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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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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
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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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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Indigenous celebrity : entanglements with fame

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
07.2 A3i
Responsibility
Edited by Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander Innes
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Film making
Films
Abstract
Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people's entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people. It questions and critiques the whitestream concept of celebrity and the very juxtaposition of "Indigenous" and "celebrity" and casts a critical lens on celebrity culture's impact on Indigenous people. Indigenous people who willingly engage with celebrity culture, or are drawn up into it, enter into a complex terrain of social relations informed by layered dimensions of colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia/transphobia, and classism. Yet this reductive framing of celebrity does not account for the ways that Indigenous people's own worldviews inform Indigenous engagement with celebrity culture--or rather, popular social and cultural forms of recognition. Indigenous Celebrity reorients conversations on Indigenous celebrity towards understanding how Indigenous people draw from nation-specific processes of respect and recognition while at the same time navigating external assumptions and expectations. This collection examines the relationship of Indigenous people to the concept of celebrity in past, present, and ongoing contexts, identifying commonalities, tensions, and possibilities. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Introduction: Indigeneity, celebrity, and fame: Accounting for colonialism / Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander Innes ; Mino-Waawiindaganeziwin: What does Indigenous celebrity mean within Anishinaabeg contexts? / Renee E. Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe Bedard ; Empowering voices from the past: The playing experiences of retired pasifika rugby league athletes in Australia / David Lakisa, Katerina Teaiwa, Daryl Adair, and Tracy Taylor ; My mom, The ‘military mohawk princess’: Kahntinetha Horn through the lens of Indigenous female celebrity / Kahente Horn-Miller ; Indigenous activism and celebrity: Negotiating access, inclusion, and the politics of humility / Jonathon G. Hill and Virginia McLaurin ; Indigenous activism and celebrity: Negotiating access, expectation, and the politics of humility / Jonathan G. Hill and Virginia McLaurin ; Rags-to-riches and other fairytales: Indigenous celebrity in Australia 1950-80 / Karen Fox ; “Pretty boy” Trudeau vs. the “Algonquin Agitator”: Hitting the ropes of Canadian colonialist masculinities / Kim Anderson and Brendan Hokowhitu ; Famous “last” speakers: Celebrity and erasure in media coverage of Indigenous language endangerment / Jenny L. Davis ; Celebrity in Absentia: Situating the Indigenous people of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian social imaginary / Aadita Chaudhury ; Marvin Rainwater and “the pale faced Indian”: How cover songs appropriated a story of cultural appropriation / Christina Giacona ; Collectivity as Indigenous anti-celebrity: Global Indigeneity and the Indigenous rights movement / Sheryl Lightfoot ; Makings, meanings, and recognitions: The stuff of Anishinaabe stars / w. C. Sy.
ISBN
9780887559068
Accession Number
P2022.02
Call Number
07.2 A3i
Collection
Archives Library
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The politics of the canoe

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
07.2 E4t
Responsibility
Edited by Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Canoeing
Politics
History
History-Canada
Water
Abstract
Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices, and multicultural goals. Documenting many of these various uses, this book asserts that the canoe is not merely a matter of leisure and pleasure; it is folded into many facets of our political life. Taking a critical stance on the canoe, The Politics of the Canoe expands and enlarges the stories that we tell about the canoe's relationship to, for example, colonialism, nationalism, environmentalism, and resource politics. To think about the canoe as a political vessel is to recognize how intertwined canoes are in the public life, governance, authority, social conditions, and ideologies of particular cultures, nations, and states. Almost everywhere we turn, and any way we look at it, the canoe both affects and is affected by complex political and cultural histories. Across Canada and the U.S., canoeing cultures have been born of activism and resistance as much as of adherence to the mythologies of wilderness and nation building. The essays in this volume show that canoes can enhance how we engage with and interpret not only our physical environments, but also our histories and present-day societies. -- From back cover
Contents
The Politics of the Canoe / Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz ; Tribal Canoe Journeys and Indigenous Cultural Resurgence: A Story from the Heiltsuk Nation / Frank Brown, Hillary Beattie, Vina Brown, and Ian Mauro ; This is What Makes Us Strong: Canoe Revitalization, Reciprocal Heritage, and the Chinnok Indian Nation / Rachel L. Cushman, Jon D. Daehnke, and Tony A. Johnson ; Whaehdoo Eto K'e / John B. Zoe and Jessica Dunkin ; Building Canoe, Knowledge, and Relationships ; Model Canoes, Territorial Histories, and Linguistic Resurgence: Decolonizing the Tappan Adney Archives / Chris Ling Chapman ; Ginawaydaganuc: The Birchbark Canoe in Algonquin Community Resurgence and Reconciliation / Chuck Commanda, Larry McDermott, and Sarah Nelson ; Beyond Birchbark: How Lahontan's Images of Unfamiliar Canores Confirm His Remarkable Western Expedition of 1688 / Peter H. Wood ; Monumental Trip: Don Starkell's Canoe Voyage from Winnipeg to the Mouth of the Amazon / Albert Braz ; The Dam That Wasn't: How the Canoe Became Political on the Petawa River / Cameron Baldassarra ; Unpacking and Repacking the Canoe: Canoe as Research Vessel / Danielle Gendron
ISBN
9780887559099
Accession Number
P2022.03
Call Number
07.2 E4t
Collection
Archives Library
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Picturing indians : native Americans in film, 1941-1960

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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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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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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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Adjusting the lens : Indigenous activism, colonial legacies, and photographic heritage

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25525
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
Call Number
07.2 L62a
Responsibility
Edited by Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
vi, 312 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Art
Indigenous Photography
Politics
Heritage
Colonialism
Abstract
Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call attention to how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record. Adjusting the Lens presents original research in this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary across a range of geographically and culturally distinctive contexts. The transnational perspective of this exciting collection challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 / Carol Williams ; Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adentures in Sami Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen ; Negotiating Meaning: John Moller's Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg Hovik ; Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigenous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers ; Distruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greehorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson ; "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sami Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola ; The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander People by Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham ; On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Chrisitne Sy ; Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sami Political Community by Laura Junka-Aikio ; Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye ; Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery of Sapmi - Becoming a Nation at the Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer Stein ; Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards
ISBN
9780774866613
Accession Number
P2022.04
Call Number
07.2 L62a
Collection
Archives Library
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Ancestors : indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25527
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Responsibility
Edited by Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning
Publisher
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Library
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
x, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Photography
History
History of Alberta
Western Canada
Colonialism
Abstract
This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, artwork, humour, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs. Some serve as records of cherished landscapes that may have been altered. Others provide links to ancestors: revered leaders, soldiers, healers, thinkers, and orators. The curators hope that the process of identifying the people in these photographs, only begun here, will continue. (Provided by Publisher)
Contents
Foreword / Chief Willie Littlechild ; The nature of the collection and its challenges ; Western Canada in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries ; The aims of the curators ; The Exhibition
ISBN
9781551954547
Accession Number
P2022.05
Call Number
07.2 C24a
07.2 C24a copy 2
Collection
Archives Library
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Brotherhood to nationhood : George Manuel and the making of the modern indian movement

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
McFarlane, Peter and Manuel, Doreen
Publisher
Toronto : Between the Lines
Call Number
07.2 M16a
Author
McFarlane, Peter and Manuel, Doreen
Publisher
Toronto : Between the Lines
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xxvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
History
History-Canada
Colonialism
Politics
Abstract
George Manuel was the strategist and visionary behind the modern Indigenous movement in Canada. A three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, he laid the groundwork for what would become the Assembly of First Nations and was the founding president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Authors Peter McFarlane and Doreen Manuel follow him on a riveting journey from his childhood on a Shuswap reserve through three decades of fierce and dedicated activism. In these pages, an all-new foreword by celebrated Mi'kmaq lawyer and activist Pam Palmater is joined by an afterword from Manuel's granddaughter, land defender Kanahus Manuel. This edition features new photos and previously untold stories of the pivotal roles that the women of the Manuel family played--and continue to play--in the battle for Indigenous rights.
ISBN
9781771135108
Accession Number
P2021.02
Call Number
07.2 M16a
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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Finding directions west : readings that locate and dislocate Western Canada's past

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25531
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
07.2 c71f
Responsibility
Edited by George Colpitts and Heather Devine
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
ix, 266 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
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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Braided learning : illuminating indigenous presence through art and story

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Dion, Susan D.
Publisher
Vancouver, B.C. : Purich Books
Call Number
07.2 D62b
Author
Dion, Susan D.
Publisher
Vancouver, B.C. : Purich Books
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
275 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Art
Reconciliation
Storytelling
Studying
Teaching
Education
Abstract
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Indigenous activism have made many Canadians uncomfortably aware of how little they know about First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. In Braided Learning, Lenape-Potawatomi scholar and educator Susan Dion shares her approach to learning and teaching about Indigenous histories and perspectives. Métis leader Louis Riel illuminated the connection between creativity and identity in his declaration, “My people will sleep for a hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirits back.” Using the power of stories and artwork, Dion offers respectful ways to address challenging topics including treaties, the Indian Act, the Sixties Scoop, land claims, resurgence, the drive for self-determination, and government policies that undermine language, culture, and traditional knowledge systems. Braided Learning draws on Indigenous knowledge and world views to explain perspectives that are often missing from the national narrative. This generous work is an invaluable resource for Canadians trying to make sense of a difficult past, decode unjust conditions in the present, and work toward a more equitable future. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Introduction: Indigenous Presence ; Requisites for Reconciliation ; Seeing Yourself in Relationship with Settler Colonialism ; The Historical Timeline: Refusing Absence, Knowing Presence, and Being Indigenous ; Learning from Contemporary Indigenous Artists ; The Braiding Histories Stories ; Conclusion: Wuleelham - Make Good Tracks ; Glossary and Additional Resources: Making Connections, Extending Learning
ISBN
9780774880794
Accession Number
P2022.04
Call Number
07.2 D62b
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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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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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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Object lives and global histories in northern North America : material culture in motion, c. 1780-1980

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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
07.2 L54o
Responsibility
Edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
x, [x], 450 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Museum
Museum Studies
Material culture
North America
Object
History
Indigenous
Indigenous Art
Abstract
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art and material culture that correct and give nuance to global and imperial histories. The result of a collaborative research process involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors, this book looks closely at the circumstances of making, use, and circulation of these objects: things that supported and defined both Indigenous resistance and colonial and imperial purposes. Contributors re-envision the histories of northern North America by focusing on the lives of things flowing to and from this vast region between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, showing how material culture is a critical link that tied this diverse landscape to the wider world. An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America provides a key analytical and methodological lens that exposes the complexity of cultural encounters and connections between local and global communities.-- Provided by publisher
Contents
Acknowledgments ; Maps ; Introduction / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 1. Object lives: innovating methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 1. Management and methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 2. Crossing worlds: hide coats, relationships, and identity in Rupert's Land and Britain / Laura Peers ; 3. "A typical Canadian outfit": the Red River coat / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 2. The Huron-Wendat Capot / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 3. The Red River coat and its commercial promotion / Cynthia Cooper ; 4. Colonizing winter: tobogganing, toboggan suits, and imperial agendas in the Northlands, c. 1800-1900 / Beverly Lemire ; Sidebar 4. Gifts of empire / Beverly Lemire ; 5. Peter Rindisbacher and the imagined North: circulations, realities, and representations / Julie-Ann Mercer ; 6. The wampum and the print: objects tied to Nicolas Vincent Tsawenhohi's London visit, 1824-1825 / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 5. Active imperial networks / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; 7. A brief history of the "Eskimo sweater" / Laurie K. Bertram ; 8. Clare Sheridan: British writer, sculptor, and collector in Blackfoot country, 1937 / Sarah Carter ; 9. Dolls, women's art, and Indigenous networks in the borderlands of northern North America, 1885-1945 / Katie Pollock ; 10. Dew claw bags, Indigenous women, and material culture in history and practice / Judy Half and Beverly Lemire ; 11. Inscribing the North West: hide jackets and colonial surveyors / Susan Berry ; Sidebar 6. Jackets in circulation / Susan Berry ; 12. From the sanatorium to the museum and beyond: the circulation of art and craft made by Indigenous patients at tuberculosis hospitals / Sara Komarnisky ; Figures ; Bibliography ; Contributors ; Index.
ISBN
9780228003991
Accession Number
P2022.13
Call Number
07.2 L54o
Collection
Archives Library
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