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 ...
"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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...