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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
- 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
- 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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Authorized heritage : place, memory, and historic sites prairie Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25510
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Coutts, Robert
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 C83a
- Author
- Coutts, Robert
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Memory
- Heritage
- Historic sites
- Nationalism
- Colonialism
- Abstract
- Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research in Parks Canada records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national and conventional messages that commonly reflect colonialist visions of the past. Throughout western Canada there are vivid examples of original and official views of what constitutes a national narrative. Yet many of the places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler colonial histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks, and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious. At these heritage sites, Indigenous perceptions of the past confront the conventions of settler colonial history and denote the fluid cultural perspectives that must define the shifting ground of heritage space. Robert Coutts brings his many years of experience as a Parks Canada historian to this detailed examination of heritage sites across the prairies. He shows how the process of commemoration reflects social and cultural perspectives that privilege a confident and progressive national narrative. He also examines how class, gender, and sexuality often remain apart from the heritage discourse. Most notably, Authorized Heritage examines how governments became the mediators of what is heritage and, just as significantly, what is not. -- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- Landscapes of Memory in Prairie Canada ; Memory Hooks: Commemorating Indigenous Cultural Landscapes ; National Dreams: Commemorating the Fur Trade in Manitoba ; "We Came. We Toiled. God Blessed": Settler Colonialism and Constructing Authenticity ; Contested Space: Commemorating Indigenous Places of Resistance ; Heritage Place: The Function of Modernity, Gender, and Sexuality ; History, Memory, and the Heritage Discourse
- ISBN
- 9780887559266
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 08.1 C83a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Bead by bead : constitutional rights and Métis community
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25524
- 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
- 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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Blood memory : the tragic decline and improbable resurrection of the American Buffalo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26204
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Duncan, Dayton and Burns, Ken
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf
- Call Number
- 08 D91b
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Buffalo
- Pablo-Allard buffalo round-up
- Conservation
- Indigenous
- Colonialism
- Environment
- Ecology
- Abstract
- The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today--a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo--our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals. Newcomers to the continent found the buffalo fascinating at first, but in time they came to consider them a hindrance to a young nation's expansion. And in the space of only a decade they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides, with their carcasses left to rot on the prairies. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would be rescued by a motley collection of Americans, each of them driven by different--and sometimes competing--impulses. This is the rich and complicated story of a young republic's heedless rush to conquer a continent, but also of the dawn of the conservation era--a story of America at its very best and worst -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Part 1: The Trail to Extinction -- The Buffalo and the People -- Strangers -- Omen in the Skies -- The Iron Horse -- Kills Tomorrow -- Part 2: Back From the Brink -- A Death Wind for My People -- Just in the Nick of Time -- Changes of Heart -- Ghosts -- The Last Refuge -- Blood Memory -- Big Medicine.
- Notes
- Dayton Duncan ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan ; with an introduction by Ken Burns ; picture research by Emily Mosher and Susan Shumaker ; design by Maggie Hinders.
- Whyte Museum archival collections utilized.
- ISBN
- 9780593537343
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08 D91b
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- Archives Library
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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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- Archives Library
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Canada's place names and how to change them
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25683
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Beck, Lauren
- Publisher
- Montreal, Quebec : Concordia University Press
- Call Number
- 02.1 B39c
- Author
- Beck, Lauren
- Publisher
- Montreal, Quebec : Concordia University Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- ix, 251 pages ; 21 cm
- Abstract
- The first book to demonstrate how inadequately place names and visual emblems represent the presence of women, people of colour, and people living with disabilities, Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them provides an illuminating overview of where these names came from and what they reflect. This book disentangles the distinct cultural, religious, and historical naming practices and visual emblems in Canada’s First Nations, provinces, territories, municipalities, and federal lands. Starting with a discussion of Indigenous place knowledge and naming practices from several Indigenous and Inuit groups spanning the country, it foregrounds the breadth of possible ways to name places. Lauren Beck then illustrates the naming practices introduced by Europeans and how they misunderstood, mis-rendered, and appropriated Indigenous place names, while scrutinizing the histories of Columbian names, missionary names, and the secular and commemorative names of the last two centuries. She studies key symbols and emblems such as maps, flags, and coats of arms as visual equivalents of place names to show whose identities powerfully inform Canada’s place nomenclature. This book also documents the policies and authorities that have traditionally governed the creation and modification of names and examines case studies of institutions and communities who have changed their names to demonstrate pathways to change.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Knowing in Place -- A Brief History of Settler-Colonial Naming Practices in Canada -- Gender and Canada’s Place Names -- Indigenous Names in a Settler-Colonial Context -- Marginalized Groups and Canada’s Place Names -- How to Discuss and Change Names.
- ISBN
- 9781988111391
- Accession Number
- P2023.01
- Call Number
- 02.1 B39c
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Cataloguing culture : legacies of colonialism in museum documentation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25523
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Turner, Hannah
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia
- Call Number
- 00 T85c
- Author
- Turner, Hannah
- Publisher
- Vancouver, British Columbia : University of British Columbia
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- xiii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Museums
- Cataloguing
- Colonialism
- Inclusion
- Abstract
- How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying, and cataloguing--hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and tribal affiliations --much of it wrong. Cataloguing Culture examines how colonialism operates in museum bureaucracies. Using the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History as her reference, Hannah Turner organizes her study by the technologies framing museum work over 200 years: field records, the ledger, the card catalogue, the punch card, and eventually the database. She examines how categories were applied to ethnographic material culture and became routine throughout federal collecting institutions. As Indigenous communities encounter the documentary traces of imperialism while attempting to reclaim what is theirs, this timely work shines a light on access to and return of cultural heritage. -- Provided by publishe
- Contents
- Introduction: "The Making of Specimens Eloquent" ; Writing Desiderata: Defining Evidence in the Field ; On the Margins: Paper Systems of Classification ; Ordering Devices and Indian Files: Cataloguing Ethnographic Specimens ; Pragmatic Classification: The Routine Work of Description after 1950 ; Object, Specimen, Data: Computerization and the Legacy of Dirty Data ; Conclusion: A Museum Data Legacy for the Future
- ISBN
- 9780774863933
- Accession Number
- P2022.04
- Call Number
- 00 T85c
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- 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
- 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
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- Archives Library
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The golden grindstone : the adventures of George M. Mitchell
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26172
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Call Number
- 08.2 G76g
- Responsibility
- Recorded by Angus Graham
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Published Date
- 1935
- Contents
- I. The general idea -- II. The geographical problem -- III. The immigrant train -- IV. Edmonton -- V. Athbasca landing -- VI. The Athabasca River -- VII. Grand rapids -- VIII. The Slave River -- IX. Great Slave Lake -- X. Fort Simpson -- XI. The Mackenzie River -- XII. Fort McPherson --XIII. The Eskimo -- XIV. The first traffic with the Indians -- XV. The Peel River -- The upper Peel River and the valley of noises -- XVII. Gold -- XVIII. The winter camp -- XIX. Prospecting and exploration -- XX. Bears and wolves -- XXI. The winter night -- XXII. The Indians' visit -- XXIII. Dogs -- XXIV. The broken knee -- XXV. The last of the white men -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVII. Caribou -- XXVIII. The old lady -- XXIX. Famine and riot -- XXX. Mitchell becomes an Indian -- XXXI. An Indian "Veillee" -- XXXII. Women -- XXXIII. The closest shave of all -- XXXIV. The skin boats -- XXXV. Summer hunting -- XXXVI. Mitchell remains an Indian -- XXXVII. The last of the Indians.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 08.2 G76g
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- Archives Library
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