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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
- 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
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- Archives Library
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Discovering people : english, french, cree
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25491
- 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
- 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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Honouring the strength of Indian women : plays, stories, poetry
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25710
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Manuel, Vera
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 M31h
- Author
- Manuel, Vera
- Responsibility
- Vera Manuel = Kulilu Pal ki, Edited by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene A. Manuel ; introduction by Emalene A. Manuel ; afterwords by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, and Joanne Arnott.
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xii, 391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous Art
- Indigenous Peoples
- Indigenous Traditions
- Women
- Ktunaxa
- Secwepemc
- Abstract
- This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact and devastating legacy of Canada's Indian residential schools, Vera Manuel wrote about it as part of her personal and community healing. She became a grassroots leader addressing the need to bring to light the stories of survivors, their journeys of healing, and the therapeutic value of writing and performing arts. A collaboration by four Indigenous writers and scholars steeped in values of Indigenous ethics and editing practices, the volume features Manuel's most famous play, "Strength of Indian Women"--First performed in 1992 and still one of the most important literary works to deal with the trauma of residential schools-along with an assemblage of plays, written between the late 1980s until Manuel's untimely passing in 2010, that were performed but never before published. The volume also includes three previously unpublished short stories written in 1988, poetry written over three decades in a variety of venues, and a 1987 college essay that draws on family and community interviews on the effects of residential schools. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction / Emalene A. Manuel -- Plays. Strength of Indian women -- Song of the circle -- Journey through the past to the future -- Echoes of our Mothers' past -- Every warrior's song -- Stories. That grey building -- Theresa -- The letter -- The abyss -- Poetry. The storm -- Woman without a tongue -- Ghosts & predators -- L.A. Obsession song -- Addictions -- Lies -- Life abuse of girls -- The woman I could be -- Fools -- Loneliness -- Abused mothers, wounded fathers -- Hunger -- The Catholic Church -- Deadly legacy -- Keeping Secrets -- Forgiveness -- When I first came to know myself -- When my sister & I dance -- The girl who could catch fish with her hands -- Two brothers -- La Guerra -- Keepers in the dark -- Inheritance -- For the child who knew -- Never ever tell -- Ottawa -- The truth about colonization -- Justice -- Beric -- Christmas inside of me -- Spring fever -- Megcenetkwe -- Dying -- Afterwords. Narrative acts of truth and reconciliation: teaching the healing plays of Vera Manuel / by Michelle Coupal -- Embedded teachings: Vera Manuel's recovered short stories / Deanna Reder -- "Through poetry a community is brought together": Vera Manuel's poetry, poetry activism, and poetics / Joanne Arnott -- Appendix. Indians and residential school: a study of the breakdown of a culture / Vera Manuel
- Notes
- The "l " in Vera Manuel's (Kulilu Pal ki's) name on the title page appears as the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for palatoalveolar click.
- ISBN
- 9780887558368
- Accession Number
- 2023.09
- Call Number
- 07.2 M31h
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- Archives Library
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Canadian law and indigenous self-determination : a naturalist analysis
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25724
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Christie, Gordon
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 C46c
- Author
- Christie, Gordon
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- vi, 440 pages ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority. Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination demonstrates how, over the last few decades, Canadian law has attempted to remove Indigenous sovereignty from the Canadian legal and social landscape. Adopting a naturalist analysis, Gordon Christie responds to questions about how to theorize this legal phenomenon, and how the study of law should accommodate the presence of diverse perspectives. Exploring the socially-constructed nature of Canadian law, Christie reveals how legal meaning, understood to be the outcome of a specific society, is being reworked to devalue the capacities of Indigenous societies. Addressing liberal positivism and critical postcolonial theory, Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination considers the way in which Canadian jurists, working within a world circumscribed by liberal thought, have deployed the law in such a way as to attempt to remove Indigenous meaning-generating capacity. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Setting the stage -- Canadian law and its puzzles -- Differing understandings and the way forward -- Remarks on theorizing and method -- Problems with theorizing about the law -- Liberal positivism and aboriginal rights -- Characterizing and defining 'existing' aboriginal rights -- The place of aboriginal rights in Canada -- Postcolonial theory and aboriginal law.
- ISBN
- 9781442628991
- Accession Number
- P2023.12
- Call Number
- 07.2 C46c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Words have a past : the English language, colonialism, and the newspapers of Indian boarding schools
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25726
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Griffith, Jane
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 G87w
- Author
- Griffith, Jane
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled narratives there also existed sites of resistance. This book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth-century to the present day, post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Bury the lede: introduction -- Printer's devil: the trade of newspapers -- Indigenous languages did not disappear: English language instruction -- "Getting Indian words": representations of indigenous languages -- Ahead by a century: time on paper -- Anachronishm: reading the nineteenth century today -- Layout: space, place, and land -- Concluding thoughts.
- ISBN
- 9781487521554
- Accession Number
- P2023.12
- Call Number
- 07.2 G87w
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Indigenous repatriation handbook
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26210
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Royal British Columbia Museum
- Call Number
- 07.2 C69i
- Responsibility
- Prepared by Jisang Nika Collison, Sdaahl K'awaas Lucy Bell, and Lou-ann Neal
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Royal British Columbia Museum
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 162 pages ; 6 cm
- Abstract
- A reference for BC Indigenous communities and museums, created by and for Indigenous people working in repatriation. -- From back cover
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Organizing a successful repatriation -- 3. Conducting research -- 4. Repatriation from the royal BC museum -- 5. Repatriation for other institutions -- 6. For institutions wishing to repatriate to Indigenous Peoples in BC -- 7. Case study: repatriation journey of the Haida Nation -- APPENDIX -- A. Glossary of terms -- B. Indigenous museums and cultural centres in Canada -- C. Organizational templates, procedures and examples -- D. Fundraising resouces -- E. Sample letters to museums -- F. Tips for planning for travel and transport -- G. Global museums with major indigenous collections from BC -- H. Resources on education in indigenous museology -- I. Frequently asked questions about repatriation -- J. Repatriation stories.
- ISBN
- 9780772673176
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 07.2 C69i
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- Archives Library
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Talking back to the indian act : critical readings in settler colonial histories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25530
- 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
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 218 pages
- 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
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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
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Hudson's Bay Company : Edmonton House journals, correspondence, and reports, 1806-1821
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25541
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta
- Call Number
- 08.2 B51t
- Responsibility
- Edited with an introduction by Ted Binnema and Gerhard J. Ens
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 530 pages
- Series
- Edmonton House Journals
- Abstract
- In 1795 the Hudson's Bay Company established Edmonton House and the North West Company Fort Augustus a few kilometres downstream from the present day city of Edmonton. Although both posts were moved several times, they operated side by side as the major administrative, trade, and provisioning centres on the North Saskatchewan River from 1795 to 1821, when the companies merged. The post journals and district reports from Edmonton House for the period from 1806 to 1821 are reproduced verbatim in this volume. Long available only to researchers with access to the collections of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, these journals and district reports provide a detailed day-by-day account of the operations of Edmonton House during this crucial period. They provide direct insight into the Aboriginal, social, and economic history of the region, and new information on the foundation of the Red River settlement adn the struggle for control of the trade in the Athabasca region. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Edmonton House Post Journals, 1806-1921 ; District Reports, 1816-1821
- ISBN
- 9780929123202
- Accession Number
- P2022.08
- Call Number
- 08.2 B51t
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- Archives Library
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Secwe´pemc people, land, and laws = Yeri´7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25682
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Ignance, Marianne and Ignance, Ronald E.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 I1s
- Responsibility
- With contributions by Mike K. Rousseau, Nancy J. Turner, Kenneth Favrholdt, and many Secwe´pemc storytellers, past and present ; foreword by Bonnie Leonard
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- xxxv, 588 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Secwepemc
- Indigenous
- History
- British Columbia
- Abstract
- Secwe´pemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this volume details how a homeland has shaped Secwe´pemc existence while the Secwe´pemc have in turn shaped their homeland. Marianne and Ronald Ignace, with contributions from ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, archaeologist Mike Rousseau, and geographer Ken Favrholdt, compellingly weave together Secwe´pemc narratives about ancestors' deeds, and demonstrate how these stories are the manifestation of Indigenous laws (stsq'ey') for social and moral conduct among humans and all sentient beings on the land, and for social and political relations within the nation and with outsiders. Breathing new life into stories about past transformations, the authors place these narratives in dialogue with written historical sources, and knowledge from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, earth science, and ethnobiology. In addition to a wealth of detail about Secwe´pemc land stewardship, the social and political order, and spiritual concepts and relations embedded in the Indigenous language, the book shows how between the mid-1800s and 1920s the Secwe´pemc people resisted devastating oppression, the theft of their land, and fought to maintain political autonomy while tenaciously continuing to maintain a connection with their homeland, ancestors, and laws. An exemplary work in collaboration, Secwe´pemc People, Land, and Laws points to the ways in which Indigenous laws and traditions can guide present and future social and political process among the Secwe´pemc and with settler society. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- [English table of contents]. The time of the ancient transformers -- What archaeology tells us about the initial peopling and life of Secwepemcu´l´ecw / Mike K. Rousseau and Marianne Ignace -- The Shuswap language -- How we look(ed) after our land / with Nancy J. Turner -- Trade, travel, and transportation / Marianne Ignace and Kenneth Favrholdt -- Secwe´pemc sense of place -- The Secwe´pemc Nation and its boundaries -- How we are relatives to one another -- Secwe´pemc chiefship and political organization -- Secwe´pemc spirituality and how it was hidden in the church -- The unfolding of dispossession during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The Indian rights movement of the early twentieth century -- Stories from the past, laws and rights for the future. The sounds of Secwepemctsi´n written in the practical alphabet xxii -- Yeri´7 re sqweqwentsi´n-kt
- An opening prayer xxv-xxvi -- Re sk`ele´p ell re sqle´lten
- Story of coyote and salmon 36-38 -- Tsxli´tentem re sk`ele´p / Coyote and his hosts 63-72 -- 4. Secwepemctsi´n : The Shuswap language 121-144 -- Xelxli´p, xelxele´q
- Coyote juggle his eyes 149-152 -- Le q´7e´ses re spi´xems re nuxwnu´xwenxw
- Women's hunting long time ago 174-175 -- Secwe´pemc words for "beaver" 178 -- Secwe´pemc calendar and seasonal round based on names and activities of Skeetchestn area 196-197 -- Lilly Harry's account of annual resource gathering 198-202 -- Me7 qweqwentsi´n-kt
- A meal prayer 205-206 -- [Food division] 207-208 -- [Example of mixed economy] 211-213 -- Secwe´pemc landscape terms and lexical suffixes 237-239 -- Story of Se´sqem 241-247 -- [Song, referred to as "Secwe´pemc national anthem"] 251-252 -- [North Thompson River, place-terminology] 253-254 -- The use of directional terms in talking about the landscapes 254-259 -- [Secwe´pemc views of territory and its split up into bands] 287-288 -- Stseq.qi´qe
- Story of Balancing Rock 301-304 -- Snine7e´llcw
- Owl's nest 304-309 -- Story of Tessie 309-311 -- ["Secwe´pemc welcome song"] 318 -- Secwe´pemc kinship and in-law terms 323-325 -- Sekla´cwa7
- Story of muskrat 326-333 -- Reqets`we´ ye ell re sni´ne
- The chipmunk and owl story 333-336 -- [Account of arranged marriages, 1930s-1940s] 342-346 -- [Views on marrying white men] 348-349 -- Re sqle´lten
- Story of the salmon 349-353 -- Names and name giving 353-356 -- Re scwicwe´ye ell re skelkle´ts
- Story of ant and grasshopper 357-359 -- ["Indian courts"] 377-379 -- Pe´xwem
- Ways to heal 392-393 -- Sni´ne
- Story of owl 395-398 -- Ctsrm`
- Having a sweat 399 -- Catholic prayers in Secwepemctsi´n 411-418 -- Re q´we´ leqs ell re si´ntse7
- The priest and the altar boy 421-423 -- [The story of Petese´q] 481-483 -- Qweni´meqll
- Story of mosquito 492-496 -- Sku´7pecen
- Story of porcupine 496-500.
- ISBN
- 9780773551305
- Accession Number
- P2022.13
- Call Number
- 07.2 I1s
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- Reading Room
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