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The Punjabis in British Columbia: Location, Labour, First Nations, and Multiculturalism
Kamala Elizabeth Nayar’s groundbreaking work, The Punjabis in British Columbia, represents a significant addition to a number of fields. At a basic level, it focuses on the important but sorely understudied community of Punjabis who...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 240-242
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For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War
Exploring the participation of Canadian First Nations in the First World War, Timothy Winegard takes aim at two historiographical problems: the tendency to simply insert Aboriginal military contributions where they have been otherwise ignored, and...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 213-214
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Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast: Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley
Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast is a significant addition to our understanding of colonialism, settler-Indigenous relations, and human-land relations in British Columbia. Jeff Oliver’s work is part of a growing trend that...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 227-228
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Native Claims: Indigenous Law Against Empire, 1500-1920
This major interdisciplinary study shatters the illusion that only Europeans contributed to modern legal debate about the legitimacy of empire and nature of imperial sovereignty and colonial possession. The basic – twofold — premise of...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 223-225
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No Longer Captives of the Past: The story of a Reconciliation on Erromango
No Longer Captives of the Past is an important book for two reasons. It offers an excellent case study of modern day reconciliation remediating past wrongs, and it reminds us how, in this interconnected world,...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 152-54
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K’esu’: The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer
Jennifer Kramer’s book K’esu’: The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer was written to accompany the Museum of Anthropology’s 2012 landmark retrospective exhibit about the life and work of the internationally renowned Kwakwaka’wakw artist Doug...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 155-57
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Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships
Both the need for and the challenges of strengthening relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians have come into stark relief with the emergence of the Idle No More movement. In this context, Lynne Davis’s edited...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 230-231
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Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis
For the past five centuries, Indigenous people of the Pacific Rim have been on the receiving, destructive end of European expansion and technology, witnessing their lands occupied by extractive, industrialized nation states. Now assimilated into...
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Home Truths: Highlights from BC History
As co-editors of BC Studies, Richard Mackie and Graeme Wynn surveyed all the essays published in the journal since it first appeared in 1968 before deciding to focus on what they concluded were two dominant...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 165-167
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Mystery Islands: Discovering the Ancient Pacific
Drawing on experience gained from travel writing assignments, Salt Spring author Tom Koppel tackles an ambitious subject, the peopling of the Pacific Ocean, with a book of interesting anecdotes and information set within a larger,...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 169-170
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Civilizing the Wilderness: Culture and Nature in Pre-Confederation Canada and Rupert’s Land
Newcomers to Canada and Rupert’s Land in the mid-nineteenth century brought with them an assortment of cultural baggage. A. A. den Otter reveals that the twinned concepts of “civilization” and “wilderness” formed the dominant...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 243-245
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The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah: A Tsimshian Man on the Pacific North West Coast
In 1900, after almost fifty years of assiduously keeping a daily diary, Tsimshian leader and Christian, Arthur Wellington Clah, feared he was losing his sight. “But my Lord Jesus Christ push my heart to write...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 225-228
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Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las; Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom follows one woman’s involvement with “colonial interventions” (407) into Kwa’waka’wakw economics, government, and religion in the late nineteenth and early...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 228-229
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The Principle of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis
Do the theories and worldviews of the Enlightenment unfold all there is to know about reality? Can the political relationships between Canadians and Indigenous peoples be mended solely through Eurocentric remedies? Can settler Canadians and...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 171-72
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The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson’s Journeys in the West
Alexander Caulfield Anderson was born to British parents on a plantation in India in 1814, raised and schooled in England, and in 1831 arrived in Lachine, Lower Canada, where he was promptly hired on as...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 180-82
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Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies
This brilliant volume of comparative law is written by four distinguished Indigenous legal academic specialists, from the United States (Eastern Shawnee Tribe), New Zealand (Maori — Ngati Rawkawa and Ngati Ranginui), Australia (Eualayai/Gammilaroi), and Canada...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 167-169
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Discovering Totem Poles: A Traveller’s Guide
This well-illustrated and modest in size guidebook presents totem poles that a tourist could see on a trip from Seattle, Washington, to Juneau, Alaska. The focus in not on totem poles as art objects displaying...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 170-171
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The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena and Nass
On 17 April 2012, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver announced that his department would follow through on the Federal Conservative Party 2012 budget promise to “streamline” the Environmental Assessment process in Canada. The new process...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 238-240
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Indigenous Peoples in Liberal Democratic States: A Comparative Study of Conflict and Accommodation in Canada and India
The author is a professor of Political Science in Shillong, the capital of the tiny hill state of Magalaya in the tribal area of North Eastern India. This is a state that, by official figures,...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 138-39
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Brian Jungen
The book provides an overview of the career of the artist Brian Jungen, consisting of essays by Daina Augaitis and four other notable curators — Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ralph Rugoff, Kitty Scott, and Trevor Smith. The...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 148-50
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Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe
Most people identify Northwest Coast Aboriginal culture with the totem pole, most notably with the dramatic Thunderbird-winged carvings of the Kwakwaka’wakw Peoples. In Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe, Martine Reid and co-authors James Raffan and Michael...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 113-14
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The Cannibal Spirit
Harry Whitehead’s novel The Cannibal Spirit fictionalizes one of the most important figures in the history of BC anthropology, Franz Boas’s long-time collaborator George Hunt. With many points of reference to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of...