Index

Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 136, Winter 2002  

Review by David Millar

BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Page(s) 133-4

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,...

Review by Robert Hancock

BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 115-8

Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Culture

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 136, Winter 2002  

Review by Sneja Gunew

BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Page(s) 138-40

Haida Gwaii: Islands of the People

Haida Eagle Treasures: Tsath Lanas History and Narratives

Review by Molly Clarkson

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Pages 153-55

Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse

Storyteller: The Art of Roy Henry Vickers

Review by Rhys Edwards

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Pages 149-151

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...

Review by Larry Wong

BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 157-158

Tsimshian Culture: A Light Through the Ages

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 117, Spring 1998  

Review by Jonathan Dean

BC Studies no. 117 Spring 1998 | Page(s) 80-2

Senewelets: Culture History of the Nanaimo Coast Salish and the False Narrows Midden

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92  

Review by Gregory Monks

Twana Narratives: Native Historical Accounts of a Coast Salish Culture

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 103, Autumn 1994  

Review by Pauline do Lotbiniere

BC Studies no. 103 Autumn 1994 | Page(s) 93-5

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...

Review by Robert McDonald

BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Page(s) 145-146

The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 117, Spring 1998  

Review by Margaret Anderson

BC Studies no. 117 Spring 1998 | Page(s) 82-4

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...

Review by Penelope Edmonds

BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 122-4

Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual

Solitary Raven: The Essential Writings of Bill Reid

Review by Karen Duffek

BC Studies no. 171 Autumn 2011 | Pages 135-136

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,...

Review by Sergi Kan

BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 131-133

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...

Review by Maria Tippett

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 193-95

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...

Review by E.R. Atleo

BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 96-97

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...

Review by Adele Perry

BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 126-8

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...

Review by Jennifer Hayter

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 141-42

Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 119, Autumn 1998

Review by Christon Archer

BC Studies no. 119 Autumn 1998 | Page(s) 104-8

Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 91/92, Autumn/Winter 1991/92  

Review by Brian Titley

A Persistent Spirit: Towards Understanding Aboriginal Health in British Columbia

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 117, Spring 1998  

Review by Mary-Ellen Kelm

BC Studies no. 117 Spring 1998 | Page(s) 78-80

Aboriginal Man and Environments on the Plateau of North West America

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 12, Winter 1971

Review by Roy Carlson

BC Studies no. 12 Winter 1971-1972 | Page(s) 88

Colonizing Bodies: Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900-50

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 122, Summer 1999  

Review by Mary-Ellen Kelm

BC Studies no. 122 Summer 1999 | Page(s) 114-115

Aboriginal Workers

Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930

Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry: Queensland from White Settlement to the Present

Review by Dianne Newell

BC Studies no. 117 Spring 1998 | Pages 75-8