Aboriginal Resource Use in Canada

Historical and Legal Aspects

This volume addresses a wide range of topics related to Aboriginal resource use, ranging from the pre-contact period to the present. The papers were originally presented at a conference held in 198...

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As Long as the Rivers Run

Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities

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  James B. Waldram

In past treaties, the Aboriginal people of Canada surrendered title to their lands in return for guarantees that their traditional ways of life would be protected. Since the 1950s, governments have...

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The Orders of the Dreamed

George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823

The introduction by Brown and Brightman describes Nelson's career in the fur trade and explains the influences affecting his perception and understanding of Native religions. They also provide a co...

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Life Stages and Native Women

Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine

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  Kim Anderson

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powe...

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For King and Kanata

Canadian Indians and the First World War

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  Timothy C. Winegard

The first comprehensive history of the Aboriginal First World War experience on the battlefield and the home front.When the call to arms was heard at the outbreak of the First World War, Canada’s F...

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Elder Brother and the Law of the People

Contemporary Kinship and Cowessess First Nation

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  Robert Alexander Innes

In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains were relatively small multicultural communities that actively maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship p...

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Creating Space

My Life and Work in Indigenous Education

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  Verna J. Kirkness

Verna J. Kirkness grew up on the Fisher River Indian reserve in Manitoba. Her childhood dream to be a teacher set her on a lifelong journey in education as a teacher, counsellor, consultant, and pr...

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Decolonizing Employment

Aboriginal Inclusion in Canada's Labour Market

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  Shauna MacKinnon

Indigenous North Americans continue to be overrepresented among those who are poor, unemployed, and with low levels of education. This has long been an issue of concern for Indigenous people and th...

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A Culture's Catalyst

Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada

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  Fannie Kahan

In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a pe...

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Defining Métis

Catholic Missionaries and the Idea of Civilization in Northwestern Saskatchewan, 1845-1898

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  Timothy P. Foran

"Defining Métis" examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues tha...

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A National Crime

The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

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  John S. Milloy

“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) "[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spr...

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A Knock on the Door

The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged

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  Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous chi...

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Diagnosing the Legacy

The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth

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  Larry Krotz

In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters ...

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Centering Anishinaabeg Studies

Understanding the World Through Stories

For the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bagijiganan, offerings of the possibilities ...

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Gambling on Authenticity

Gaming, the Noble Savage, and the Not-so-New Indian

In the decades since the passing of the Pamajewon ruling in Canada and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in the United States, gaming has come to play a crucial role in how Indigenous peoples are re...

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Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park

Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed

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  I.S. MacLaren

Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. Tourists now play where Native peoples once lived, fur traders toil...

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This Wild Spirit

Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada

In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, or even with a quiet day in camp t...

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The Sasquatch at Home

Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling

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  Eden Robinson

In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. Robinson shared an intimate look into the intricaci...

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At the Interface of Culture and Medicine

In this groundbreaking contribution to the field of culture and medicine, twenty-five professionals in medicine, nursing, and the social sciences have contributed fourteen papers on the influence o...

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Natives and Settlers Now and Then

Historical Issues and Current Perspectives on Treaties and Land Claims in Canada

“Natives and Settlers provides a beginning to what should be (and should have been) a continuing, respectful discussion.” —Blanca Schorcht, Associate Professor, University of Northern British Colu...

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Métis in Canada

History, Identity, Law and Politics

These twelve essays constitute a groundbreaking volume of new work prepared by leading scholars in the fields of history, anthropology, constitutional law, political science, and sociology, who ide...

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Gifted to Learn

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  Gloria Mehlmann

In 1960s Regina, when racial discrimination often went unchallenged, and the education system needed visionary reform, Gloria Mehlmann struggled to embrace her Cree/Saulteaux identity and sustain h...

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People of the Lakes

Stories of Our Van Tat Gwich’in Elders/Googwandak Nakhwach’ànjòo Van Tat Gwich’in

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  Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation

Many people have a mental picture of the Canadian north that juxtaposes beauty with harshness. For the Van Tat Gwich'in, the northern Yukon is home, with a living history passed on from Elders to y...

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The Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties

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  Richard Price

Government and First Nations leaders have tended to operate within two different systems of knowledge and perception regarding treaty rights issues in Canada. While First Nations emphasize the orig...

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Fur Trade Letters of Willie Traill 1864-1893

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  William Edward Traill

Son of Catharine Parr Traill and nephew of Susanna Moodie, William Edward Traill, better known as Willie, came by his literary talent naturally. He found employment with the Hudson’s Bay Company in...

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Clearing the Plains

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

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  James Daschuk

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...

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#IdleNoMore

and the Remaking of Canada

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  Ken Coates

Idle No More bewildered many Canadians. Launched by four women in Saskatchewan in reaction to a federal omnibus budget bill, the protest became the most powerful demonstration of Aboriginal identit...

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Woods Cree Stories

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  Solomon Ratt

Humour is not only the best medicine; it is also an exceptionally useful teaching tool. So often, it is through humour that the big lessons in life are learned--about responsibility, honour, hard ...

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Frontier Farewell

The 1870s and the End of the Old West

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  Garrett Wilson

The return of a classic, with a new introduction by Candace Savage. Frontier Farewell has been deemed "gracefully written" and "fully and meticulously researched," by Sharon Butala, while Canadian...

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Metis and the Medicine Line

Creating a Border and Dividing a People

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  Michel Hogue

Metis and the Medicine Line tells the remarkable story of the Plains Metis and the birth of the Canada/U.S. Border, brought vividly to life by history writing at its best. Exploring the borderland ...

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Journeys in Community-Based Research

The goal of community-based research is to develop a deeper understanding of communities and to discover new opportunities for improving quality of life. The nine case studies in this diverse coll...

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The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures

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  Mareike Neuhaus

In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading ...

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Shaping a World Already Made

Landscape and Poetry of the Canadian Prairies

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  Carl J. Tracie

"Carl Tracie, geographer, has done what no other researcher of any ilk has even attempted. No one has ever written a book on Canadian prairie poetry, not until now that is. We have books on Canadia...

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These Are Our Legends

Like all First Nations languages, Lillooet (Lil'wat) is a repository for an abundantly rich oral literature. In These Are Our Legends, the fifth volume of the First Nations Language Readers series,...

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The Knowledge Seeker

Embracing Indigenous Spirituality

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  Blair Stonechild

"An essential book." Brian Rice, author of The Rotinonshonni and Seeing the World with Aboriginal Eyes "As more people ripen to understand the new world holocaust of our First Nations, Blair Stone...

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100 Days of Cree

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  Neal McLeod

As an Elder once said, "Learn one Cree word a day for 100 days, and emerge a different person." In 100 Days of Cree Neal McLeod offers a portal into another way of understanding the universe-and o...

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