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The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors
For this fourth volume in his series on the Literary History of British Columbia, Alan Twigg has set himself the impossible task of selecting 150 “Great B.C. Books and Authors,” designated as...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 166-68
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Carvings and Commerce: Model Totem Poles, 1880-2010
In 2010 the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon held an exhibition of 194 Northwest Coast style model totem poles. This handsome book is the catalogue for that exhibit. The model poles are presented chronologically in...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 137-8
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Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America
The fourth in a series of historical dictionaries from the Scarecrow Press, Robin Inglis’s Historical Dictionary meets the standard set by its predecessors. In a good, general introduction (there are no citations or notes), Inglis...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 152-155
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All that We Say Is Ours: Guiyaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation
Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation: All That We Say Is Ours is a human interest story around issues of Aboriginal title and rights. Ian Gill is an award-winning journalist, author, and the...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 96-97
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The Magic Leaves: A History of Haida Argillite Carving
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 66, Summer 1985
BC Studies no. 66 Summer 1985 | Page(s) 60-3
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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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Fire in the Raven’s Nest, The Haida of British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 23, Autumn 1974
BC Studies no. 23 Autumn 1974 | Page(s) 62-4
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“Haida Burial Practices…;” Jerome S. Cybulski, “The Gust Island Burial Shelter: Physical Anthropology;” Archaeological Survey of Canada Mercury Series (Paper No. 9.)
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 21, Spring 1974
BC Studies no. 21 Spring 1974 | Page(s) 59-60
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Haida Monumental Art: Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands; Ninstints: Haida World Heritage Site
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 62, Summer 1984
BC Studies no. 62 Summer 1984 | Page(s) 71-4
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During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 59, Autumn 1983
BC Studies no. 59 Autumn 1983 | Page(s) 67-9
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The Curtain Within: Haida Social and Mythical Discourse
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 86, Summer 1990
BC Studies no. 86 Summer 1990 | Page(s) 75-7
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Switchbacks: Art, Ownership and Nuxalk National Identity
Jennifer Kramer’s book describes some recent negotiations of public representation and the incipient construction of national identity through the disposition of works of art by the Nuxalk people of Bella Coola, British Columbia. This book...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 117-20
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A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 123, Autumn 1999
BC Studies no. 123 Autumn 1999 | Page(s) 91-2
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Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
In 1999 a small group of Salt Spring Island activists decided to mark the coming millennium by inventorying and mapping the unique resources of their island home. Inspired by bioregional writing and mapping projects in...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 94-6
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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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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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Plants of Haida Gwaii
FOR THOSE SCHOLARS conducting research within First Nations communities at this postcolonial moment in academic history, old rules do not apply. One must navigate a rearranged landscape made up of new challenges and opportunities. First...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 299-301
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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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Arthur Erickson: Critical Works
No postwar Canadian architect is as widely known as is Arthur Erickson. Some commentators refer to him as an architectural star and a Canadian icon. Still others argue that, while many in this country revere...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 124-6
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Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of the Loon to the Time of the Iron People
This edited volume, which consists of sixteen chapters plus two fore words, a preface, and a conclusion, has twenty-nine contributors. Its focus is the Parks Canada Gwaii Haanas Archaeology and Paleoecology project, which reports primarily...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 120-2
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Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art
A book of this kind – large and sumptuous, rich with colour photo graphs of historical and more recent Haida art from the Northwest Coast, and featuring a dozen essays by Haida and non-Native contributors...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 117-9
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Northern Haida Master Carvers
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 134, Summer 2002