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The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity
WRITING IN Moon of Wintertime: Missionaries and the Indians of Canada in Encounter since 1534 (University of Toronto Press, 1984, 250) of seventeenth-century Jesuit missions to the Huron, John Webster Grant quoted a Huron man...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 184-6
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Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas Collection
In October 1863, the Reverend Robert J. Dundas of Scotland travelled up the coast from Victoria to Old Metlakatla, near Prince Rupert. There, he acquired seventy-seven “ceremonial objects” from the Anglican evangelical lay minister William...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 150-2
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What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools.
The impetus for What We Learned, a collaborative book written by Helen Raptis and twelve members of the Tsimshian Nation, was Raptis’s archival discovery of a 1947 class list from the Port Essington Indian Day...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 217-218
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The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah: A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific North West Coast
In 1900, after almost fifty years of assiduously keeping a daily diary, Tsimshian leader and Christian, Arthur Wellington Clah, feared he was losing his sight. “But my Lord Jesus Christ push my heart to write...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 225-228
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Celebration: Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian Dancing on the Land
Concerned that not all Native Alaskan children had the opportunity to learn their communities’ ancient songs and dances or to participate in traditional ceremony, the fledging Native non-profit Sealaska Heritage Institute decided to hold a...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 137-8
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Tsimshian Culture: A Light Through the Ages
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 117, Spring 1998
BC Studies no. 117 Spring 1998 | Page(s) 80-2
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The Tsimshian: Images of the Past: Views for the Present
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 67, Autumn 1985
BC Studies no. 67 Autumn 1985 | Page(s) 62-9
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Shattered Images: Dialogues and Meditations on Tsimshian Narratives
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 82, Summer 1989
BC Studies no. 82 Summer 1989 | Page(s) 68-70
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Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast
Over the years, historians have paid only sporadic attention to Christian missionaries in British Columbia. While excellent studies periodically appear, they tend to reflect themes and approaches developed elsewhere. Good Intentions Gone Awry thus reflects...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 139-40
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Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands
This multiple award-winning collection considers Aboriginal women through a regional approach. Its essays contribute to several intersecting historiographies: women’s and gender histories, Aboriginal women’s history, and biography. Beyond these, the works are unified through their...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 159-160
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Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History
IN ORGANIZING this collection of papers on late-period Northwest Coast archaeology, R.G. Matson, in his introduction to this edited volume, proposes to make Northwest Coast archaeology more visible in the literature alongside the prominent ethnographic...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 136-9
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Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Coll Thrush’s book lies at the intersection of two bodies of scholarship that usually run parallel to each other. Urban history and Indian history meet in Native Seattle with panache and authority. Thrush tracks the...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 186-7
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Mixed Blessings: Indigenous Encounters with Christianity in Canada
Mixed Blessings is a collection of papers developed for a May 2011 workshop, “Religious Encounter and Exchange in Aboriginal Canada,” capably edited by historians Tolly Bradford and Chelsea Horton, whose helpful introduction and conclusion pull...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 167-9
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Discovering Totem Poles: A Traveller’s Guide
This well-illustrated and modest in size guidebook presents totem poles that a tourist could see on a trip from Seattle, Washington, to Juneau, Alaska. The focus in not on totem poles as art objects displaying...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 170-171
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Birthright
In the last half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, intimate relationships between indigenous women and settler men were freighted with a complicated and at times conflicting set of...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 126-8
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The Promise of Paradise: Utopian Communities in British Columbia
My childhood vacations did not involve the sophisticated technology that keeps my children (relatively) quiet in the backseat today. Apart from what I recall to be my endless patience on those long and winding drives...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 188-9
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Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Colonial Proximities is a good book about an important subject: how colonial authorities, anxious about racial difference, tried to use legal and other strategies to regulate and restrict interracial “encounters” during the half-century after confederation...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 145-46
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Where the Pavement Ends
Marie Wadden is a non-Aboriginal investigative journalist/network producer for CBC Radio who is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 1981, she shared her home with two Innu youth who came to the city from Sheshatshiu,...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 135-136
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Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions
Coming to Shore promises to make a significant contribution to the anthropological study of the indigenous peoples and cultures of the North Pacific Coast of North America. Comprising papers from the Northwest Coast Ethnology Conference,...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 115-8
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Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas
The essays and the many previously published texts gathered together in this weighty tome demonstrate the extent to which, over the course of the past 250 years, “the idea of Northwest Coast Native art has...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 193-95
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Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers
THE IDEA OF a story being as sharp as a knife, which is the title of Robert Bringhurst’s astonishing introduction to the works of classical Haida poets, is a useful proposition to consider in order...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 181-4
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Home Truths: Highlights from BC History
As co-editors of BC Studies, Richard Mackie and Graeme Wynn surveyed all the essays published in the journal since it first appeared in 1968 before deciding to focus on what they concluded were two dominant...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 165-167
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The Letters of Margaret Butcher: Missionary-Imperialism on the North Pacific Coast
As a study of missionary imperialism, Mary-Ellen Kelm’s edition of the letters Margaret Butcher wrote from Kitamaat between 1916 and 1919 makes an important contribution to historical conversations about the Haisla, missionaries, and residential schools...