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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
- 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
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- Archives Library
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Hard is the journey : stories of Chinese settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26249
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
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Brotherhood to nationhood : George Manuel and the making of the modern indian movement
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25528
- 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
- Publisher
- Toronto : Between the Lines
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- 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
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Ed and Dorothy : Rocky Mountain romance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25229
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Storry, Lea
- Carleton, Brian
- Carleton, Mike
- Carleton, Terry
- Publisher
- Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
- Call Number
- 08.3 F21e
1 website
- Responsibility
- Lea Storry
- Brian Carleton
- Mike Carleton
- Terry Carleton
- Publisher
- Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 307 pages
- Abstract
- The book is a testament to three sons’ love for their parents, Ed and Dorothy. Ed and Dorothy were kind and caring people and raised their family with those values. This book is also a testament to a family’s love of community, the community of Banff National Park.I hope when you read this book, you’ll be immersed in a bygone era that includes the Second World, to the backcountry of Canada’s oldest national park. I hope you will see a way of life that can never be recreated in a place that is ever-changing but will always be home to Ed and Dorothy. (Edited down from Our Family Lines website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Edmond Clarence Carleton
- Chapter Two: Calgary Highlanders
- Chapter Three: Dorothy Eileen (nee Sweetzer) Fowler
- Chapter Four: Exercising War
- Chapter Five: Looking Towards the Future
- Chapter Six: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carleton
- Chapter Seven: "Home" in Banff
- Chapter Eight: This is backcountry living
- Chapter Nine: Nature reels
- Chapter Ten: Tragedies and changes
- Chapter Eleven: A time capsule, royalty and lots of wildlife
- Chapter Twelve: A year in the life of a warden and his family
- Chapter Thirteen: Conservation and concerns
- Chapter Fourteen: Making new memories while remembering the old
- Chapter Fifteen: Life moves on
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- ISBN
- 9780991707522
- Accession Number
- 2021.06
- Call Number
- 08.3 F21e
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- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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The geography of memory : reclaiming the cultural, natural and spiritual history of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First people
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25654
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Delehanty Pearkes, Eileen
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 D37a
- Author
- Delehanty Pearkes, Eileen
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- This compact book records a quest for understanding, to find the story behind the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First Nation. Known in the United States as the Arrow Lakes Indians of the Colville Confederated Tribes, the tribe lived along the upper Columbia River and its tributaries for thousands of years. In a story unique to First Nations in Canada, the Canadian federal government declared them “extinct” in 1956, eliminating with the stroke of a pen this tribe’s ability to legally access 80 per cent of their trans-boundary traditional territory. Part travelogue, part cultural history, the book details the culture, place names, practices, and landscape features of this lost tribe of British Columbia, through a contemporary lens that presents all readers with an opportunity to participate in reconciliation. -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781771605212
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 07.2 D37a
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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
- 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
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Indigenous identity formation in post-secondary institutions : I found myself in the most unlikely place
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25266
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Barnes, Barbara G.
- Voyageur, Cora J.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Call Number
- 07.2 B26i
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- Responsibility
- Barbara G. Barnes
- Cora J. Voyageur
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Brush Education Inc.
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 132 pages
- Subjects
- Anthropology
- First Nations
- History
- Abstract
- This book presents a study conducted between 2005 and 2010 of 60 self-declared Indigenous university students from western Canada. The study explored Indigenous identity formation among these students through these central research questions:
- Do conventional definitions of identity, and conventional identity formation theories, offer ways to understand the identity of these Indigenous students?
- What role, if any, does postsecondary education play in the formation and/or confirmation of the identity of Indigenous students as Indigenous individuals? The study is unique for two reasons. First, little scholarly attention has been paid to Indigenous individuals’ sense of identity. While the literature and research on identity is diverse, it mostly focuses on Eurocentric definitions of identity. Second, this study emphasizes Indigenous identity formation in postsecondary institutions. This book moves beyond a simple understanding of Indigenous students’ concept of identity and delves into determining the role a university education can play in the development of an Indigenous individual’s identity (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Preface and dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Find the self: a history of defining Indigenous identity in Canada
- Conventional and Indigenous concepts of identity
- A history of Indigenous education in Canada
- Who were the participants?
- Identity and Blumer's symbolic interactionism: definitions and participant responses
- Identity and Mihesuah's Native identity development theory: definition and participant responses
- The university experience
- Building on Mihesuah: a Canadian Indigenous identity formation model
- References
- About the authors
- ISBN
- 9781550598544
- Accession Number
- P2020.08
- Call Number
- 07.2 B26i
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- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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The politics of the canoe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25511
- 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
- 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
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Voicing identity : cultural appropriation and Indigenous issues
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25701
- 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
- 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.
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- 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
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Unpapered : writers consider Native American identity and cultural belonging
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26195
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 G46u
- Responsibility
- Edited by Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous People
- Indigenous Traditions
- History
- Turtle Island
- Identity
- Colonialism
- Abstract
- Unpapered is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins. Native heritage is neither simple nor always clearly documented, and citizenship is a legal and political matter of sovereign nations determined by such criteria as blood quantum, tribal rolls, or community involvement. Those who claim a Native cultural identity often have family stories of tenuous ties dating back several generations. Given that tribal enrollment was part of a string of government programs and agreements calculated to quantify and dismiss Native populations, many writers who identify culturally and are recognized as Native Americans do not hold tribal citizenship. With essays by Trevino Brings Plenty, Deborah Miranda, Steve Russell, and Kimberly Wieser, among others, Unpapered charts how current exclusionary tactics began as a response to “pretendians”—non-indigenous people assuming a Native identity for job benefits—and have expanded to an intense patrolling of identity that divides Native communities and has resulted in attacks on peoples’ professional, spiritual, emotional, and physical states. An essential addition to Native discourse, Unpapered shows how social and political ideologies have created barriers for Native people truthfully claiming identities while simultaneously upholding stereotypes --Publisher's description.
- Contents
- Introduction / by Diane Glancy -- Show Your Papers. Paperwork / Kim Shuck -- Things you can do with your chart for calculating quantum of Indian blood / Deborah Miranda -- The white box / Kimberly L. Becker -- Seeking the Indian gravy train / Steve Russell -- Unpapered / Diane Glancy -- Finding the Way. On Chumash Land / Terra Trevor -- A salmon-fishing story / Abigail Chabitnoy -- Confessions of a detribalized mixed-blood / Jeanetta Calhoun Mish -- Thinking with Bigfoot about a Jackpine Savage : cryptogenealogical reflections / Carter Meland -- Identity Wars. "You don't look Indian" / Michele Leonard -- Pretend Indian exegesis : the pretend Indian uncanny valley hypothesis in literature and beyond / Trevino Brings Plenty -- Dead Indians. Live Indians. Legal Indians. / Ron Querry -- The animals' ballgame / Geary Hobson -- We never spoke / Linda Boyden -- Why We Matter. On being Chamorro and belonging to Guam / Craig Santos Perez -- Aunt Ruby's little sister dances / Kimberly Wieser -- Buffalo heads in diners : remnant populations / Denise Dotson Low -- And thus the tribes diminish / Linda Rodriguez.
- ISBN
- 9781496235008
- Accession Number
- P2023.15
- Call Number
- 07.2 G46u
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Object lives and global histories in northern North America : material culture in motion, c. 1780-1980
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25572
- 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
- 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
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