Index

Negotiations in a Vacant Lot: Studying the Visual in Canada

This book changes how we should think about visual culture and art history in Canada. By focusing on how the visual has been shaped by liberal and neo-liberal ideologies of individualism, property rights, and progress...

Review by John O’Brian

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 174-76

Whose Land Is It? Rethinking Sovereignty in British Columbia

By John Price, Nick Claxton

BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 115-138

Aboriginal languages aboriginal rights settler colonialism Nuu-Chah-Nulth UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)

The Gold Will Speak For Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown

Vancouver Island has a distinctive personality among the regions of British Columbia, one that has been shaped in complex ways by geography and history. The books reviewed here vary in their candlepower, but all of...

Review by Patrick Dunae

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 160-164

Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii

In Islands’ Spirit Rising: Reclaiming the Forests of Haida Gwaii, Louise Takeda challenges the dominant epistemological perspective on the politics of BC resource management in order to “[further] political and social justice” and “give back”...

Review by James Davey

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 150-51

“Many Families of Unseen Indians”: Trapline Registration and Understandings of Aboriginal Title in the BC-Yukon Borderlands

By Glenn Iceton

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 67-91

fur trade settler colonialism aboriginal people aboriginal rights government control

Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies and Human Communities in British Columbia.

This is a thought-provoking book. Focussing on the rangelands of Interior British Columbia, John Thistle describes how commercial ranching begot inequities, dispossessions, and ecological degradation. All, according to his analysis, were avoidable. Resettling the Range...

Review by Max Foran

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 178-79

Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands

This multiple award-winning collection considers Aboriginal women through a regional approach. Its essays contribute to several intersecting historiographies: women’s and gender histories, Aboriginal women’s history, and biography. Beyond these, the works are unified through their...

Review by Susan Neylan

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 159-160

Workmanship and Relationships: Indigenous Food Trading and Sharing Practices on Vancouver Island

By Johnnie Manson

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 215-239

Aboriginal fisheries Indigenous worlds food and nutrition Vancouver Island

Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84

In Canada, Dominique Clément tells us, human rights legislation has been mainly associated with discrimination against women. In British Columbia, the women’s movement was deeply invested in human rights discourse and practice, and by the...

Review by Lisa Pasolli

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 143-44

Denying Indigenous Education: Examples from Wei Wai Kum (Campbell River) and We Wei Kai (Cape Mudge)

By Kate Dubensky and Helen Raptis

BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 13-34

education schooling aboriginal people public policy Campbell River Quadra Island

The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview. Third Edition

Despite its slim size (the main body of text is only 117 pages), The First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Overview is a useful primer for those hoping to learn the basic issues relevant...

Review by Christine Elsey

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 107-08

Repatriation: Empowerment Through (Re)Connection

By Jordan Coble

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 23-26

museums repatriation aboriginal culture Sto:lo

It’s a Family Affair: Stó:lō Experiences in Repatriation

By David Schaepe with T'xwelátse (Herb Joe), Tzeachten First Nation

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 27-32

museums repatriation aboriginal culture Sto:lo

The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia

Much of my critique of Beamish and McFarlane’s The Sea Among Us is that familiar reviewer’s refrain: they didn’t write the book that I would have. With the luxury of a dozen different writers, I...

Review by Howard Stewart

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 151-52

Hodul’eh-a, A Place of Learning: The Exploration Place, Lheidli T’enneh, and the Rethinking of a Local Museum

By Alyssa Tobin and Tracy Calogheros

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 33-44

museums repatriation aboriginal culture Dakelh people Lheidli T'enneh lithics pit houses

c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city: A Conversation

By Leona Sparrow, Jordan Wilson, and Susan Rowley

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 45-52

museums repatriation aboriginal culture Musqueam Squamish Tsleil-Waututh

Curators Talk: A Conversation

By Jisgang Nika Collison and Nicola Levell

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 53-80

museums repatriation aboriginal culture Haida

Repatriation in Two Acts: The Museum of Vancouver

By Bruce Granville Miller

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 81-94

museums repatriation aboriginal culture Sechelt People

From Documents to People: Working Towards Indigenizing the BC Archives

By Genevieve Weber

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 95-112

archives language aboriginal culture traditional knowledge

He Moved a Mountain: The Life of Frank Calder and the Nisga’a Land Claims Award

Like others over the course of history who have influenced fundamental human rights change, Frank Arthur Calder seems to have been born to that grand purpose. Calder’s Nisga’a elders accurately foresaw that he was destined...

Review by Katherine Palmer Gordon

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 121-22

Make Yourself (Un)comfortable: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun at the Museum

By Tania Willard and Karen Duffek

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 113-128

Museum of Anthropology (UBC) aboriginal art formline Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

“Metis:” Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood

In “Métis,” Chris Andersen highlights the widespread marginalization of Métis peoples by taking to task the continued racialization of the term “Métis.” Systematically unpacking the ways in which the word “Métis” has been misrecognized and...

Review by Gabrielle Legault

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 116-17

Beyond Inclusion: Canadian and Indigenous Sovereignty in Mainstream Museums

By Caitlin Gordon-Walker

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 129 - 149

museums repatriation colonialism aboriginal culture

Broadcasting Sovereignty: Exhibiting Nuxalk Radio at the University of British Columbia

By Jennifer Kramer

BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 151-170

radio aboriginal culture Nuxalk oral tradition