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Review

The Geography of Memory: Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People

By Tyler McCreary

BC Studies no. 215 Autumn 2022 | p. 101-102

Cover Image: The Geography of Memory: Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People

Review

Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia

By Bruce McIvor

Cover Image: Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia

review essay

A Weaving of Books; What Basket Have We Made?

By Roger Fernandes

aboriginal art

formline

northwest coast

public art

BC Studies no. 208 Winter 2020/21 | p. 135-140

New Media / Exhibition Review

Porcupine Podcast

By Mary Tuti Baker

BC Studies no. 213 Spring 2022 | p. 146-148

Cover Image: Porcupine Podcast

Review

Wise Practices: Exploring Indigenous Economic Justice and Self-Determination

By Daniel Sims

Cover Image: Wise Practices: Exploring Indigenous Economic Justice and Self-Determination

Review

Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It

By Corey Snelgrove

BC Studies no. 214 Summer 2022 | p. 115-117

Cover Image: Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It

photo essay

Changing Images: Photographic Collections of First Peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast Held in the Royal British Columbia Museum, 1860-1920

By Dan Savard

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

archives

archives

photography

BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | p. 55-96

Photo Gallery for Changing Images: Photographic Collections of First Peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast Held in the Royal British Columbia Museum, 1860-1920

this space here

A Historic Day for BC First Nations. Now the Work Starts: UNDRIP starts us on a journey, but without work, co-operation and shared vision we will be lost

By Judith Sayers

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

aboriginal rights

aboriginal rights

aboriginal rights

legislation

UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)

BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | p. 11-13

New Media / Exhibition Review

When the City Sleeps, We Dream of Disruption: A Review of Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions Exhibition

By Karlene Harvey

Aboriginal languages

Aboriginal languages

environment

urbanization

BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | p. 103-107

New Media / Exhibition Review

Screen Sovereignty: Indigenous Matriarch 4 Articulating the Future of Indigenous VR

By Courteney Morin

aboriginal art

new media

technology

virtual reality

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | p. 141-146

New Media / Exhibition Review

Pop Culture Confronts British Columbia’s Colonial History

By Erika Balcombe

BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | p. 198-200

reflection

If We Build It, They Will Come: Industrial Folly and the Fate of Northwest British Columbia

By Wade Davis

aboriginal people

economic development

northern development

politics

public policy

BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | p. 145-162

New Media / Exhibition Review

In/consequential Relationships: Refusing Colonial Ethics of Engagement in Yuxweluptun’s Inherent Rights, Vision Rights

By Sarah King

Yuxweluptun, Lawrence Paul

Yuxweluptun, Lawrence Paul

Yuxweluptun, Lawrence Paul

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | p. 187-192

New Media / Exhibition Review

Konelīne: our land beautiful

By Matthew Gartner

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | p. 188-189

reflection

“That’s My Dinner on Display” : A First Nations Reflection on Museum Culture

By Gloria Jean Frank

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

historiography

historiography

museums

BC Studies no. 125-126 Spring-Summer 2000 | p. 163-78

article

The Nishga Case

By Douglas Sanders

aboriginal people

law

BC Studies no. 19 Autumn 1973 | p. 3-20

article

The Chilcotin Uprising of 1864

By Edward Sleigh Hewlett

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

Colony of British Columbia

BC Studies no. 19 Autumn 1973 | p. 50-72

Review

Victoria Unbuttoned: A Red-Light History of BC’s Capital City

By Janet Nicol

BC Studies no. 210 Summer 2021 | p. 117-118

Cover Image: Victoria Unbuttoned: A Red-Light History of BC’s Capital City

Review

Unmooring The Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories

By Dharitri Bhattacharjee

BC Studies no. 209 Spring 2021 | p. 139-142

Cover Image: Unmooring The Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories

article

A Bibliography of the Arts and Crafts of Northwest Coast Indians

By Ian L. Bradley

aboriginal art

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

BC Studies no. 25 Spring 1975 | p. 78-124

article

B.C. Indian Myth and Education: A Review Article

By Elli Kongas Maranda

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

education

oral tradition

BC Studies no. 25 Spring 1975 | p. 125-134

Review

Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community-Engaged Scholarship Among the People of the River

By Alan B. Anderson

BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020 | p. 137-138

Cover Image: Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community-Engaged Scholarship Among the People of the River

Review

A Reconciliation Without Recollection?

By Jim Reynolds

BC Studies no. 206 Summer 2020 | p. 131-133

Cover Image: A Reconciliation Without Recollection?

Review

Shared Histories: Witsuwit’en-Settler Relations in Smithers, British Columbia, 1913-1973

By Molly Malone

BC Studies no. 205 Spring 2020 | p. 124-126

Cover Image: Shared Histories: Witsuwit’en-Settler Relations in Smithers, British Columbia, 1913-1973

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