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“judith powell”

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  • The Modern North

    People, Politics and the Rejection of Colonialism

    by Ken S. Coates, Judith Powell ...
    Published in 1989, The Modern North examines the experience of the peoples of the Yukon and Northwest Territories from the Berger inquiry of 1975 and on-wards.Untangling the varied strands that make up the Northern tapestry--its resourceful peoples, its awesome physical landscape, its political and economic agenda in the late 1980s--they portray in vivid colours a society struggling to cast off ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • A Geography of Blood

    Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape

    by Candace Savage ...
    •Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • They Called Me Number One

    by Bev Sellars ...
    BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school.These ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

    by James Daschuk, Ph.D ...
    In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Shingwauk's Vision

    A History of Native Residential Schools

    by J.R. Miller ...
    With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • The Reconciliation Manifesto

    Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

    by Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, Naomi Klein ...
    In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous peoples.The Reconciliation Manifesto documents how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Oka

    A Political Crisis and Its Legacy

    by Harry Swain ...
    On July 11, 1990, tension between white and Mohawk people at Oka, just west of Montreal, took a violent turn. At issue was the town's plan to turn a piece of disputed land in the community of Kanesatake into a golf course. Media footage of rock-throwing white residents and armed, masked Mohawk Warriors facing police across barricades shocked the world and galvanized Aboriginal people across the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Truth and Indignation

    Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools

    by Ronald Niezen ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Truth and Indignation offers the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission as it is unfolding. Niezen uses interviews with survivors and oblate priests and nuns, as well as testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission to raise important questions: What makes Canada's TRC different from others around the world? What kinds of narratives are ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900

    by Sarah Carter ...
    The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, focusing on the western interior, or what would later become Canada's prairie provinces.This wide-ranging survey draws on the wealth of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The First Nations of British Columbia, Third Edition

    An Anthropological Overview

    by Robert J. Muckle ...
    Since it was first published in 1998, The First Nations of British Columbia has been an essential introduction to the province’s first peoples. Written within an anthropological framework, it familiarizes readers with the history and cultures of First Nations in the province and provides a fundamental understanding of current affairs and concerns. This fully revised third edition includes:an all ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • “Métis”

    Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood

    by Chris Andersen ...
    Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race.” Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Métis status on this race-based understanding.According to Andersen, Canada got it wrong. Our very preoccupation with mixedness is not natural but stems from more than 150 years of ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Contours of a People

    Metis Family, Mobility, and History

    Edited by Carolyn Podruchny, Brenda Macdougall, Nicole St-Onge ...
    Series series New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth century as a distinct culture. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda ... Read more

    $21.59 USD