Index

From Recognition to Reconciliation: Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights

From Treaty Peoples To Treaty Nation: A Road Map for All Canadians

Review by Neil Vallance

BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Pages 150-152

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...

Review by Daniel Macfarlane

BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 168-169

“A New Understanding of Things Indian”: George Raley’s Negotiation of the Residential School Experience

By Paige Raibmon

residential schools religion aboriginal people aboriginal art Fraser Valley Raley George Henry

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....

Review by Patricia Demers

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 183-84

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...

Review by Robin Ridington

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 139-141

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...

Review by Loraine Littlefield

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 146-147

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...

Review by Leah Wiener

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 147-149

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...

Review by Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 156-157

Canada, British Columbia, and the Development of Indian Reserve No. 2, at Chuchuwayha

By Karl Preuss

BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 87-121

land settlement mining Indian Reserves Chuchuwayha

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...

Review by David Gaertner

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 144-146

“Human Beings Need Places Unchanged by Themselves”: Defining and Debating Wilderness in the West Kootnays, 1969-74

By Jenny Clayton

BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 93-118

parks and reserves conservation Purcell Mountain Conservancy Earl Grey Trail Fry Creek Kootenay District

“Panic Park”: Environmental Protest and the Politics of Parks in British Columbia’s Skagit Valley

By Philip Van Huizen

BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 67-92

High Ross Dam parks and reserves Skagit New Democractic Party Social Credit party

Behind the Scenery: Manning Park and the Aesthetics of Automobile Accessibility in 1950’s British Columbia

By Ben Bradley

BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 41-65

cars parks and reserves roads and highways tourism Manning Park

Creating a “Natural Asset”: British Columbia’s First Park, Strathcona, 1905-16

By Paula Young

BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 17-39

parks and reserves tourism Ellison expedition Strathcona Park Ellison Price

“Colonizing Minds: Public Education, the “Textbook Indian”, and Settler Colonialism in British Columbia, 1920-1970″

By Sean Carleton

BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 101-130

education textbooks colonialism aboriginal people

The Gold Will Speak For Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown

Vancouver Island has a distinctive personality among the regions of British Columbia, one that has been shaped in complex ways by geography and history. The books reviewed here vary in their candlepower, but all of...

Review by Patrick Dunae

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 160-164

The Laird of Fort William: William McGillivray and the North West Company

Forging a Fur Empire: Expeditions in the Snake River Country, 1809-1824

Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man

Review by Robert Foxcurran and John Jackson

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Pages 152-154

Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, The Kwakwaka’wakw and the Making of Modern Cinema

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

Review by Andrea Walsh

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Pages 108-111

Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies and Human Communities in British Columbia.

This is a thought-provoking book. Focussing on the rangelands of Interior British Columbia, John Thistle describes how commercial ranching begot inequities, dispossessions, and ecological degradation. All, according to his analysis, were avoidable. Resettling the Range...

Review by Max Foran

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 178-79

‘A Relationship and Interchange of Experience’: H. B. Hawthorn, Indian Affairs, and the 1955 BC Indian Research Project

By Byron King Plant

BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 43251

aboriginal people Indian Research Project public policy Hawthorn Harry B.

The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia

Much of my critique of Beamish and McFarlane’s The Sea Among Us is that familiar reviewer’s refrain: they didn’t write the book that I would have. With the luxury of a dozen different writers, I...

Review by Howard Stewart

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 151-52

A Rejoinder to Donald Mitchell’s Review of Indian Petroglyphs of the Pacific Northwest

By Beth Hill

BC Studies no. 29 Spring 1976 | Page(s) 29-31

He Moved a Mountain: The Life of Frank Calder and the Nisga’a Land Claims Award

Like others over the course of history who have influenced fundamental human rights change, Frank Arthur Calder seems to have been born to that grand purpose. Calder’s Nisga’a elders accurately foresaw that he was destined...

Review by Katherine Palmer Gordon

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 121-22