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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...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 107-08
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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...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 151-52
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French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest
Since the sixteenth century, intrepid French Canadians have traversed the North American landscape to the very edges of the continent, and established families and communities in virtually every region north of Mexico. Given this legacy...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 114-16
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“Metis:” Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
In “Métis,” Chris Andersen highlights the widespread marginalization of Métis peoples by taking to task the continued racialization of the term “Métis.” Systematically unpacking the ways in which the word “Métis” has been misrecognized and...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 116-17
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Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America
Nancy Turner’s new work Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge is undoubtedly her magnum opus. It is a thing of great scope, beauty, eloquence, and cohesion. Yet perhaps its greatest attribute, like all of Turner’s work, is...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 111-13
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A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of its Heroes
Tom Swanky’s self-published book A Missing Genocide and the Demonization of its Heroes brings into sharp focus the problems faced by historians steeped in a discipline that does not fully appreciate the culturally constructed limitations...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 117-18
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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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From the Hands of a Weaver: Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time
This book tells the story of the many roles of basketry in the lives of the First Peoples of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula and of the diverse styles and materials used by the weavers, mainly women....
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 157-58
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Written as I Remember It: Teachings (ʔəms taʔaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
Sliammon elder Elsie Paul’s grandmother told her in the 1930s that knowing how to harvest food, cook, and raise children was all that a good woman really needed. It was a view said to be...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 113-14
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Historical GIS Research in Canada
This is a wonderful collection of thirteen essays, nine co-authored (twenty-seven authors all told), written by historians, geographers, librarians, archivists, cartographers, environmental scientists, and an architect, many of them acknowledging by name the other research...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 163-65
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On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada
Michael Asch has enjoyed a distinguished career as an anthropologist and original thinker. In his writing he wrestles with the big questions of Indigenous/settler relations, proposes original answers, and argues his points with elegance and...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 185-86
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Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia
Patricia E. Roy’s Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia examines the political career of one of the province’s most significant premiers. Born in New Westminster in 1870 and educated at New Westminster High School and...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 174-77
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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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Lives Lived West of the Divide: A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders Working West of the Rockies, 1793-1858 Volumes 1-3
In 1793 Alexander Mackenzie crossed the continent in search of a route to the Pacific for the North West Company trade. He reached the Pacific at Dean Channel but failed to find a viable trade...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 142-44
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John Scouler (c.1804-1871) Scottish Naturalist: A Life, with Two Voyages
Less celebrated than his friend David Douglas, John Scouler was nevertheless an important scientific traveller to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Nootka Sound, Haida Gwaii, and Observatory Inlet in 1825. Although Douglas has been...