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Nature Power

By (author) Harry Robinson
Edited by Wendy Wickwire
Categories: Social Science

Many of the stories in Harry Robinson’s second collection feature the shoo-MISH, or ?nature helpers” that assist humans and sometimes provide them with special powers. Some tell of individuals who ...

Write It on Your Heart

By (author) Harry Robinson
Edited by Wendy Wickwire
Categories: Social Science

Write It on Your Heart is a celebration of the late Harry Robinson, one of the great storytellers of the Interior Salish people of North America.

Collected over a ten-year period, the stories selected ...

Hunters and Bureaucrats

This book challenges this conventional wisdom that land claims and co-management — two of the most visible and celebrated elements of this restructuring the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and ...

Emerging from the Mist

Our understanding of the precontact nature of the Northwest Coast has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. This book brings together the most recent research on the culture history and archaeology ...

Profiles of Canada, Third Edition

This third edition of Profiles of Canada combines depth, breadth, sophistication, and readability to offer the student a comprehensive introduction to Canadian society. The editors have brought together ...

The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701

The last decades of the seventeenth century were marked by persistent, bloody conflicts between the French and their Native allies on the one side and the Iroquois confederacy on the other. In the summer ...

Huron-Wendat

By (author) Georges E. Sioui
Translated by Jane Brierley
Categories: Archaeology

In this book, Georges Sioui, who is himself Wendat, redeems the
original name of his people and tells their centuries-old history by
describing their social ideas and philosophy and the relevance of both ...