Index

The De Cosmos Enigma

The Honourable Aleck: Love, Law and Tragedy in Early Canada

Review by Adam Coombs

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Pages 153-155

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

Tenant Organizing and the Campaign for Collective Bargaining Rights in British Columbia, 1968–75

By Paul S. Jon

BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | Page(s) 31-58

housing real estate legislation politics

The Answer is Still No: Voices of Pipeline Resistance

The Answer is Still No is a disparate collection of voices united in opposition to Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipelines: First Nations activists and hereditary chiefs, members of the environmental movement establishment and those self-consciously on...

Review by Jonathan Peyton

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 187-88

A Natural Selection: Building a Conservation Community on Sidney Island

Big Trees Saved and Other Feats: The Story of the Shuswap Environmental Action Society

Review by Erika Bland

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Pages 179-182

Patrician Liberal: The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829-1908

  At first glance, a review of the biography of a nineteenth century Quebec politician seems out of place in BC Studies. Born in France in 1829 to a wealthy French Protestant father and his...

Review by Patricia E. Roy

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 155-156

Relocating Yuquot: The Indigenous Pacific and Transpacific Migrations

By John Price

BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 21-44

Transpacific chinese Hawai‘i Yuquot (Friendly Cove) John Meares

Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada

This book changes how we should think about visual culture and art history in Canada. By focusing on how the visual has been shaped by liberal and neo-liberal ideologies of individualism, property rights, and progress...

Review by John O’Brian

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 174-76

New Perspectives on the Gold Rush

Under editor Kathryn Bridge, New Perspectives on the Gold Rush teams up academic historians, archaeologists, and museum professionals in an effort to add previously marginalized voices to traditional histories of British Columbia’s gold rush. Despite...

Review by Mica Jorgenson

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 164-66

Whose Land Is It? Rethinking Sovereignty in British Columbia

By John Price, Nick Claxton

BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 115-138

Aboriginal languages aboriginal rights settler colonialism Nuu-Chah-Nulth UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)

Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur

Nature's Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West

Review by Elizabeth Vibert

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Pages 156-158

Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood

Judging a book by the cover, we are told, is never a good idea. In this case the artwork by Dana Claxton implies an ironic, wind-in-his-hair-style cruise down a testosterone highway. Twenty-three authors, including eight...

Review by Eldon Yellowhorn

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 158-159

Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii

In Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii, Louise Takeda challenges the dominant epistemological perspective on the politics of BC resource management in order to “[further] political and social justice” and “give back”...

Review by James Davey

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 150-51

“Many Families of Unseen Indians”: Trapline Registration and Understandings of Aboriginal Title in the BC-Yukon Borderlands

By Glenn Iceton

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 67-91

fur trade settler colonialism aboriginal people aboriginal rights government control

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

Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands

This multiple award-winning collection considers Aboriginal women through a regional approach. Its essays contribute to several intersecting historiographies: women’s and gender histories, Aboriginal women’s history, and biography. Beyond these, the works are unified through their...

Review by Susan Neylan

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 159-160

Workmanship and Relationships: Indigenous Food Trading and Sharing Practices on Vancouver Island

By Johnnie Manson

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 215-239

Aboriginal fisheries Indigenous worlds food and nutrition Vancouver Island

Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84

In Canada, Dominique Clément tells us, human rights legislation has been mainly associated with discrimination against women. In British Columbia, the women’s movement was deeply invested in human rights discourse and practice, and by the...

Review by Lisa Pasolli

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 143-44

Denying Indigenous Education: Examples from Wei Wai Kum (Campbell River) and We Wei Kai (Cape Mudge)

By Kate Dubensky and Helen Raptis

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 13-34

education schooling aboriginal people public policy Campbell River Quadra Island

The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview. Third Edition

Despite its slim size (the main body of text is only 117 pages), The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview is a useful primer for those hoping to learn the basic issues relevant...

Review by Christine Elsey

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 107-08

Tracking the Great Bear: How Environmentalists Recreated British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest

Great Bear Wild: Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest

Review by Max Ritts

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Pages 148-150