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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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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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In this together : fifteen stories of truth & reconciliation

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

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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Canadian cinema in the new millennium

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2023

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Call Number: 06.3 C23c

Responsibility: Edited by Lee Carruthers and Charles Tepperman

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Published Date: 2023

Physical Description: xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Film making; Films; Motion picture; Canada; History

Abstract: At the turn of the millennium Canadian cinema appeared to have reached an apex of aesthetic and commercial transformation. Domestic filmmaking has since declined in visibility: the sense of celebrity once associated with independent directors has diminished, projects garner less critical attention, and concepts that made late-twentieth-century Canadian film legible have been reconsidered or displaced. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium examines this dramatic transformation and revitalizes our engagement with Canadian cinema in the contemporary moment, presenting focused case studies of films and filmmakers and contextual studies of Canadian film policy, labour, and film festivals. Contributors trace key developments since 2000, including the renouveau or Quebec New Wave, Indigenous filmmaking, i-docs, and diasporic experimental filmmaking. Reflecting the way film in Canada mediates multiple cultures, forging new affinities among anglophone, francophone, and Indigenous-language examples, this book engages familiar figures, such as Denis Villeneuve, Xavier Dolan, Sarah Polley, and Guy Maddin, in the same breath as small-budget independent films, documentaries, and experimental works that have emerged in the Canadian scene. Fueled by close attention to the films themselves and a desire to develop new scholarly approaches, Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium models a renewed commitment to keeping a vibrant conversation about Canadian cinema alive.-Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction: Towards a renewed critical optics for contemporary Canadian cinema -- PART ONE: FEATURE FILMS AND FILMMAKERS -- 1 Speaking across borders: Xavier Dolan and the transnationalism of contemporary auteur cinema in Quebec / Robinson, Ian -- 2 An equivocal auteur: gauging style and substance in the films of Denis Villeneuve / Carruthers, Ian -- 3 A "momentary melancholy": female desire and the promise of happiness in the cinema of Sarah Polley / Horeck, Tanya -- 4 Indigenous women's cinema in Quebec: the works and words of Mohawk filmmaker Sonia Bonspille Boileau / Bertrand, Karine -- 5 Le cine´ma a` l'estomac: Denis Co^te´ and the new wave of Quebec cinema (2004-19) / Sirois-Trahan, Jean-Pierre -- 6 Fluid privilege: reading "Canadian" water in wet bum (2014) and sleeping giant (2015) / Vanderburgh, Jennifer -- 7 Toronto's new diy filmmakers / Davidson, David -- 8 Northern frights: Canadian horror in the twenty-first century / Leeder, Murray -- PART TWO: DOCUMENTARY AND EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING -- 9 Beauty day and the crises of self-directed work / Meneghetti, Mike -- 10 Mythologizing Manitoba: the negated truth of my Winnipeg / Siegel, Miriam and Keil, Charlie -- 11 Indigenizing the archive: souvenir and the NFB / Roberts, Gillian -- 12 I-doc and my-doc: bear 71 and highrise as Canadian documentaries / Feldman, Seth -- 13 Diasporic sights: trauma and representation in recent Canadian poetic cinema / Browne, Dan -- 14 dominique t. skoltz and new states of cinematic matter / Wilmink, Melanie -- PART THREE: CANADIAN FILM CONTEXTS, FESTIVALS, AND INDUSTRIES -- 15 A taxing culture: reconsidering the service production / Acland, Charles R. -- 16 collective action! unions in the Canadian film and television industry / Coles, Amanda -- 17 Making room: international co-productions and Canadian national cinema / Lester, Peter -- 18 Troubling Toronto queer festivals: transgressions in and of queer counterpublics / Mitchell, Aimee -- 19 From showcase to lightbox: programming the national on the festival circuit / Burgess, Diane

ISBN: 9780228015949

Accession Number: P2023.08

Call Number: 06.3 C23c

Collection: Archives Library

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Voicing identity : cultural appropriation and Indigenous issues

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2022

Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press

Call Number: 07.2 B94v

Responsibility: Edited by John Borrows and Kent McNeil

Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: vi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Indigenous People; Indigenous Culture; Appropriation; Canada; History

Abstract: Written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researching, writing, and teaching about Indigenous peoples. This book grapples with the question: who is qualified to engage in these activities and how can this be done appropriately and respectfully? The authors address these questions from their own individual perspectives and experiences, often revealing personal struggles and their ongoing attempts to resolve them. There is diversity in perspectives and approaches, but also a common goal: to conduct research and teach in respectful ways that enhance understanding of Indigenous histories, cultures, and rights, and promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Bringing together contributors with diverse backgrounds and unique experiences, Voicing Identity will be of interest to students and scholars studying Indigenous issues as well as anyone seeking to engage in the work of making Canada a model for just relations between the original peoples and newcomers.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction / John Borrows and Kent McNeil -- 1. Su-taxwiye: Keeping My Name Clean / Sarah Morales -- 2. At the Corner of Hawks and Powell: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous People, and the Conundrum of Double Permanence / Keith Thor Carlson -- 3. Look at Your "Pantses": The Art of Wearing and Representing Indigenous Culture as Performative Relationship / Aime´e Craft -- 4. Indigenous Legal Traditions, De-sacralization, Re-sacralization, and the Space for Not-Knowing / Hadley Friedland -- 5. Mino-audjiwaewin: Choosing Respect, Even in Times of Conflict / Lindsay Borrows -- 6. "How Could You Sleep When Beds Are Burning?" Cultural Appropriation and the Place of Non-Indigenous Academics / Felix Hoehn -- 7. Who Should Teach Indigenous Law? / Karen Drake and A. Christian Airhart -- 8. Reflections on Cultural Appropriation / Michael Asch -- 9. Turning Away from the State: Cultural Appropriation in the Shadow of the Courts / John Borrows -- 10. Voice and Indigenous Rights from a Non-Indigenous Perspective / Robert Hamilton -- 11. Guided by Voices? Perspective and Pluralism in the Constitutional Order / Joshua Ben David Nichols -- 12. NONU WEL,WEL TI,A´ NE T ,E E : Our Canoe Is Really Tippy / kQwa'st'not and Hannah Askew -- 13. Sharp as a Knife: Judge Begbie and Reconciliation / Hamar Foster -- 14. On Getting It Right the First Time: Researching the Constitution Express / Emma Feltes -- 15. Confronting Dignity Injustices / Sa'ke'j Henderson

ISBN: 9781487544683

Accession Number: P2023.10

Call Number: 07.2 B94v

Collection: Archives Library

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Canada's legal pasts : looking forward, looking back

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press

Call Number: 08.1 C15c

Responsibility: Edited by Lyndsay Campbell, Ted McCoy, and Me´lanie Me´thot

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: History; Law; Human rights; Canada; Research

Abstract: Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to learn about Canada's legal pasts--and why we study them. Telling new stories--about a fishing vessel that became the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of police discipline and criminal procedure, and more--this book presents the vibrant evolution of Canada's legal tradition. Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archive records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada's most marginalized people, show the many different ways of researching and understanding legal history. This is Canadian legal history as you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts dives into new topics in Canada's fascinating history and presents practical approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all levels. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Foreword : a student's take on Canada's legal pasts / Nick Austin -- Introduction : Canada's legal pasts : looking forward, looking back / Ted McCoy, Lyndsay Campbell, and Me´lanie Me´thot -- Family defamation in the Quebec Civil courts : the view from the archives / Eric H. Reiter -- Writing penitentiary history / Ted McCoy -- Analyzing bigamy cases without going to the archives : it is possible / Me´lanie Me´thot -- Trial pamphlets and newspaper accounts / Lyndsay Campbell -- The last voyage of the Frederick Gerring, Jr. / Christopher Shorey -- The textbook edition of James Kent's Commentaries used in Canada v. Gerring / Angela Fernandez -- Empire's law : archives and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council / Catharine MacMillan -- Practising law in the "lawyerless" colony of New France / Alexandra Havrylyshyn -- Poursuivre son mari en justice: femmes marie´es et coutume de Paris devant la Cour du banc du roi de Montre´al (1795-1830) / Jean-Philippe Garneau -- Getting their man : the NWMP as accused in the territorial criminal court in the Canadian North-West, 1876-1903 / Shelley A.M. Gavigan -- Sex discrimination in Canadian law : from equal citizenship to human rights law / Dominique Cle´ment -- Legal-historical writing for the Canadian Prairies : past, present, future / Louis A. Knafla.

ISBN: 9781773851167

Accession Number: P2023.07

Call Number: 08.1 C15c

Collection: Archives Library

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Unsettling Canadian art history

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2022

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Call Number: 06 M84u

Responsibility: Edited by Erin Morton

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: xviii, 340 pages : illustrations (some in colour) ; 26 x 21 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Canada; Art; Colonialism; History-Canada; Race

Abstract: Rethinking visual and material histories of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized disapora in the contested white settler state of Canada Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada. This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colonial archives of art and culture, excavating and reconstructing radical Black, Indigenous, and racialized diasporic creation and experience. Exploring the racist frameworks that continue to erase histories of violence and resistance, Unsettling Canadian Art History imagines the expansive possibilities of a decolonial future. Unsettling Canadian Art History affirms the importance of collaborative conversations and work in the effort to unsettle scholarship in Canadian art and culture. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction: Unsetting Canadian art history / Erin Morton -- Part One: Unsettling settler methodologies, re-centring decolonial knowledge -- White settler tautologies and pioneer lies in Mi’km’ki / Travis Wysote and Erin Morton -- Notes to a nation: Teachings on land through the art of Norval Morrisseau / Carmen Robertson -- Embodying decolonial methodology: Building and sustaining critical relationality in the cultural sector / Leah Decter and Carla Taunton -- Silence as resistance: When silence is the only weapon you have left / Lindsay McIntyre -- Part Two: Excavating and creating decolonial archives -- Truth is no stranger to (para)fiction: Settlers, arrivants, and place in Iris Ha¨ussler’s He Named Her Amber, Camille Turner’s BlackGrange, and Robert Houle’s Garrison Creek Project / Mark A. Cheetham -- “Ran away from her Master…a Negroe Girl named Thursday”: Examining evidence of punishment, isolation, trauma, and illness in Nova Scotia and Quebec fugitive slave advertisements / Charmaine A. Nelson -- “Miner with a Heart of Gold”: Native North America, Vol.1 and the colonial excavation of authenticity / Henry Adam Svec -- Excavation: Memory work / Sylvia D. Hamilton -- Part Three: Reclaiming sexualities, tracing complicities -- Bear grease, whips, bodies, and breads: Community building and refusing trauma porn in Dayna Danger’s Embodied 2Spirit Arts Praxis / Dorian J. Fraser, Dayna Danger, and Adrienne Huard -- Coming out a l’oriental: Diasporic art and colonial wounds / Andrew Gayed -- Indian Americans engulfing “American Indian”: Marking the “Dot Indians” Indianess through genocide and casteism in diaspora / Shaista Patel.