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Oldman's river : new and collected poems
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25731
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Marty, Sid
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Press
- Call Number
- 05.1 M36o
- Author
- Marty, Sid
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 413 pages, 26 cm
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Abstract
- Sid Mary is a voice to be reckoned with. Beloved for his intimate, lyrical poetry, Marty’s depiction of selfhood, connection to place and to landscape have proven him a unique and dissenting voice in Canadian literature as well as a consistent presence in the Canadian environmental movement. This first ever collected works brings together old and new poems; published and unpublished works, in a celebration of the career and artistry of this Canadian icon. -- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9781774390733
- Accession Number
- P2023.16
- Call Number
- 05.1 M36o
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Canadian animals for kids
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26184
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Elliot, Max
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought
- Call Number
- 05 El6c
- 05 El6c Reference copy
- Author
- Elliot, Max
- Publisher
- Banff, AB : Summerthought
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 24 pages ; ill.
- Subjects
- Literature
- Children
- Animals
- Wildlife
- Abstract
- How does a beaver warn of danger? What's the advantage of being a tiny wood frog? Where do walruses like to live? Kids love to learn about wildlife, and the colours and textures of Max Elliot's mixed media artwork make it even more fun to engage with a variety of Canadian animals, their habits and habitats. -- From back cover.
- ISBN
- 9781926983615
- Accession Number
- P2023.17 (2)
- Call Number
- 05 El6c
- 05 El6c Reference copy
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Rocky voices : the memories of minerals that form the Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26193
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Enkelmann, Eva
- Publisher
- Altona, MB : FriesenPress
- Call Number
- 03.2 En5r
- 03.2 En5r reference copy
- Author
- Enkelmann, Eva
- Publisher
- Altona, MB : FriesenPress
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 113 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- A collection of stories from the perspectives of personified minerals found in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Lucy Calcite -- Sir Charles Zircon -- Jenny Apatite -- Joel Illite -- Captain Susi Sanidine -- Sam Coal -- Emma Amphipora -- David Rock Flour -- Karen Waterdrop -- Peter Pebble -- Bridget Cement -- Ray Clay.
- ISBN
- 9781039161542
- Accession Number
- P2023.17
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 03.2 En5r
- 03.2 En5r reference copy
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Unpapered : writers consider Native American identity and cultural belonging
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26195
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 G46u
- Responsibility
- Edited by Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- History
- Turtle Island
- Identity
- Colonialism
- Abstract
- Unpapered is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins. Native heritage is neither simple nor always clearly documented, and citizenship is a legal and political matter of sovereign nations determined by such criteria as blood quantum, tribal rolls, or community involvement. Those who claim a Native cultural identity often have family stories of tenuous ties dating back several generations. Given that tribal enrollment was part of a string of government programs and agreements calculated to quantify and dismiss Native populations, many writers who identify culturally and are recognized as Native Americans do not hold tribal citizenship. With essays by Trevino Brings Plenty, Deborah Miranda, Steve Russell, and Kimberly Wieser, among others, Unpapered charts how current exclusionary tactics began as a response to “pretendians”—non-indigenous people assuming a Native identity for job benefits—and have expanded to an intense patrolling of identity that divides Native communities and has resulted in attacks on peoples’ professional, spiritual, emotional, and physical states. An essential addition to Native discourse, Unpapered shows how social and political ideologies have created barriers for Native people truthfully claiming identities while simultaneously upholding stereotypes --Publisher's description.
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- Introduction / by Diane Glancy -- Show Your Papers. Paperwork / Kim Shuck -- Things you can do with your chart for calculating quantum of Indian blood / Deborah Miranda -- The white box / Kimberly L. Becker -- Seeking the Indian gravy train / Steve Russell -- Unpapered / Diane Glancy -- Finding the Way. On Chumash Land / Terra Trevor -- A salmon-fishing story / Abigail Chabitnoy -- Confessions of a detribalized mixed-blood / Jeanetta Calhoun Mish -- Thinking with Bigfoot about a Jackpine Savage : cryptogenealogical reflections / Carter Meland -- Identity Wars. "You don't look Indian" / Michele Leonard -- Pretend Indian exegesis : the pretend Indian uncanny valley hypothesis in literature and beyond / Trevino Brings Plenty -- Dead Indians. Live Indians. Legal Indians. / Ron Querry -- The animals' ballgame / Geary Hobson -- We never spoke / Linda Boyden -- Why We Matter. On being Chamorro and belonging to Guam / Craig Santos Perez -- Aunt Ruby's little sister dances / Kimberly Wieser -- Buffalo heads in diners : remnant populations / Denise Dotson Low -- And thus the tribes diminish / Linda Rodriguez.
- ISBN
- 9781496235008
- Accession Number
- P2023.15
- Call Number
- 07.2 G46u
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Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26196
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 St2i
- Responsibility
- Edited by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Aime´e Craft, and Hokulani K Aikau
- Publisher
- Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- vi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- Reconciliation
- Colonialism
- Identity
- Gender
- Abstract
- What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks. The essays in this collection centre the work of Indigenous communities, knowledge, and strategies for resurgence and, where appropriate, reconciliation. The book challenges narrow interpretations of indigeneity and resurgence, asking readers to take up a critical analysis of how settler colonial and heteronormative framings have infiltrated our own ways of relating to our selves, one another, and to place. The authors seek to (re)claim Indigenous relationships to the political and offer critical self-reflection to ensure Indigenous resurgence efforts do not reproduce the very conditions and contexts from which liberation is sought. Illuminating the interconnectivity between and across life in all its forms, this important collection calls on readers to think expansively and critically about Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Artist Statement / Lianne Marie Leda Charlie -- Introduction: Generating a Critical Resurgence Together / Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark-- Part 1: Realizing Resurgence Together. 1. Beyond the Grammar of Settler Apologies / Mishuana Goeman -- 2. Spirit and Matter: Resurgence as Rising and (Re)creation as Ethos / Dian Million -- 3. Removing Weeds so Natives Can Grow: A Metaphor Reconsidered / Hokulani K. Aikau -- 4. (Ad)dressing Wounds: Expansive Kinship Inside and Out / Dallas Hunt -- Part 2: Claiming Our Relationships to the Political. 5. Beyond Rights and Wrongs: Towards Resurgence of a Treaty-Based Ethic of Relationality / Gina Starblanket -- 6. Thawing the Frozen Rights Theory: On Rejecting Interpretations of Reconciliation and Resurgence That Define Indigenous Peoples as Frozen in a Pre-colonial Past / Aimée Craft -- 7. Nêhiyaw Hunting Pedagogies and Revitalizing Indigenous Laws / Darcy Lindberg -- Part 3: Narrating Reconciliation and Resurgence. 8. Thinking through Resurgence Together: A Conversation between Sarah Hunt/Tlalilila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson / Sarah Hunt/Tlalilila’ogwa and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- 9. Truth-Telling amidst Reconciliation Discourses: How Stories Reshape Our Relationships / Jeff Corntassel -- 10. Political Action in the Time of Reconciliation / Corey Snelgrove and Matthew Wildcat -- Part 4: Reconciling Lands, Bodies, and Gender. 11. Body Land, Water, and Resurgence in Oaxaca / Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez -- 12. To Respect Indigenous Territorial Protocol: Hosting the Olympic Games on Indigenous Lands in Settler Colonial Canada / Christine O’Bonsawin -- 13. “Descendants of the Original Lords of the Soil”: Gender, Kinship, and an Indignant Model of Métis Nationhood / Daniel Voth -- 14. Red Utopia / Billy-Ray Belcourt.
- ISBN
- 9781487544607
- Accession Number
- P2023.10
- Call Number
- 07.2 St2i
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Senescence : a year in the Bow Valley
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26198
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Alhomsi, Amal
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Chinook Press
- Call Number
- 05 Al3s
- Author
- Alhomsi, Amal
- Responsibility
- Cover design by Megan Miller
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Chinook Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 174 pages
- Subjects
- Literature
- Bow Valley
- Biography
- Abstract
- Senescence is a meditation on nature and its seasons. The text is a personal account of a year spent in the Bow Valley, Alberta. In the summer; Alhomsi compares a leaf miner's work to the work of echatologists; in the fall, he studies in the relation between texts, land, and bodies; in the winter, he stalks a muskrat and talks to marmots; in spring, he observes a month's metamorphosis and reflects on love. Between fire & a flood, Alhomsi paints a refreshing image of what is means to live. -- From Backcover
- ISBN
- 9781738898008
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 05 Al3s
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Organizing nature : turning Canada's ecosystems into resources
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26201
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Biro, Andrew and Cohen, Alice
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 04 B53o
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xviii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada's resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to "resource," this book weaves together the roles that commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies focused on specific resources--fish, forests, carbon, water, land, and life--the book explores six channels through which this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments, culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities. Ultimately, Organizing Nature encourages readers to think critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their environments."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 From How to Why -- 1.2 From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 1.3 Politics beyond Policy -- 1.4 Resourcification through Six Channels -- 1.5 Book Outline and Common Themes -- 2. Channels: From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Governments -- 2.3 Communities -- 2.4 Built Environments -- 2.5 Culture and Ideas -- 2.6 Economies -- 2.7 Bodies and Identities -- 2.8 Summary and Conclusions -- 3. From Fish to Fisheries -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Salmon in British Columbia -- 3.3 Cod in Newfoundland and Labrador -- 3.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Fisheries -- 3.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 4. From Forests to Timber -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Growth of Timber: Saint John, New Brunswick -- 4.3 Trees, Not Timber: Port Renfrew, British Columbia, and Darkwoods -- 4.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Forests -- 4.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 5. From Carbon to Energy -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Coal in Nova Scotia -- 5.3 Oil and Bitumen in Alberta -- 5.4 Natural Gas and Fracking -- 5.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Carbon -- 5.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 6. From H2O to Water -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Diversions and Damming -- 6.2.1 Diversion -- 6.2.2 Damming -- 6.3 Drinking Water -- 6.3.1 Vancouver, 2006 -- 6.3.2 Walkerton, Ontario, 2000 -- 6.3.3 Asubpeechoseewagong Netum Anishinabek-Grassy Narrows, Ontario, 1962-? -- 6.3.4 Drinking Water: Summary -- 6.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Water -- 6.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 7. From Land to Property -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Soil -- 7.3 Symbol -- 7.4 Space -- 7.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Land -- 7.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 8. From Bodies to Life -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Wild(?)life: Non-Human Animals -- 8.2.1 Pets and Other Companion Species -- 8.2.2 Fish and Game: Wildness as Economic Resource -- 8.2.3 Parks as Spaces for Wildlife -- 8.3 Human Resources -- 8.3.1 Blood and Plasma -- 8.3.2 Surrogacy -- 8.4 The Channels in Action: Organizing Life -- 8.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 9. Resources: Organized and Organizers -- 9.1 Channels in Action -- 9.2 Common Themes -- 9.2.1 Commodification -- 9.2.2 Indigenous Dispossession -- 9.2.3 Artificial Nature-Society Binary -- 9.3 Why Does 'Resource Thinking' Matter? -- 9.3.1 Winning and Losing -- 9.3.2 Why Is It Important to Think beyond Policy?
- ISBN
- 9781487594848
- Accession Number
- P2023.22
- Call Number
- 04 B53o
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Feminism's fight : challenging politics and policies in Canada since 1970
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26202
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 C14f
- Responsibility
- Edited by Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 378 pages
- Abstract
- Feminism's Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice through Canadian federal policy from the 1970s to the present. It tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and emerging alliances can advance a feminist agenda of social and economic equality. This timely collection examines the ideas that feminists have put forward in pursuit of the goal of equality and traces the shifting frameworks employed by governments in response. The authors evaluate changing government orientations through the 1970s to 2020, revealing the negative impact on women's lives and the challenges posed for feminists. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the sexism, misogyny, and related systemic inequalities that remain widespread. Yet it has also revived feminist mobilization and animated calls for a new and comprehensive equality agenda for Canada. Feminism's Fight asks two key questions: What are the lessons from feminist engagement with federal government policy over fifty years? And what kinds of transformative policy demands will achieve the feminist goal of social and economic equality? -- Provided by publisher.
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- From the Status of Women to Gender Justice for Women / Barbara Cameron and Meg Luxton -- Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act: A Tool of Forced Assimilation / Shelagh Day and Pamela Palmater -- Feminism Meets Macroeconomic Policy / Barbara Cameron -- Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work in the Home / Meg Luxton -- Fifty Years for Farm Women: Gender and Shifting Agricultural Policy Paradigms in Canada / Amber J. Fletcher -- Policy Discourses on Sexual Violence: From the Royal Commission to the (Post-)Neoliberal State / Lise Gotell -- Responsibility and Reproduction after the Royal Commission / Alana Cattapan -- The Royal Commission and Immigration and Citizenship: A Missed Opportunity? / Christina Gabriel -- Securing Income, Sustaining Livelihoods: The Royal Commission, Social Reproduction, and Income Security / Ann Porter -- Strategic, Cynical, and Sinister Representation: Reconceptualizing and Recasting Women’s Representation / Alexandra Dobrowolsky -- The Royal Commission and Unions: Leadership, Equality, Women’s Organizing, and Collective Agency / Linda Briskin -- Equality Instituted? Gender Equity, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Commissions / Nicole S. Bernhardt -- Federalism for the Twenty-First Century: Feminism and Multilevel Governance in Canada / Tammy Findlay.
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- 9780774868037
- Accession Number
- P2023.11
- Call Number
- 08.1 C14f
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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26203
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Call Number
- 08.5 B68d
- Author
- Bown, Stephen R.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Abstract
- Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
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- 9780385698726
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
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- 08.5 B68d
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Blood memory : the tragic decline and improbable resurrection of the American Buffalo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26204
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Duncan, Dayton and Burns, Ken
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf
- Call Number
- 08 D91b
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Buffalo
- Pablo-Allard buffalo round-up
- Conservation
- Indigenous
- Colonialism
- Environment
- Ecology
- Abstract
- The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today--a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo--our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals. Newcomers to the continent found the buffalo fascinating at first, but in time they came to consider them a hindrance to a young nation's expansion. And in the space of only a decade they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides, with their carcasses left to rot on the prairies. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would be rescued by a motley collection of Americans, each of them driven by different--and sometimes competing--impulses. This is the rich and complicated story of a young republic's heedless rush to conquer a continent, but also of the dawn of the conservation era--a story of America at its very best and worst -- Provided by publisher.
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- Part 1: The Trail to Extinction -- The Buffalo and the People -- Strangers -- Omen in the Skies -- The Iron Horse -- Kills Tomorrow -- Part 2: Back From the Brink -- A Death Wind for My People -- Just in the Nick of Time -- Changes of Heart -- Ghosts -- The Last Refuge -- Blood Memory -- Big Medicine.
- Notes
- Dayton Duncan ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan ; with an introduction by Ken Burns ; picture research by Emily Mosher and Susan Shumaker ; design by Maggie Hinders.
- Whyte Museum archival collections utilized.
- ISBN
- 9780593537343
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08 D91b
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