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Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse
Presented as a discourse-centred approach to understanding landstory relations in Secwepemc experience, Maps of Experience provides candid and powerful insights into contemporary First Nations experiences. The book establishes a place for itself in the remarkable...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 115-7
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The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographic Change
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 117, Spring 1998
BC Studies no. 117 Spring 1998 | Page(s) 64-7
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Vancouver: A Novel
RECENTLY, THERE HAS BEEN a surge in sweeping popular portrayals of Canadian history and its Aboriginal origins, most notably in the CBC production Canada: A People’s History (2000) but also in the current theatrical Vancouver...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 114-6
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American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941
THIS IS AN AMBITIOUS bookthat aims to “recontextualize, if not challenge” (9) several standard historical narratives: of the American West, of Asian American settlement, and of Filipino experiences in the United States in the early...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 130-1
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Voices of a Thousand People: The Makah Cultural Research Center
THE MAKAH TRIBE at Neah Bay, Washington State, has become one of the most visible and controversial Indigenous communities in North America due to the media gaze on their efforts to revive traditional whaling in...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 118-20
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Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River
IN CIRCLES WHERE SALMON management gets debated, the Fraser River looms large because it helps drive a neat syllogism, which goes something like this: Columbia River runs imploded because American scientists supported a massive dam-building...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 297-9
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Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History
A primary goal of feminist scholarship and activism is to interrupt assumed notions about gender and to intervene in the naturalization of processes that perpetuate women’s op pression and subordination in patri archal societies. Contemporary...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 109-11
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The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis: Portraits and Stories from Native North America
I must declare an “interest” in this book. Its pictorial dimension consists of reproductions of superb sepia prints made from original glass negatives sold to the Capital Group Foundation by James Graybill, grandson of their...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 113-5
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People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
This is the most important book now available on children and public policy in British Columbia. Its contributions by engaged and thoughtful scholar-advocates should be required reading for all Canadians interested in the welfare of...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 137-9
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Dark Storm Moving West
“The trouble with narrative – telling stories, making histories,” Australian ethnohistorian Greg Dening says, “is that it is so easy, but thinking about it is so hard” (Performances, 1996). I suspect Barbara Belyea would agree,...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 126-8
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The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 128, Winter 2000
BC Studies no. 128 Winter 2000-2001 | Page(s) 115-7
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Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867
In this important book, Ilya Vinkovetsky of Simon Fraser University places the story of Russia’s American experiment fully within the history of colonialism. Russian America was a unique colonial adventure, he argues, in which the...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 127-128
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Ghost Dancing with Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada
In this book, Grace Li Xiu Woo, a retired member of the BC Bar, steps away from a standard case law analysis and instead analyzes Supreme Court decisions related to Aboriginal and treaty rights based...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 159-164
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