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Indigenous celebrity : entanglements with fame
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25509
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 A3i
- Responsibility
- Edited by Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander Innes
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Film making
- Films
- Abstract
- Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people's entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people. It questions and critiques the whitestream concept of celebrity and the very juxtaposition of "Indigenous" and "celebrity" and casts a critical lens on celebrity culture's impact on Indigenous people. Indigenous people who willingly engage with celebrity culture, or are drawn up into it, enter into a complex terrain of social relations informed by layered dimensions of colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia/transphobia, and classism. Yet this reductive framing of celebrity does not account for the ways that Indigenous people's own worldviews inform Indigenous engagement with celebrity culture--or rather, popular social and cultural forms of recognition. Indigenous Celebrity reorients conversations on Indigenous celebrity towards understanding how Indigenous people draw from nation-specific processes of respect and recognition while at the same time navigating external assumptions and expectations. This collection examines the relationship of Indigenous people to the concept of celebrity in past, present, and ongoing contexts, identifying commonalities, tensions, and possibilities. -- Provided by publisher
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- Introduction: Indigeneity, celebrity, and fame: Accounting for colonialism / Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander Innes ; Mino-Waawiindaganeziwin: What does Indigenous celebrity mean within Anishinaabeg contexts? / Renee E. Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe Bedard ; Empowering voices from the past: The playing experiences of retired pasifika rugby league athletes in Australia / David Lakisa, Katerina Teaiwa, Daryl Adair, and Tracy Taylor ; My mom, The ‘military mohawk princess’: Kahntinetha Horn through the lens of Indigenous female celebrity / Kahente Horn-Miller ; Indigenous activism and celebrity: Negotiating access, inclusion, and the politics of humility / Jonathon G. Hill and Virginia McLaurin ; Indigenous activism and celebrity: Negotiating access, expectation, and the politics of humility / Jonathan G. Hill and Virginia McLaurin ; Rags-to-riches and other fairytales: Indigenous celebrity in Australia 1950-80 / Karen Fox ; “Pretty boy” Trudeau vs. the “Algonquin Agitator”: Hitting the ropes of Canadian colonialist masculinities / Kim Anderson and Brendan Hokowhitu ; Famous “last” speakers: Celebrity and erasure in media coverage of Indigenous language endangerment / Jenny L. Davis ; Celebrity in Absentia: Situating the Indigenous people of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian social imaginary / Aadita Chaudhury ; Marvin Rainwater and “the pale faced Indian”: How cover songs appropriated a story of cultural appropriation / Christina Giacona ; Collectivity as Indigenous anti-celebrity: Global Indigeneity and the Indigenous rights movement / Sheryl Lightfoot ; Makings, meanings, and recognitions: The stuff of Anishinaabe stars / w. C. Sy.
- ISBN
- 9780887559068
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 07.2 A3i
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- Archives Library
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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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- 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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- 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)
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- 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
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- Archives Library
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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
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- 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
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- 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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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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Bucking conservatism : alternative stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25529
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
- Call Number
- 08.1 B38b
- Responsibility
- Edited by Leon Crane Bear, Larry Hannant, and Karissa Robyn Patton
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xxx, 333 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Politics
- History of Alberta
- Indigenous
- Feminism
- Activism
- Resistance
- Heteropatriarchy
- Environmentalism
- Abstract
- Highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta's conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta's history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists seeking to forge a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book uncovers the lasting influence of Alberta's noncomformists--those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics--and poses thought-provoking questions for contemporary activists. -- Provided by publisher
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- Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice / Leon Crane Bear ; Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy / Tarisa Dawn Little ; "We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians": Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968-85 / Corinne George ; Fed Up with Status Quo: Alberta Women's Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964-71 ; Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary / Nevena Ivanovic, Kevin Allen, and Larry Hannan ; Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972-78 / Karissa Robyn Patton ; "Ultra Activists" in a "Very Closeted Place": The Early Years of Edmonton's Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972-77 / Erin Gallagher-Cohoon ; Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s / Ken Novakowski ; Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta / Mack Penner ; Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s / Larry Hamnant ; Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton / Baldwin Reichwein and PearlAnn Reichwein ; Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton / Larry Hannant ; From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s / Louise Swift ; The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964-75 / PearlAnn Reichwein and Jan Olson ; "A Lot of Heifer-Dust": Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art / Jennifer E. Salahub ; Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters / PearlAnn Reichwein ; Death of a Delta / Tom Radford ; Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now / Karissa Robyn Patton and Mack Penner
- ISBN
- 9781771992572
- Accession Number
- P2021.03
- Call Number
- 08.1 B38b
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Seen but not seen : influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to today
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25536
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Smith, Donald B.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Smi5s
- Author
- Smith, Donald B.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xxxii, 451 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Ethnic groups
- Indigenous
- Politics
- History-Canada
- Abstract
- Throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, the majority of Canadians argued that European "civilization" must replace Indigenous culture. The ultimate objective was assimilation into the dominant society. Seen but Not Seen explores the history of Indigenous marginalization and why non-Indigenous Canadians failed to recognize Indigenous societies and cultures as worthy of respect. Approaching the issue biographically, Donald B. Smith presents the commentaries of sixteen influential Canadians - including John A. Macdonald, George Grant, and Emily Carr - who spoke extensively on Indigenous subjects. Supported by documentary records spanning over nearly two centuries, Seen but Not Seen covers fresh ground in the history of settler-Indigenous relations. -- From back cover
- Contents
- John A. Macdonald and the Indians ; John McDougall and the Stoney Nakoda ; George Monro Grant: an English Canadian Public Intellectual and the Indians ; Chancellor John A. Boyd and Fellow Georgian Bay Cottager Kathleen Coburn ; Duncan Campbell Scott: Determined Assimilationist ; Paul A.W. Wallace and The White Roots of Peace ; Quebec Viewpoints: From Lionel Groulx to Jacques Rousseau ; Attitudes on the Pacific coast: Franz Boas, Emily Carr, and Maisie Hurley ; Alberta Perspectives: Long Lance, John Laurie, Hugh Dempsey, and Harold Cardinal ; Epilogue: First Nations and Canada's Conscience
- ISBN
- 9781442649989
- Accession Number
- 2022.13
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- 08.3 Smi5s
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Braided learning : illuminating indigenous presence through art and story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25539
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Dion, Susan D.
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. : Purich Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 D62b
- Author
- Dion, Susan D.
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C. : Purich Books
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 275 pages
- Abstract
- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Indigenous activism have made many Canadians uncomfortably aware of how little they know about First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. In Braided Learning, Lenape-Potawatomi scholar and educator Susan Dion shares her approach to learning and teaching about Indigenous histories and perspectives. Métis leader Louis Riel illuminated the connection between creativity and identity in his declaration, “My people will sleep for a hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirits back.” Using the power of stories and artwork, Dion offers respectful ways to address challenging topics including treaties, the Indian Act, the Sixties Scoop, land claims, resurgence, the drive for self-determination, and government policies that undermine language, culture, and traditional knowledge systems. Braided Learning draws on Indigenous knowledge and world views to explain perspectives that are often missing from the national narrative. This generous work is an invaluable resource for Canadians trying to make sense of a difficult past, decode unjust conditions in the present, and work toward a more equitable future. -- Provided by publisher
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- Introduction: Indigenous Presence ; Requisites for Reconciliation ; Seeing Yourself in Relationship with Settler Colonialism ; The Historical Timeline: Refusing Absence, Knowing Presence, and Being Indigenous ; Learning from Contemporary Indigenous Artists ; The Braiding Histories Stories ; Conclusion: Wuleelham - Make Good Tracks ; Glossary and Additional Resources: Making Connections, Extending Learning
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- 9780774880794
- Accession Number
- P2022.04
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- 07.2 D62b
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