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Books by or about Indigenous peoples in BC.
Out of Concealment

Out of Concealment

Female Supernatural Beings of Haida Gwaii
by Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, foreword by Wade Davis & Gwaaganad (Diane Brown)
edition:Paperback
tagged : canadian, artists' books, native american

A stunning collection of powerful and whimsical photo collages celebrating supernatural female beings rooted in Haida culture.

 

Out of Concealment presents the oral narratives of the Haida Nation through the vibrant depiction of its female supernatural beings. Passed on from generation to generation through oral tradition, these stories are important historical narratives that illustrate the Haida’s values, customs, laws, and relationships with the earthly and metaphysical realms.

 

This book fea …

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Sonny Assu

Sonny Assu

A Selective History
by (artist) Sonny Assu, foreword by Janet Rogers, by Candice Hopkins; Marianne Nicolson; Richard Van Camp & Ellyn Walker
edition:Paperback
tagged : canadian, artists' books, native american

A stunning retrospective highlighting the playfulness, power, and subversive spirit of Northwest Coast Indigenous artist Sonny Assu.

Through large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting, Sonny Assu merges the aesthetics of Indigenous iconography with a pop-art sensibility. This stunning retrospective spans over a decade of Assu’s career, highlighting more than 120 full-colour works, including several never-before-exhibited pieces.

 

Through analytical essays and per …

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Maria Mahoi of the Islands

Maria Mahoi of the Islands

by Jean Barman
edition:Paperback
also available: Paperback
tagged : women

Since its original publication in 2004, Maria Mahoi of the Islands has become a classic in its field, and an important document on the history of Indigenous Hawaiians known as Kanakas, who had an early presence across the Pacific Northwest and are now part of the broader Hawaiian diaspora across North America. Born in the mid-1850s on Vancouver Island to an Indigenous Hawaiian father and an Indigenous British Columbian mother, Maria (pronounced Ma‐RYE‐ah) moved as a young woman to Salt Sprin …

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Everyday Exposure

Everyday Exposure

Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
by Sarah Marie Wiebe
edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover eBook
tagged : pollution control, environmental policy

Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada’s densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses.

 

As this book reveals, Canada’s dark legacy of inflicting harm on Indigenous bodies persists through a system that fails …

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Everyday Exposure

Everyday Exposure

Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
by Sarah Marie Wiebe
edition:Hardcover
also available: Paperback
tagged : pollution control, environmental policy

Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada’s densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses.

 

As this book reveals, Canada’s dark legacy of inflicting harm on Indigenous bodies persists through a system that fails …

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Everyday Exposure

Everyday Exposure

Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
by Sarah Marie Wiebe
edition:eBook
also available: Hardcover
tagged : environmental policy, pollution control

Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada’s densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses.

 

As this book reveals, Canada’s dark legacy of inflicting harm on Indigenous bodies persists through a system that fails …

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Fragile Settlements

Fragile Settlements

Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada
by Amanda Nettelbeck; Russell Smandych; Louis A. Knafla & Robert Foster
edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover eBook
tagged : native american studies, legal history

Fragile Settlements compares the processes by which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in south-west Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. In a humanitarian response to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain’s Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects under British law. This book highlights the parall …

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Fragile Settlements

Fragile Settlements

Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada
by Amanda Nettelbeck; Russell Smandych; Louis A. Knafla & Robert Foster
edition:Hardcover
also available: Paperback
tagged : native american studies, legal history

Fragile Settlements compares the processes by which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in south-west Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. In a humanitarian response to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain’s Colonial Office moved to protect Indigenous peoples by making them subjects under British law. This book highlights the parall …

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