of the topics covered by a wide range of elders, scholars, artists, and activists. Contributors include Mary Eberts, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Leroy Little Bear. (from ARP books)
Contents
Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal / Kiera L. Ladner Myra J. Tait -- Acknowledgements -- Nokomis and the Law in the Gift: Living Treaty Each Day / Aaron Mills -- Reconcile Your State of Mind / Rebecca Thomas -- Don't Read the Comments: The Role of Modern News Media in Bridging the Divide Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People in Canada / Waubgeshig Rice -- Canada is a Pretend Nation: REDx Talks- What I Know Now About Canada / Leroy Little Bear -- Anthem / Erin Freeland -- Inclusion is Just the Canadian Word for Assimilation: Self-Determinism and the Reconciliation Paradigm in Canada / Rachael Yacaa?al George -- The Path to Self-Determinism / Natan Obed -- Can Canada Retrieve the Principles of its First Confederation? / Peter H. Russell -- Celebrating Canada's 150th Birthday: A Play in One Act / Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox -- Kapyong and Treaty One First Nations: When the Crown Can Do No Wrong / Myra J. Tait -- Canada, I can cite for you / Christie Belcourt -- "To Honour the Lives of Those Taken From Us": Restor(y)ing Resurgence and Survivance through Walking With Our Sisters / Shalene Jobin Tara Kappo -- Lament for Confederation / Dan George -- Language Rights as Aboriginal Rights: From Words to Action / Karen Drake -- Canada's History Goes Beyond 150 Years / Doug Cuthand -- Forgetting to Celebrate: Genocide and Social Amnesia as Foundational to the Canadian Settler State / David B. MacDonald -- Kahwa´:tsire: Canada 150 Through The Lens of Mohawk Motherhood / Kehente Horn-Miller / Waneek Miller -- Canada: Portrait of a Serial Killer / Jeff Corntassel Christine Bird -- Her 210 / Jana-Rae Yerxa -- Because It's 1951: The Non-History of First Nations Female Band Suffrage and Leadership / Mary Jane Logan McCallum Shelisa Klassen -- My Country 'tis of Thy People You're Dying / Buffy Sainte-Marie -- Reconciliation on Trial: Evaluating What Reconciliation Means in the Context of Aboriginal Justice / David Milward -- Got Tolerance? / Felicia Sinclair -- Drinking Dispossession: Shoal Lake 40, Winnipeg, and the Making of Canada / Adele Perry.
ISBN
9781894037891
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
08.1 L12s
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Summary on ARP Books website
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Indigenous writes : a guide to First Nations, Metis & Inuit issues in Canada

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25010
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Author
Vowel, Chelsea
Publisher
Winnipeg, MB, Canada : HighWater Press
Call Number
07.2 V85i
  1 website  
Author
Vowel, Chelsea
Publisher
Winnipeg, MB, Canada : HighWater Press
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
xii, 290 pages : illustrations, map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
First Nations
Canada
Writing
Abstract
In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel initiates myriad conversations about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada. An advocate for Indigenous worldviews, the author discusses the fundamental issues--the terminology of relationships; culture and identity; myth-busting; state violence; and land, learning, law and treaties--along with wider social beliefs about these issues. She answers the questions that many people have on these topics to spark further conversations at home, in the classroom, and in the larger community. (from publisher)
Contents
Introduction : how to read this book -- Part 1. The terminology of relationships -- 1. Just don't call us late for supper : names for Indigenous peoples -- 2. Settling on a name : names for non-Indigenous Canadians -- Part 2. Culture and identity -- 3. Got status? : Indian status in Canada -- 4. You're Me´tis? Which of your parents is an Indian? : Me´tis identity -- 5. Feel the Inukness : Inuit identity -- 6. Hunter-gatherers or trapper-harvesters? : why some terms matter -- 7. Allowably Indigenous : to ptarmigan or not to ptarmigan : when indigeneity is transgressive -- 8. Caught in the crossfire of blood-quantum reasoning : popular notions of Indigenous purity -- 9. What is cultural appropriation? : respecting cultural boundaries -- 10. Check the tag on that "Indian" story : how to find authentic Indigenous stories -- 11. Icewine, roquefort cheese, and the Navajo Nation : Indigenous use of intellectual property laws -- 12. All my queer relations : language, culture, and two-spirit identity -- Part 3. Myth-busting -- 13. The myth of progress -- 14. The myth of the level playing field -- 15. The myth of taxation -- 16. The myth of free housing -- 17. The myth of the drunken Indian -- 18. The myth of the wandering nomad -- 19. The myth of authenticity -- Part 4. State violence -- 20. Monster : the residential-school legacy -- 21. Our stolen generations : the sixties and millenial scoops -- 22. Human flagpoles : Inuit relocation -- 23. From hunters to farmers : Indigenous farming on the prairies -- 24. Dirty water, dirty secrets : drinking water in First Nations communities -- 25. No justice, no peace : the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples -- Part. 5. Land, learning, law, and treaties -- 26. Rights? What rights? : doctrines of colonialism -- 27. Treaty talk : the evolution of treaty-making in Canada -- 28. The more things change, the more they stay the same : numbered treaties and modern treaty-making -- 29. Why don't First Nations just leave the reserve? : reserves are not the problem -- 30. White paper, what paper? : more attempts to assimilate Indigenous peoples -- 31. Our children, our schools : fighting for control over Indigenous education.
ISBN
9781553796800
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
07.2 V85i
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Summary on Highwater Press / Portage & Main Press website
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