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Tellings from Our Elders: Lushootseed syəyəhub, Volume 1: Snohomish Texts as told by Martha Williams Lamont, Elizabeth Krise, Edward Sam, and Agnes Jules James
Skagit Valley as told by Susie Sampson Peter, Dora Solomon, Mary Sampson Willup, Harry Moses, Louise Anderson, Martin Sampson, Dewey Mitchell, and Alice Williams
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Pages 218-221
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The Salmon People
When The Salmon People was first published in 1967, commercial salmon fishing still sustained many coastal communities, although as Hugh McKervill pointed out then, there were plenty of signs that the resource was threatened. In...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 200-201
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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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Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting an Indigenous Presence in Banff National Park
The history of Indigenous peoples and parks — notably their exclusion from such places — is a field of study that has blossomed over the past two decades. Courtney Mason’s Spirits of the Rockies: Reasserting...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 160-162
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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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The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Volume One: Summary “Honouring the Truth, Reconciling the Future.”
The work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) between 2009 and 2015 is especially relevant to British Columbia. Residential schools and their impact are interwoven with the history, contemporary situation, and future development of...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 167-169
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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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Governing Transboundary Waters: Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities
Most of the world’s water basins are transborder. The vast majority of North America’s surface freshwater falls within a border watershed. Indeed, contemporary water governance within just one country is already complex enough — overlaying...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 168-169
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Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women’s Authorship
This precisely researched and engaging study enlarges our understanding of the archive by focusing on the decisions taken by or imposed on five Canadian women writers about the disposition of their papers or literary record....
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 183-84
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Writing the Okanagan
George Bowering’s new anthology, Writing the Okanagan, is a collection of Bowering’s fiction associated through setting, choice of characters, or autobiographical referents, with the Okanagan, chiefly the South Okanagan, where he grew up. Many of...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 165-166
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Three Athapaskan Ethnographies: Diamond Jenness on the Sekani, Tsuu T’ina and Wet’suwet’en, 1921-1924
Diamond Jenness was a diligent and talented ethnographer, and the years 1921-1924 were particularly productive. In the summer of 1921 he visited the Sarcee (Suuu T’ina) of Alberta and wrote a report based on “field-notes...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 139-141
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Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism
Indigenous Women and Work, edited by Carol Williams, consists of seventeen essays that examine the history of indigenous women and wage labour in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. The object of these...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 146-147
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Aboriginal Populations: Social, Demographic, and Epidemiological Perspectives
This substantial collection brings interdisciplinary approaches to a range of questions on Aboriginal populations. Aiming to bring about a “comprehensive understanding of the social demographic transformation of the Canadian Aboriginal population” (ix), the contributors review...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 147-149
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The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada’s Colour Bar
It was with great anticipation that those of us who study South Asian migration to Canada have awaited the expanded and revised version of Hugh Johnston’s The Voyage of the Komagata Maru. Johnston’s original monograph...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 156-157
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Truth & Indignation: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools
The struggle to articulate Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has seen varying degrees of success since the Commission was established in the 2006 Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. In 2008, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation...