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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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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 W̲SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935
Anthropologist Rolf Knight launched a new chapter of Indigenous history in 1978 with the publication of his book, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930.[1] In contrast to...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 169-72
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The End of Russian America: Captain P. N. Golovin’s Last Report, 1862
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 50, Summer 1981
BC Studies no. 50 Summer 1981 | Page(s) 75-8
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Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 1792: Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra and the Nootka Sound Controversy
The heart of this work, and its raison d’être, is the report of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, dated 2 February 1793 at San Blas, Mexico. This document is not a diary or...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 155-7
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McGowan’s War: The Birth of Modern British Columbia on the Fraser River Gold Fields
IN 1858 TENS OF thousands of non-Native goldseekers rushed to the Fraser River in search of gold, a substantial number of them being American citizens who paid little heed to British sovereignty in the region....
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 144-5
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We are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community
As laid out in the First Peoples’ Cultural Council Report on the Status of BC First Nations Languages (2010), since the 1800s, there has been “dramatic decline in the number of fluent speakers” of First...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 195-96
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First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship
While Sophie McCall’s book is aimed primarily at readers of Aboriginal literary studies, she hopes that her book also will be of interest to “scholars investigating the problem of textualizing Aboriginal oral narrative.” This review...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 229-230
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Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts
Telling It To The Judge and Oral History On Trial tackle the problematic reception by Canadian courts of ethno-history and oral history presented by First Nations and their experts. However, Arthur Ray and Bruce Miller...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 175-77
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Treaty Talks in British Columbia: Building a New Relationship 3rd edition
The onset of modern treaty negotiations in British Columbia, in 1993, was greeted with a good measure of optimism. The treaty process, it was hoped, would resolve the long-standing “Indian land question,” meeting both First...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 97-99
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Academic Freedom and the Inclusive University
THIS BOOK SUCCEEDS in exemplifying what it fails to define. It contains seventeen chapters written by academics from the United States and Canada – academics who occupy a variety of positions: college teacher, university administrator,...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 148-9
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Is it a house? Archaeological Excavations at English Camp, San Juan Island, Washington
Synthesizing archaeological research results from the Salish Sea can be a time-consuming task because of the international boundary that currently divides the region. This is further complicated by the rise of cultural resource management archaeology...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 157-9
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The British Columbia Atlas of Child Development
It is not surprising that many ad vocates of social justice for marginalized children and their families in British Columbia, Canada, and beyond eventually suffer professional and personal “burn-out.” Work in this vein has been...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 118-21
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Shared Histories: Witsuwit’en-Settler Relations in Smithers, British Columbia, 1913-1973
Geographer Tyler McCreary’s book about Witsuwit’en-settler relations in Smithers is a valuable new addition to research and writing on histories of place in settler-colonial contexts. Shared Histories demonstrates how academic work can be integrated with local...
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Selected Letters of A.M.A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla & Nesqualy (1846-1879)
During his long tenure as the founding Bishop of Walla Walla and of its successor diocese of Nesqualy, A.M.A. Blanchet meticulously copied (or had copied) his outgoing correspondence. Upon his retirement in 1879, nearly thirty-two...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 146-47
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Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care
Medicine Unbundled by Gary Geddes is a humanistic look at the survivors from one of our nation’s most shameful institutions alongside residential schools: segregated healthcare facilities and the treatment of Indigenous peoples within these spaces....
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 178-9
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Through an Unknown Country: The Jarvis-Hanington Winter Expedition through the Northern Rockies, 1874-1875
This miscellany of writings, chiefly by two civil engineers who for parts of their careers toiled as railway surveyors, aims to carve out a prominent place for them in the history of Canada. Ed Jarvis...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 212-214
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Britannia’s Navy, On the West Coast of North America 1812 – 1914
This handsome volume, published in hardback with a blue and white dust-cover (featuring E. P. Bedwell’s 1862 painting of the steam-sloop HMS Plumper on the front and a photograph of HMCS Rainbow in Esquimalt, January...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 139-140
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The Origin of the Wolf Ritual: The Whaling Indians, West Coast Legends and Stories
The Nuu-chah-nulth (formerly known as the Nootka) Wolf Ritual texts re-presented here have had a complex history of authorship and availability within the BC communities from which they were collected for the Anthropological Division of...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 127-128
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Power and Restructuring: Canada’s Coastal Society and Environment
It is sometimes forgotten that rural Canada is on the front lines of some of the most important changes and challenges facing this country. By now, we are accustomed to hearing about looming crises in...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 146-7
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Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849- 1925
Landing Native Fisheries is an important contribution to the history of fisheries and a good companion to Harris’ Fish, Law, and Colonialism (2001). This is a serious study that demonstrates conclusively that dispossession of Aboriginal...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 138-40
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In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada
The issue of voice, its recuperation and responsible representation, has long ranked among Aboriginal history’s central concerns. In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada shares this commitment. Refuting...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 140-2
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The Forgotten Explorer: Samuel Prescott Fay’s 1914 Expedition to the Northern Rockies
In 1914, Samuel Prescott Fay (1884- 1971), a Harvard graduate from Boston, ventured twelve hundred kilometres through the northern Rockies from Jasper to Hudson’s Hope. While the Harvard Travelers Club deferred exploration in the...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 137-38
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Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
The negotiation and signing of the numbered treaties with First Nations groups in Western Canada, followed shortly thereafter by the opening of the territory to Euro-Canadian settlement, served to consolidate the country’s sovereignty over the...