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Honouring the strength of Indian women : plays, stories, poetry
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- 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 The volume also includes three previously unpublished short stories written in 1988, poetry written over three decades in a variety of venues, and a 1987 college essay that draws on family and community interviews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
- Collection
- 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
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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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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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Native American almanac : more than 50,000 years of the cultures and histories of indigenous peoples
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26189
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Wakim Dennis, Yvonne; Hirschfelder, Arlene; and Rothenberger Flynn, Shannon
- Publisher
- Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 D42n
- Publisher
- Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- xi, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- The impact of early encounters, past policies, treaties, wars, and prejudices toward America's Indigenous peoples is a legacy that continues to mark America. The history of the United States and Native Americans are intertwined. Agriculture, place names, and language have all been influenced by Native American culture. The stories and history of pre- and post-colonial Tribal Nations and peoples continue to resonate and informs the geographical boundaries, laws, language and modern life. From ancient rock drawings to today's urban living, the Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples traces the rich heritage of indigenous people. It is a fascinating mix of biography, pre-contact and post-contact history, current events, Tribal Nations' histories, enlightening insights on environmental and land issues, arts, treaties, languages, education, movements, and more. Ten regional chapters, including urban living, cover the narrative history, the communities, land, environment, important figures, and backgrounds of each area's Tribal Nations and peoples. The stories of 345 Tribal Nations, biographies of 400 influential figures in all walks of life, Native American firsts, awards, and statistics are covered. Over 300 photographs and illustrations bring the text to life. The most complete and affordable single-volume reference work about Native American culture available today, the Native American Almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating, demystifying, and celebrating the moving, sometimes difficult, and often lost history of the indigenous people of America. Capturing the stories and voices of the American Indian of yesterday and today, it provides a range of information on Native American history, society, and culture. -- Publisher's description
- Contents
- Historical overview of Indian-White relations in the United States -- Northeast -- Southeast -- Midwest -- Northern plains -- Southern plains: Texas and Oklahoma -- The Great Basin and Rocky Mountains -- Southwest -- Pacific Northwest: Washington State and Oregon -- California -- Alaska -- Hawaii -- Urban -- Appendix A: Canada -- -- Appendix B: Mexico -- Appendix C: Caribbean -- Appendix D: Greenland -- Appendix E: Indigenous nations/groups in Native America Almanac -- Appendix F: Indian lands: definitions and explanations -- Appendix G: Indigenized English -- Appendix H: Indigeneity from sea to sea -- Appendix I: Selected indigeneity firsts: people, places, and things -- Appendix J: Native owned and operated museums -- Appendix K: The indigeneity of the Powwow -- Appendix L: Indigenous ancestry affiliation of some notable people.
- ISBN
- 9781578595075
- Accession Number
- 2022.17
- Call Number
- 07.2 D42n
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teaching of plants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25485
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15b
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 390 pages ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Traditional Knowledge
- Science
- Botany
- Abstract
- As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.
- Contents
- Planting Sweetgrass ; Skywoman falling ; The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod ; Learning the grammar of animacy ; Tending Sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; A mother's work ; The consolation of water lilies ; Allegiance to gratitude ; Picking Sweetgrass ; Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest ; Braiding Sweetgrass ; In the footsteps of Nanabozho: becoming indigenous to place ; The sound of silverbells ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Umbilicaria : the belly button of the world ; Old-growth children ; Witness to the rain ; Burning Sweetgrass ; Windigo footprints ; The sacred and the superfund ; People of corn, people of light ; Collateral damage ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo ; Epilogue: Returning the gift
- ISBN
- 978-1-57131-356-0
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15b
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- Archives Library
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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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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
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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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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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