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“chris arnett”

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  • The Terror of the Coast

    Land Alienation and Colonial War on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1849-1863

    by Chris Arnett ...
    On April 20, 1863, the British naval gunboat Forward attacked a Native village on Kuper Island. The naval officers believed that the village harboured individuals involved in two recent assaults against European transients in the Gulf Islands. The gunboat fired on the village and was repulsed with casualties after a fierce battle with a handful of warriors. Following this defeat, the colonial ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Signs of the Time

    Nłeʔkepmx Resistance through Rock Art

    by Chris Arnett ...
    Rock art – etched in blood-red lines into granite cliffs, boulders, and caves – appears as beguiling, graffiti-like abstraction. What are these signs? The petroglyphs and red-ochre pictographs found across Nłeʔkepmx territory in present-day British Columbia and Washington State are far more than ancient motifs.Signs of the Time explores the historical and cultural reasons for making rock art. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • They Write Their Dream on the Rock Forever

    Rock Writings in the Stein River Valley of British Columbia

    by Annie York, Richard Daly, Chris Arnett ...
    In They Write Their Dream on the Rock Forever, ‘Nlaka’pamux elder Annie York explains the red-ochre inscriptions written on the rocks and cliffs of the lower Stein Valley in British Columbia. This is perhaps the first time that a Native elder has presented a detailed and comprehensive explanation of rock-art images from her people’s culture. As Annie York’s narratives unfold, we are taken back to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand

    Oral Traditions of the Hul'q'umi'num' Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island

    Edited by Chris Arnett ...
    A vital collection of writings about First Nations people and culture as it existed on the island coasts of the Depression-era Pacific Northwest and originally published in the pages of Victoria’s oldest newspaper, the Daily Colonist, the sixty stories included here are the result of a unique collaboration between a middle-aged woman, Beryl Cryer, of upper-class British ancestry, and well-known ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    by Grey Owl ...
    Series Book 20 - Voyageur Classics
    In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier, a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Canada, and part compendium of animal and First Nations tales and lore. A passionate, compelling appeal for the protection and preservation of the natural environment pervades Grey Owls words and makes his literary debut still ring with great relevance in ... Read more

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  • Kin

    Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose

    Edited by Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew ...
    The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose’s work explored possibilities for ... Read more

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  • Living with Animals

    Ojibwe Spirit Powers

    by Michael Pomedli ...
    Within nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls, rock art, stories, games, and dreams – in which animals appear as kindred beings, spirit powers, ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Every Trail Has a Story

    Heritage Travel in Canada

    by Bob Henderson ...
    LIMITED TIME OFFERCanada is packed with intriguing places for travel where heritage and landscape interact to create stories that fire our imagination. Scattered across the land are incredible tales of human life over the centuries. From the Majorville rock formation (dated as being older than Stonehenge), through the systems of walking trails developed by pre-contact Native Peoples, and the fur ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Home As I Remember

    Edited by Lee Maracle, Sandra Laronde ...
    My Home As I Remember describes literary and artistic achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Metis women across Canada and the United States, including contributions from New Zealand and Mexico. Their voices and creative expression of identity and place are richly varied, reflecting the depth of the culturally diverse energy found on these continents.Over 60 writers and visual artists are ... Read more

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  • Memories Myths and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader

    by William Berens ...
    Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world and because Hallowell was deeply interested in his subject matter and was such a good listener Berens freely related his dreams and other stories about encounters with powerful beings. The fact that he also shared traditional myths in summer when Ojibwe people thought it dangerous to discuss such things shows the depth of ... Read more

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  • End-of-Earth People

    The Arctic Sahtu Dene

    by Bern Will Brown ...
    A history of the "End-of-Earth" Native people of Canada’s far-North Sahtu region.Bern Will Brown, noted northern author, artist, photographer, and respected community leader living in Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, provides new insights and perspectives on the Sahtu Dene, the people referred to as the "Hareskin" in Alexander Mackenzie’s 1793 journal. Having lived among them for over sixty ... Read more

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  • Aboriginality

    The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 3

    by Alan Twigg ...
    Series Book 2 - The Literary Origins of British Columbia
    Following the success of First Invaders (Ronsdale, 2004), Alan Twigg turns his attention to First Nations writers, unearthing more than 300 books by more than 170 mostly unheralded British Columbia aboriginal authors. Taking the reader from residential schools to art galleries, this lively and unprecedented panorama of British Columbia includes trailblazer Pauline Johnson, political organizer ... Read more

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