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Inalienable Properties: The Political Economy of Indigenous Land Reform
In Inalienable Properties: the political economy of Indigenous land reform (2020), Jamie Baxter presents his readers with a puzzle surrounding the inalienability of Indigenous land tenure systems. Baxter asks, ‘why does inalienable property persist in...
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
Konelīne: our land beautiful
Winner of the Best Canadian Feature at the 2016 Hot Docs Festival, Nettie Wild’s Konelīne: our land beautiful weaves together stories of humanity’s relationships with industry, the wilderness, and nature in Northwestern British Columbia. Telling...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 187-188
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
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Indians, Land, and Identity in Washington (or, Why Cross-Border Shop) 
Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest
Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and Law in Washington Territory, 1853-1889
Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound
BC Studies no. 124 Winter 1999-2000 | Pages 93-98
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
RAVEN (De)Briefs Podcast: Indigenous Law in Action
Season one of the RAVEN (De)Briefs podcast series is a refreshing Indigenization of the traditional podcast format in that it evokes everyday kitchen table conversations among relatives, combined with sonic, Indigenous documentary. Exploring contemporary environmental...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 128-129
colonialism Delgamuukw v. BC Indigenous Indigenous rights treaties land claims law
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
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
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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
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Is the World Wonderful? On Judy Chartrand’s What a Wonderful World
Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful World on view at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver, BC, 19 October 2016 – 26 March 2017. Admittedly, I was confused about where the permanent collection...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 145-149
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
Book Review
Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies
“There is no single historiography of internment” in Canada, write Rhonda L. Hinter and Jim Mochoruk in the introduction of this ambitious collection of essays (9-10). Siloed histories of particular internments, they suggest, convey episodic...
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Solemn Words and Foundational Documents: An Annotated Discussion of Indigenous-Crown Treaties in Canada, 1752-1923
When the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report in 2015 it drew attention to the importance of treaty making in the history of Crown-Indigenous relations in Canada. Treaty making, the...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 136-137
Book Review
Rain City: Vancouver Reflections
John Moore is a BC-based free-lance journalist and author. Original versions of the sixteen essays that make up this volume have appeared in a variety of newspapers and periodicals over several decades. Some have won...
BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | Page(s) 141-142
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In Nature’s Realm: Early Naturalists Explore Vancouver Island
In Nature’s Realm, a third tome from Michael Layland that focuses on the (mostly) colonial histories of Vancouver Island, is an artistic and literary achievement. Layland’s hybrid of chronological and thematic descriptions of Vancouver Island-related...