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Books by or about Indigenous peoples in BC.
Teaching Each Other

Teaching Each Other

Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies
other recording by Linda M. Goulet & Keith N. Goulet
edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover eBook
tagged : native american studies, philosophy & social aspects

In recent decades, educators have been seeking ways to improve outcomes for Indigenous students. Yet most Indigenous education still takes place within a theoretical framework based in Eurocentric thought.

 

In Teaching Each Other, Linda Goulet and Keith Goulet provide an alternative framework for teachers working with Indigenous students – one that moves beyond acknowledging Indigenous culture to one that actually strengthens Indigenous identity. Drawing on Nehinuw (Cree) concepts such as kiski …

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Tellings from Our Elders

Tellings from Our Elders

Lushootseed syeyehub, Volume 2: Tales from the Skagit Valley
by David Beck & Thom Hess
edition:eBook
also available: Hardcover
tagged : native american

Oral stories form a portal through which rich cultural and linguistic information is passed from generation to generation. Tellings from Our Elders, Volume 2, presents stories in the Skagit Valley dialects of Lushootseed, the language of the indigenous people of the southern and eastern shores of Puget Sound. Transcribed from recordings made of the last generation of elders who learned Lushootseed as an exclusive mother tongue, and published with line-by-line interlinear glosses, this collection …

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Written as I Remember It

Written as I Remember It

Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
by Elsie Paul, with Paige Raibmon & Harmony Johnson
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook Hardcover
tagged : native american studies, native american, post-confederation (1867-), british columbia (bc)

Long before vacationers discovered BC’s Sunshine Coast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, called the region home. Elsie Paul is one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language. In this remarkable book, she collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style.

 

Raised by her grandparents, who took her on their seasonal travels, Paul spent most …

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In This Together

In This Together

Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation
general editor Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : native american studies, essays, discrimination & race relations

What is real reconciliation? This collection of essays from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada welcomes readers into a timely, healing conversation—one we've longed for but, before now, have had a hard time approaching.

These reflective and personal pieces come from journalists, writers, academics, visual artists, filmmakers, city planners, and lawyers, all of whom share their personal light-bulb moments regarding when and how they grappled with the harsh reality …

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Deaf Heaven

Deaf Heaven

by Garry Gottfriedson
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : canadian, death, native american

As the title suggests, this new collection of poetry from Garry Gottfriedson of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation deals with the ways in which the world is deaf to the problems First Nations people face in Canada today. Gottfriedson examines such issues as the Truth and Reconciliation movements as well as the missing and murdered Aboriginal women. The poems focus not only on postcolonial issues but also on First Nations internal problems. Although the book speaks of age-old themes, it explores them …

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Museums and the Past

Museums and the Past

Constructing Historical Consciousness
edited by Viviane Gosselin & Phaedra Livingstone
edition:eBook
also available: Hardcover Paperback
tagged : museum studies, history

Museums and the Past explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers. Using case studies from a Canadian context, the contributors to this collection reflect on the challenges in maintaining and developing museums as meaningful places of memory and learning. Discussions of museum practice and historical consciousness – how our understanding of the past shapes our sense of the future – consider the modern museum’s narratives and pedagogical responsibilities and how museums …

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What We Learned

What We Learned

Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools
by Helen Raptis, with members of the Tsimshian Nation
edition:eBook
also available: Hardcover Paperback
tagged : native american studies, history, post-confederation (1867-), british columbia (bc)

Stories of Indigenous children forced to attend residential schools have haunted Canadians in recent years. Yet most Indigenous children in Canada attended “Indian day schools,” and later public schools, near their home communities. Although church and government officials often kept detailed administrative records, we know little about the actual experiences of the students themselves.

 

In What We Learned, two generations of Tsimshian students – a group of elders born in the 1930s and 1940 …

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Made in Nunavut

Made in Nunavut

An Experiment in Decentralized Government
by Jack Hicks & Graham White
edition:eBook
also available: Hardcover Paperback
tagged : canadian, polar regions

After years of negotiation, the territory of Nunavut was established in Canada’s Eastern and Central Arctic on April 1, 1999. Made in Nunavut provides the first behind-the-scenes account of the planning that led to this remarkable achievement. The authors, leading authorities on the politics of the Canadian Arctic, pay particular attention to the Government of Nunavut’s innovative organizational design – especially the decentralization of offices and functions to communities across the ter …

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