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BC Studies #138/139 (Summer/Autumn 2003)
Native Geographies

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This double issue honours one of North America's leading historical geographers, Cole Harris, and his award-winning book Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia. It explores the ways that colonial discourse and the Western World have impacted First Nations and their processes of making space in BC.

Articles

GUEST EDITORIAL: The Question of Making Native Space (pg: 5-11) by Daniel Clayton

Defining the Middle Period (3500 bp to 1500 bp) in Tsimshian History through a Comparison of Archaeological and Oral Records (pg: 13-50) by Andrew R.C. Martindale, Susan Marsden
(aboriginal people) (Tsimshian) (oral tradition) (archaeology)

United States v. Tom and A New Perspective on the Short History of Treaty Making in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia (pg: 51-86) by Hamar Foster, Allan Grove
(aboriginal people) (treaties) (Pacific Northwest) (Colony of Vancouver Island)

Collaboration Geographies: Native-White Partnerships During the Re-settlement of Ootsa Lake, British Columbia, 1900-52 (pg: 87-114) by Soren Larsen
(aboriginal people) (land settlement) (colonialism)

If the Story Could be Heard: Colonial Discourse and the Surrender of Indian Reserve (pg: 115-36) by Students of Northern Lights College, Steve Roe
(land settlement) (colonialism) (aboriginal people)

FORUM: Revisiting the Native Land Question (pg: 137-63) by Cole Harris, Jo-Anne Fiske, Gordon Gibson

Review Essays

"Reconciling Issues of Time-Past and Time-Present in New Works of BC Ethnography" by Wendy C. Wickwire (pgs: 165-72)

  • Indian Myths & Legends From the North Pacific Coast of America by Randy Bouchard, Dorothy Kennedy
  • Q'sapi: A History of Okanagan People as Told by Okanagan Families by Shirley Louis
  • Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 1897-1902 by Igor Krupnik, William W. Fitzhugh

"A Commentary on Kris Olds's Critique of the Urban Mega-Project Phenomenon" by Tom Hutton (pgs: 173-80)

  • Globalization and Urban Change: Capital, Culture, and Pacific Rim Mega-Projects by Kris Olds

Book Reviews

—Reviewed by Terry Glavin (pgs: 181-4)

—Reviewed by J.R. Miller (pgs: 184-6)

—Reviewed by H.V. Nelles (pgs: 187-8)

—Reviewed by Margaret Van Die (pgs: 189-90)

—Reviewed by Veronica Strong-Boag (pgs: 190-2)

—Reviewed by Duff Sutherland (pgs: 192-4)

—Reviewed by Megan A. Smetzer (pgs: 194-6)

—Reviewed by Jim Phillips (pgs: 196-8)

—Reviewed by Neil Sutherland (pgs: 198- 200)

—Reviewed by Andrew Hildred (pgs: 200-1)

—Reviewed by Kenneth G. Brealey (pgs: 201-3)

—Reviewed by Catherine Carstairs (pgs: 203-4)

—Reviewed by Michael Asch (pgs: 205-6)

—Reviewed by Brian W. Dippie (pgs: 206-7)

—Reviewed by Bruce M. Watson (pgs: 207-8)

—Reviewed by Jill Wade (pgs: 209-10)

—Reviewed by Michael E. Vance (pgs: 210-1)

—Reviewed by Philip Teece (pgs: 212-3)

Contributors

Andrew Martindale is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. His current research investigates the nature and consequences of the contact relationship between Tsimshian and European people during the 18th-20th centuries.  The research includes a comparison of data from documentary sources, archaeological sites, and indigenous oral traditions some of which will be published in upcoming volumes from UBC Press and International Monographs in Prehistory.

Steve Roe teaches English at Northern Lights College and is a co-editor of Designs for Disciplines: An Introduction to Academic Writing (Canadian Scholars' Press, 2003). Among the contributing authors, Raffaella Loro currently resides in northern British Columbia and is completing a double major in English and History. She intends to pursue a career in education and writing.  Julie Hindbo is a surface land representative  in northeastern British Columbia and northwestern  Alberta. Julie works with First Nations and local communities to identify and mitigate land-use concerns associated with oil and gas development.

Nathan J. Young is a graduate student and Killam Predoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia.

Hamar Foster teaches law and legal history at the University of Victoria. His research and writing has focussed on the legal history of the Canadian North and West, Aboriginal rights and title, and comparative United States/Canadian criminal law.

Alan Grove is a legal historian employed by the law firm of Woodward and Company. His research and writing has focussed on the legal history of the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Aboriginal Rights and Title.

Gordon Gibson is Senior Fellow in Canadian Studies at the Fraser Institute, Vancouver.  He writes on federalism, governance and aboriginal issues. His latest publication (as Editor and contributor) is "Fixing Canadian Democracy", Fraser Institute, 2003.

Jo-Anne Fiske earned her PhD in Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.  She is currently Professor of Women's Studies and First Nations Studies at University of Northern British Columbia. For more than twenty years she has conducted research with First Nations in British Columbia addressing a range of questions regarding aboriginal rights, governance, gender relations, customary law and justice, and social policy.  Her work appears in a number of academic journals including Atlantis, BC Studies,  Culture, Ethnohistory, Feminist Studies, and the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Folk Law and in numerous anthologies.  She is author of Cis Dideen Kat: When the Plumes Rise, The Way of the Lake Babine Nation.

 

Bibliography of British Columbia

Prepared by Gail Edwards

PDF - Bibliography, BC Studies 138/39, Summer/Autumn 2003