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Books by or about Indigenous peoples in BC.
Kwaday Dan Tsinchi

Kwaday Dan Tsinchi

Teachings from Long Ago Person Found
volume editor Richard J. Hebda; Sheila Greer & Alexander P. Mackie
edition:Paperback
tagged : indigenous studies

On a late summer day, many years ago, a young man set out on a voyage through the mountains. He never reached his destination. When his remains were discovered by three British Columbia hunters, roughly three hundred years after he was caught by a storm or other accident, his story had faded from even the long memory of the region's people. First Nations elders decided to call the discovery Kwäday Dän Ts?ìnchi?Long Ago Person Found.

The discovery of theKwäday Dän Ts?ìnchi man raised many q …

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full-metal indigiqueer

full-metal indigiqueer

the pro(1,0)zoa
by Joshua Whitehead
edition:Paperback
tagged : lgbt, canadian, indigenous

This poetry collections focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) in order to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity. This Trickster is a Two-Spirit / Indigiqueer invention that resurges in the apocalypse to haunt, atrophy, and to reclaim. Following oral tradition (à la Iktomi, Nanaboozho, Wovoka), Zoa infects, invades, and becomes a virus to canonical and popular works in order to re- …

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A Day with Yayah

A Day with Yayah

by Nicola I. Campbell, illustrated by Julie Flett
edition:Hardcover
tagged : multigenerational, native canadian, new experience

Set in the Okanagon, BC, a First Nations family goes on an outing to forage for herbs and mushrooms. Grandmother passes down her knowledge of plant life to her young grandchildren.

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Images from the Likeness House

Images from the Likeness House

by Dan Savard
edition:Paperback
tagged : native american

On a winter's day in 1889, Tsimshian Chief Arthur Wellington Clah went to Hannah and Richard Maynard's photography studio in Victoria "to give myself likeness." In Images from the Likeness House, Dan Savard explores the relationship between First Peoples in British Columbia, Alaska and Washington and the photographers who made images of them from the late 1850s to the 1920s. He gives examples of the great technological advancements that took place, from wet-glass-plate to nitrate-film negatives, …

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