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Results (155)
New Media / Exhibition Review
Screen Sovereignty: Indigenous Matriarch 4 Articulating the Future of Indigenous VR
Indigenous matriarchs are changing the culture of the technology industry through virtual reality (VR). Indigenous Matriarch 4 (IM4) is the first Indigenous virtual reality media lab and is situated on the West Coast. Currently, it...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 141-146
New Media / Exhibition Review
A Tradition of Evolution: The Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival
Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival: Vancouver, British Columbia, 25-26 May 2017. The festival featured film and new media presentations, including a “Turtle Island Shorts” program (May 26); VR and augmented reality presentations (May 27); and...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 151-159
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Reflexive Anthropology on Display: Franz Boas, George Hunt, and the Co-Production of Ethnographic Knowledge
A portion of an 1897 letter from Franz Boas to Kwagu’ł Chiefs, reproduced in English and Kwak’wala, opens The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology, an exhibition on view...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 131-139
Kwakwaka'wakw U'mista Cultural Centre Boas Franz George Hunt
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Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lo-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley Virtual Museum
Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō -Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley (Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre and Stó:lō Nation, 2016) is a virtual museum in the form of a website that reflects a collaborative...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 195-197
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Is the World Wonderful? On Judy Chartrand’s What a Wonderful World
Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful World on view at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver, BC, 19 October 2016 – 26 March 2017. Admittedly, I was confused about where the permanent collection...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 145-149
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Native Claims: Indigenous Law Against Empire, 1500-1920
This major interdisciplinary study shatters the illusion that only Europeans contributed to modern legal debate about the legitimacy of empire and nature of imperial sovereignty and colonial possession. The basic – twofold — premise of...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 223-225
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Where Happiness Dwells: A History of the Dane-zaa First Nations
“He expects the listener to be familiar with that part of the story, in the same way that Homer expected ancient Greeks to know about the Trojan horse and didn’t include it in The Iliad”...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 215-217
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Missing Women, Missing News: Covering Crisis in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
In a publication coincident with the launch of the inquiry into the police investigation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, David Hugill’s Missing Women, Missing News poses a vital and timely challenge to common-sense frames...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 181-183
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Here is Where We Disembark
In her first novel, Hetty Dorval, Ethel Wilson identifies genius loci, the spirit of place, as both a guardian deity (“an incalculable godling”) and the home-shaping presence of landscape. For poets Clea Roberts and...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 179-180
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Musqueam Reference Grammar
The late Wayne Suttles’s monu mental Musqueam Reference Grammar fo cuses on the language of the Mus queam people of the lower Fraser River, speakers of a Downriver dialect of the language known to linguists...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 91-4
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Treaty Talks in British Columbia: Building a New Relationship 3rd edition
The onset of modern treaty negotiations in British Columbia, in 1993, was greeted with a good measure of optimism. The treaty process, it was hoped, would resolve the long-standing “Indian land question,” meeting both First...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 97-99
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Jacob’s Prayer: Loss and Resilience at Alkali Lake
Recently, historians have taken the “affective turn,” that is, they have begun paying particular attention to emotion and sensation. Jacob’s Prayer, which documents the relationships between hopeful young teachers in 1970s British Columbia and Esket,...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 105
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Undelievered Letters to Hudson’s Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57
In Undelivered Letters, editors Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss provide a voice for those North American fur trade people usually thought to be voiceless. This publication of over 200 undelivered letters to men who...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 129-30
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Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
“It is inconceivable, I think,” asserted Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1969, “that in a given society, one section of the society have a treaty with the other section of the society. We must be...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 174-175
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Above the Bush: A Century of Climbing on Vancouver Island, 1912-2012
In 1968, Mike Walsh did a solo ascent of Vancouver Island’s second highest peak, Mount Colonel Foster in Strathcona Park, “without rope or pitons,” an approach he did not recommend to others (67). Reporting on...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 132-33
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Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University
When Simon Fraser University (SFU) opened in the fall of 1965, the registrar locked himself in his office and refused to answer the phone. A group of department heads, who later entered the office, found...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 109-11
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The Wheel Keeper
In The Wheel Keeper , first-time novelist Robert Pepper-Smith, an instructor at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo, British Columbia, has written an engaging and often enchanting tale that draws heavily on three generations of the...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 132-4
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Saanich Ethnobotany: Culturally Important Plants of the WSANEC People
In Saanich Ethnobotany, Nancy Turner and Richard Hebda describe the land and vegetation of W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich), examine the “many interrelationships between people and plants” (11), and explore the traditional ecological knowledge that allowed local First...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 214-215
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Nationalism from the Margins: Italians in Alberta and British Columbia
According to Patricia Wood, ethnic studies in Canada – or at least the study of Italian immigrants and their descendants – is at best a marginal or fringe activity in the Canadian academy. She complains,...