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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Environmental History and the Forests of the North American West 
Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913
Vanishing Halo: Saving the Boreal Forest
Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest
BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | Pages 93-104
photo essay
Book Review
Deadly Neighbours: A Tale of Colonialism, Cattle Feuds, Murder and Vigilantes in the Far West
Deadly Neighbours opens a window into the relationship between immigrant settlers and the Sema:th (Sumas) and Sto:lo people residing in British Columbia’s Sumas Prairie and Nooksack Valley during the 1870s and 1880s. Several conflicts are...
review essay
review essay
Handbook of North American Indians: Northwest Coast (volume 7)
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 185-191
Book Review
The York Factory Express: Fort Vancouver to Hudson Bay, 1826-1849
The York Factory Express was an integral part of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s trans-continental trade network in the nineteenth century. It carried men and mail from the Pacific coast to Hudson Bay, linking the Columbia...
research note
Book Review
For Freedom We Will Fight, the Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia 1905-1990
More than a hundred years after losing its prominence, the fabled Industrial Workers of the World continues to resonate as a union without parallel in the annals of labour history in North America. Besides the...
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...
BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 125-129
Book Review
Solidarity: Canada’s Unknown Revolution of 1983
This is a book in search of a genre. As history, the curtain comes down on this story after a disappointing first night. But as theatre, it would undoubtedly have a longer and more satisfying...
Book Review
Unvarnished, Autobiographical Sketches by Emily Carr
Just like painting and sketching, writing came as second nature to Emily Carr – a gifted and self-aware woman in more respects than one. In 1895, at the age of twenty-three, she recorded a ten-mile...
Book Review
Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent: The Everyday Life of a Canadian Englishman, 1842-1898
In Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent, historian Jack Little asks what can be learned from the diaries of a settler who “failed to adapt” to the transformations of the Victorian era and whose life,...
Book Review
Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art and the Seriousness of Play
Celebrated contemporary Haida artist, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas has produced a diverse body of work ranging from ink drawings to large scale mixed media sculptures to totem poles. The artist is best known for inventing a...
Book Review
Making and Breaking Settler Space: Five Centuries of Colonization in North America
This provocative book does many things: it conceptualizes the larger spatial and historical processes of settler colonialism, it examines and critiques social movements in the context of enduring Indigenous sovereignties, and it unpacks the affective...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 149-150
Book Review
Joseph William McKay: A Métis Business Leader in Colonial British Columbia
In 2003, the Canadian Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of R. v. Powley, triggering significant new public interest in Métis identity and history outside of the familiar geography of the Canadian...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 152-153
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Not your usual science: a Future Ecologies Podcast Review
Future Ecologies is not your typical science podcast. Strongly reminiscent of Radiolab (2002–), the renowned WNYC series from the “golden age” of podcasting (Berry 2015), Future Ecologies investigates “the shape of our world,” or the...
BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | Page(s) 128-130
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Now Is the Time
In the extraordinary short film Now Is the Time, Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter brings to the screen a moving story of renewal through the restoration and re-editing of footage from the National Film Board of...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 130-131
museums repatriation aboriginal self government colonialism settler colonialism aboriginal art aboriginal rights Haida Indigenous worlds
Book Review
Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities Through Story
Sam McKegney’s Carrying the Burden of Peace seeks to bridge the gap in between the “insistence that neither individual Indigenous men nor concepts of Indigenous masculinity are irredeemable” and the recognition that some forms of...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 155-156
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
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Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
Though many will recognize Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers for her remarkable body of short and documentary films (Bloodland [2011], A Red Girl’s Reasoning [2012], Bihttoš [2014], cəsnaʔəm, the city before the city [2017]), The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)...
BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | Page(s) 109-110
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
Book Review
A Great Revolutionary Wave: Women and the Vote in British Columbia
A core rationale for this book series, Lara Campbell explains, is the necessity to “tell regional stories” about the women’s suffrage movement (13). Campbell demonstrates, for example, that the absence of a party system in...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 160-162
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...