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Abstract: Since its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has dictated and constrained the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Peoples, and is at the root of many enduring stereotypes. Bob Joseph's book comes at a key time in the reconciliation process, when awareness from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities is at a crescendo. Joseph examines how Indigenous Peoples can return to self-government, self-determination, and self-reliance--and why doing so would result in a better country for every Canadian. He dissects the complex issues around the Indian Act, and demonstrates why learning about its cruel and irrevocable legacy is vital for the country to move toward true reconciliation

Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Indian Act; Part 1 - Dark Chapter; The Beginning; Resistance is Futile; Tightening Control; "They rose against us"; And Its Days Are Numbered; Part 2 - Dismantling the Indian Act; If Not the Indian Act, Then What?; Looking Forward to a Better Canada; Appendix 1 - Terminology; Appendix 2 - Indian Residential Schools: A Chronology; Appendix 3 - Truth and Reconciliation Commision of Canada: Calls to Action; Appendix 4 - Classroom Activities, Discussion Guide, and Additional Reading; Appendix 5 - Quotes from John A. Macdonald and Duncan Campbell Scott; Notes; Index

ISBN: 9780995266520

Accession Number: P2020-1

Call Number: 08.1 J77t

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Associated blog post and link to order book

Websites

https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/21-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-the-indian-act-

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Canadians and the natural environment to the twenty-first century

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2012

Author: Forkey, Neil S.

Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press

Call Number: 04 F74c

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Author: Forkey, Neil S.

Responsibility: Neil S. Forkey

Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press

Published Date: 2012

Physical Description: 157 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Ecology; Politics; History; Canada; Environment; Environmental conservation

Abstract: Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history (from publisher's website)

Contents: Introduction -- The classification of Canada's environments (1600s to early 1900s) -- Natural resources, economic growth, and the need for conservation (1800s and 1900s) -- Romanticism and the preservation of nature (1800s and 1900s) -- Environmentalism (1950s to 2000s) -- Aboriginal Canadians and natural resources : an overview -- Conclusion.

ISBN: 9780802090225

Accession Number: P2020.08

Call Number: 04 F74c

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://utorontopress.com/ca/canadians-and-the-natural-environment-to-the-twenty-first-century-4

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The rebirth of Canada's Indians

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1977

Author: Cardinal, Harold

Publisher: Edmonton : Hurtig Publishers

Call Number: 07.2 C11t

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Author: Cardinal, Harold

Responsibility: Harold Cardinal

Publisher: Edmonton : Hurtig Publishers

Published Date: 1977

Physical Description: 222 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: First Nations; Treaties; Education; Politics; History; History-Canada

Abstract: The story of the Indian peoples' fight for justice through the tunnels and mazes of bureaucracy. An affirmation of the Indian way of life, of the Indian religion, and a demand for acceptance of the Alberta proposal for a new Indian Act. Chapters cover the Indian Act, Indian organization, education, economic development and aboriginal rights. (from LAC entry)

Contents: A Canadian - what the hell it's all about; Make love not war - the changing role of Indian organizations; Organize or else - it's not enough to find a bad guy; The politics of poverty - how to survive in the democratic system; Economic development I - without all the crap and mythology; Economic development II - some of teh nitty is pretty gritty; Education I - with our heads in the clouds; Education II - always the prime topic; Education III - strangers in the classroom; Education IV - the need for legislation and funding; The Indian Act I - government by a bunch of bureaucrats, or Her Majesty pulled a fast one; The Indian Act II - moose meat beats bologna; The Indian Act III - time to get down to specifics; The Indian Act IV - to serve the people, not the government; The Indian Act V - the only good indian is a sleeping indian; Aboriginal rights - from a philosophical, religious viewpoint; The Treaties - the Queen's forked tongue; The claims - our children won't wait; Indian organization I - they breathe the same air; they drink the same water; Indian organizations II - we forgot to scalp the general; Indian organizations III - the war continues - Chretien rises from the dead; Integration and alienation - education and our childres; Earmarked for Indian education - raindrops kept falling on their heads; The education ferment - Cold Lake stands firm; A hell of a mess - no problem is insoluable; Wood, grass, stone - despair and rebirth

ISBN: 0888301251

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 07.2 C11t

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Author information

Websites

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/harold-cardinal

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Surviving Canada : indigenous peoples celebrate 150 years of betrayal

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2017

Author: Ladner, Kiera L. (editor); Tait, Myra (editor)

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : ARP Books

Call Number: 08.1 L12s

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Author: Ladner, Kiera L. (editor); Tait, Myra (editor)

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : ARP Books

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 462 pages : illustrations (some colour)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Canada; History; First Nations; Politics

Abstract: Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples' complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how-even 150 years after Confederation-the fight for recognition of their treaty and Aboriginal rights continues. Through essays, art, and literature, Surviving Canada examines the struggle for Indigenous Peoples to celebrate their cultures and exercise their right to control their own economic development, lands, water, and lives. The Indian Act, Idle No More, and the legacy of residential schools are just a few of the topics covered by a wide range of elders, scholars, artists, and activists. Contributors include Mary Eberts, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Leroy Little Bear. (from ARP books)

Contents: Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal / Kiera L. Ladner Myra J. Tait -- Acknowledgements -- Nokomis and the Law in the Gift: Living Treaty Each Day / Aaron Mills -- Reconcile Your State of Mind / Rebecca Thomas -- Don't Read the Comments: The Role of Modern News Media in Bridging the Divide Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People in Canada / Waubgeshig Rice -- Canada is a Pretend Nation: REDx Talks- What I Know Now About Canada / Leroy Little Bear -- Anthem / Erin Freeland -- Inclusion is Just the Canadian Word for Assimilation: Self-Determinism and the Reconciliation Paradigm in Canada / Rachael Yacaa?al George -- The Path to Self-Determinism / Natan Obed -- Can Canada Retrieve the Principles of its First Confederation? / Peter H. Russell -- Celebrating Canada's 150th Birthday: A Play in One Act / Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox -- Kapyong and Treaty One First Nations: When the Crown Can Do No Wrong / Myra J. Tait -- Canada, I can cite for you / Christie Belcourt -- "To Honour the Lives of Those Taken From Us": Restor(y)ing Resurgence and Survivance through Walking With Our Sisters / Shalene Jobin Tara Kappo -- Lament for Confederation / Dan George -- Language Rights as Aboriginal Rights: From Words to Action / Karen Drake -- Canada's History Goes Beyond 150 Years / Doug Cuthand -- Forgetting to Celebrate: Genocide and Social Amnesia as Foundational to the Canadian Settler State / David B. MacDonald -- Kahwa´:tsire: Canada 150 Through The Lens of Mohawk Motherhood / Kehente Horn-Miller / Waneek Miller -- Canada: Portrait of a Serial Killer / Jeff Corntassel Christine Bird -- Her 210 / Jana-Rae Yerxa -- Because It's 1951: The Non-History of First Nations Female Band Suffrage and Leadership / Mary Jane Logan McCallum Shelisa Klassen -- My Country 'tis of Thy People You're Dying / Buffy Sainte-Marie -- Reconciliation on Trial: Evaluating What Reconciliation Means in the Context of Aboriginal Justice / David Milward -- Got Tolerance? / Felicia Sinclair -- Drinking Dispossession: Shoal Lake 40, Winnipeg, and the Making of Canada / Adele Perry.

ISBN: 9781894037891

Accession Number: P2020-1

Call Number: 08.1 L12s

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Summary on ARP Books website

Websites

https://arpbooks.org/Books/S/Surviving-Canada

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Unsettled expectations : uncertainty, land and settler decolonization

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2016

Author: Mackey, Eva

Publisher: Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing

Call Number: 07.2 M11u

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Author: Mackey, Eva

Publisher: Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing

Published Date: 2016

Physical Description: x, 224 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: First Nations; Canada; Politics; Land use

Abstract: What do local conflicts about land rights tell us about Indigenous-settler relations and the challenges and possibilities of decolonization? In Unsettled Expectations, Eva Mackey draws on ethnographic case studies about land rights conflicts in Canada and the U.S. to argue that critical analysis of present-day disputes over land, belonging and sovereignty will help us understand how colonization is reproduced today and how to challenge it. Employing theoretical approaches from Indigenous and settler colonial studies, and in the context of critical historical and legal analysis, Mackey urges us to rethink the assumptions of settler certainty that underpin current conflicts between settlers and Indigenous peoples and reveals settler privilege to be a doomed fantasy of entitlement. Finally, Mackey draws on case studies of Indigenous-settler alliances to show how embracing difficult uncertainty can be an integral part of undoing settler privilege and a step toward decolonization. (from Fernwood Publishing website)

Contents: Part one. Contact zones and the settler colonial present -- Introduction : settler colonialism and contested homelands -- 1. Genealogies of certainty and uncertainty -- 2. Fantasizing and legitimating possession -- Part two. Ontological uncertainties and resurgent colonialism -- Introduction : unsettled feelings and communities -- 3. Defending expectations -- 4. Settler jurisdictional imaginaries in practice : equality, law, race and multiculturalism -- Part three. Imagining otherwise : embracing settler uncertainty -- Introduction : treaty as a verb -- 5. "Turning the doctrine of discovery on its head" : the Onondoga land rights action -- 6. Creative uncertainty and decolonizing relations -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.

ISBN: 9781552668894

Accession Number: P2020-1

Call Number: 07.2 M11u

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Summary on Fernwood Publishing website

Websites

https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/unsettled-expectations

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