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The downfall of Temlaham

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1928
Author
Barbeau, Marius
Publisher
Toronto : The Macmillian Company of Canada Limited
Call Number
07.2 B23t
Author
Barbeau, Marius
Responsibility
Illustations by A. Y. Jackson, Edwin H. Holgate, W. Langdon Kihn, Emily Carr and Annie D. Savage
Publisher
Toronto : The Macmillian Company of Canada Limited
Published Date
1928
Physical Description
xii, 253 pages, 1 leaf color frontispiece, color plates 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Canada - Western Region
History-Canada
History
Abstract
A novel based on the Skeena River Rebellion of 1886, interwoven with the Gitksan legend of Temlaham.
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
07.2 B23t
Collection
Archives Library
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The Sarcee Indians of Alberta

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1938
Author
Jenness, Diamond
Publisher
Ottawa : National Museum of Canada
King's Printer
Call Number
07.2 J43sa
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Author
Jenness, Diamond
Publisher
Ottawa : National Museum of Canada
King's Printer
Published Date
1938
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Folklore
Indigenous
Tsuut'ina
Accession Number
223
Call Number
07.2 J43sa
Collection
Archives Library
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The forgotten Kutenai : a study of the Kutenai Indians, Bonners Ferry, Idaho, Creston, British Columbia, where the Kutenai are located

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1955
Author
Baker, Paul E
Publisher
Boise (ID) : Mountain States Press
Call Number
07.2 B17 Pam
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Author
Baker, Paul E
Publisher
Boise (ID) : Mountain States Press
Published Date
1955
Physical Description
64p. : ill., map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Ktunaxa
Kootenay Indians
Indigenous
Accession Number
24000
Call Number
07.2 B17 Pam
Collection
Archives Library
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Indians in the fur trade : their roles as hunters, trappers and middlemen in the lands southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1976
Author
Ray, Arthur J.
Publisher
Toronto : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 r21i
Author
Ray, Arthur J.
Publisher
Toronto : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
1976
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Fur trade
Indigenous Customs
Hudson Bay
Western Canada
Canada, pre 1900s
Abstract
In the western interior of Canada, the pre-confederation period was one of relative peace between Indians and Europeans. Nonetheless, it was a time of rapid cultural transformations for the Indians as they adjusted to changing environmental and economic conditions. This book examines these conditions, and the responses which various Indian groups made to them, from the perspectives of anthropology, ecology, economics, and history. -- From back cover
Contents
Trade rivalries, inter-tribal warfare, and migration ; Land and life in the western interior before 1763 ; Traders and middlemen ; Arms, brandy, beads, and sundries ; Migrations, epidemics, and population changes, 1763-1821 ; The destruction of fur and game animals ; New economic opportunities ; Economic dependency and the fur trade: contrasting trends ; Land and Life: a changing mosaic ; The changing demographic picture after 1821 ; Declining opportunities in a changing fur trade ; End of a way of life
ISBN
0802021182
Accession Number
2022.17
Call Number
07.2 r21i
Collection
Archives Library
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Anthropology on the Great Plains

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1980
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Call Number
07.2 W86a
Responsibility
Edited by W. Raymond Wood and Margot Liberty
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Published Date
1980
Physical Description
vii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous People
Indigenous Traditions
Turtle Island
History
Abstract
Native American tribes living on the Great Plains have long attracted the attention of Euro-American scholars, inspiring over the years a vast quantity of research. The contributors to this volume discuss and evaluate all the major works of scholarship devoted to the culture of Plains Indians, from the arrival of these peoples on the North American grasslands thousands of years ago, through their subsequent Village and High Plains lifeways, to their present-day adaption to reservation and urban life. Toghether, the twenty-two authors undertake a comprehensive survey of the state of anthropology on the Plains: what it has been, what it is now, and what it may offer theory and method in the future. -- From interior dustjacket
Contents
The Plains setting / B. Miles Gilbert -- The influence of Plains ethnography on the development of anthropological theory / E. Adamson Hoebel -- The Plains culture area concept / Richard Scaglion -- Prehistoric studies on the Plains / Alfred E. Johnson and W. Raymond Wood -- An overview of Great Plains physical anthropology / David V. Hughey -- Studies in Plains linguistics : a review / Robert C. Hollow and Douglas R. Parks -- Plains trade in prehistoric and protohistoric intertribal relations / W. Raymond Wood -- The ethnohistorical approach in Plains area studies / Mildred Mott Wedel and Raymond J. DeMallie -- Plains economic analysis : the Marxist complement / Alan M. Klein -- Morgan's problem : the influence of Plains ethnography on the ethnology of kinship / John H. Moore -- Social control on the Plains / Garrick Bailey -- The Sun Dance / Margot Liberty -- The Ghost Dance / Omer C. Stewart -- The Native American church / Omer C. Stewart -- Plains Indian art / Mary Jane Schneider -- Plains Indian music and dance / William K. Powers -- Psychological anthropology / Margot Liberty and Robert Morais --The formal education of Plains Indians / Janet Goldenstein Ahler -- Plains Indian women : an assessment / Katherine M. Weist -- Research in health and healing in the Plains / Luis S. Kemnitzer -- Peoples of the Plains / compiled by Douglas R. Parks, Margot Liberty, and Andrea Ferenci.
ISBN
9780803247086
Accession Number
2022.17
Call Number
07.2 W86a
Collection
Archives Library
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Gathering moss : a natural and cultural history of mosses

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2003
Author
Wall Kimmerer, Robin
Publisher
Corvallis, Oregon : Oregon State University Press
Call Number
07.2 W14g
Author
Wall Kimmerer, Robin
Publisher
Corvallis, Oregon : Oregon State University Press
Published Date
2003
Physical Description
viii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mosses
Indigenous
History
Nature
Abstract
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us. Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world. -- From back cover
ISBN
0870714996
Accession Number
P2022.02
Call Number
07.2 W14g
Collection
Archives Library
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First Peoples in Canada

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2004
Author
McMillian, Alan D., Yellowhorn, Eldon
Publisher
Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
Call Number
07.2 M23f
Author
McMillian, Alan D., Yellowhorn, Eldon
Publisher
Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
Published Date
2004
Physical Description
x, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Anthropology
Archaeology
Abstract
Aboriginal issues feature prominently on the Canadian agenda, from land claims agreements to self-government to resource rights, and First Peoples in Canada sets the context for the evolving relationship between Canada and the Aboriginal communities whitin its borders. This comprehensive book, widely used as a basic text in universities and colleges, now incorporates a Native perspective with new research from archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and history to tell the story of Aboriginal people from ancient times to the present. Generously illustrated with many maps, drawings and photographs, these pages clearly detail the rich cultures of all First Nations in this country. -- From back cover
Contents
Anthropological research and Aboriginal people ; The Atlantic Provinces ; The Iroquoians of the Eastern woodlands ; The Algonquians of the Eastern woodlands and Eastern Subarctic ; The Plains ; The Plateau ; The Northwest coast ; The Western Subarctic ; The Arctic ; The Metis ; Aboriginal people and Canada: emerging relations
ISBN
9781553650539
Accession Number
P2022.01
Call Number
07.2 M23f
Collection
Archives Library
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Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teaching of plants

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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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Whiteman's gospel : a Native American examines the christian church and its ministry among Native Americans

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2014
Author
Stephen Smith, Craig
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : Indian Life Books
Call Number
07.2 S4w
Author
Stephen Smith, Craig
Responsibility
Foreword by Coach Bill McCartney
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : Indian Life Books
Published Date
2014
Physical Description
153 pages ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Christianity
Religion
Abstract
Craig’s experience has led him to believe that change is desperately needed in both Native and ecclesiastical communities.“We Native Americans need to look at ourselves,” writes Smith, “and see where our people have been wrong in our perceptions of Christianity. Native people have often hidden behind the notion that Christianity is the Whiteman’s Gospel.” Craig Smith writes out of his own experience as a Native American growing up in a white man’s world. He tells what it’s like to be a member of a group of “underdogs.” Then he relates why God has chosen to work with underdogs to fulfill His purposes in the world today. Craig is not afraid to answer those difficult questions Native Americans have been asking. But he also seeks to provide answers that are true to the Word of God. -- From publisher
Contents
The Bible and the White Man's Gospel ; God and the underdogs ; Christianity and Indian history ; Christianity and today's Indian ; The Antioch model ; Christianity and Indian culture ; Native America's three choices
ISBN
0920379125
Accession Number
2022.26
Call Number
07.2 S4w
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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Finding directions west : readings that locate and dislocate Western Canada's past

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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Secwe´pemc people, land, and laws = Yeri´7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Ignance, Marianne and Ignance, Ronald E.
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Call Number
07.2 I1s
Author
Ignance, Marianne and Ignance, Ronald E.
Responsibility
With contributions by Mike K. Rousseau, Nancy J. Turner, Kenneth Favrholdt, and many Secwe´pemc storytellers, past and present ; foreword by Bonnie Leonard
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
xxxv, 588 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Secwepemc
Indigenous
History
British Columbia
Abstract
Secwe´pemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this volume details how a homeland has shaped Secwe´pemc existence while the Secwe´pemc have in turn shaped their homeland. Marianne and Ronald Ignace, with contributions from ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, archaeologist Mike Rousseau, and geographer Ken Favrholdt, compellingly weave together Secwe´pemc narratives about ancestors' deeds, and demonstrate how these stories are the manifestation of Indigenous laws (stsq'ey') for social and moral conduct among humans and all sentient beings on the land, and for social and political relations within the nation and with outsiders. Breathing new life into stories about past transformations, the authors place these narratives in dialogue with written historical sources, and knowledge from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, earth science, and ethnobiology. In addition to a wealth of detail about Secwe´pemc land stewardship, the social and political order, and spiritual concepts and relations embedded in the Indigenous language, the book shows how between the mid-1800s and 1920s the Secwe´pemc people resisted devastating oppression, the theft of their land, and fought to maintain political autonomy while tenaciously continuing to maintain a connection with their homeland, ancestors, and laws. An exemplary work in collaboration, Secwe´pemc People, Land, and Laws points to the ways in which Indigenous laws and traditions can guide present and future social and political process among the Secwe´pemc and with settler society. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
[English table of contents]. The time of the ancient transformers -- What archaeology tells us about the initial peopling and life of Secwepemcu´l´ecw / Mike K. Rousseau and Marianne Ignace -- The Shuswap language -- How we look(ed) after our land / with Nancy J. Turner -- Trade, travel, and transportation / Marianne Ignace and Kenneth Favrholdt -- Secwe´pemc sense of place -- The Secwe´pemc Nation and its boundaries -- How we are relatives to one another -- Secwe´pemc chiefship and political organization -- Secwe´pemc spirituality and how it was hidden in the church -- The unfolding of dispossession during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The Indian rights movement of the early twentieth century -- Stories from the past, laws and rights for the future. The sounds of Secwepemctsi´n written in the practical alphabet xxii -- Yeri´7 re sqweqwentsi´n-kt
An opening prayer xxv-xxvi -- Re sk`ele´p ell re sqle´lten
Story of coyote and salmon 36-38 -- Tsxli´tentem re sk`ele´p / Coyote and his hosts 63-72 -- 4. Secwepemctsi´n : The Shuswap language 121-144 -- Xelxli´p, xelxele´q
Coyote juggle his eyes 149-152 -- Le q´7e´ses re spi´xems re nuxwnu´xwenxw
Women's hunting long time ago 174-175 -- Secwe´pemc words for "beaver" 178 -- Secwe´pemc calendar and seasonal round based on names and activities of Skeetchestn area 196-197 -- Lilly Harry's account of annual resource gathering 198-202 -- Me7 qweqwentsi´n-kt
A meal prayer 205-206 -- [Food division] 207-208 -- [Example of mixed economy] 211-213 -- Secwe´pemc landscape terms and lexical suffixes 237-239 -- Story of Se´sqem 241-247 -- [Song, referred to as "Secwe´pemc national anthem"] 251-252 -- [North Thompson River, place-terminology] 253-254 -- The use of directional terms in talking about the landscapes 254-259 -- [Secwe´pemc views of territory and its split up into bands] 287-288 -- Stseq.qi´qe
Story of Balancing Rock 301-304 -- Snine7e´llcw
Owl's nest 304-309 -- Story of Tessie 309-311 -- ["Secwe´pemc welcome song"] 318 -- Secwe´pemc kinship and in-law terms 323-325 -- Sekla´cwa7
Story of muskrat 326-333 -- Reqets`we´ ye ell re sni´ne
The chipmunk and owl story 333-336 -- [Account of arranged marriages, 1930s-1940s] 342-346 -- [Views on marrying white men] 348-349 -- Re sqle´lten
Story of the salmon 349-353 -- Names and name giving 353-356 -- Re scwicwe´ye ell re skelkle´ts
Story of ant and grasshopper 357-359 -- ["Indian courts"] 377-379 -- Pe´xwem
Ways to heal 392-393 -- Sni´ne
Story of owl 395-398 -- Ctsrm`
Having a sweat 399 -- Catholic prayers in Secwepemctsi´n 411-418 -- Re q´we´ leqs ell re si´ntse7
The priest and the altar boy 421-423 -- [The story of Petese´q] 481-483 -- Qweni´meqll
Story of mosquito 492-496 -- Sku´7pecen
Story of porcupine 496-500.
ISBN
9780773551305
Accession Number
P2022.13
Call Number
07.2 I1s
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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Talking back to the indian act : critical readings in settler colonial histories

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Kelm, Mary-Ellen and Smith, Keith D.
Publisher
Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 K27t
Author
Kelm, Mary-Ellen and Smith, Keith D.
Publisher
Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
218 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Politics
Legislation
Colonialism
Abstract
Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive "how-to" guide for engaging with historical evidence. The book helps readers develop the skills necessary for conversing with primary sources in refined and profound ways. As a piece of legislation that is central to Canada's relationship with Indigenous peoples and communities, the Indian Act is uniquely positioned to act as a vehicle for this kind of focused reading. Through an analysis of over thirty documents addressing governance, gender, enfranchisement, and land, the authors provide a deep understanding of this pivotal piece of legislation, as well as insight into the dynamics incolved in its creation and maintenance. The book includes a timeline, maps, and images. -- From back cover
ISBN
9781487587352
Accession Number
P2021.04
Call Number
07.2 K27t
Collection
Archives Library
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Iroquois in the west

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Barman, Jean
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Call Number
07.2 B23i
Author
Barman, Jean
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
xv, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fur trade
Indigenous
colonialism
Travel
Abstract
Iroquois principally from Caughnawaga, today's Kahnawa`:ke, were recruited now two centuries ago on a par with Whites to man the large canoes taking trade goods west from nearby Montreal, coming back with animal pelts. While some soon returned home, others stuck with the fur trade, yet others made their lives across the west so far as possible on their own terms. Their stories speak to Indigenous self-determination and self-sufficiency. The book tracks four Iroquois clusters or bands across time, place, and generations. Set down among Montana Flatheads, Iroquois responded to their host's desire for the Catholicism they brought with them from Quebec by four expeditions to St. Louis in search of a Jesuit missionary, who no sooner arrived than lost interest, leaving Iroquois once again to mentor their hosts. The fur trade's economic imbalance impelled a second group, whose words quite remarkably survive as they were spoken, to overturn the status quo to the advantage of employees, they themselves engaging the American west. A third group opted for the Pacific Northwest fur trade, those doing so on the American side of a border put in place in 1846 discovering their long service mattered for naught when they sought to settle among their White counterparts, those in British territory faring somewhat better. Repeatedly lauded in travelers' accounts, a fourth cluster was displaced on their homeland becoming Jasper National Park, again on their new locale an Alberta boom town, yet still today self-identify as Iroquois.
Contents
Self-determining their lives ; Heading West, maybe forever, maybe not ; Bringing Catholicism to the Flatheads ; Challenging a fur monopoly ; Committing to the Pacific Northwest ; Disappearing into a changing Pacific Northwest ; Becoming Jasper Iroquois ; Persisting in Jasper's shadow
ISBN
9780773556256
Accession Number
P2022.01
Call Number
07.2 B23i
Collection
Archives Library
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Discovering people : english, french, cree

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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Honouring the strength of Indian women : plays, stories, poetry

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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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.
ISBN
9780887558368
Accession Number
2023.09
Call Number
07.2 M31h
Collection
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous Peoples
Law
Canada
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
Collection
Archives Library
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Words have a past : the English language, colonialism, and the newspapers of Indian boarding schools

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25726
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Griffith, Jane
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 G87w
Author
Griffith, Jane
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Peoples
Colonialism
Schools
Newspapers
Language
Abstract
For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled narratives there also existed sites of resistance. This book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth-century to the present day, post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Bury the lede: introduction -- Printer's devil: the trade of newspapers -- Indigenous languages did not disappear: English language instruction -- "Getting Indian words": representations of indigenous languages -- Ahead by a century: time on paper -- Anachronishm: reading the nineteenth century today -- Layout: space, place, and land -- Concluding thoughts.
ISBN
9781487521554
Accession Number
P2023.12
Call Number
07.2 G87w
Collection
Archives Library
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Indigenous repatriation handbook

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26210
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Royal British Columbia Museum
Call Number
07.2 C69i
Responsibility
Prepared by Jisang Nika Collison, Sdaahl K'awaas Lucy Bell, and Lou-ann Neal
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Royal British Columbia Museum
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
162 pages ; 6 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous People
Indigenous Traditions
Repatriation
Museums
Abstract
A reference for BC Indigenous communities and museums, created by and for Indigenous people working in repatriation. -- From back cover
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Organizing a successful repatriation -- 3. Conducting research -- 4. Repatriation from the royal BC museum -- 5. Repatriation for other institutions -- 6. For institutions wishing to repatriate to Indigenous Peoples in BC -- 7. Case study: repatriation journey of the Haida Nation -- APPENDIX -- A. Glossary of terms -- B. Indigenous museums and cultural centres in Canada -- C. Organizational templates, procedures and examples -- D. Fundraising resouces -- E. Sample letters to museums -- F. Tips for planning for travel and transport -- G. Global museums with major indigenous collections from BC -- H. Resources on education in indigenous museology -- I. Frequently asked questions about repatriation -- J. Repatriation stories.
ISBN
9780772673176
Accession Number
P2023.25
Call Number
07.2 C69i
Collection
Archives Library
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Picturing indians : native Americans in film, 1941-1960

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25516
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Black, Liza
Publisher
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska
Call Number
07.2 B57p
Author
Black, Liza
Publisher
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xxi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Film making
History
Colonialism
Abstract
Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post-World War II American films and production studios, which cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face-to-face with mainstream representations of "Indianness." -- From by publisher
Contents
"Just Like a Snake You'll Be Crawling in Your Own Shit": American Indians and White Narcissism ; "Indians Agree to Perform and Act as Directed": Urban Indian (and Non-Indian) Actors ; "Not Desired by You for Photographing": The Labor of American Indian (and Non-Indian) Extras ; "White May Be More Than Skin Deep": Whites in Redface ; "A Bit Thick": The Transformation of Indians into Movie Indians ; "Dig Up a Good Indian Historian": The Search for Authenticity
ISBN
9780803296800
Accession Number
P2022.02
Call Number
07.2 B57p
Collection
Archives Library
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