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Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It
Given the failure of constitutional negotiations to define the meaning of Aboriginal rights and title recognized in Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution – a failure that marks the recalcitrance of provincial and federal governments...
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Stories of Fish and People: Oral Tradition and the Environmental Crisis 
Messages from Franks Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way
Fishing Places, Fishing People: Traditions and Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries
To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing
BC Studies no. 129 Spring 2001 | Pages 79-85
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Porcupine Podcast
“How do porcupines hug?” Merrell-Anne Phare asks. “Carefully,” Michael Miltenberger responds. This old joke is the disarming beginning to every episode of Porcupine, a podcast hosted by political consultant Michael Miltenberger and lawyer Merrell-Ann Phare....
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 146-148
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Deadly Neighbours: A Tale of Colonialism, Cattle Feuds, Murder and Vigilantes in the Far West
Deadly Neighbours opens a window into the relationship between immigrant settlers and the Sema:th (Sumas) and Sto:lo people residing in British Columbia’s Sumas Prairie and Nooksack Valley during the 1870s and 1880s. Several conflicts are...
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Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Below the Radar: An Engaged Knowledge Democracy
Below the Radar is a podcast that begins many episodes by reminding listeners that it is a knowledge democracy podcast. A production of Simon Fraser University’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, the podcast claims to...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 141-143
Book Review
Okanagan Women’s Voices: Syilx and Settler Writing and Relations, 1870s – 1960s
The “truth” of British Columbia’s history has yet to be fleshed out, with many active participants’ voices un-accounted for. This is particularly true regarding certain facts of Indigenous-settler relations that can be best understood through...
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Book Review
Solidarity: Canada’s Unknown Revolution of 1983
This is a book in search of a genre. As history, the curtain comes down on this story after a disappointing first night. But as theatre, it would undoubtedly have a longer and more satisfying...
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Celebrating the Indigenous-Filipino Community on Bainbridge Island and the Indigenous Women Who Brought it into Being: A Review of Honor Thy Mother
The field of Indigenous studies is being called on with urgency to listen to, center, and amplify the voices and experiences of multiracial, multiethnic Indigenous community members beyond whiteness, especially the important voices and experiences...
BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 125-129
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Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Altering the Landscape of Our Memories: A Review of Indigenous Cities (Vancouver)
I came to x̌ʷay̓x̌ʷəy̓ as a child, not knowing her name, but knowing she had the strength to hold out sharp city noises and the tenderness to hold onto the shy wood duck. To me,...
BC Studies no. 211 Autumn 2021 | Page(s) 130-133
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
The Nameless Collective Podcast: Exploring History
Season one of the Nameless Collective, which is produced by Manjot Bains of JugniStyle and hosted by intrepid researchers, historians and archival explorers Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh, evokes past South Asian Canadian...
BC Studies no. 210 Summer 2021 | Page(s) 108-109
Book Review
Beyond Rights: The Nisga’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships
Most Canadians are aware of the existence of treaties between Indigenous peoples and the Crown. Phrases like “treaty rights” and “treaty relationships” form part of the everyday political vocabulary at every level of our federal...
BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | Page(s) 150-151
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Book Review
What Was Said to Me: The Life of Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman
Stories are a gift. When someone shares their story with us, it is an offering to know them, to know what it means to be them, to know ourselves and our society. Ruby Peter’s book...
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