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Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849- 1925
Landing Native Fisheries is an important contribution to the history of fisheries and a good companion to Harris’ Fish, Law, and Colonialism (2001). This is a serious study that demonstrates conclusively that dispossession of Aboriginal...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 138-40
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Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
OVERVIEW IN MAKING NATIVE SPACE, Cole Harris describes how settlers displaced Aboriginal people from their land in British Columbia,1 painstakingly documenting the creation of Indian reserves in the province from the 1830s to 1938. Informed...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 114-8
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The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture (2nd Edition)
Twenty years after its initial publication, The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture remains a relevant read. Featuring a new preface and afterword, this second edition of Daniel Francis’s important popular...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 172-73
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Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights
Discussion of land governance and land administration matters on Indian Act reserves in Canada has persisted for several decades. There is a general consensus that the lands have been poorly managed by a federal department...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 103-105
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Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
Authentic Indians examines the pressure exerted on a minority to conform to an ideal that the majority defined by another ideal – in short, two abstractions played off one another. Paige Raibmon calls this a...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 113-6
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Strange Visitors: Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada from 1876
This is a timely, thoughtful, and useful collection of primary documents on the history of the interactions among Indigenous people, non-Indigenous people, and the Canadian state. Given what is currently available, it will be invaluable...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 118-120
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The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volumes 1-6
A portion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) mandate laid out in Schedule N to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement [IRSSA] of 2006 said that the Commission was to “Produce and submit to...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 169-175
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They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
Bev Sellars’s bestselling memoir, They Called Me Number One, is a personal account of an important part of the colonial history of British Columbia told from a specific region in the province (Cariboo) and from...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 221-222
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Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point
Jean Barman brings clarity to a long misunderstood part of the early history of Vancouver and British Columbia. Building upon earlier re-search on Stanley Park by William C. McKee (Urban History Review 3 [1978]), Robert...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 113-5
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Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1901-07
When the Vancouver convention centre was completed in 2009, a series of interpretive panels describing the history of British Columbia were placed along the waterfront promenade. Featured among these panels is the story of “BC’s...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 173-74
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Indigenous Women, Work, and History 1940-1980
Historian Patrick Wolfe has foregrounded the contradictory condition of Indigenous labour within Euro-American settlement by arguing that mythic narratives of settler diligence coexisted with a heavy reliance on colonized Indigenous labour. As he observes in...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 162-164
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Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada
For years Canadians have been learning about the horrors of the Indian residential schools: from histories that have been written, from the 1996 report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (which blamed the schools...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 132-33
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Healing Histories: Stories from Canada’s Indian Hospitals
Histories of Aboriginal health form a field that has captured significant public interest after Ian Mosby’s recent revelation of experiments performed on Aboriginal children in residential schools and hospitals. Laurie Meijer Drees gives an accessible...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 161-63
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The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis: Portraits and Stories from Native North America
I must declare an “interest” in this book. Its pictorial dimension consists of reproductions of superb sepia prints made from original glass negatives sold to the Capital Group Foundation by James Graybill, grandson of their...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 113-5
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The W̲SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935
Anthropologist Rolf Knight launched a new chapter of Indigenous history in 1978 with the publication of his book, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930.[1] In contrast to...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 169-72
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With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada
We might as well name the elephant in the room. The editors did. The book’s first sentence, back cover, and promotional material all imply a fear that it will be received as “an apologist text”...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 116-8
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Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
The negotiation and signing of the numbered treaties with First Nations groups in Western Canada, followed shortly thereafter by the opening of the territory to Euro-Canadian settlement, served to consolidate the country’s sovereignty over the...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 167-8
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Whiskey Bullets: Cowboy and Indian Heritage Poems
The cover of Garry Gottfriedson’s book promises us a collection of traditional cowboy poetry. Exposed on a wood-grained surface are a pair of silver spurs, feathers, leather collar, and two bullets, one of which is...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 157-9
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Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast
The 40th anniversary reprint of the original, classic study, Indian Fishing,has arrived. Its author is the multi-talented graphic artist, photographer, archeological fieldworker/ethnographer, and museum exhibit curator, the late Hilary Stewart. For only one of these many skills...
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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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Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools, A Memoir.
Canadians who advise survivors of Native residential schools to “ just get over it” should read Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools. Author Theodore Fontaine, cousin of the more famous Phil, attended...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 131-32
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The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest
This multidisciplinary, transnational volume is a welcome addition to treaty literature in Canada and the United States. Situating treaty-making in the Pacific Northwest within a broader global context of imperialism and colonial indigenous-settler relations, the...