Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Books
University of British Columbia Press Islands Spirit Rising
Book SynopsisSet within the context of resource conflict and collaborative land-use planning on Haida Gwaii, this book examines how historic relations of domination and oppression can be transformed and more sustainable forms of land governance created.Trade ReviewTakeda provides a provocative and much needed explanation of the persistence of unsustainable forest practices in British Columbia … [Her] careful power analysis framework allows her to challenge established historical narratives by presenting a new and pressingly needed perspective on both collaborative ecosystem management and Indigenous land claims. -- James Davey, University of Victoria * BC Studies *Table of Contents1 Navigating Change on Haida Gwaii2 The Nature of Power3 Clash of Nature, Culture, and Economics4 War in the Woods: 1974-20015 Collaborative Planning in the Face of Conflict6 Actors and Interests7 State of the Land and Community8 Recommendations and the Widening Gap9 Uprising10 New Political LandscapeAppendix; Notes; References; Index
£61.50
University of British Columbia Press Webs of Empire
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWebs of Empire demonstrates Tony Ballantyne’s archival richness and mastery of his profession, provoking new interpretations of history and historians. This is compelling and essential reading. -- Lydia Wevers is a professor and director of the Stout Research Centre at the Victoria University of WellingtonTable of ContentsPreface: Connections, Comparisons and CommonalitiesNote on Language and UsageIntroduction: Relocating Colonial HistoriesReframing Colonialism1 Race and the Webs of EmpireConnections2 Writing Out Asia3 Teaching Maori About Asia4 India in New Zealand5 Te Anu's StoryEmpire6 Sealers, Whalers and the Entanglements of Empire7 Christianity, Colonialism and Cross-Cultural Communication8 War, Knowledge and the Crisis of EmpireWriting9 Archives, Empires and Histories of Colonialism10 Mr. Peal's Archive11 Paper, Pen and Print12 Writing and the Culture of ColonisationPlace13 Thinking Local14 On Place, Space and MobilityConclusion: Writing the Colonial PastEditorial NoteEndnotesIndex
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Where the Rivers Meet
Book SynopsisOil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in decision-making processes. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes?Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu Dene involvement in the environmental assessment of the Mackenzie Gas Project, a massive pipeline that, if completed, would have unprecedented effects on Aboriginal communities in the North.Carly A. Dokis reveals that while there has been some progress in establishing avenues for Dene participation in decision making, the structure of participatory and consultation processes fails to meet the expectations of local people by requiring them to participate in ways that are incommensurable with their experiential knowledge and understandings of the environment. Ultimately, Dokis finds that the evaluation of such projects remains rooted inTrade ReviewThis book represents a significant contribution to our understanding of barriers to procedural justice in Aboriginal communities, and it offers important lessons for regulators, policy makers, and rights advocates well beyond the Northwest Territories. Senior undergraduate or graduate students interested in anthropology, indigenous studies, or political ecology will find the work accessible and very relevant to the contemporary history of development on aboriginal lands. -- Cyrus M. Hester, Arizona State University * NICHE *Table of ContentsForeword: The Paradoxical Politics of Participatory Praxis / Graeme WynnPrefaceIntroduction: People, Land, and Pipelines1 “Very Nice Talk in a Very Beautiful Way”: The Community Hearing Process2 “A Billion Dollars Cannot Create a Moose”: Perceptions of Industrial Impacts3 Life under the Comprehensive Claim Agreement4 Consultation and Other Legitimating PracticesConclusion: The Politics of ParticipationNotesReferencesIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Where the Rivers Meet
Book SynopsisOil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in decision-making processes. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes?Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu Dene involvement in the environmental assessment of the Mackenzie Gas Project, a massive pipeline that, if completed, would have unprecedented effects on Aboriginal communities in the North.Carly A. Dokis reveals that while there has been some progress in establishing avenues for Dene participation in decision making, the structure of participatory and consultation processes fails to meet the expectations of local people by requiring them to participate in ways that are incommensurable with their experiential knowledge and understandings of the environment. Ultimately, Dokis finds that the evaluation of such projects remains rooted inTrade ReviewThis book represents a significant contribution to our understanding of barriers to procedural justice in Aboriginal communities, and it offers important lessons for regulators, policy makers, and rights advocates well beyond the Northwest Territories. Senior undergraduate or graduate students interested in anthropology, indigenous studies, or political ecology will find the work accessible and very relevant to the contemporary history of development on aboriginal lands. -- Cyrus M. Hester, Arizona State University * NICHE *Table of ContentsForeword: The Paradoxical Politics of Participatory Praxis / Graeme WynnPrefaceIntroduction: People, Land, and Pipelines1 “Very Nice Talk in a Very Beautiful Way”: The Community Hearing Process2 “A Billion Dollars Cannot Create a Moose”: Perceptions of Industrial Impacts3 Life under the Comprehensive Claim Agreement4 Consultation and Other Legitimating PracticesConclusion: The Politics of ParticipationNotesReferencesIndex
£25.19
MN - University of British Columbia Press The First Nations of British Columbia Third
Book SynopsisThe First Nations of British Columbia is a concise and accessible introduction to histories, cultures, and issues of the First Peoples of BC.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: Introducing First Nations, Popular Perceptions, and the Anthropological PerspectivePopular PerceptionsThrough the Lens of AnthropologyOverview of ChaptersRecommended Readings and ResourcesPart 2: Defining and Situating First Nations TodayUnderstanding Labels: First Nations, Aboriginal, Indian, and MorePopulation, Reserves, Settlements, and LandsBands, Ethnic Groups, Tribal Councils, and Other AffiliationsSituating BC First Nations within Canada, in North America, and around the WorldRecommended Readings and ResourcesPart 3: Archaeology and First NationsFirst Nations and Archaeological Perceptions of the PastThe Nature of Archaeological Research in British ColumbiaEarly Migrations through British ColumbiaHere to StaySettling DownProminent SitesTracing AncestryRecommended Readings and ResourcesPart 4: Languages, Population Estimates, and Traditional LifewaysTraditional Culture Areas of British ColumbiaLanguagesPopulationSettlement PatternsDietTechnologySocial OrganizationMyths, Spirits, and ShamansHealth and HealingArtThe Potlatch and Other Important CeremoniesTrade, Slavery, and WarfareRecommended Readings and ResourcesPart 5: From the Late 1700s through the Twentieth CenturyPopulation LossThe Impact of the Fur TradeThe Impact of the Gold RushesThe Impact of Non-Indigenous SettlementMissionaries and Residential SchoolsFirst Nations and Wage LabourGovernment Relations with First NationsAssertions of Aboriginal RightsNegotiations in the Late 1900sAnthropology in the Late 1900sRecommended Readings and ResourcesPart 6: First Nations and Anthropology in the Twenty-First CenturyLiving in the Twenty-First CenturyEconomic and Cultural InitiativesTreaty NegotiationsOutstanding IssuesAsserting Rights and IdentityFirst Nations and Anthropology in the Twenty-First CenturyFirst Nations Cultures Still ExistFinal Comments: Things to RememberRecommended Readings and ResourcesAppendices1 The First Nations of British Columbia2 Major Ethnic Groups3 Excerpts from the British Columbia Heritage Conservation Act, 19964 Apology for Residential Schools5 Excerpts from the Royal Proclamation, 1763GlossarySelected Bibliography
£21.59
University of British Columbia Press Far Off Metal River
Book SynopsisDrawing on the story of the 1771 Bloody Falls massacre, human geographer Emilie Cameron explores the relationship between stories and colonialism, challenging readers to examine their perceptions of the contemporary Arctic and its peoples.Trade ReviewStories—“theirs” and “ours”—have been staples in core curricula that incorporate the critical study of cultures deemed “Non-Western.” Anyone tasked with teaching such courses must read this book by Cameron, who emphasizes that stories are value-charged and multidimensional … Highly recommended. -- J.S. Krysiek * Choice *Cameron’s Far Off Metal River is a masterful and carefully written book that addresses pressing theoretical and methodological questions for postcolonial studies, nature-society relations, and Indigenous geographies … It is a timely example of a non-Indigenous researcher centering the agency of Indigenous peoples in both research practice and writing … [This book] is a particularly important resource for students who are learning to engage with Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies in both the field and in the classroom … But it would be a mistake to read Far Off Metal River as valuable to researchers of Indigenous communities and histories alone … it has much to teach us about research in general. -- Kelsey Johnson, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia * Society + Space *Table of ContentsHivuniqhuut, Preface1 Summer Stories2 Ordering Violence3 To Mourn4 Copper Stories5 Resistance Stories6 Toward an Emerging Past7 Ptarmigan StoriesNotes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
£69.70
MN - University of British Columbia Press Far Off Metal River
Book SynopsisDrawing on the story of the 1771 Bloody Falls massacre, human geographer Emilie Cameron explores the relationship between stories and colonialism, challenging readers to examine their perceptions of the contemporary Arctic and its peoples.Trade ReviewStories—“theirs” and “ours”—have been staples in core curricula that incorporate the critical study of cultures deemed “Non-Western.” Anyone tasked with teaching such courses must read this book by Cameron, who emphasizes that stories are value-charged and multidimensional … Highly recommended. -- J.S. Krysiek * Choice *Cameron’s Far Off Metal River is a masterful and carefully written book that addresses pressing theoretical and methodological questions for postcolonial studies, nature-society relations, and Indigenous geographies … It is a timely example of a non-Indigenous researcher centering the agency of Indigenous peoples in both research practice and writing … [This book] is a particularly important resource for students who are learning to engage with Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies in both the field and in the classroom … But it would be a mistake to read Far Off Metal River as valuable to researchers of Indigenous communities and histories alone … it has much to teach us about research in general. -- Kelsey Johnson, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia * Society + Space *Table of ContentsHivuniqhuut, Preface1 Summer Stories2 Ordering Violence3 To Mourn4 Copper Stories5 Resistance Stories6 Toward an Emerging Past7 Ptarmigan StoriesNotes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Learning and Teaching Together
Book SynopsisAn inspirational account of how a group of pre-service teachers, working alongside Indigenous wisdom keepers in British Columbia, developed an indigenist approach to education that can be applied in a wide variety of classrooms.Trade ReviewThis book is essential reading for teachers, teacher educators, and anyone interested in indigenous education, social justice, and transformative learning. It also provides important insights and guidance to educational policymakers… [Learning and Teaching Together] is highly recommended. -- Jean-Paul Restoule, Ontatrio Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto * Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Volume 109, Number 2 *… Indigenous educators and allies will find this text inspirational, hopeful, and useful. -- Alma M. O. Trinidad, School of Social Work, Portland State University * Great Plains Research *Teachers in British Columbia and throughout Canada who struggle with how to enact curriculum changes that incorporate Indigenous knowledge, history, and identity will find this book illuminating … in spite of the seemingly overwhelming challenges in making a space for Indigenous thought and experience, it can and must be done. The transformation has been happening and is continuing. -- Michael Marker * BC Studies, no. 196, Winter 2017/18 *Table of ContentsForeword / Greg CajeteSENĆOŦEN Pronunciation and GlossaryIntroduction: A WelcomingThe Moons of XAXE SIÁM SILA1 Orienting to Place and Pedagogical Purpose2 Opening Oneself to Indigenous Ways of Being-Knowing-Doing3 Rethinking Learner-Teacher Relationships4 Invoking Good Intention and Conscious Action5 Focusing on How and Why We Teach6 Trusting Learners and Remembering Wholeness7 Coming Together in Safe Enough Spaces8 Continuing Reflection towards Sustainability9 Preparing Self and Community for Dispositional Change10 Indigenizing Practice amid Classroom Challenges11 Re-envisioning (Teacher) Education12 Touchstones for Future TeachingReferences; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press What We Learned
Book SynopsisMoving beyond the more familiar stories of residential schools, two generations of Tsimshian students recall their experiences attending day and public schools in northwestern British Columbia.Trade ReviewToo many stories are still untold; too many memories have been lost to the ages; too many biases have coloured our view of the past. That is why a book such as this one is a treasure, an overdue and culturally aware look at a forgotten aspect of the education of Indigenous children in British Columbia. -- Dave Obee, a member of the board of Canada's History Society and editor-in-chief of the Times Colonist in Victoria * Canada's History, Vol. 97 No. 1, February 2017 *Helen Raptis has written an important book about Tsimshian educational history. It is also a book about building research relationships with Indigenous communities. It is a work that recognizes, implicitly, that Indigenous history does not run in a straight line but is more liquid and circular. The journey to understand the Indigenous past requires deft canoe navigation through riptides and crosscurrents, past colonization’s half-submerged debris. Landing on the beach, one discovers no conventional separation between past, present, and future. There are only the stories—the stories and the sacred landscape. -- Michael Marker, University of British Columbia * History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 57 No. 1, February 2017 *One of the few serious studies of the subject, [What We Learned] provides an unusually detailed account of the transition from on-reserve to integrated schooling through the eyes of those who were there … With its contextual richness, innovative methodology, sharp analysis, and poignant personal narratives, What We Learned is a book that deserves a wide audience. -- Brian Titley, The University of Lethbridge * BC Studies *[Raptis] draws on a rich range of Indigenous scholarship, as well as the Tsimshian oral histories, in producing a nuanced account of learning that complicates the current focus on residential schools and that radically questions the equation of formal education with learning …The result is a perceptive, self-reflexive and important contribution, at once substantive and methodological. -- Elaine Coburn, Glendon Campus, York University * Oral History Forum d'histoire orale *What We Learned offers a fascinating account of the complexities of everyday educational life for Tsimshian students in twentieth-century British Columbia. It will be of interest to many both inside and outside of the academy. -- Sean Carleton, University of Alberta * BC Studies *In What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools, Helen Raptis reminds historians of education that not all Indigenous children were forcibly removed and sent to residential schools … Raptis and her collaborators challenge not only histories of Indigenous education that centre on residential schools, but also histories of British Columbia centred on white settlers.What We Learned will be a significant resource for those seeking to widen and deepen conversations on our shared past. -- Jacqueline Gresko * BC BookLook *Table of ContentsForeword / James McDonald1 A Class List and a Puzzle: Researching Indigenous Schooling and Education2 Indigenous Schooling as Assimilation: From Segregation to Integration3 Tsimshian Education versus Western-Style Schooling4 Walking on Two Paths: Education and Schooling at Port Essington among the Pre-1950s Generation5 Buried Seeds Taking Root: Dispossession and Resurgence at Terrace among the Post-1950s Generation6 Stability and Change: Tsimshian Education and Schooling across Time and PlaceEpilogueNotes;Bibliography; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Uncertain Accommodation
Book SynopsisIn 1982, after decades of determined mobilization by Aboriginal groups and their allies, the government of Canada formally recognized Aboriginal rights within its Constitution. The move reflected a consensus that states should and could use constitutionally enshrined group rights to protect and accommodate subnational groups within their borders. Decades later, however, almost no one is happy with the current state of Aboriginal rights in Canada, nor is there a consensus on what is wrong with these rights or how they can be fixed. Uncertain Accommodation tells the story of what went wrong.Dimitrios Panagos argues that the failure of Canada's Aboriginal rights jurisprudence is ultimately rooted in our inability to agree on what aboriginality means. Through incisive analysis of judicial decisions, legal submissions, and academic debates, he reveals the plurality of conceptions of aboriginality put forth over the past three decades and shows how the vision of AboriginalTrade ReviewThis book is highly recommended for professionals, scholars, and graduate students or simply for those interested in understanding how the state handles identity and group-related rights. -- E. Acevedo, California State University, Los Angeles * CHOICE *…Panagos succeeds in giving the intricate and controversial topic of aboriginality thorough treatment in a concise manner. Uncertain Accommodation generates interesting discussion that accommodates all readers, regardless of legal expertise … [This book] adds to the literature by providing a balanced and sophisticated analysis of where Canadian jurisprudence went wrong regarding the definition of Aboriginal rights, and what can be done to improve the situation. -- Braeden Pivnick * Saskatchewan Law Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Historical and Legal Framework for Section 352 Competing Approaches and Conceptualizations of Aboriginality 3 The Case for a Relational Approach4 The Nation-to-Nation, Colonial, and Citizen-State Approaches5 Submissions to the Court6 What the Justices Said7 Aboriginal Rights Jurisprudence and Identity Contestation8 A Problematic Conception of RightsConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
£66.30
University of British Columbia Press Uncertain Accommodation
Book SynopsisIn 1982, after decades of determined mobilization by Aboriginal groups and their allies, the government of Canada formally recognized Aboriginal rights within its Constitution. The move reflected a consensus that states should and could use constitutionally enshrined group rights to protect and accommodate subnational groups within their borders. Decades later, however, almost no one is happy with the current state of Aboriginal rights in Canada, nor is there a consensus on what is wrong with these rights or how they can be fixed. Uncertain Accommodation tells the story of what went wrong.Dimitrios Panagos argues that the failure of Canada's Aboriginal rights jurisprudence is ultimately rooted in our inability to agree on what aboriginality means. Through incisive analysis of judicial decisions, legal submissions, and academic debates, he reveals the plurality of conceptions of aboriginality put forth over the past three decades and shows how the vision of AboriginalTrade ReviewThis book is highly recommended for professionals, scholars, and graduate students or simply for those interested in understanding how the state handles identity and group-related rights. -- E. Acevedo, California State University, Los Angeles * CHOICE *…Panagos succeeds in giving the intricate and controversial topic of aboriginality thorough treatment in a concise manner. Uncertain Accommodation generates interesting discussion that accommodates all readers, regardless of legal expertise … [This book] adds to the literature by providing a balanced and sophisticated analysis of where Canadian jurisprudence went wrong regarding the definition of Aboriginal rights, and what can be done to improve the situation. -- Braeden Pivnick * Saskatchewan Law Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Historical and Legal Framework for Section 352 Competing Approaches and Conceptualizations of Aboriginality 3 The Case for a Relational Approach4 The Nation-to-Nation, Colonial, and Citizen-State Approaches5 Submissions to the Court6 What the Justices Said7 Aboriginal Rights Jurisprudence and Identity Contestation8 A Problematic Conception of RightsConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
£22.79
University of British Columbia Press Everyday Exposure
Book SynopsisEveryday Exposure documents the adverse health effects experienced by Aamjiwnaang citizens in the heart of Canada’s Chemical Valley and argues for a transformative and experiential “sensing policy” approach that takes the voices and experiences of Indigenous citizens seriously.Trade ReviewEveryday Exposure provides a thorough analysis of the lack of health and environmental protections for First Nations peoples at all levels of government and identifies the need for government regulation to redress what have become complex reporting practices, a better understanding of cumulative environmental effects, and improved health services being administered by Health Canada. -- Nadine Hoffman, Natural Resources, Bennett Jones Library, University of Calgary * Canadian Law Library Review (volume 43 No. 3) *Based on extensive time spent in the community learning directly from Aamjiwnaang’s citizens and experiencing the community’s pollution crisis in an embodied and empathetic way, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the legacies of environmental racism in Canada today. -- Warren Cariou is an associate professor of English at the University of Manitoba * Canadian Literature Volume 235, Concepts of Vancouver Special Issue *Table of ContentsForeword: A Canadian Tragedy / James TullyPrefacePhoto Essay #1: Atmosphere 1 Skeletons in the Closet: Citizen Wounding and the Biopolitics of Injustice2 Sensing Policy: An Affective Framework of Analysis3 State Nerves: The Many Layers of Indigenous Environmental JusticePhoto Essay #2: Life 4 Home Is Where the Heart Is: Lived Experience in Aamjiwnaang5 Digesting Space: The Geopolitics of Everyday Life6 Seeking Reproductive Justice: Situated Bodies of Knowledge7 Shelter-in-Place? Immune No More and Idle No MorePhoto Essay #3: Resurgence AppendicesNotes; References; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Power through Testimony
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking volume assesses the power of residential school survivors to reframe through memory, story, and testimony how Canadians think about residential schools and their long-term impact on individuals, families, communities, and the nation.Trade ReviewPower Through Testimony provides a rich and nuanced exploration of the complex dynamics of ‘reconciliation’ that is indeed valuable in understanding the legacy of residential schools as it continues to unfold. -- Tricie Lea-Scott, Heriot-Watt University, Dubai * British Journal of Canadian Studies *The contributors to Power through Testimony provide an important commentary on the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the limitations of its mandate. -- Jon Reyhner, Department of Educational Specialties, Northern Arizona University * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *Table of ContentsForeword / Ronald NiezenIntroduction / Brieg Capitaine and Karine VanthuynePart 1: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Action1 On the Making of a National Tragedy: The Transformation of the Meaning of the Indian Residential Schools / Eric Taylor Woods2 Telling a Story and Performing the Truth: The Indian Residential School as Cultural Trauma / Brieg Capitaine3 Loving to Reconcile: Love as a Political Emotion at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Robyn Green4 Learning through Conversation: An Inquiry into Shame / Janice Cindy Gaudet and Lawrence Martin/WapistanPart 2: Conflicting Memories and Paths of Action5 Surviving as Mi’kmaq and First Nations People: The Legacies of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia / Simone Poliandri6 “National Memory” and Its Remainders: Labrador Inuit Counterhistories of Residential Schooling / Arie Molena7 Remembering Residential Schools, Accounting for Decolonization through Development: Conflicting Viewpoints / Karine VanthuynePart 3: (Un)reckoning with Historical Abuses8 The New Victims: Perpetrators before the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Jula Hughes9 Residential Schools in Canada: Why the Message Is Not Getting Across / Cheryl GaverEpilogue / Charles R. MenziesIndex
£55.25
MN - University of British Columbia Press We Interrupt This Program Indigenous Media
Book SynopsisPowerful and inspiring, We Interrupt This Program brings to light a new facet of Indigenous sovereignty – the use of media tactics to infuse Canadian culture with Indigenous perspectives and to raise political and cultural consciousness in Indigenous communities.Trade Review[We Interrupt this Program] provides an analytical perspective to help readers reflect on what types of new interruptions may be brewing – or to plan the interventions themselves. -- Greg Macdougall * Briarpatch Magazine *...the book chronicles the breadth of media interventions employed by Aboriginal media creators, foregrounding Indigenous worldviews, agency and resilience while challenging colonial myths. It is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand Indigenous cultural expression in Canada in the digital age. -- Brad Clark, Journalism and Broadcast Media Studies at Mount Royal University * Canadin Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Indigenous Media Tactics1 Media Practices and Subversions: Survivor Testimonials in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission2 IsumaTV’s “Testimony by Isuma”: Online Expressions of Inuit Culture and Assimilation3 Redfacing, Remediation, and Other Indigenous ArtTactics: Challenging Cultural Institutions4 imagineNATIVE as Industry Intervention: Supporting and Growing Indigenous Media Makers5 Reporting News in Indigenous Communities: A Conversation with Journalist Duncan McCue on Respect and RelationalityConclusion: Media Tactics Old and NewNotes; Works Cited; Index
£23.39
University of British Columbia Press Gender Power and Representations of Cree Law
Book SynopsisThis powerful book investigates the relationship between the oversimplification of gender in representations of Cree law and its effect on perceptions of Indigenous women as legal agents and citizens.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Frameworks2 Representations3 Absences4 Roles5 Complexities6 TroublemakersConclusionAppendixNotes; Bibliography; Index
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press Gender Power and Representations of Cree Law
Book SynopsisThis powerful book investigates the relationship between the oversimplification of gender in representations of Cree law and its effect on perceptions of Indigenous women as legal agents and citizens.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Frameworks2 Representations3 Absences4 Roles5 Complexities6 TroublemakersConclusionAppendixNotes; Bibliography; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Invested Indifference
Book SynopsisInvested Indifference exposes the tenacity of violence against Indigenous people, arguing that some lives are made to matter or not depending on their relation to the settler-colonial nation state.Trade ReviewGranzow has produced a must-read book on Canada’s murdered and disappeared indigenous women… This book is highly recommended, as it will surely lead to excellent discussions and insights into issues of continued colonization. -- L.L. Lovern, Valdosta State University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 A History of the Present: Methodology2 “It in no way makes you safer”: Contemporary Policing and Remaking the City 3 “All they could do to help”: Imaging, Diagnosing, and Transforming Indian Tuberculosis and the City4 “All traces of his footsteps are fast being obliterated”: Fictioning and Controlling Land and Life5 “Just bury them and be done with it”: Managing Affect and Producing the PastConclusionNotes; References; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Truth and Conviction
Book SynopsisThe name Donald Marshall Jr. is synonymous with wrongful conviction and the fight for Indigenous rights in Canada. In Truth and Conviction, Jane McMillan Marshall's former partner, an acclaimed anthropologist, and an original defendant in the Supreme Court's Marshall decision on Indigenous fishing rights tells the story of how Marshall's fight against injustice permeated Canadian legal consciousness and revitalized Indigenous law.Marshall was destined to assume the role of hereditary chief of the Mi'kmaw Nation when, in 1971, he was wrongly convicted of murder. He spent more than eleven years in jail before a royal commission exonerated him and exposed the entrenched racism underlying the terrible miscarriage of justice. Four years later, in 1993, he was charged with fishing eels without a licence. With the backing of Mi'kmaw chiefs, he took the case all the way to the Supreme Court to vindicate Indigenous treaty rights in the landmark Marshall de
£28.49
University of British Columbia Press Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii
Book SynopsisCountering colonial ideas about Indigenous peoples being frozen in time and without a future, this provocative book explores the ways in which members of the Haida Nation are shaping myriad possible futures to address the dilemmas that come with life under settler colonialism.Trade Review[Shaping the Future] is a thought-provoking read, offering many important table-turning insights relevant to reconciliation and understanding any society’s resiliency through times of economic, political, and environmental uncertainties. -- Gillian Crowther * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *Weiss’s respect and relationships with the residents of Gaw and his commitment to ethical, reciprocal, and meaningful research comes through in this intriguing book. -- Molly Clarkson, Haida Gwaii resident * The Ormsby Review *Table of ContentsPart 1: Pasts and Futures1 An Introduction to Haida Future-Making in Old Massett2 The Everyday Temporalities of Life on Haida GwaiiPart 2: Home3 Coming Home to Haida Gwaii: Haida Departures and Returns in the Future Perfect4 Of Hippies and Haida: Fantasy, Future-Making, and the Allure of Haida GwaiiPart 3: Care5 Leading “from the Bottom of the Pole”: Care and Governance in the Haida World6 Precarious Authority: Endangerment and the Political Promise to Protect Haida GwaiiConclusion: Unsettling FuturesNotes; References; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Indigenous Peoples and Dementia
Book SynopsisIndigenous People and Dementia brings together research and Indigenous knowledge on memory loss and memory care in later life to assist students, practitioners, and educators to decolonize their work with Indigenous peoples.Table of ContentsForeword / Rod McCormickIntroduction / Wendy Hulko, Jean E. Balestrery, and Danielle WilsonWe Call It Healing / Secwepemc Elder, Wendy Hulko, Danielle Wilson, Star Mahara, Gwen Campbell-McArthur, Jean William, Cecilia DeRose, and Estella Patrick Moller Part 1: Prevalence, Causes, and Public Discourse 1 Current and Projected Dementia Prevalence in First Nations Populations in Canada / Jennifer Walker and Kristen Jacklin 2 Indigenous Vascular Dementia: An Indigenous Syndemic Dementia Model / J. Neil Henderson, Linda D. Carson, and Kama King3 A Story about Joe in the News Media: Decolonizing Dementia Discourse / Suzanne MacLeodCoyote: Keeper of Memories / Danielle Wilson, Gwen Campbell-McArthur, Wendy Hulko, Star Mahara, Jean William, Cecilia DeRose, and Estella Patrick MollerPart 2: Indigenous Perspectives on Care and Prevention4 Perceptions of Dementia Prevention among Anishinaabe Living on Manitoulin Island / Jessica E. Pace, Kristen Jacklin, Wayne Warry, and Karen Pitawanakwat5 The Understanding from Within Project: Perspectives from Indigenous Caregivers / Carrie Bourassa, Melissa Blind, Kristen Jacklin, Eric Oleson, and Kate Ross-Hopley6 Oldest Age Does Not Come Alone: “What’s the Name of the Day?” / Mere KēpaA Fecund Frontier: We Listen ... in between Talk ... We Listen / Jean E. Balestrery and Sophie “Eqeelana Tungwenuk” NothstinePart 3: Applying Theory and Knowledge to Practice7 Depression, Diabetes, and Dementia: Historical, Biocultural, and Generational Factors among American Indian and Alaska Native Elders / Linda D. Carson, J. Neil Henderson, and Kama King8 Adapting CIRCA-BC in the Post-Residential-School Era / Barbara Purves and Wendy Hulko9 Focus(ing) on Love and Respect: Translating Elders’ Teachings on Aging and Memory Loss into Learning Tools for Children and Youth / Wendy Hulko, Danielle Wilson, and Jessica KentConclusion / Wendy Hulko, Jean E. Balestrery, and Danielle WilsonIndex
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press Indigenous Peoples and Dementia
Book SynopsisIndigenous People and Dementia brings together research and Indigenous knowledge on memory loss and memory care in later life to assist students, practitioners, and educators to decolonize their work with Indigenous peoples.Table of ContentsForeword / Rod McCormickIntroduction / Wendy Hulko, Jean E. Balestrery, and Danielle WilsonWe Call It Healing / Secwepemc Elder, Wendy Hulko, Danielle Wilson, Star Mahara, Gwen Campbell-McArthur, Jean William, Cecilia DeRose, and Estella Patrick Moller Part 1: Prevalence, Causes, and Public Discourse 1 Current and Projected Dementia Prevalence in First Nations Populations in Canada / Jennifer Walker and Kristen Jacklin 2 Indigenous Vascular Dementia: An Indigenous Syndemic Dementia Model / J. Neil Henderson, Linda D. Carson, and Kama King3 A Story about Joe in the News Media: Decolonizing Dementia Discourse / Suzanne MacLeodCoyote: Keeper of Memories / Danielle Wilson, Gwen Campbell-McArthur, Wendy Hulko, Star Mahara, Jean William, Cecilia DeRose, and Estella Patrick MollerPart 2: Indigenous Perspectives on Care and Prevention4 Perceptions of Dementia Prevention among Anishinaabe Living on Manitoulin Island / Jessica E. Pace, Kristen Jacklin, Wayne Warry, and Karen Pitawanakwat5 The Understanding from Within Project: Perspectives from Indigenous Caregivers / Carrie Bourassa, Melissa Blind, Kristen Jacklin, Eric Oleson, and Kate Ross-Hopley6 Oldest Age Does Not Come Alone: “What’s the Name of the Day?” / Mere KēpaA Fecund Frontier: We Listen ... in between Talk ... We Listen / Jean E. Balestrery and Sophie “Eqeelana Tungwenuk” NothstinePart 3: Applying Theory and Knowledge to Practice7 Depression, Diabetes, and Dementia: Historical, Biocultural, and Generational Factors among American Indian and Alaska Native Elders / Linda D. Carson, J. Neil Henderson, and Kama King8 Adapting CIRCA-BC in the Post-Residential-School Era / Barbara Purves and Wendy Hulko9 Focus(ing) on Love and Respect: Translating Elders’ Teachings on Aging and Memory Loss into Learning Tools for Children and Youth / Wendy Hulko, Danielle Wilson, and Jessica KentConclusion / Wendy Hulko, Jean E. Balestrery, and Danielle WilsonIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Assembling Unity
Book SynopsisEstablished narratives portray Indigenous unity as emerging solely in response to the political agenda of the settler state. But the concept of unity has long shaped the modern Indigenous political movement. With Indigenous perspectives and frameworks in the foreground, Assembling Unity explores the relationship between global political ideologies and pan-Indigenous politics in British Columbia through the history of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC). Sarah Nickel demonstrates that while unity has been an enduring goal for BC Indigenous peoples, its expression was heavily negotiated between UBCIC members, grassroots constituents, and Indigenous women's organizations. Nickel draws on oral interviews, newspaper articles, government documents, and UBCIC records to expose the uniquely gendered nature of political work, as well as the economic and emotional sacrifices that activists make. This incisive work unsettles dominant Western and patriarchal political iTrade Review"Assembling Unity offers a great deal to scholars interested not only in the Canadian context but more broadly in Indigenous politics and Indigenous feminisms. Nickel’s conceptual framework stands as a model to inspire other scholars who seek to use insights from Indigenous studies in order to reframe old debates and frameworks." -- Paige Raibmon * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *Assembling Unity is an important book. Sarah Nickel’s timely study of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs was shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association’s 2020 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize and was recently announced the winner of this year’s CHA Indigenous History Book Prize. Both accolades are much deserved. -- Chelsea Horton * Ormsby Review *A rich examination of the work Indigenous political leaders and grassroots organizers did to negotiate unity as part of a longer history of political activism in the context of continued settler colonialism. -- Lianne C. Leddy * Herizons, Fall 2019 *Table of ContentsBeginningsPart 1: Pan-Indigenous Unity1 Unity: “United we stand, divided we perish”2 Authority: “Ordinary Indians” and “the private club”3 Money: “A blessing and a golden noose”Part 2: A Philosophical Revolution and Competing Nationalisms4 Refusal: “Empty words and empty promises”5 Protest: Direct Action through “Militant May”6 Sovereignty: “If you really believe that you have the right, take it!”ReflectionsAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Caring for Eeyou Istchee
Book SynopsisIn Caring for Eeyou Istchee, Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners reveal how protected area creation presents a powerful vehicle for Indigenous stewardship, biological conservation, and cultural heritage protection.Trade ReviewThis book expertly details what nature bureaucrats call a “new protected area paradigm,” according to which lands are “governed by and with Indigenous people," promoting "respect for [their] knowledge, values, collective tenure, stewardship, ... and management of biodiversity" (p. xii). -- B. E. Johansen * CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword / Stan StevensPrefaceIntroduction / Rodney Mark, Monica E. Mulrennan, Katherine Scott, and Colin H. ScottPart 1: Context1 Protected Area Development in Northern Canadian Indigenous Contexts / Monica E. Mulrennan and Fikret Berkes2 The Politics of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Environmental Protection / Wren Nasr and Colin H. Scott3 A Balancing Act: Mining and Protected Areas on Wemindji Territory / Ugo Lapointe and Colin H. Scott4 Collecting Scientific Knowledge: an Historical Perspective on Eastern James Bay Research / Katherine ScottPart 2: What to Protect5 Shoreline Displacement and Human Adaptation in Eastern James Bay: A 6,000-year Perspective / Florin Pendea, Andre Costopoulos, Gail Chmura , Colin D. Wren, Jennifer Bracewell, Samuel Vaneeckhout, Jari Okkonen, Eva Hulse, and Dustin Keeler6 Patterns on the Land: Paakumshumwaau through the Lens of Natural History / James W. Fyles, Grant Ingram, Greg Mikkelson, Florin Pendea, Katherine Scott, and Kristen Whitbeck7 The Mammals of Wemindji: in Time, Space, and Ways of Knowing / Murray M. Humphries, Jason Samson, and Heather E. Milligan8 Coastal Goose Hunt of the Wemindji Cree: Adaptations to Social and Ecological Change / Claude Péloquin and Fikret Berkes9 Coastal Landscape Modifications by Cree Hunters / Jesse S. Sayles and Monica E. Mulrennan10 Aa-wiichaautuwiihkw: Cultural Connections and Continuities along the Wemindji Coast / Véronique Bussières, Monica E. Mulrennan, and Dorothy StewartPart 3: How to Protect11 Wemindji Cree Relations with the Government of Quebec in Creating the Paakumshumwaau-Maatuskaau Biodiversity Reserve / Julie Hébert, François Brassard, Ugo Lapointe, and Colin H. Scott12 A Responsibility to Protect and Restore: Advancing the Tawich (Marine) Conservation Area / Monica E. Mulrennan and Colin H. ScottConclusion / Monica E. Mulrennan, Katherine Scott, and Colin H. ScottIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Métis Politics and Governance in Canada
Book SynopsisThis timely book offers a novel, practical guide for understanding who the Métis are and the challenges they face on the path to self-government.Table of ContentsForeword by Clément ChartierForeword by Jason MaddenIntroduction1 La Noovel Naasyoon / Métis Political Organization in Historical Perspective2 Lii Valeur di Goovarnimaan di Michif / Principles of Métis Governance3 Lii Goovarnimaan di Michif / Métis Governments4 Kiihtwaam Ooshtaahk lii Goovarnimaan di Michif / (Re)building a Métis Civil Service5 Lii Faam di Naasyoon di Michif / Mothers of the Métis Nation6 Li Shmayn ishi Tipaymishoohk / The Road to Métis Self-GovernmentConclusion: Lii Drway di Naasyoon di Michif Ka Paashpiiwahk / The Ongoing Struggle for Métis RightsNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Men Masculinity and the Indian Act
Book SynopsisCanada's Indian Act is infamously sexist. Through many iterations of the legislation a woman's status rights flowed from her husband, and even once it was amended to reinstate rights lost through marriage or widowhood, First Nations women could not necessarily pass status on to their descendants. That injustice has rightly been subject to much scrutiny, but what has it meant for First Nations men? Martin J. Cannon challenges the decades-long assumption of case law and politics that the act has affected Indigenous people as either women or Indians but not both. He argues that sexism and racialization within the law must instead be understood as interlocking forms of discrimination that have also undercut the identities of Indigenous men through their female forebears. By restorying historically patriarchal legislation and Indigenous masculinity, Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act makes a significant contribution to a transformative discussion of Indigenous nTable of ContentsIntroduction1 The Indian Act, a Legacy of Racist Patriarchy 2 Sexism, Racialized Injustice, and Lavell v Canada, 1969–733 Individual versus Collective Rights Dispute in Status Indian Politics, 1985–994 Sexism, Indigenous Sovereignty, and McIvor v The Registrar, 2007–09ConclusionNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Flawed Precedent
Book SynopsisThis illuminating account of the St. Catherine's case of the 1880s reveals the erroneous assumptions and racism inherent in judgments that would define the nature and character of Aboriginal title in Canadian law and policy for almost a century.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Judicial Precedent and Indigenous Rights1 The Political and Ideological Context of the 1880s2 The Historical Context3 The Factual Background, Cause of Action, and Evidence4 Chancellor Boyd’s Trial Decision5 The Ontario Court of Appeal Decision6 The Supreme Court of Canada Judgments7 Lord Watson’s Privy Council Decision8 The Decision’s Impact and the Debate over Indigenous Land Rights in British Columbia9 The Modern Case LawConclusion: A Lesson in Judicial PrecedentNotes; Bibliographic Essay; Index of Cases; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Flawed Precedent The St. Catherines Case and
Book SynopsisThis illuminating account of the St. Catherine’s case of the 1880s reveals the erroneous assumptions and racism inherent in judgments that would define the nature and character of Aboriginal title in Canadian law and policy for almost a century.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Judicial Precedent and Indigenous Rights1 The Political and Ideological Context of the 1880s2 The Historical Context3 The Factual Background, Cause of Action, and Evidence4 Chancellor Boyd’s Trial Decision5 The Ontario Court of Appeal Decision6 The Supreme Court of Canada Judgments7 Lord Watson’s Privy Council Decision8 The Decision’s Impact and the Debate over Indigenous Land Rights in British Columbia9 The Modern Case LawConclusion: A Lesson in Judicial PrecedentNotes; Bibliographic Essay; Index of Cases; Index
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University of British Columbia Press At the Bridge
Book SynopsisAt the Bridge lifts from obscurity the story of James Teit (18641922), an outstanding Canadian ethnographer and Indian rights activist whose thoughtful scholarship and tireless organizing have been largely ignored.Trade ReviewWickwire painstakingly unearths the life and legacy of someone who was undeservedly 'invisibilized'...she does a thorough job of unearthing Teit’s legacy. Her book is filled with detail, anecdotes, and personal reflection. It’s an inspiring must-read for anyone interested in reconciliation today. -- Nelle Oosterom, Senior Editor * Canada's History *When Wickwire talks about Teit, there is an obvious excitement at the chance to highlight such an interesting character. That excitement comes across on the pages of the book as lively, solid reportage with a healthy dash of deserved reverence. At the Bridge is dense without being dry. -- Dana Gee * Vancouver Sun *Wendy Wickwire’s groundbreaking historical investigation places James Teit as a key figure in early North American anthropology, but also as central to historical Indigenous rights activism in British Columbia. -- Julie Cruikshank, author of Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social ImaginationWickwire has done B.C. scholars and Indigenous peoples an essential service in deftly peeling back the layers of personality, family, and life circumstances of one of Canada’s unsung heroes ... [her] work is not only highly recommended, but a definite must-read for anyone concerned with the unresolved Indigenous “land question” that continues to haunt the province to this day. -- Dan Marshall * The Ormsby Review *It is a remarkable book about a remarkable man and deserves a place on the bookshelf of everyone who understands that knowing where we’ve come from is essential to navigating our course to somewhere else and to somewhere that we hope to make better rather than worse. -- Stephen Hume * Walhachin Press *Wickwire draws her audience into a style of anthropology that is situated, participatory, and strives to be contextually self-aware at every turn. -- Mark Zion, Kate Plyley, Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson * Alberta Law Review *"Wickwire painstakingly unearths the life and legacy of someone who was undeservedly 'invisibilized'...she does a thorough job of unearthing Teit’s legacy. Her book is filled with detail, anecdotes, and personal reflection. It’s an inspiring must-read for anyone interested in reconciliation today." -- Nelle Oosterom * Canada's History *It is an exceptional book about a remarkable man who never received the recognition he deserved for his major input to what was then the new science of anthropology. -- Jim Cooperman * Salmon Arm Observer *Table of ContentsPreface1 Missing in History2 Boats, Trains, Horses3 Dear Auld Rock4 Encounter5 Paper Mountain6 Dwelling7 Capital of Resistance8 The Indians’ Agent9 NOttawa10 Farewell Coyote, Hello JackNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press BoisBrûlés
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University of British Columbia Press Indigenous Empowerment through Comanagement
Book SynopsisThis book is a clear, compelling, and evidence-based assessment of the effectiveness of co-management boards in providing Indigenous peoples with genuine influence over land and wildlife decisions affecting their traditional territories.Trade ReviewHis lucid treatment of critics and the continuing evolution of the boards up to the present is revelatory. This work is seminal for Canadians and instructive for states attempting to implement similar policies, an important contribution to the literature. -- G. Gagnon * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: What Are Land Claims–Based Co-management Boards?1 A New Species in the Canadian Governmental Menagerie2 Northern Governments, Land Claims, and Land Claims BoardsPart 2: Specific Land Claims Boards3 The Nunavut Wildlife Management Board4 The Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board5 The Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board and the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board6 The Mackenzie Valley Boards and the Regulatory Improvement SagaPart 3: A Review of the Key Issues7 Issues of Board Independence8 Traditional Knowledge in Claims-Mandated Co-management Board9 Indigenous Influence through Claims Boards?Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Inalienable Properties
Book SynopsisAs many Indigenous communities return to self-governance and self-determination, they are taking their own approaches to property rights and community development. Based on case studies in four Indigenous communities the Westbank, Membertou, Nisga'a, and James Bay Cree nations Jamie Baxter traces how local leaders have set the course for land rights and development during formative periods of legal and economic upheaval. Drawing on new research about institutional change in organizational settings, Baxter explores when and how community leaders have sustained inalienable land rights without turning to either persuasion or coercive force the two levers of power normally associated with political leadership.Inalienable Properties challenges the view that liberalized land markets are the inevitable result of legal and economic change. It shows how inalienability can result from intentional choices and is linked to structures of decision-making that have long-lasting
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University of British Columbia Press The Solidarity Encounter
Book SynopsisThis compassionate yet unflinching exposé of the pitfalls of Indigenousnon-Indigenous solidarity work offers a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.Trade ReviewCarol Lynne D’Arcangelis has produced a timely and important book that engages meaningfully with relevant scholarship around feminist anti‐colonial and Indigenous resurgence efforts. Students, scholars, and activists alike will find lessons here. -- Shawna Ferris, associate professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of ManitobaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 White Women, Proximity and Settler/Liberal Self-Making2 Transgressing Cherished Spaces: Indigenous Women on the “Impulse to Solidarity”3 Risky Romanticization: Cultural Difference, National Belonging and Indigenous Resistance4 Making Exceptions as the Rule: “Good/White Settler Allies” and the Politics of Declaration5 Towards Non-Colonizing SolidarityConclusion: The Solidarity Encounter in ReliefNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press The Solidarity Encounter
Book SynopsisThis compassionate yet unflinching exposé of the pitfalls of Indigenousnon-Indigenous solidarity work offers a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.Trade ReviewCarol Lynne D’Arcangelis has produced a timely and important book that engages meaningfully with relevant scholarship around feminist anti‐colonial and Indigenous resurgence efforts. Students, scholars, and activists alike will find lessons here. -- Shawna Ferris, associate professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of ManitobaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 White Women, Proximity and Settler/Liberal Self-Making2 Transgressing Cherished Spaces: Indigenous Women on the “Impulse to Solidarity”3 Risky Romanticization: Cultural Difference, National Belonging and Indigenous Resistance4 Making Exceptions as the Rule: “Good/White Settler Allies” and the Politics of Declaration5 Towards Non-Colonizing SolidarityConclusion: The Solidarity Encounter in ReliefNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press From Wardship to Rights
Book SynopsisThis thoughtful and engaging examination of the Guerin case shows how it changed the relationship between governments and Indigenous peoples from one of wardship to one based on legal rights.Trade ReviewFrom Wardship to Rights is a captivating account of one of the most significant moments in Canadian legal history. Beyond its value in preserving the first-hand memories of the participants, Jim Reynolds's book offers an understandable yet uncompromised contribution to the scholarship of Canadian Aboriginal law. -- Corbin Golding * Saskatchewan Law Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: The Context1 The Colonial Context2 The Musqueam and Their Land3 The Government as FiduciaryPart 2: The Case4 The Trial and Federal Court of Appeal5 The Supreme Court of CanadaPart 3: The Consequences6 The Impact of GuerinConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index
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University of British Columbia Press From Wardship to Rights
Book SynopsisThis thoughtful and engaging examination of the Guerin case shows how it changed the relationship between governments and Indigenous peoples from one of wardship to one based on legal rights.Trade ReviewFrom Wardship to Rights is a captivating account of one of the most significant moments in Canadian legal history. Beyond its value in preserving the first-hand memories of the participants, Jim Reynolds's book offers an understandable yet uncompromised contribution to the scholarship of Canadian Aboriginal law. -- Corbin Golding * Saskatchewan Law Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: The Context1 The Colonial Context2 The Musqueam and Their Land3 The Government as FiduciaryPart 2: The Case4 The Trial and Federal Court of Appeal5 The Supreme Court of CanadaPart 3: The Consequences6 The Impact of GuerinConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index
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University of British Columbia Press A People and a Nation
Book SynopsisIn A People and a Nation, the authors, most of whom are themselves Métis, offer readers a set of lenses through which to consider the complexity of historical and contemporary Métis nationhood and peoplehood. The field of Métis Studies has been afflicted by a longstanding tendency to situate Métis within deeply racialized contexts, and/or by an overwhelming focus on the nineteenth century. This volume challenges the pervasive racialization of Métis studies with multidisciplinary chapters on identity, history, politics, literature, spirituality, religion, and kinship networks, reorienting the conversation toward Métis experiences today. In the process, this timely collection dismantles the narrow notions that continue to shape political, legal, and social understanding of Métis existence, and convincingly demonstrates a more robust approach to Métis studies that centres Métis peoplehood and nationhood.Trade ReviewThis is an important text, which has been carefully edited to bring disparate voices together in a way that creates a resonance. -- Lyle Ford, University of Manitoba Libraries * Prairie History *This is a timely, potentially paradigm-shifting book. -- B. F. R. Edwards * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A New Era of Métis Studies Scholarship / Chris Andersen and Jennifer Adese1 Peoplehood and the Nation Form: Core Concepts for a Critical Métis Studies / Chris Andersen2 The Power of Peoplehood: Reimagining Metis Relationships, Research, and Responsibilities / Robert L.A. Hancock3 The Race Question in Canada and the Politics of Racial Mixing / Daniel Voth4 Challenging a Racist Fiction: A Closer Look at Métis-First Nations Relations / Robert Alexander Innes5 Restoring the Balance: Métis Women and Contemporary Nationalist Political Organizing / Jennifer Adese6 Alcide Morrissette: Oral Histories of a Métis Man on the Prairies in the Mid-Twentieth Century / Jesse Thistle7 “We’re Still Here and Métis:” Rewriting the 1885 Resistance in Marilyn Dumont’s The Pemmican Eaters / June Scudeler8 Mary and the Métis: Religion as a Site for New Insight in Métis Studies / Paul L. Gareau9 Building the Field of Métis Studies: Toward Transformative and Empowering Métis Scholarship / Adam GaudryList of Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Bead by Bead
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University of British Columbia Press A Legacy of Exploitation
Book SynopsisA Legacy of Exploitation recasts the Hudson's Bay Company's experiment at Red River as a reaction to Indigenous peoples' autonomy, challenging collective historical fantasies of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers.Trade ReviewIn providing this “fundamental rethink” of Marxist analysis, the author has cleared a path that other scholars will surely follow. This is an important book. -- James Daschuk, University of Regina * The Western Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Exploitation and Autonomy1 Reciprocity and Dispossession: Processes of Transformation2 Monopoly and Competition: Contests over Indigenous Peoples’ Labour and Land3 Honour and Duplicity: Debts of Rivals, Dreams of an Aristocrat4 Servitude and Independence: The Settler Colonial “Experiment” Begins5 Menace and Ally: Proclamation as Provocation6 Consciousness and Ignorance: New Nation, Old GrievancesConclusion: Continuity and ChangeNotes; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press So Much More Than Art
Book SynopsisSo Much More Than Art reveals the fascinating practice of miniaturization in Indigenous Northwest Coast art as a subtle form of communication in the face of oppressive colonization.Trade ReviewDavy establishes the miniature as a significant social actor on the Northwest Coast. -- Emily L. Moore, Colorado State University * BC Studies *Davy argues that miniature carving can be understood as a form of resistance in the face of 'aggressive colonization ... ' Students and scholars of anthropology and museology will find this volume eye-opening. -- L. De Danaan * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Practice and Play: The Makah 2 The Haida String: Northern Peoples3 Tiny Dancers and Idiot Sticks: The Kwakwaka’wakw4 Small Foundations: Tulalip Tribes 5 An Elemental Theory of Miniaturization6 Analysis of Technique and Status7 Miniature RealitiesNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press So Much More Than Art Indigenous Miniatures of
Book SynopsisSo Much More Than Art reveals the fascinating practice of miniaturization in Indigenous Northwest Coast art as a subtle form of communication in the face of oppressive colonization.Trade ReviewDavy establishes the miniature as a significant social actor on the Northwest Coast. -- Emily L. Moore, Colorado State University * BC Studies *Davy argues that miniature carving can be understood as a form of resistance in the face of 'aggressive colonization ... ' Students and scholars of anthropology and museology will find this volume eye-opening. -- L. De Danaan * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Practice and Play: The Makah 2 The Haida String: Northern Peoples3 Tiny Dancers and Idiot Sticks: The Kwakwaka’wakw4 Small Foundations: Tulalip Tribes 5 An Elemental Theory of Miniaturization6 Analysis of Technique and Status7 Miniature RealitiesNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Adjusting the Lens
Book SynopsisAdjusting the Lens explores and celebrates decolonizing strategies and practices that confront the ways the photographic record of Indigenous peoples has been shaped by the colonial imagination.Trade ReviewPerfectly timed and enormously significant, Adjusting the Lens illuminates the ways Indigenous art activists use photographs to challenge, realign, and renegotiate past histories...This book moves Indigenous art activism off the pages of Facebook and into the contemporary global art and cultural studies arena. -- J. Natal, Columbia College Chicago * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Coloniality, Indigeneity, and Photography / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem NielssenPart 1: Revisiting the Modern Colonial Order1 Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880–1974 / Carol Williams2 Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women’s Adventures in Sámi Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen3 Negotiating Meaning: John Møller’s Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg HøvikPart 2: Identifying Decolonial Strategies4 Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigneous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers5 Disruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greenhorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson6 "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sámi Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola7 The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People / Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham8 On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Christine SyPart 3: Decolonizing Art9 Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sámi Political Community / Laura Junka-Aikio10 Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye11 Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery in Sápmi – Becoming a Nation at The Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer StienPart 4: Negotiating Theory12 Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards
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University of British Columbia Press Mischief Making
Book SynopsisIn a gorgeously illustrated exploration of the art of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Mischief Making demonstrates how playful and punning gestures can shed light on serious subjects.Trade ReviewYahgulanaas' work is meticulously analyzed by Levell to expose deeper levels of motivation in the work of one of the most consistently inventive contemporary Indigenous artists working in the world today. -- Stuart Derdeyn * Vancouver Sun *Exuberant and playful, Yahgulanaas's art nonetheless has a serious underpinning and he has a long history of environmental and political activism. * BC Book World *"Levell’s work details the sometimes tremendously difficult and fraught conversations at the very limits of narrative and artistic practice." -- Laura A. Pearson, Huron University College * University of Toronto Quarterly. *[In this book], Levell's skill as a writer shines in her vivid descriptions and analysis of art works included as illustrations. Her academic knowledge and experience as a curator is also on full display in the relationships she traces between Yahgulanaas and other contemporary artists. -- Bryan Myles, Simon Fraser University * BC Studies *Lavishly illustrated and comprehensively researched, it demonstrates a non-linear, Haida manga-style approach to considering Yahgulanaas’ extraordinarily complex art work. -- Victoria Wyatt, University of Victoria * The British Columbia Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Nobuhiro KishigamiIntroductionBackstoryHaida Goes Pop! Playing with FramelinesCool Media: The Art of Telling TalesCulturally Modified: Precious Metals, Cars, and CrestsVisual Jazz: The Adaptability of FormsList of Works
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University of British Columbia Press Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals
Book SynopsisWitness to the Human Rights Tribunals offers a behind-the-scenes account of the difficulties facing Indigenous people in human rights tribunals, and the struggles of experts to keep their own testimony from being undermined.Trade Reviewengagingly practical instead of theoretical. -- G. Christensen, Stetson University College of Law * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsForeword / Sharon Venne-ManyfingersIntroductionPart 1: Anthropology and Law1 My Life in Anthropology and Law2 Symbolic Violence, Trauma, and Human Rights3 Thinning the Evidence, Discrediting the Expert Witness4 Entering Evidence in an Adversarial System5 Anthropologists versus LawyersPart 2: The Tribunal6 The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal7 McCue v. University of British Columbia8 Menzies v. Vancouver Police DepartmentConclusionCaselaw and Legal Materials; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Life against States of Emergency
Book SynopsisLife against States of Emergency responds to the central question Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence asked in a high-profile ceremonial fast: What does it mean to be in a treaty relationship today? Trade Review"Life Against States of Emergency is … refreshingly personable … enlivened by Wiebe’s dialogic approach to research and writing … Wiebe makes a deep contribution to critical policy conversations on Indigenous resurgence and futurities in Canada, Indigenous/settler relations, and Treaty-making and remaking." -- Rebecca Hall * Critical Policy Studies *"Wiebe – a settler scholar and writer-activist – is an immensely gifted storyteller … Life Against States of Emergency has arrived at a crucial point for the field of environmental politics, reminding us to recenter relationships as foundational to meaningful engagement with the politics of planetary justice. In doing so, we can better imagine and create alternative ways of being in the world." -- Hannah Ascough, Queen's University * Environmental Politics *Table of ContentsForeword: Nanabush and the Emergence of Butterflies / Lindsay Keegitah BorrowsPrefaceIntroduction: “You Are Treaty, Too”1 Artistic Movements for Alternative Decolonial Futures 2 Creative Engagement through Mixed Media Storytelling 3 Chief Spence’s Story4 Community Voices: Reimagining Attawapiskat 5 Discursive Responses to Attawapiskat, Chief Spence, and the Hunger Strike 6 Treaties Are Alive7 Fleshing Out New Directions for Environmental JusticeAfterword: Emergency Feelings – Reflections on the Body Politics of Sudden and Slow Emergencies Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Lessons in Legitimacy
Book SynopsisLessons in Legitimacy examines the relationship between settler capitalism, state schooling, and the making of British Columbia.Trade Review"Carleton’s multilayered approach offers a crucial and insightful perspective on the history of schooling – one that is sensitive to the spaces between state power and the paradoxical nature of the colonial project in Canada." -- Alex Gagne. York University * BC Studies *
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University of British Columbia Press Process As Power
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University of British Columbia Press Hunting the Northern Character
Book SynopsisThis deeply personal account of recent developments in the Canadian North tells the story of a region that leaders in Oslo, Ottawa, Moscow, and Washington often refuse to see and that only insiders fully know.Trade ReviewThere are tantalizing snippets of memoir in this book—Penikett is an excellent writer, and there’s one especially lovely description of his presence as honorary pallbearer at his former mother-in-law’s funeral and potlatch. But it is largely a comprehensive review of issues such as governance, international relations (a history and critique of the Arctic Council), resource management, climate change, and social issues like poverty, education, and health. Chapters on climate change, the “hungry ghost,” and the complex issue of sovereignty are especially good, as Penikett honours traditional knowledge (known colloquially as TK), and the slow integration of traditional knowledge into scientific research and analysis in the Arctic. -- Marian Botsford Fraser * Literary Review of Canada *Hunting The Northern Character is an eloquent appeal to end condescending treatment of the one uniquely Canada region best known to the outside world. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter *This is an insider’s view of Canada’s North and the Arctic world generally, informed by decades of experience in all aspects of northern life – social, environmental, and economic. It is astonishingly wide-ranging and comprehensive in its approach to topics, as well as lighthearted and anecdotal. It is difficult to think of anyone who knows more, or as much, about this subject as Penikett, which makes his book indispensable reading for anyone interested in the North. Summing Up: Essential. -- W. R. Morrison * CHOICE, April 2018 *Table of ContentsPrologueContours1 Who, What, Where? Arctic Peoples and Places2 Pawns: The Cold War3 Born in the Northern Bush: Indigenous Government4 No Settler Need Apply: The Arctic CouncilCommunity5 What You Eat and Where You Live: Poverty in the North6 Knowing Yourself: Education and Health7 Underfoot: Resources, Renewable and Non-renewableConflict8 Arctic Security: Control or Cooperation?9 Hungry Ghost: Climate Change10 Boomers and Lifers: A New DivideNotes; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Knowing the Past Facing the Future
Book SynopsisKnowing the Past, Facing the Future offers a sweeping account of Indigenous education in Canada, from the first treaty promises and the failure of government-run schools to illuminating discussions of what needs to change now to work toward reconciliation.Trade ReviewThis book provides innovative reflections on long-standing issues in Indigenous education in Canada and suggests possible pathways to address the educational debt that Canada owes Indigenous peoples. I recommend it to educators, students, and administrators, to anyone interested in learning about the history of residential schools, and to all readers who are interested in reconciliation and decolonisation. -- Valentina de Riso, Nottingham Trent University * British Journal of Canadian Studies *There is no doubting the importance of the subject tackled by this edited collection... In eleven highly diverse chapters, plus a substantial introduction by editor Sheila Carr-Stewart, this collection seeks to shed light on the mechanisms of educational exclusion and sound out the prospects for a different kind of education in the future. -- Mark Fettes, Simon Fraser University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Readers who are new to the topic, such as practicing teachers who wish to enhance their responsiveness to Indigenous students or undergraduate history majors, will gain accessible historical and policy context, alongside complex and nuanced representatios of the challenges that pervade Indigenous education today. -- Heather E. McGregor * Historical Studies in Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Sheila Carr-StewartPart 1: First Promises and Colonial Practices1 “One School for Every Reserve”: Chief Thunderchild’s Defence of Treaty Rights and Resistance to Separate Schools, 1880–1925 / Sheila Carr-Stewart2 Placing a School at the Tail of a Plough: The European Roots of Indian Industrial Schools in Canada / Larry Prochner3 The Heavy Debt of Our Missions: Failed Treaty Promises and Anglican Schools in Blackfoot Territory, 1892–1902 / Sheila Carr-StewartPart 2: Racism, Trauma, and Survivance4 If You Say I Am Indian, What Will You Do? History and Self-Identification at Humanity’s Intersection / Jonathan Anuik5 Laying the Foundations for Success: Recognizing Manifestations of Racism in First Nations Education / Noella Steinhauer6 Iskotew and Crow: (Re)igniting Narratives of Indigenous Survivance and Honouring Trauma Wisdom in the Classroom / Karlee D. FellnerPart 3: Truth, Reconciliation, and Decolonization7 Curriculum after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Conversation between Two Educators on the Future of Indigenous Education / Harry Lafond and Darryl Hunter8 Indigenous and Western Worldviews: Fostering Ethical Space in the Classroom / Jane P. Preston9 Supporting Equitable Learning Outcomes for Indigenous Students: Lessons from Saskatchewan / Michael Cottrell and Rosalind Hardie10 Hybrid Encounters: First Peoples Principles of Learning and Teachers’ Constructions of Indigenous Education and Educators / Brooke Madden11 The Alberta Métis Education Council: Realizing Self-Determination in Education / Yvonne Poitras Pratt and Solange LalondeIndex
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