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“Reading” Rock Art: One Sense/Many Senses
PDF – Wickwire Review Essay – BC Studies 108, Winter 1995
BC Studies no. 108 Winter 1995 | Page(s) 75-93
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BravO! The History of Opera in British Columbia
If you think the drama of opera takes place primarily on the stage, BravO! will open a new world to you. In her finely documented history Cunningham takes us from the Bianchi Italian Opera...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 164-165
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Resurrecting Dr. Moss: The Life and Letters of a Royal Navy Surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD, RN, 1843-1880
Biographies of historical figures of the second rank often supply the foundational material and needed contextual support upon which larger studies are based. That certainly promises to be the case with this highly engaging and...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 183-185
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Missing Women, Missing News: Covering Crisis in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
In a publication coincident with the launch of the inquiry into the police investigation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, David Hugill’s Missing Women, Missing News poses a vital and timely challenge to common-sense frames...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 181-183
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On the Art of Being Canadian
Sherrill Grace’s On the Art of Being Canadian describes how Canadian painters, sculptors, actors, filmmakers, and writers, among others, have manifested their thoughts on Canadian identity in response to three distinct themes, which correspond to...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 95-96
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The Cowichan Valley: Duncan, Chemainus, Ladysmtih and Region
We become travellers in our own land when we read Georgina Montgomery’s story and marvel at Kevin Oke’s photographs in The Cowichan Valley. The last word goes to Rick Pipes of Merridale Ciderworks, who comments:...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 180-181
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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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Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
“It is inconceivable, I think,” asserted Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1969, “that in a given society, one section of the society have a treaty with the other section of the society. We must be...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 174-175
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Speaking for a Long Time: Public Space and Social Memory in Vancouver
Mike Davis claims that ours is a time when the lived geographies of privilege and marginality intersect with an ever-diminishing regularity [1]. If he is right, then critical urban research that attempts to understand how new...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 146-149
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Interventions: Native American Art for Far-flung Territories
Judith Ostrowitz skilfully investigates the complex and innovative strategies used by First Nations artists since the 1950s to engage with museum, art gallery, restoration, and tourist initiatives. She shows how various individuals and groups...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 106-107
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Wicihitowin: Aboriginal Social Work in Canada
“Wicihitowin” is a Cree word that describes the collective processes involved in helping/sharing with one another, and that is what the eleven First Nations, Métis, and Inuit social work educators across Canada have done with...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 140-2
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Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
Brian Brett’s book certainly has a catchy title. Even better, the book lives up to it, providing a unique interpretation of the dying art of the family farm, which has been a common institution in...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 143-4
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UBC: The First 100 Years
With its heavy glossy paper, large format, and copious illustrations, this looks like a celebratory coffee table book. To classify it as such would be wrong. Drawing on previous histories of the University of British...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 109-11
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All that We Say Is Ours: Guiyaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation
Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation: All That We Say Is Ours is a human interest story around issues of Aboriginal title and rights. Ian Gill is an award-winning journalist, author, and the...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 96-97
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Making the News: A Times Colonist Look at 150 Years of History
Dave Obee states in the introduction to this book that his purpose is to “give you glimpses of the people and events that shaped our community and our province” (1). In this goal, Obee succeeds...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 135-6
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Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada
Making the jump from studies of static property such as land to the fluid resource of water, Kenichi Matsui’s Native Peoples and Water Rights explores new territory by examining the intersection of Aboriginal rights and...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 138-9
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Living Proof: The Essential Data-Collection Guide for Indigenous Use-and-Occupancy Map Surveys
Do maps speak for themselves? Terry Tobias insists that indigenous land use and occupancy maps must speak loudly and clearly, and he demonstrates that they can if rigorous research and methodological standards are followed. Tobias...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 143-145
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Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights
Discussion of land governance and land administration matters on Indian Act reserves in Canada has persisted for several decades. There is a general consensus that the lands have been poorly managed by a federal department...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 103-105
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Colonizing Bodies: Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900-50
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 122, Summer 1999
BC Studies no. 122 Summer 1999 | Page(s) 114-115
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Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo
Never Shoot a Stampede Queen tells the story of a twenty-two-year-old university graduate from Vancouver adapting to life in Williams Lake in the 1980s after he accidentally landed a job there as a community newspaper...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 112-3
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Victoria Underfoot: Excavating a City’s Secrets
This is a colourful guidebook to the archaeology of Victoria, both with regard to pre-contact Northwest Coast Aboriginal peoples and of the extremely varied inhabitants of postcontact Victoria. It ranges from a three thousand-year-old wet...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 116-7
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Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place
In the two generations since the first postmodern attempts to create a pan-cultural literature of place on the Pacific Coast, the context of landscape writing in British Columbia has been radically transformed. The environmental movement...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 210-12
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Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tze-whit-zen Village
Breaking Ground, by journalist Lynda Mapes, is a compelling, well told story of a Coast Salish tribe in Washington State – the Lower Elwha – and its fraught relations with the settler community that grew...