We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.

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Book Review

Dancing in Gumboots: Adventure, Love & Resilience: Women of the Comox Valley

Dancing in Gumboots: Adventure, Love & Resilience: Women of the Comox Valley is a collection of memoirs by thirty-two women who came to the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island in the 1970s. Drawn by an...

Review by Shirley McDonald

BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 185-187

Book Review

Trail North: The Okanagan Trail of 1858-68 and Its Origins in British Columbia and Washington

In Trail North, Ken Mather directs our attention to a relatively forgotten part of British Columbian history: the trails linking the interior of British Columbia to the Columbia Plateau of Washington and their contribution to...

Review by Christopher Herbert

BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 188-189

Book Review

A Mill Behind Every Stump

This modest book aims to preserve the vanishing world of the Cariboo homesteader.  It recounts a life of geographic isolation, in Secwépemc traditional territory, that bred both freedom and self-reliance. Life in this context also cultivated...

Review by David Brownstein

BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 183-184

Book Review

The North-West Mounted Police, 1873-1885

In a wonderfully detailed and researched volume, Jack F. Dunn has created a study that is a worthy addition to Brendan and Horall’s Red Coats on the Prairiesand R.C. Macleod’s NWMP and Law Enforcement.  Focusing...

Review by Dr. Soren I. Fanning

BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 189-190

Book Review

Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada

Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada is a fold-out display-ready wall map of Canada, hypsometrically tinted to highlight the physiographic landscape of the northern portion of North America, and labeled entirely and only in...

Review by Ken Brealey

BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 179-180

soundwork

Streamwalkers

By Jenni Schine

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 123-124

new media sound recordings environment conservation rivers salmon

Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review

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...

Review by Christopher T. Green

BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 131-139

Kwakwaka'wakw U'mista Cultural Centre Boas Franz George Hunt

Book Review

Beckoned by the Sea: Women at Work on the Cascadia Coast

The sea draws many, to many destinies.  Even those of us who are landlocked remain drawn due to history, biology or too much reading. This book offers the stories of 24 women (25 including the...

Review by Annie Booth

BC Studies no. 202 Summer 2019 | Page(s) 184-185

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – My Reflection of That Time

By Jeannette Armstrong

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 19-26

protest migration Syilx

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Photo Vignette – Whale Watching, Salish Style

By Lee Maracle

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 27-29

myths and stories reconciliation Sto:lo whales and whaling

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Ti wa7 szwatenem. What we know: Indigenous knowledge and learning

By Lorna Williams

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 31-44

education colonialism resistance Aboriginal languages Lil'wat

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Photo Vignette – T’łisalagi’ lakw School, ‘Yalis (Alert Bay), BC, early days

By Dara Culhane

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 45-47

education Aboriginal languages Kwakwaka'wakw Alert Bay

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Photo Vignette – People Power

By Tina Loo

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 49-51

protest housing urbanization Vancouver

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Case Comment – Our Interconnected Journey

By Louise Mandell, QC

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 53-75

aboriginal rights Indigenous worlds land claims Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Photo Vignette – Restraining the Welfare State Solidarity

By Robert McDonald

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 77-80

protest strikes and lockouts trade unions government

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Excerpt – Takin’ It Back

By Tzeporah Berman

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 81-86

logging protest conservation Vancouver Island

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Community Engagement – The Harms of Drug Prohibition: Ongoing Resistance in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

By Susan Boyd, Donald MacPherson, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 87-96

liquor and drugs social services public policy Vancouver

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Excerpt – The Killing Fields, 1997: 1,000 Crosses

By Susan Boyd, Donald MacPherson, and Bud Osborn

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 97-98

liquor and drugs social services public policy Vancouver

reflection

Anniversary Issue Reflections – Photo Vignette – Erasures

By Andrea Geiger

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 103-106

foreign workers japanese people mining Haida Gwaii

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Photo Vignette – Arrivals: Marking Time

By Davina Bhandar

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 107-110

immigration Komagata Maru race and racism

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Gyaahlaangee diinaa iijang. Here Is My Story

By Jaskwaan *

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 111-121

education Aboriginal languages Haida Indigenous worlds

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Soundwork – Streamwalkers

By Jenni Schine

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 123-124

new media conservation rivers salmon

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – New Media – Wrapped in the Cloud: An Interview with Meghann O’Brien and Conrad Sly

By Hannah Turner, Kate Hennessy, Meghann O'Brien, Conrad Sly

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 125-140

new media photography weaving and spinning aboriginal art

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Anniversary Issue Reflections – Through the Lens of the Land: Reflections from Archaeology, Ethnoecology, and Environmental Science on Collaborations with First Nations, 1970s to the Present

By Dana Lepofsky, Ken Lertzman

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | Page(s) 141-160

archaeology ethnobotany Aboriginal fisheries food