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Hard is the journey : stories of Chinese settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Chow, Lily
Publisher
Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
Call Number
08.3 C46h
Author
Chow, Lily
Publisher
Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Chinese
Women
Immigration
Canada
History
British Columbia
Abstract
In Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC and uncovers the history of the Chinese labourers who completed the deadly work of blazing the Dewdney Trail from Hope to Kootenay only to be dismissed, without any compensation, as soon as the project was completed. She also offers an intimate and inspiring look into the many ways Chinese immigrants survived, finding community, building resilience, and preserving their culture. Piecing together interviews with Kootenay residents and descendents of Chinese immigrants, government records and documents, and early newspaper articles, Chow bravely exposes dark parts of BC's history while shedding light on the struggles but also resilience and untold accomplishments of the Chinese immigrants who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today. Hard is the Journey is Chow's fourth book on the history of Chinese Canadians. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- The Wild Horse Creek gold rush: Fisherville -- The key city: Cranbrook -- Once the Farwell town: Revelstoke -- The queen city: Nelson -- The golden city: Rossland -- Afterword.
ISBN
9781773860749
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
08.3 C46h
Collection
Archives Library
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Carrying the burden of peace : reimagining Indigenous masculinities through story

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25728
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
McKegney, Sam
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Call Number
07.2 M19c
Author
McKegney, Sam
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xxxiii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Traditions
Masculinity
Canada
History
Abstract
Through rigorous engagement with Indigenous literary art, Carrying the Burden of Peace highlights the decolonial potential of Indigenous masculinities. Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honour song--one that celebrates rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic? Carrying the Burden of Peace answers affirmatively. Countering the perception that masculinity has been so contaminated as to be irredeemable, the book explores Indigenous literary art for understandings of masculinity that exceed the impoverished inheritance of colonialism. Carrying the Burden of Peace weaves together stories of Indigenous life, love, eroticism, pain, and joy to map the contours of diverse, empowered, and non-dominant Indigenous masculinities. It is from here that a more balanced world may be pursued. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Indigenous masculinities and story -- Shame and deterritorialization -- Journeying back to the body -- De(f/v)iant generosity: gender and the gift -- Masculinity and kinship -- Naked and dreaming forward: a conclusion.
ISBN
9780889777934
Accession Number
P2023.15
Call Number
07.2 M19c
Collection
Archives Library
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Intimate integration : a history of the Sixties Scoop and the colonization of Indigenous kinship

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Stevenson, Allyson D.
Publisher
Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 S4i
Author
Stevenson, Allyson D.
Publisher
Toronto, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
xv, 328 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indian Act
Canada
Law
Colonialism
Kinship
Genocide
Cultural Genocide
Abstract
Privileging Indigenous voices and experiences, Intimate Integration documents the rise and fall of North American transracial adoption projects, including the Adopt Indian and Me´tis Project and the Indian Adoption Project. The author argues that the integration of adopted Indian and Me´tis children mirrored the new direction in post-war Indian policy and welfare services. She illustrates how the removal of Indigenous children from Indigenous families and communities took on increasing political and social urgency, contributing to what we now call the "Sixties Scoop." Intimate Integration utilizes an Indigenous gender analysis to identify the gendered operation of the federal Indian Act and its contribution to Indigenous child removal, over-representation in provincial child welfare systems, and transracial adoption. Specifically, women and children's involuntary enfranchisement through marriage, as laid out in the Indian Act, undermined Indigenous gender and kinship relationships. Making profound contributions to the history of settler-colonialism in Canada, Intimate Integration sheds light on the complex reasons behind persistent social inequalities in child welfare. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Bleeding heart of settler colonialism -- Adoptive kinship and belonging -- Rehabilitating the "subnormal [Me´tis] family" in Saskatchewan -- Green Lake Children's Shelter experiment : from institutionalization to integration in Saskatchewan -- Post-war liberal citizenship and the colonization of Indigenous kinship -- Child welfare as system and lived experience -- Saskatchewan's Indigenous resurgence and the restoration of Indigenous kinship and caring -- Confronting cultural genocide in the 1980s -- Conclusion : Intimate Indigenization -- Epilogue : Coming home -- Appendix: Road allowance communities in Saskatchewan.
ISBN
9781487520458
Accession Number
P2023.12
Call Number
07.2 S4i
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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Voicing identity : cultural appropriation and Indigenous issues

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 B94v
Responsibility
Edited by John Borrows and Kent McNeil
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
vi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Indigenous Culture
Appropriation
Canada
History
Abstract
Written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, Voicing Identity examines the issue of cultural appropriation in the contexts of researching, writing, and teaching about Indigenous peoples. This book grapples with the question: who is qualified to engage in these activities and how can this be done appropriately and respectfully? The authors address these questions from their own individual perspectives and experiences, often revealing personal struggles and their ongoing attempts to resolve them. There is diversity in perspectives and approaches, but also a common goal: to conduct research and teach in respectful ways that enhance understanding of Indigenous histories, cultures, and rights, and promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Bringing together contributors with diverse backgrounds and unique experiences, Voicing Identity will be of interest to students and scholars studying Indigenous issues as well as anyone seeking to engage in the work of making Canada a model for just relations between the original peoples and newcomers.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction / John Borrows and Kent McNeil -- 1. Su-taxwiye: Keeping My Name Clean / Sarah Morales -- 2. At the Corner of Hawks and Powell: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous People, and the Conundrum of Double Permanence / Keith Thor Carlson -- 3. Look at Your "Pantses": The Art of Wearing and Representing Indigenous Culture as Performative Relationship / Aime´e Craft -- 4. Indigenous Legal Traditions, De-sacralization, Re-sacralization, and the Space for Not-Knowing / Hadley Friedland -- 5. Mino-audjiwaewin: Choosing Respect, Even in Times of Conflict / Lindsay Borrows -- 6. "How Could You Sleep When Beds Are Burning?" Cultural Appropriation and the Place of Non-Indigenous Academics / Felix Hoehn -- 7. Who Should Teach Indigenous Law? / Karen Drake and A. Christian Airhart -- 8. Reflections on Cultural Appropriation / Michael Asch -- 9. Turning Away from the State: Cultural Appropriation in the Shadow of the Courts / John Borrows -- 10. Voice and Indigenous Rights from a Non-Indigenous Perspective / Robert Hamilton -- 11. Guided by Voices? Perspective and Pluralism in the Constitutional Order / Joshua Ben David Nichols -- 12. NONU WEL,WEL TI,A´ NE T ,E E : Our Canoe Is Really Tippy / kQwa'st'not and Hannah Askew -- 13. Sharp as a Knife: Judge Begbie and Reconciliation / Hamar Foster -- 14. On Getting It Right the First Time: Researching the Constitution Express / Emma Feltes -- 15. Confronting Dignity Injustices / Sa'ke'j Henderson
ISBN
9781487544683
Accession Number
P2023.10
Call Number
07.2 B94v
Collection
Archives Library
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Decolonizing sport

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Call Number
07.2 F77d
Responsibility
Edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field, and Murray G. Phillips
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canada
History-Canada
Education
Sport
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous People
Indigenous Traditions
Indigenous Customs
Abstract
The path to decolonization is difficult and complex, and can even be contradictory at times, as when an Indigenous community enlists the same corporate sponsor that will destroy its natural environment to provide sport programming for its youth. There is no easy way forward. The Black Lives Matter movement, and their massive followers on social media, propelled forward discussions about the inequities that Covid-19 highlighted with unprecedented momentum. Indigenous people in Canada voiced their concerns in solidarity, calling attention to disparities they faced in everything from impoverished Indigenous health care initiatives to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the Canadian justice system, demanding to be heard alongside systemic change. Structural adjustments were afoot, including changes in the professional sport leagues. In both the United States and Canada, people witnessed the toppling of racist sports team names and logos in the spring and summer, not the least of which included the American Washington NFL team (Redskins) and the Canadian Edmonton CFL team (Eskimos). Clearly Indigenous people and their allies saw sport as a part of this desire for social change. This multi-authored collection contributes to that desire by bringing the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous allied scholars together to explore the history of sport, physical activity, and embodied physical culture in the Indigenous context. Including chapters that address Indigenous topics beyond the political boundaries of Canada, including the US, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Kenya, this collection considers questions such as: How can the history of sport (a colonizing practice with European origins) exist in dialogue with Indigenous voices to open up possibilities for reconsidering the history of modern sport? How can Indigenous and anti-oppressive research methodologies/methods inform the study of sport history? What are the ethics and responsibilities associated with conducting an Indigenous sport or recreation history? How can sport history as a discipline be open to the study of traditional land-based recreation? How can the meanings of "sport" be made more inclusive to include a variety of recreational practices? How can sport historians learn from histories of colonization and how can they contribute to a more reciprocal approach to knowledge formation through Indigenous community engagement? How can the discipline of sport history meaningfully support movements of Indigenous resurgence, regeneration, and decolonization? -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Ways of knowing: sport, colonialism, and decolonization / Janice Forsyth, Christine O'Bonsawin, Russell Field -- Beyond competition: an Indigenous perspective on organized sport / Brian Rice -- More than a mascot: how the mascot debate erases Indigenous people in sport / Natalie Welch -- Witnessing painful pasts: understanding images of sports at Canadian Indian residential schools / Taylor McKee and Janice Forsyth -- The absence of Indigenous moving bodies: whiteness and decolonizing sport history / Malcolm MacLean -- # 87: using Wikipedia for sport reconciliation / Victoria Paraschak -- Olympism at face value: the legal feasibility of Indigenous-led Olympic Games / Christine O'Bonsawin -- Canoe racing to fishing guides: sport and settler colonialism in Mi'kma'ki / John Reid -- Transcending colonialism?: rodeos and racing in Lethbridge / Robert Kossuth -- "Men pride themselves on feats of endurance": masculinities and movement cultures in Kenyan running history / Michelle M. Sikes -- Stealing, drinking, and not cooperating: sport and everyday resistance in Aboriginal settlements in Australia / Gary Osmond -- Let's make baseball!: practices of unsettling on the recreational ball diamonds of Tkaronto/Toronto / Craig Fortier and Colin Hastings -- Subjugating and liberating at once: Indigenous sport history as a double-edge sword / Brendan Hokowhitu.
ISBN
9781773636344
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
07.2 F77d
Collection
Archives Library
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Living in Indigenous sovereignty

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Carlson-Manathara, Elizabeth and Rowe, Gladys
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Call Number
07.2 C21l
Author
Carlson-Manathara, Elizabeth and Rowe, Gladys
Responsibility
Foreword by Aime´e Craft, Leona Star and Dawnis Kennedy
Publisher
Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
302 pages ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Traditions
Canada
Abstract
This book advances the concept of living in Indigenous sovereignty as an ontological and relational framework for settlers, particularly white settlers, who wish to initiate or deepen their decolonial/anti-colonial work while living on Indigenous lands occupied by the Canadian state. Here, living in Indigenous sovereignty refers to living in accordance with the understanding that we are on Indigenous lands which contain their own stories, systems of governance, relationships, laws, knowledges, protocols, obligations, and opportunities which have been understood and practiced by Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. Living in Indigenous sovereignty means understanding that our responsibilities and opportunities as settlers on these lands involve learning and placing ourselves in accountable and loving relationship with Indigenous lands, peoples, and sovereignty. Based on a completed dissertation, the book enacts accountability and embodies living in Indigenous sovereignty by centering the work and perspectives of Indigenous scholars, Knowledge holders, and activists regarding settler colonialism and decolonization. Thus, the theoretical and practice perspectives that point to pathways of living in Indigenous sovereignty are based largely on Indigenous sources. This work also features life stories/narratives of white settler activists for whom anti-colonial and decolonial work is a major life focus. These stories are intended to serve as inspiration and guidance for white settlers who wish to initiate or deepen their anti-colonial and decolonial work. Ultimately, this book aims to contribute to decolonial social change, particularly in Canada. I believe Fernwood would be a great fit as a publisher of this book due to its focus on confronting oppression and exploitation toward creating a more socially just world. Scholarship regarding frameworks for settler roles in decolonization has been historically sparse, although it has increased in the past decade (see complementary books below). Although most of the ideas in this book have been present in various forms in activist and Indigenous circles, the book will provide a deep and accessible exploration of living in Indigenous sovereignty and what this entails, as well as some of the tensions present in the work. Further, the approach of using extended life narratives of decolonial settler activists as a way to inspire others and illustrate the principles of the work in practice is something I haven't yet seen in book form. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introductions / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Gladys Rowe -- Settler Colonialism and Resistance / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Introducing the Narratives / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara with Aime´e Craft, Dawnis Kennedy, Leona Star, and Chickadee Richard -- Monique Woroniak / Monque Woroniak and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Murray Angus / Murray Angus and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Steve Heinrichs / Steve Heinrichs and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Franklin Jones / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Anonymous -- Orienting Toward Indigenous Sovereignty / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Joy Eidse / Joy Eidse and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Adam Barker / Adam Barker and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Susanne McCrea McGovern / Susanne McCrea McGovern and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Kathi Avery Kinew / Kathi Avery Kinew and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Rick Wallace / Rick Wallace and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- What Indigenous Peoples Have Asked of Us / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- John Doe / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Anonymous -- Silvia Straka / Silvia Straka with Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Dave Bleakney / Dave Bleakney with Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Victoria Freeman / Victoria Freeman and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Honourings / Gladys Rowe and Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara -- Conclusions / Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Gladys Rowe -- Afterword / Gladys Rowe, Sherry Copenance, Yvonne Pompana, and Chickadee Richard.
ISBN
9781773632384
Accession Number
P2023.02
Call Number
07.2 C21l
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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