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A People's Dream

By (author) Dan Russell
Categories: Politics and government

In this provocative and passionate book, Dan Russell outlines the
history of Aboriginal self-government in Canada. He compares it to that
of the United States, where, for over 150 years, tribes have practised ...

Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan

"It is my hope, and the hope of the Office of the Treaty Commissioner, that this publication can help provide the historical context needed to intelligently and respectfully forge new relations between ...

Cis dideen kat – When the Plumes Rise

By (author) Jo-Anne Fiske & Betty Patrick
Categories: Social Science

This book, the first to be written about the Lake Babine Nation in
north-central British Columbia, examines its traditional legal order,
self-identity, and their involvement in current treaty
negotiations. ...

Other Conundrums

By (author) Monika Kin Gagnon
Categories: Ethnic studies

Other Conundrums, copublished with Vancouver’s Artspeak Gallery and the Kamloops Art Gallery, is an extraordinary collection of essays on Canadian artists of colour by Monika Kin Gagnon, one of Canada’s ...

In the Words of Elders

Over years of teaching, it became increasingly apparent to the editors of this book (the Aboriginal Education Council at Trent University) that students in their Native Studies classes were dissatisfied ...

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 ...

The Burden of History

By (author) Elizabeth Furniss
Categories: History of the Americas

This book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of
Native/non-Native relations in a small interior BC city — Williams
Lake — at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furniss
analyses ...

Spuzzum

By (author) Annie York
Categories: Ethnic studies

Living on the banks of the turbulent Fraser River, the Nlaka’pamux people of Spuzzum have a long history of contact with non-aboriginal peoples. They watched as Hudson’s Bay Company employees hacked ...

The Waning of the Green

McGowan traces the evolution of the Catholic community from an isolated religious and Irish ethnic subculture in the late nineteenth century into an integrated segment of English Canadian society by the ...