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The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915
This sophisticated and engaging book has much to offer a number of scholarly areas, including Canadian history, gender studies, and political and legal studies. Working from a massive bedrock of diverse primary materials, Sarah Carter...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 125-127
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The Origin of the Wolf Ritual: The Whaling Indians, West Coast Legends and Stories
The Nuu-chah-nulth (formerly known as the Nootka) Wolf Ritual texts re-presented here have had a complex history of authorship and availability within the BC communities from which they were collected for the Anthropological Division of...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 127-128
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Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field
“Anthropology is unquestionably a discipline with well-known intellectual traditions, or histories … [It is] not a social science tout court, but something else. What that something else is has been notoriously difficult to name, precisely...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 129-31
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Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound
PDF – Raibmon Review Essay – BC Studies 124, Winter 1999
BC Studies no. 124 Winter 1999-2000 | Page(s) 93-8
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Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 87, Autumn 1990
BC Studies no. 87 Autumn 1990 | Page(s) 97-8
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Lelooska: The Life of a Northwest Coast Artist
IN SEPTEMBER 1996 Don “Lelooska” Smith, a highly regarded Northwest Coast artist, was laid to rest near his home in Ariel, Washington. The present volume is the result of a collaboration between Lelooska and historian...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 121-3
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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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Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
POET, WRITER, storyteller, spokesperson, performer, actress, performance artist. Pauline Johnson is certainly the most public and popular writer that nineteenth-century Canada produced, and perhaps even the most public Canadian writer of the last century. Such...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 115-8
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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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States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
The publication of Tina Loo’s States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century marks the coming of age of the field of Canadian environmental history. In some respects, this statement may seem over...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 131-4
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Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Encounters Adoption from the 19th Century to the 1990’s
This book is a long-overdue corrective to existing literature on the history of the Canadian family. Adoption, as Veronica Strong-Boag asserts, “is a far from marginal phenomenon in Canadian history” (vii), yet historians have given...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 134-7
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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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Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 107, Autumn 1995
BC Studies no. 107 Autumn 1995 | Page(s) 86-9
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Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 227-8
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Klondike Cattle Drive
Klondike Cattle Drive, Norman Lee’s account of his attempt to “make a few dollars” by driving his cattle north in 1898 to sell beef to the Klondike miners, was first published in 1960. This reprint...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 128-9
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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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Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth
This wonderful collection of letters describes a special friend ship between Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth between 1940 and 1945. Carr was already recognized as a distinguished artist, but she had just begun to write...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 99-100
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Pioneer Jews of British Columbia
Pioneer Jews of British Columbia is a compilation of articles that first appeared in two journals, Western States Jewish History and The Scribe, dealing with Jewish settlement in British Columbia in the nineteenth and early...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 134-5
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Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin: Stories Worth Keeping
Diana Wilson deserves congratulations for the excellent collection of writings that she has assembled in this wonderful book. Wilson’s aim, as she writes in the introduction, was to choose voices that reflect the multifaceted nature...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 127-8
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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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Researching the Indian Land Question in BC: An Introduction to Research Strategies and Archival Research for Band Researchers
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 123, Autumn 1999
BC Studies no. 123 Autumn 1999 | Page(s) 83-4
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Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia
Andrew Woolford’s Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia marks an important shift in the historiography of indigenous- settler relations in Canada. Focusing on the first ten years of the BC treaty process...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 89-91
Book Review
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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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...