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Heritage Churches of the Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia

Heritage Churches of the Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia

Historical Events & Architectural Elements of Church Structures
by Kenneth Perry
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Heritage Churches of the Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia - chronicles existing church structures that dot the Indigenous landscape across what was once, a wild frontier and a thriving fur-trading empire. A beautifully illustrated work, with over three hundred colour photographs that will take the reader into urban, rural and remote areas of …

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Canada's Mechanized Infantry

Canada's Mechanized Infantry

The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920–2012
by Peter Kasurak
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tagged : canada, post-confederation (1867-)

Canada’s Mechanized Infantry explores the largely ignored development of the infantry in the Canadian Army after the First World War. Although many modern studies of technology and war focus on tanks and armour, soldiers from the Second World War onward have discovered that success really depends on a combination of infantry, armour, and artiller …

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Indigenous Empowerment through Co-management

Indigenous Empowerment through Co-management

Land Claims Boards, Wildlife Management, and Environmental Regulation
by Graham White
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Co-management boards, established under comprehensive land claims agreements, have become key players in land-use planning, wildlife management, and environmental regulation across Canada’s North. This book provides a detailed account of the operation and effectiveness of these boards while addressing a central question: Have they been successful …

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To Be Equals in Our Own Country

To Be Equals in Our Own Country

Women and the Vote in Quebec
by Denyse Baillargeon, translated by Käthe Roth
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tagged : women in politics, canadian, women, women's studies

“When the history of suffrage is written, the role played by our politicians will cut a sad figure beside that of the women they insulted.” Speaking in 1935, feminist Idola Saint-Jean captured the bitter nature of Quebec women’s prolonged fight for the right to vote. To Be Equals in Our Own Country is a passionate yet even-handed account of t …

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Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act

Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act

by Martin J. Cannon
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tagged : indigenous studies, gender studies

Canada’s Indian Act is infamously sexist. Many iterations of the legislation conferred a woman’s status rights through marriage, and even once it was amended First Nations women could not necessarily pass their status on to their descendants. What has that injustice meant for First Nations men? Martin J. Cannon challenges a decades-long assumpt …

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What’s Trending in Canadian Politics?

What’s Trending in Canadian Politics?

Understanding Transformations in Power, Media, and the Public Sphere
edited by Mireille Lalancette; Vincent Raynauld & Erin Crandall
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tagged : elections, media & internet, political parties

What trends are shaping contemporary political communication and behaviour in Canada, and where are they heading? What’s Trending in Canadian Politics? examines political communication and democratic governance in a digital age. Exploring the effects of conventional and emerging political communication practices in Canada, contributors investigat …

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Discovering Words: English * French * Cree — Updated Edition

Discovering Words: English * French * Cree — Updated Edition

illustrated by Neepin Auger
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Grade: p
tagged : aboriginal & indigenous, french

This updated edition includes a few replacement words and new artwork, gently refreshing the content to help teach the basics of early language in English, French, and Cree.

Neepin Auger's books for children contain original, brightly coloured images and early education level concepts familiar to everyone. Playful and bold, this dynamic series will …

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Discovering Numbers: English * French * Cree

Discovering Numbers: English * French * Cree

illustrated by Neepin Auger
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tagged : aboriginal & indigenous, french

This updated edition is expanded to include more numbers and new illustrations, making it an even finer resource for teaching the basics of counting in English, French, and Cree.

Neepin Auger’s books for children contain original, brightly coloured images and early education level concepts familiar to everyone. Playful and bold, this dynamic serie …

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Queering Representation

Queering Representation

LGBTQ People and Electoral Politics in Canada
edited by Manon Tremblay
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tagged : canadian, lgbtq+

Political representation requires participation: voting, joining political parties, running as candidates, acting as politicians. Yet the election of openly LGBTQ people is a relatively recent phenomenon in the West. Queering Representation explores long-ignored issues relating to LGBTQ voters and politicians in Canada. What are the LGBTQ electorat …

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Indigenous Healing

Indigenous Healing

Shamanic Ceremonialism in the Pacific Northwest Today
by Dr Wolfgang Jilek
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tagged : native american studies, native american

This book places the revival of Indigenous ceremonialism in a new light. The author aims at dispelling misconceptions and negative opinions by showing the traditional rituals to have well-defined and integrated therapeutic effects. The guardian spirit ceremonial of the Coast Salish First Nations combines the Spirit Quest of the Plateau bands with t …

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Caring for Eeyou Istchee

Caring for Eeyou Istchee

Protected Area Creation on Wemindji Cree Territory
edited by Monica E. Mulrennan; Colin H. Scott & Katherine Scott
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tagged : environmental science, geography, indigenous studies

How do Indigenous communities in Canada balance the development needs of a growing population with cultural commitments and responsibilities as stewards of their lands and waters? Caring for Eeyou Istchee recounts the extraordinary experience of the James Bay Cree community of Wemindji, Quebec, who partnered with a multi-disciplinary research team …

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Seeking the Court’s Advice

Seeking the Court’s Advice

The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power
by Kate Puddister
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Can Parliament legalize same-sex marriage? Can Quebec unilaterally secede from Canada? Can the federal government create a national firearms registry? Each of these questions is contentious and deeply political, and each was addressed by a court in a reference case, not by elected policy makers. Reference cases allow governments to obtain an adviso …

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Knowing the Past, Facing the Future

Knowing the Past, Facing the Future

Indigenous Education in Canada
edited by Sheila Carr-Stewart
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tagged : multicultural education, indigenous studies, philosophy & social aspects

In 1867, Canada’s federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools. The chapters in this collection – some reflective, some piercing, all of them insightful – show that this system s …

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Moon Madness

Moon Madness

Dr. Louise Aall, Sixty Years of Healing in Africa
by Alan Twigg
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The biography of Dr. Louise Aall who studied medicine in Germany and Switzerland before choosing to work as an itinerant bush doctor, setting up a clinic in Mahenge in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).

She was the first western physician to identify and treat a variant of epilepsy, now recognized by the World Health Organization as "Nodding Syndrome." Whi …

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Indigenous Peoples and Dementia

Indigenous Peoples and Dementia

New Understandings of Memory Loss and Memory Care
edited by Wendy Hulko; Danielle Wilson & Jean Balestrery
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tagged : indigenous studies, alzheimer's & dementia

Dementia is on the rise around the world, and health organizations in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand are responding to the urgent need – voiced by communities and practitioners – for guidance on how best to address memory loss in Indigenous communities. This innovative volume responds to the call by bringing together, for the first …

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Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times

Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times

edited by Deborah R. Brock
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Neoliberalism is most commonly associated with free trade, the minimal state, and competitive individualism. But in this latest stage of capitalism, it is not simply national economies that are being neoliberalized – it is us. Inspired by Michel Foucault and other governmentality theorists, the contributors to this volume reveal how neoliberalism …

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Nothing to Write Home About

Nothing to Write Home About

British Family Correspondence and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia
by Laura Ishiguro
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Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters, Laura Ishiguro offers insights into epistolary topics including familial intimacy and conflict, everyday concerns such as boredom and food, and what corre …

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Rain Comin' Down

Rain Comin' Down

Water, Memory and Identity in a Changed World
by Robert William Sandford
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tagged : global warming & climate change, ecology

From one of the world's foremost authorities on the connections between water, landscape, and our changing climate comes an intimate look at what drives one man's obsession with the world's most precious resource.

Robert Sandford has spent a lot time watching and thinking about water. This was not because he was predisposed to do so, but because the …

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Culture and the Soldier

Culture and the Soldier

Identities, Values, and Norms in Military Engagements
by Hans Christian Breede
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Countries have instituted policies to make their armed forces more inclusive, and soldiers now undergo cultural awareness training before seeing active duty. Policy makers and military organizations agree that culture is important. But what does “culture” mean in practice, and how is it important? Culture and the Soldier answers these questions …

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Culture and the Soldier

Culture and the Soldier

Identities, Values, and Norms in Military Engagements
by H. Christian Breede
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Countries have instituted policies to make their armed forces more inclusive, and soldiers now undergo cultural awareness training before seeing active duty. Policy makers and military organizations agree that culture is important. But what does “culture” mean in practice, and how is it important? Culture and the Soldier answers these questions …

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In Nature's Realm

In Nature's Realm

Early Naturalists Explore Vancouver Island
by Michael Layland
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tagged : expeditions & discoveries, regional

Winner of the 2020 Basil Stuart Stubbs Prize
Winner of the 2019 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing

A celebration of the richly diverse flora and fauna of Vancouver Island as explored through the records of explorers, settlers, and visitors, and with due respect to the wealth of Indigenous traditional knowledge of the island’s eco …

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Radiant Voices

Radiant Voices

21 Feminist Essays for Rising Up Inspired by EMMA Talks
compiled by carla bergman
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tagged : women authors, essays, women's studies

A collection of essays inspired by EMMA Talks, a speakers’ series committed to amplifying the voices of thinkers, activists, scholars, artists, and community builders who are also women-identified, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks.

From Idle No More to Black Lives Matter to the Me Too movements and more, one thing is certain: There is a burge …

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Discovering People: English * French * Cree

Discovering People: English * French * Cree

illustrated by Neepin Auger
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Grade: p
tagged : aboriginal & indigenous, french

The fourth book in this colourful and unique series introduces twenty-two basic words in English, French, and Cree relating to familiar people at home and in the community.

Neepin Auger's books for children contain original, brightly coloured images and early education level concepts familiar to everyone. Playful and bold, this dynamic series will e …

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Cougar Frenzy

Cougar Frenzy

by Pamela McDowell, illustrated by Kasia Charko
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Grade: 1 to 3
Reading age: 6 to 8
tagged : lions, tigers, leopards, etc., country life, environment

Could a cougar do that? Cricket McKay is going to find out!

When Cricket McKay and her best friend, Shilo, discover that a cougar has been seen in the town of Waterton, they are thrilled that school closes for a few days as a precaution. The townspeople are worried though. They want the cougar caught and relocated, which could be disastrous for the …

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Bad Law

Bad Law

Rethinking Justice for a Postcolonial Canada
by Hon. John Reilly
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tagged : indigenous peoples, native american studies, lawyers & judges

From the bestselling author of Bad Medicine and its sequel Bad Judgment comes a wide-ranging, magisterial summation of the years-long intellectual and personal journey of an Alberta jurist who went against the grain and actually learned about Canada’s indigenous people in order to become a public servant.

”Probably my greatest claim to fame is t …

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The Way Home

The Way Home

by David A. Neel
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tagged : artists, architects, photographers, indigenous studies, canadian

David Neel was an infant when his father, a traditional Kwakiutl artist, returned to the ancestors, triggering a series of events that would separate David from his homeland and its rich cultural traditions for twenty-five years. When the aspiring photographer saw a mask carved by an ancestor in a Texas museum twenty-five years later, the encounter …

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The Political Economy of Resource Regulation

The Political Economy of Resource Regulation

An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015
edited by Andreas R.D. Sanders; Pål Thonstad Sandvik & Espen Storli
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tagged : economic conditions, natural resource extraction

Industrialist John Paul Getty famously quipped, “The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.” Throughout history, natural resources have been sources of wealth and power and catalysts for war and peace. The case studies gathered in this innovative volume examine how the intersection of ideas, interest groups, international ins …

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The Way Home

The Way Home

by David Neel
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tagged : artists, architects, photographers, indigenous studies, canadian

David Neel was an infant when his father, a Kwakwa_ka_’wakw artist, died, triggering events that would separate him from the traditions of his homeland on Vancouver Island. When the aspiring photographer saw a mask carved by an ancestor in a Texas museum twenty-five years later, the encounter inspired him to return home and follow in his father …

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Gendered Mediation

Gendered Mediation

Identity and Image Making in Canadian Politics
edited by Angelia Wagner & Joanna Everitt
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tagged : women in politics, media & internet, canadian

Despite decades of women’s participation in politics, the gender identities of Canadian politicians continue to attract media and public attention and shape the way they are perceived and evaluated. Gendered Mediation takes an original approach to the study of gender and political communication by examining the implications of intersecting notion …

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Rebent Sinner

Rebent Sinner

by Ivan Coyote
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tagged : lgbt

Governor General's Literary Award finalist; BC Book Prize winner (Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); Forest of Reading Evergreen Award finalist

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pul …

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Métis Politics and Governance in Canada

Métis Politics and Governance in Canada

by Kelly Saunders & Janique Dubois
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tagged : indigenous studies, canadian, indigenous peoples

At a time when the Métis are becoming increasingly visible in Canadian politics, this unique book offers a practical guide for understanding who they are and the challenges they face on the path to self-government. It shows how the Métis are giving life to Louis Riel’s vision of a self-governing Métis Nation through the ongoing application of …

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From Where I Stand

From Where I Stand

Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada
by Jody Wilson-Raybould
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tagged : human rights, canadian, colonialism & post-colonialism, indigenous studies

An Indigenous leader who has dedicated her life to Indigenous Rights, Jody Wilson-Raybould has represented both First Nations and the Crown at the highest levels. And she is not afraid to give Canadians what they need most – straight talk on what has to be done to collectively move beyond our colonial legacy and achieve true reconciliation in Can …

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By the Court

By the Court

Anonymous Judgments at the Supreme Court of Canada
by Peter McCormick & Marc D. Zanoni
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tagged : courts, legal history, judicial power

Any court watcher knows that the Supreme Court of Canada delivers some of its major constitutional judgments in a “By the Court” format. This transformative approach abandons the common law tradition of attributing decisions to individual judges. By the Court is the first major study of these unanimous and anonymous decisions and features a com …

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