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BC Studies no. 207 Autumn 2020
BC Studies no. 207 (Autumn 2020) features cover art by Derek Edenshaw (Khils Guula Gaayas) and Dedos (Nelson Garcia), and an opening call by Black Lives Matter Vancouver. This issue also contains articles by Shelly Ikebuchi and Takara Ketchell, Laura Mudde, Gordon Robert Lyall, and J.I. Little, as well as book, film, and new media reviews.
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Exhibition, Film, and New Media Reviews
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
RAVEN (De)Briefs Podcast: Indigenous Law in Action
Season one of the RAVEN (De)Briefs podcast series is a refreshing Indigenization of the traditional podcast format in that it evokes everyday kitchen table conversations among relatives, combined with sonic, Indigenous documentary. Exploring contemporary environmental...
Pages 128-129
Terms | colonialism Delgamuukw v. BC Indigenous Indigenous rights treaties land claims law
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Now Is the Time
In the extraordinary short film Now Is the Time, Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter brings to the screen a moving story of renewal through the restoration and re-editing of footage from the National Film Board of...
Pages 130-131
Terms | museums repatriation aboriginal self government colonialism settler colonialism aboriginal art aboriginal rights Haida Indigenous worlds
Exhibition, Film, and New Media Review
Crackdown
British Columbia is in year four of a provincial public health emergency declared in response to devastating rates of drug overdose deaths resulting from a toxic, illicit drug supply. As of July 2020, COVID-19 had...
Pages 127-128
Terms | epidemics liquor and drugs mental health social services substance use government law public policy
Book Reviews
Book Review
Northwest Voices: Language and Culture in the Pacific Northwest
What, if anything, is the socio-linguistic glue that binds together the region often referred to as the Pacific Northwest? When it comes to language and culture, do the peoples of Washington and Oregon in the...
Pages 133-134
Book Review
The Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples
Gregory Younging’s (1961-2019) The Elements of Indigenous Style is a testament to how prioritizing listening to Indigenous peoples, instead of merely writing about them, can both change the way settlers view their relationship with Indigenous peoples...
Pages 134-145
Book Review
Solemn Words and Foundational Documents: An Annotated Discussion of Indigenous-Crown Treaties in Canada, 1752-1923
When the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report in 2015 it drew attention to the importance of treaty making in the history of Crown-Indigenous relations in Canada. Treaty making, the...
Pages 136-137
Book Review
Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community-Engaged Scholarship Among the People of the River
This book purports to represent a ‘New Ethnohistory’ as community-engaged research in First Nations communities. It consists primarily of essays written by graduate students who participated in the Ethnohistory Field School run since 1997 by...
Pages 137-138
Book Review
Iroquois in the West
Sometimes the most detailed and poignant histories emerge from historical fragments. In Iroquois in the West Jean Barman uses what she calls “slivers of stories from the shadows of the past” to tell a rich...
Pages 138-140
Book Review
At the Wilderness Edge: The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada’s West Coast
In recent years, local opposition to the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in BC has confounded the plans of oil investors and federal officials alike. The government of Alberta has declared its right to...
Pages 140-141
Book Review
Rain City: Vancouver Reflections
John Moore is a BC-based free-lance journalist and author. Original versions of the sixteen essays that make up this volume have appeared in a variety of newspapers and periodicals over several decades. Some have won...
Pages 141-142
Book Review
Stagecoach North: A History of Barnard’s Express
In Stagecoach North, Ken Mather undercovers the history of one of the most important companies in British Columbia: Barnard’s Express. From 1862 to 1914 this famed company carried passengers, freight, and mail along the Cariboo...
Pages 142-143
Book Review
Along the E & N: A Journal Back to the Historic Hotels of Vancouver Island
Local histories are different from scholarly studies. They are written for different reasons, often focus on different subjects, use primary sources in different ways, and draw different conclusions. Recent books by Michael Kaehn and Glen...
Pages 144-146
Book Review
Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician
Although both Horace C. Wrinch and his wife Alice are featured in Eldon Lee’s Scalpels and Buggywhips (1997), Horace Wrinch is little known, despite his extraordinary contributions to British Columbia society. Geoff Mynett, a retired lawyer...
Pages 143-144
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Contributors
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Shelly Ikebuchi is a professor of sociology at Okanagan College. She identifies as a feminist, anti-racist, critical, and historical sociologist. Her past research focused on the Chinese Rescue Home in Victoria, BC. Her current research focuses on the sociology of home and the multi-generational cultural effects of the Japanese Canadian Internment.
Takara Ketchell is currently pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of Alberta. Takara’s research interests focus on identity and are deeply informed by questions of intersectionality, memory, and affect.
Jack Little is a professor emeritus in the history department at Simon Fraser University. His next book will be Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent: The Everyday Life of a Canadian Englishman, 1842–1898 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021).
Gordon Lyall is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Victoria conducting a transborder study of shellfish harvesting and foreshore rights on the Salish Sea and Indigenous-settler relationships in the second half of the twentieth century. Gordon is currently project manager of the Colonial Despatches digital archive and coordinator of the BC Historical Textbooks project. He also worked on the Landscapes of Injustice project from 2016to2020, first as an archival researcher and then as a developer of a digital archive. He and his family give thanks to the Songhees, Esquimalt, and WSÁNEĆ peoples on whose traditional land they are fortunate to live and work.
Laura Mudde (she/her/hers) is a Utrecht University graduate and visiting PhD candidate on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Syilx and Okanagan peoples at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Her research engages with systemic and institutionalized racialization of the public sphere in settler-colonial Canada. She is currently academically involved with the Digital Archive Database Project, the Public Humanities Hub Okanagan, UBC Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship, and the Department of History and Sociology.
Anthony Shelton, professor of art history, visual art and theory and is director of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He has held curatorial positions at the British Museum, Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums Brighton, and at the Horniman Museum London.