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Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Konelīne: our land beautiful
As the language and culture director for the Tahltan Nation and a Tahltan academic, I believe giving voice to our people is crucial. Until recent times, the academy has privileged the voices of settlers and...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 188-189
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Screen Sovereignty: Indigenous Matriarch 4 Articulating the Future of Indigenous VR
Indigenous matriarchs are changing the culture of the technology industry through virtual reality (VR). Indigenous Matriarch 4 (IM4) is the first Indigenous virtual reality media lab and is situated on the West Coast. Currently, it...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 141-146
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lo-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley Virtual Museum
Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō -Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley (Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre and Stó:lō Nation, 2016) is a virtual museum in the form of a website that reflects a collaborative...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 195-197
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Crackdown
British Columbia is in year four of a provincial public health emergency declared in response to devastating rates of drug overdose deaths resulting from a toxic, illicit drug supply. As of July 2020, COVID-19 had...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 127-128
epidemics liquor and drugs mental health social services substance use government law public policy
review essay
Stories of Fish and People: Oral Tradition and the Environmental Crisis 
Messages from Franks Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way
Fishing Places, Fishing People: Traditions and Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries
To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing
BC Studies no. 129 Spring 2001 | Pages 79-85
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Vancouver: No Fixed Address
What stays with you after watching Charles Wilkinson’s new documentary, Vancouver: No Fixed Address, is its beautiful cinematography. Vancouver’s ideal location at the intersection of the ocean, the mountains, and the sky is captured brilliantly: every shot...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 165-166
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
When the City Sleeps, We Dream of Disruption: A Review of Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions Exhibition
Lisa Jackson’s exhibition entitled Transmissions premiered at the Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver campus from 6–28 September 2019. This new body of work weaves interdisciplinary themes regarding society, nature, Indigenous languages, and ecological futures. Lisa Jackson is Anishinaabe from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation and...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 103-107
Book Review
On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia
No other historian has been able to capture the unique history and diversity of British Columbia as University of British Columbia professor emeritus Jean Barman, whose brilliant career is encapsulated in a select collection of...
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
The Nameless Collective Podcast: Exploring History
Season one of the Nameless Collective, which is produced by Manjot Bains of JugniStyle and hosted by intrepid researchers, historians and archival explorers Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh, evokes past South Asian Canadian...
BC Studies no. 210 Summer 2021 | Page(s) 108-109
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Celebrating the Indigenous-Filipino Community on Bainbridge Island and the Indigenous Women Who Brought it into Being: A Review of Honor Thy Mother
The field of Indigenous studies is being called on with urgency to listen to, center, and amplify the voices and experiences of multiracial, multiethnic Indigenous community members beyond whiteness, especially the important voices and experiences...
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Reflexive Anthropology on Display: Franz Boas, George Hunt, and the Co-Production of Ethnographic Knowledge
A portion of an 1897 letter from Franz Boas to Kwagu’ł Chiefs, reproduced in English and Kwak’wala, opens The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology, an exhibition on view...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 131-139
Kwakwaka'wakw U'mista Cultural Centre Boas Franz George Hunt
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Altering the Landscape of Our Memories: A Review of Indigenous Cities (Vancouver)
I came to x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓ as a child, not knowing her name, but knowing she had the strength to hold out sharp city noises and the tenderness to hold onto the shy wood duck. To me,...
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
In/consequential Relationships: Refusing Colonial Ethics of Engagement in Yuxweluptun’s Inherent Rights, Vision Rights
On the closing day of the Museum of Anthropology’s Unceded Territories exhibit of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s art, crowds formed queues long enough to snake through the halls and to pack the exhibit space for the...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 187-192
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Pop Culture Confronts British Columbia’s Colonial History
Grand Theft Terra Firma: A Game of Imperial Stickup, Abbotsford, British Columbia, the Reach Gallery Museum, 17 January – 7 May 2017. The exhibition is augmented by several public events, including a live theatrical performance...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 198-200
this space here
A Historic Day for BC First Nations. Now the Work Starts: UNDRIP starts us on a journey, but without work, co-operation and shared vision we will be lost
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 11-13
aboriginal rights aboriginal people UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) legislation
photo essay
Book Review
The Object’s the Thing: The Writings of Yorke Edwards, a Pioneer of Heritage Interpretation in Canada
When we visit a nature park or a museum, do we consider how interpretation contributed to our experience? For Yorke Edwards, “the father of nature interpretation in Canada,” interpreting the object is “the thing.” As...
BC Studies no. 210 Summer 2021 | Page(s) 115-116
Book Review
Against the Current and Into the Light: Performing History and Land in Coast Salish Territories and Vancouver’s Stanley Park
Coast Salish Indigenous people never ceded their lands and resources to settlers and have always asserted their sovereignty. Over time, those assertions have taken various forms: petitions, protests, litigation. There have also been cultural assertions...
photo essay
reflection
Book Review
Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships
Is it possible for two entirely different legal frameworks, built by ontologically diverse and frequently disparate parties, to coexist under one judicial system? This question would be difficult enough when considering two parties on equal...
Book Review
Cataline: The Life of BC’s Legendary Packer
The early history of British Columbia is replete with enigmatic and unusual figures but few rival the man popularly known as Cataline. Anyone who has spent time exploring the history of the province will have...
Book Review
Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia
The revised third edition of Kilian Crawford’s ground-breaking book on BC’s Black pioneers is timely and essential reading. It is a critical corrective to omissions and erasure in both academic histories and in popular understandings,...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 131-132
Book Review
Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story
The text of Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story extends well beyond its own parameters, both literal and figurative. Syilx, Tsilhqot’in, Ktunaxa, and Dakelh playwright Kim Senklip Harvey offers a thoughtful, funny, and compelling exploration of...