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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...
| Page(s) 167-70
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Feminist Community Research: Case Studies and Methodologies
The aim of this collection of ten essays and an introductory and concluding chapter is to reveal tensions, challenges, pitfalls, complexities, and strategies in working within feminist community based research (FCR) approaches. The contributors come...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 156-57
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The Chinchaga Firestorm: When the Moon and Sun Turned Blue
Some fires are justly renowned. Some are celebrities — known for being known. A few are famous for being unknown. The 1871 Peshtigo fire in the US has long marketed itself as America’s Forgotten Fire....
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 162-163
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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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The W̲SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935
Anthropologist Rolf Knight launched a new chapter of Indigenous history in 1978 with the publication of his book, Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in British Columbia, 1858-1930.[1] In contrast to...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 169-72
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Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies
Over the last ten years, Canada has seen recurring waves of protest including Occupy, Idle No More, and Black Lives Matter, among others. This collection provides an account of the role of protest in contemporary...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 165-166
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Crossing Home Ground: A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia
David Pitt-Brooke is an advocate for the protection and preservation one of British Columbia’s underappreciated landscapes. Rather than looking towards the more iconic mountain peaks and old-growth forests of British Columbia in his search for...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 185-7
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Striving for Environmental Sustainability in a Complex World: Canadian Experiences
The title suggests a broad discussion of sustainability, with Canadian examples. The core of this book, however, is about “Canadian experiences” with Man and Biosphere Reserves (sic) or MAB, and Model Forests. Francis was an...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 193-4
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By Law or In Justice
The foundation of Professor Jane Dickson’s book, By Law Or in Justice, is her work as a Commissioner for the Indian Specific Claims Commission, from 2002 to 2009. The Commission itself endured from 1991 to...
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Human Rights in Canada: A History
Human Rights in Canada: A History is a comprehensive survey of the checkered human rights pattern in this country. Dominique Clément writes of a country that in its infancy and youth had a minimal respect...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 224-225
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Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region: Development, Agency, and Contestation in Northern British Columbia
From the Northern Gateway Pipeline Inquiry, to the Tsilhqot’in land claim decision, to the proposed Site C dam, northern British Columbia has made regular front page news appearances in recent years. In Resource Communities in...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 227-228
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Maritime Command Pacific: The Royal Canadian Navy’s West Coast Fleet in the Early Cold War
This welcome new study concerns the operations of Canada’s west coast fleet in the two decades after the Second World War. Soon after 1945, defence policy came to be dominated by Canada’s contributions to NATO...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 150-151
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Governing Transboundary Waters: Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities
Most of the world’s water basins are transborder. The vast majority of North America’s surface freshwater falls within a border watershed. Indeed, contemporary water governance within just one country is already complex enough — overlaying...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 168-169
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Climber’s Paradise: Making Canada’s Mountain Parks, 1906-1974
Two powerful and iconic institutions can be found at the centre of most histories of tourism and recreation in the mountains of western Canada: the Canadian Pacific Railway and the agency known today as Parks...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 166-168
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Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las; Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom follows one woman’s involvement with “colonial interventions” (407) into Kwa’waka’wakw economics, government, and religion in the late nineteenth and early...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 228-229
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Maps and Memes: Redrawing Culture, Place and Identity in Indigenous Communities
In this innovative and important book, Gwilyn Eades, a geographer from Terrace, undertakes a kaleidoscopic investigation of the significance of maps, cartography, contemporary geo-coding technologies (GIS, GPS, and Google Earth), and questions of spatial cognition...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 164-165
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Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia
Andrew Woolford’s Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty Making in British Columbia marks an important shift in the historiography of indigenous- settler relations in Canada. Focusing on the first ten years of the BC treaty process...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 89-91
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Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point
Jean Barman brings clarity to a long misunderstood part of the early history of Vancouver and British Columbia. Building upon earlier re-search on Stanley Park by William C. McKee (Urban History Review 3 [1978]), Robert...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 113-5
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Power and Restructuring: Canada’s Coastal Society and Environment
It is sometimes forgotten that rural Canada is on the front lines of some of the most important changes and challenges facing this country. By now, we are accustomed to hearing about looming crises in...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 146-7
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Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-1974
A few exceptions aside, the remarkable escalation of books that have investigated British Columbia’s forests and forest economy in recent years have not paid much attention to labour. Yet labour’s role is vital to the evolution...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 155-7
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Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada
For anyone familiar with environmental history, Stephen J. Pyne is as synonymous with the word “fire” as is Smokey the Bear. As a former firefighter in the Grand Canyon, a renowned historian at Arizona State...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 145-146
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Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class
JOHN DOUGLAS BELSHAW has provided the historical community with a well-researched, artfully written, and well-indexed account of an important aspect of Vancouver Island coalmining history: the experience of nineteenth-century British immigrant miners. He gives the...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 124-6
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Guarding the Gates: The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration
Understanding immigration is central to understanding Canadian working-class history and the fortunes of the Canadian labour movement. This is the case not just because immigration stocked, and restocked, the labour market but also because workers...