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Tsimshian Culture: A Light Through the Ages
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 117, Spring 1998
BC Studies no. 117 Spring 1998 | Page(s) 80-2
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Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 136, Winter 2002
BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Page(s) 133-4
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The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 117, Spring 1998
BC Studies no. 117 Spring 1998 | Page(s) 82-4
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Tales of Ghosts: First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1922-61
THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC trends in the scholarly literature pertaining to First Nations material and visual culture have leaned primarily towards stylistic analysis, connoisseurship, and tracing the rise, decline, and “renaissance” of this production. Ronald Hawker’s book,...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 194-6
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Senewelets: Culture History of the Nanaimo Coast Salish and the False Narrows Midden
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92
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Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Culture
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 136, Winter 2002
BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Page(s) 138-40
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Globalization and Urban Change: Capital, Culture, and Pacific Rim Mega-Projects
PDF – Hutton Review Essay, BC Studies 138/139, Summer/Autumn 2003
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 173-80
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Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions
Coming to Shore promises to make a significant contribution to the anthropological study of the indigenous peoples and cultures of the North Pacific Coast of North America. Comprising papers from the Northwest Coast Ethnology Conference,...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 115-8
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Vancouver Special
In Vancouver Special Charles Demers presents a unique portrait of his hometown of Vancouver, where he continues to live and work as a writer and a comedian. In a series of essays that explore the...
BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 145-146
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Inside Chinatown: Ancient Culture in a New World
This book is like an open house for all benevolent and family associations to Victoria’s Chinatown, the oldest in Canada. The reader is introduced to each society and its purpose, through many photographs, some never...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 157-158
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Twana Narratives: Native Historical Accounts of a Coast Salish Culture
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 103, Autumn 1994
BC Studies no. 103 Autumn 1994 | Page(s) 93-5
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Being and Place among the Tlingit
Being and Place among the Tlingit is a long-awaited book that draws on two decades of the author’s field research in Tlingit country. Working closely with a number of knowledgeable Tlingit elders, younger Aboriginal colleagues,...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 131-133
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Land of Promise: Robert Burnaby’s Letters from Colonial British Columbia, 1858-1863
LAND OF PROMISE is a compilation of of the letters of Robert Burnaby to his family in England. These letters were written between 1858 (the first year of the Fraser River gold rush) and 1863, while...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 122-4
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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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Birthright
In the last half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, intimate relationships between indigenous women and settler men were freighted with a complicated and at times conflicting set of...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 126-8
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Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas
The essays and the many previously published texts gathered together in this weighty tome demonstrate the extent to which, over the course of the past 250 years, “the idea of Northwest Coast Native art has...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 193-95
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Métis in Canada: History, Identity, Law and Politics
A decade has passed since R v Powley determined that the Métis in Sault Ste. Marie have an Aboriginal right to hunt, and we are still coming to terms with its significance. The multidisciplinary collection...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 141-42
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Healing in the Wilderness: A History of the United Church Mission Hospitals
In Healing in the Wilderness Bob Burrows recounts the origins and evolution of the medical missions established and maintained by the United Church and its antecedents in isolated communities across Canada. An ordained United Church...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 124-6
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Aboriginal Man and Environments on the Plateau of North West America
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 12, Winter 1971
BC Studies no. 12 Winter 1971-1972 | Page(s) 88
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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...