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We are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community
As laid out in the First Peoples’ Cultural Council Report on the Status of BC First Nations Languages (2010), since the 1800s, there has been “dramatic decline in the number of fluent speakers” of First...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 195-96
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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”...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 150-51
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Where the Rivers Meet: Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories
In Where the Rivers Meet, Carly Dokis skillfully examines local responses to the Mackenzie Gas Project — a proposed natural gas pipeline through the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories — and how these are...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 141-142
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Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq’ey’s-kucw
Marianne and Ron Ignace are members of the Secwépemc First Nation in south-central British Columbia. Ron was raised by his great-grandparents, grew up speaking Secwepemctsín, and is a former Chief. Both Ron and Marianne have...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 183-4
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Museums and the Past: Constructing Historical Consciousness
Museums and the Past opens with a statement that “‘museums’ and ‘historical consciousness’ dovetail almost intuitively” (3). I don’t think they do, and this book does not convince me. The editors offer a couple of...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 177-178
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Creating Space: My Life and Work in Indigenous Education
There is no such thing as Indigenous education. There is only cross-cultural education containing negotiations between both Indigenous people and the settler societies that colonized them. Understanding the past is essential, but even if we...
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Charles Edenshaw
This is the catalogue for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Charles Edenshaw exhibition. Curated and edited by Robin K. Wright, Curator of Native American Art and Director of the Bill Holm Center for the Study of...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 147-49
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Mystery Islands: Discovering the Ancient Pacific
Drawing on experience gained from travel writing assignments, Salt Spring author Tom Koppel tackles an ambitious subject, the peopling of the Pacific Ocean, with a book of interesting anecdotes and information set within a larger,...
BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | Page(s) 169-170
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People of the Middle Fraser Canyon: An Archaeological History
The authors, from the departments of anthropology at the University of Montana (Prentiss) and the University of Notre Dame (Kuijt), draw on their extensive and recent archaeological work in the interior of British Columbia to...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 218-220
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The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors
For this fourth volume in his series on the Literary History of British Columbia, Alan Twigg has set himself the impossible task of selecting 150 “Great B.C. Books and Authors,” designated as...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 166-68
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Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life
David Stouck has written a remarkable history. More than a biography, it is an encompassing account of a remarkable figure in later modern Canadian and international cultural history. Stouck recovers the spirit and material record...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 244-247
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Nooksack Place Names: Geography, Culture, and Language
Place names have an incalculable value. A name can tie together the particularities of language, history, and tradition. Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway have compiled place-names in Nooksack territory. It’s the result of many years...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 216-218
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Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism is one of those unique edited volumes in which the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. As suggested in the subtitle, the legacy of J.S. Woodsworth...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 141-45
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Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
Carbon Democracy historicizes “the forms of democratic politics that carbon made possible” (233). Timothy Mitchell’s goal is nothing short of destabilizing two central intellectual and material pillars of modern western life: the sacrosanct institution of...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 182-83
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Indigenous Peoples of North America: A Concise Anthropological Overview
Robert Muckle has responded to the market place need for a concise textbook treatment of the lives and circumstances of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Previous works are too long, too detailed, and unreadable...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 145-46
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