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Brenda Macdougall is
an associate professor in the
Department of Native Studies at
the University of Saskatchewan.
November 2009
320 pages, 6 x 9”
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One of the Family
Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century
Northwestern Saskatchewan
Brenda Macdougall
In One of the Family Brenda Macdougall draws
on diverse written and oral sources and employs
the concept of wahkootowin – the Cree term
for a worldview that privileges family and values
relatedness between all beings – to trace the
emergence of a distinct Metis community at Île-à-la-
Crosse in northern Saskatchewan.
This path-breaking study showcases how one Metis
community created a distinct identity rooted in
Aboriginal values about family and shaped by the fur
trade and the Roman Catholic Church. It also offers
a model for future research and discussion that will
appeal to anyone interested in the history of the fur
trade or Metis culture and identity.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Note on Methodology and Sources;
Note on Writing Conventions
Introduction
1 “They are strongly attached to the country of Rivers,
Lakes, and Forests”: The Social Landscapes of the
English River District
2 “The bond that connected one human being to another”:
Social Construction of the Metis Family
3 Living in the Lands of their Mothers: Residency and
Patronymic Connections across the English River District
4 “After a Man Has Tasted of the Comforts of Married
Life This Living Alone Comes Pretty Tough”: Family,
Acculturation, and Roman
Catholicism
5 “The only men obtainable who know the country and
Indians are all married”: Family, Labour, and the HBC
6 “The HalfBreeds of this Place Always Did and Always
Will Dance”: Competition, Freemen, and Contested
Spaces
7 “I Thought it Advisable to Furnish Him”: Freemen to
Free Traders in the English River Fur Trade
Conclusion
Appendix; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography
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First Nations Studies
Penelope Edmonds is an
Australian Research Council
Postdoctoral Fellow in the
School of Historical Studies,
University of Melbourne.
December 2009
352 pages, 6 x 9”
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2 First Nation Studies 2009-2010
Urbanizing Frontiers
Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-
Century Pacific Rim Cities
Penelope Edmonds
This book makes an original and highly important
contribution to the specific historiographies of Canada
and Australia, as well as the broader literatures
on colonialism, urban development, and race ...
Transnational comparative analysis is an increasingly
important approach to understanding the past,
especially in the study of colonialism and settler-
indigenous relations, and to my knowledge no other
study with this scope and theoretical bent has been
published.
– Lisa-Anne Chilton, Department of History,
University of Prince Edward Island
Table of Contents
Illustrations; Abbreviations
Introduction
1 “Two Distant Extremities of the British Empire Might Thus
be Made to Join Hands”: A Comparative Study of Two
Pacific Settler-Colonial Cities
2 Settler Colonial Cities: Bodies and Spaces in Transition on
the Pacific Rim
3 “This Grand Object”: Building Towns in Indigenous Space
4 First Nations Space, Proto-Colonial Space
5 The Imagined City and its Dislocations: Segregation,
Gender, and Town Camps
6 Narratives of Race in the Streetscape: Fears of
Miscegenation and Making White Subjects
7 From “Bedlam” to Incorporation: First Nations Peoples,
Public Space and the Emerging City
8 Nervous Hybridity in the Streetscape: Bodies, Spaces and
the Displacements of Empire
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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First Nations Studies
Annis May Timpson is
director of the Centre of
Canadian Studies at the
University of Edinburgh.
May 2009
336 pages, 6 x 9”
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First Nations, First Thoughts
The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada
Edited by Annis May Timpson
First Nations, First Thoughts is a comprehensive
argument for decolonization, focusing specifically
on the reconciliation of Indigenous thought with a
transformed discourse of the Canadian state and
with many of the institutions of Canadian society ...
This book has no rival in its coverage of the multiple
issues involved in the search for reconciliation.
– Alan C. Cairns, author of Citizens Plus: Aboriginal
Peoples and the Canadian State
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Indigenous Thought in Canada / Annis May
Timpson
Part 1: Challenging Dominant Discourses
1 First Nations Perspectives and Historical Thinking in
Canada / Robin Jarvis Brownlie
2 Being Indigenous within the Academy: Creating Space for
Indigenous Scholars / Margaret Kovach
Part 2: Oral Histories and First Nations Narratives
3 Respecting Oral Histories of First Nations: Copyright
Complexities in Archiving Aboriginal Stories / Leslie  
McCartney
4 Nápi and the City: Siksikaitsitapi Narratives Revisited /
Martin Whittles and Tim Patterson
Part 3: Cultural Heritage and Representation
5 Colonial Photographs and Postcolonial Relationships: The
Kainai-Oxford Photographic Histories Project / Laura
Peers and Alison K. Brown
6 Museums Taken to Task: Representing First Peoples at the
McCord Museum of Canadian History / Stephanie Bolton
Part 4: Aboriginal Thought and Innovation in Subnational
Governance
7 The Manitoba Government’s Shift to “Autonomous” First
Nations Child Welfare: Empowerment or Privatization? /
Fiona MacDonald
8 Rethinking the Administration of Government: Inuit
Representation, Culture, and Language in the Nunavut
Public Service / Annis May Timpson
9 A Fine Balance? Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian North
and the Dilemma of Development / Gabrielle A. Slowey
Part 5: Thinking Back, Looking Forward: Political and
Constitutional Reconciliation
10 Civilization, Self-Determination, and Reconciliation /
Michael Murphy
11 Take 35: Reconciling Constitutional Orders / Kiera L.
Ladner
Contributors; Index
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First Nations Studies
Julian Agyeman is a
professor in and chair of the
Department of Urban and
Environmental Policy and
Planning at Tufts University.
Peter Cole is an associate
professor of Aboriginal and
Northern Studies at the
University College of the North.
Randolph Haluza-DeLaY
is an assistant professor of
sociology at King’s University
College. Pat O’Riley is an
associate professor in the
Department of Equity Studies,
Faculty of Liberal Arts &
Professional Studies at York
University.
May 2009
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Speaking for Ourselves
Environmental Justice in Canada
Edited by Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph
Haluza-DeLay, and Pat O’Riley
Speaking for Ourselves is one of the most important
books I have read in a long time. It has profoundly
shaped my thinking about the scholarly and political
work being done on environmental justice issues
and about the world we live in and share with
other beings ... This book will extend the fields of
environmental justice studies and indigenous studies
in new and productive ways.
– David Pellow, author of Resisting Global Toxics:
Transnational Movements for Environmental
Justice
Table of Contents
Prologue. Notes from Prison: Protecting Algonquin Lands
from Uranium Mining / Robert Lovelace
Introduction. Speaking for Ourselves, Speaking Together:
Environmental Justice in Canada / Randolph Haluza-
DeLay, Pat O’Riley, Peter Cole, and Julian Agyeman
1 Honouring Our Relations: An Anishnaabe Perspective on
Environmental Justice / Deborah McGregor
2 Reclaiming Ktaqamkuk: Land and Mi’kmaq Identity in
Newfoundland / Bonita Lawrence
3 Why Is There No Environmental Justice in Toronto? Or Is
There? / Roger Keil, Melissa Ollevier, and Erica Tsang
4 Invisible Sisters: Women and Environmental Justice in
Canada / Barbara Rahder
5 The Political Economy of Environmental Inequality: The
Social Distribution of Risk as an Environmental Injustice /
S. Harris Ali
6 These Are Lubicon Lands: A First Nation Forced to Step
into the Regulatory Gap / Chief Bernard Ominayak, with
Kevin Thomas
7 Population Health, Environmental Justice, and the
Distribution of Diseases: Ideas and Practices from
Canada / John Eyles
8 Environmental Injustice in the Canadian Far North:
Persistent Organic Pollutants and Arctic Climate Impacts
/ Sarah Fleisher Trainor, Anna Godduhn, Lawrence K.
Duffy, F. Stuart Chapin III, David C. Natcher, Gary Kofi
nas, and Henry P. Huntington
9 Environmental Justice and Community-Based
Ecosystem Management / Maureen G. Reed
10 Framing Environmental Inequity in Canada: A Content
Analysis of Daily Print News Media / Leith Deacon and
Jamie Baxter
11 Environmental Justice as a Politics in Place: An Analysis
of Five Canadian Environmental Groups’ Approaches to
Agro-Food Issues / Lorelei L. Hanson
12 Rethinking “Green” Multicultural Strategies / Beenash
Jafri
13 Coyote and Raven Talk about Environmental Justice / Pat
O’Riley and Peter Cole
Contributors; Index
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First Nations Studies
Laurence J. Kirmayer
is James McGill Professor
and Director of the Division
of Social and Transcultural
Psychiatry, McGill University;
Director of the Culture and
Mental Health Research Unit
of the Institute for Community
and Family Psychiatry, Jewish
General Hospital, Montreal;
and Co-Director of the National
Network for Aboriginal Mental
Health Research. Gail
Guthrie Valaskakis was
Director of Research, Aboriginal
Healing Foundation, Ottawa,
and Co-Director of the National
Network for Aboriginal Mental
Health Research.
2008
528 pages, 6.5 x 9.5”
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Healing Traditions
The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in
Canada
Edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer and Gail Guthrie
Valaskakis
Table of Contents
Part 1: The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples
1 The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada:
Transformations of Identity and Community / Laurence J.
Kirmayer, Caroline L. Tait, and Cori Simpson
2 Mental Health and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia and
New Zealand / Mason Durie, Helen Milroy, and Ernest Hunter
3 Culture and Aboriginality in the Study of Mental Health /
James B. Waldram
4 Social Competence and Mental Health among Aboriginal
Youth: An Integrative Developmental Perspective / Grace
Iarocci, Rhoda Root, and Jacob A. Burack
Part 2: Social Suffering: Origins and Representations
5 A Colonial Double-Bind: Social and Historical Contexts of Innu
Mental Health / Colin Samson
6 Placing Violence against First Nations Children: The Use
of Space and Place to Construct the (In)credible Violated
Subject / Jo-Anne Fiske
7 Narratives of Hope and Despair in Downtown Eastside
Vancouver / Dara Culhane
8 Suicide as a Way of Belonging: Causes and Consequences of
Cluster Suicides in Aboriginal Communities / Ronald Niezen
9 Disruptions in Nature, Disruptions in Society: Aboriginal
Peoples of Canada and the “Making” of Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome / Caroline L. Tait
Part 3: Resilience: Transformations of Identity and Community
10 Cultural Continuity as a Moderator of Suicide Risk among
Canada’s First Nations / Michael J. Chandler and Christopher
E. Lalonde
11 The Origins of Northern Aboriginal Social Pathologies and the
Quebec Cree Healing Movement / Adrian Tanner
12 Toward a Recuperation of Souls and Bodies: Community
Healing and the Complex Interplay of Faith and History /
Naomi Adelson
13 Locating the Ecocentric Self: Inuit Concepts of Mental Health
and Illness / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Christopher Fletcher, and
Robert Watt
14 Community Wellness and Social Action in the Canadian Arctic:
Collective Agency as Subjective Well-Being / Michael J. Kral
and Lori Idlout
Part 4: Healing and Mental Health Services
15 Aboriginal Approaches to Counselling / Rod McCormick
16 Respecting the Medicines: Narrating an Aboriginal Identity /
Gregory M. Brass
17 A Jurisdictional Tapestry and a Patchwork Quilt of Care:
Aboriginal Health and Social Services in Montreal / Mary Ellen
Macdonald
18 Six Nations Mental Health Services: A Model of Care for
Aboriginal Communities / Cornelia Wieman
19 Encountering Professional Psychology: Re-Envisioning Mental
Health Services for Native North America / Joseph P. Gone
20 Conclusion: Healing / Invention / Tradition / Laurence J.
Kirmayer, Gregory M. Brass, and Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Contributors; Index
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First Nations Studies
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
holds a doctorate in polar studies
from Cambridge University
and for the past decade has
worked for Indigenous peoples
on self-government and related
political development processes
in Canada’s Northwest
Territories.
July 2009
216 pages, 6 x 9”
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Finding Dahshaa
Self-Government, Social Suffering, and
Aboriginal Policy in Canada
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
This book is an important contribution to the study
of the relationship between the Dene and Canada.
Dr. Irlbacher-Fox is non-Indigenous, and she has
spent most of her life living and working in Denendeh
among the Dene, Metis, and Inuvialuit peoples. She
has listened to us using both her mind and her heart,
which shows in the passion and conviction she
conveys in her research and writing. I welcome her
contribution to bringing to light aspects of both the
strength and the struggles of the Dene.
– From the Foreword by Bill Erasmus, Dene National
Chief
Finding Dahshaa draws on Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox’s
extensive hands-on negotiating experience, and
formidable research and academic skills, to offer
badly needed analysis of past and current issues
impeding progress on aboriginal self-government in
the Mackenzie Valley. I recommend this book.
– Mary Simon, President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Table of Contents
Pronunciation Guide
Foreword, by Bill Erasmus, Dene National Chief
Preface; Introduction
Chapter 1: Context and Concepts
Chapter 2: Tanning Moose Hide
Chapter 3: Dehcho Resource Revenue Sharing
Chapter 4: Délînê Child and Family Services
Chapter 5: Inuvialuit and Gwich’in Culture and Language
Conclusion
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First Nations Studies
Christopher McKee is a
former political scientist at the
University of British Columbia
and currently Chairman of Gavea
Emerging Markets Corporation.
Peter Colenbrander joined
the BC Treaty Commission
in 1995. From 2001 to 2008,
he was the manager of the
Commission’s facilitation and
monitoring activities.
Previously Announced
December 2009
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Treaty Talks in British Columbia, Third
Edition
Negotiating a Mutually Beneficial Future
Edited by Christopher McKee
Praise for previous editions:
Succinct, informative, and easy to read. All of the
major issues that surround treaty negotiation are
thoroughly presented and discussed in an unbiased
manner.
– Erin Rettie, Saskatchewan Law Review
A guide to the contemporary tripartite treaty-
making process under way between those First
Nations within the Province of British Columbia that
have chosen to enter the process and provincial
government of British Columbia and the federal
government of Canada.
– David Reed Miller, Western Historical Quarterly
This new edition includes a postscript, co-authored
with Peter Colenbrander, that provides an
overview of the sometimes chequered history of
the treaty process from 2001 to 2009. It traces
the achievements of and challenges for the
treaty process, reviews some of the most recent
jurisprudence affecting Native and non-Native rights,
and reflects on the growing number of initiatives
outside the treaty process to achieve reconciliation
between First Nations and the Crown.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Prelude to the Treaty-Making Process
2 The Process of Treaty-Making
3 The Issues to Be Negotiated
4 The Treaty-Making Process Considered
5 Treaty Implementation: Issues and Concerns
6 The Treaty-Making Process, 1996-2000
Reflections and Reconsiderations
Appendices
A Recommendations of the British Columbia Claims Task
Force, 1991
B Aboriginal Groups Participating in Treaty Negotiations in
British Columbia (as of May 1999)
C Chronology of Events Contributing to the Treaty-Making
Process in British Columbia
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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First Nations Studies
Renisa Mawani is an assistant
professor of sociology at the
University of British Columbia.
May 2009
288 pages, 6 x 9”
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Law and Society SERIES
8 First Nation Studies 2009-2010
Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths
in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Renisa Mawani
This book offers fascinating new perspectives on the
roots of Canadian racism. Moving beyond traditional
narratives of Aboriginal-European contact and
Chinese-European relations, Renisa Mawani probes
the unsettled landscape of crossracial encounters
between ‘Indians’ and ‘Chinese’ in British Columbia
history. She deftly captures the frenzied anxieties
that whites harboured over ungovernable mixed-race
activities, and brilliantly dissects the renewed state
racisms that were born of such encounters.
– Adele Perry, Canada Research Chair in Western
Canadian Social History, University of Manitoba,
and author of On the Edge of Empire
Renisa Mawani is a rigorous researcher, a sharp
analyst, and a wide-ranging thinker. This is a powerful
piece of work, and scholars of colonialism and race
making in British Columbia and settler colonies more
generally will benefit from it.
– Constance Backhouse, Distinguished University
Professor and University Research Chair, Faculty
of Law, University of Ottawa
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Heterogeneity and Interraciality in British
Columbia’s Colonial “Contact Zone”
2 The Racial Impurities of Global Capitalism: The Politics
of Labour, Interraciality, and Lawlessness in the Salmon
Canneries
3 (White) Slavery, Colonial Knowledges, and the Rise of
State Racisms
4 National Formations and Racial Selves: Chinese
Traffickers and Aboriginal Victims in British Columbia’s
Illicit Liquor Trade
5 “The Most Disreputable Characters”: Mixed-Bloods,
Internal Enemies, and Imperial Futures
Conclusion: Colonial Pasts, Entangled Presents, and
Promising Futures
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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First Nations Studies
John Sutton Lutz teaches in
the Department of History at the
University of Victoria.
2008
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Makúk
A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations
John Sutton Lutz
Selected, Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE
John Lutz traces Aboriginal People’s involvement in
the new economy, and their displacement from it,
from the arrival of the first Europeans to the 1970s.
Drawing on an extensive array of oral histories,
manuscripts, newspaper accounts, biographies,
and statistical analysis, Lutz shows that Aboriginal
people flocked to the workforce and prospered
in the late nineteenth century. He argues that the
roots of today’s widespread unemployment and
“welfare dependency” date only from the 1950s,
when deliberate and inadvertent policy choices
– what Lutz terms the “white problem” drove
Aboriginal People out of the capitalist, wage, and
subsistence economies, offering them welfare as
“compensation.”
Makúk invites readers into a dialogue with the
past with visual imagery and an engaging narrative
that gives a voice to Aboriginal Peoples and other
historical figures. It is a book for students, scholars,
policymakers, and a wide public who care to bring
the spectres of the past into the light of the present.
Table of Contents
Maps, Figures, Tables
Preface: Makuk
1 Introduction: Molasses Stick Legs
2 Pomo Wawa: The Other Jargon
3 Making the Lazy Indian
4 The Lekwungen
5 The Tsilhqot’in
6 Outside History: Labourers of the Aboriginal Province
7 The White Problem
8 Prestige to Welfare: Remaking the Moditional Economy
9 Conclusion: The Outer Edge of Probability, 1970-2007
Postscript: Subordination without Subjugation
Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments;
Credits
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First Nations Studies
CATHERINE BELL is a professor
of law at the University of
Alberta. VAL NAPOLEON
teaches in the Faculty of Native
Studies and the Faculty of Law at
the University of Alberta.
2008
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Law and Society Series
10 First Nation Studies 2009-2010
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law
Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
Edited by Catherine Bell and Val Napoleon
Table of Contents
Preface: Respect for Elder Knowledge / Eric McLay and Lea
Joe interviewing Arvid Charlie (Luschiim) & Dorothy
First Rider, in consultation with Frank Weasel Head
Introduction, Methodology, and Thematic Overview /
Catherine Bell and Val Napoleon
Part 1: Our Voices, Our Culture
1 Recovering from Colonization: Perspectives of
Community Members on Protection and Repatriation
of Kwakwaka’wakw Cultural Heritage / Catherine Bell,
Heather Raven, and Heather McCuaig, in consultation
with Andrea Sanborn, the U’mista Cultural Society, and
the ‘Namgis Nation
2 The Law Is Opened: The Constitutional Role of Tangible
and Intangible Property in Gitanyow / Richard Overstall,
in consultation with Val Napoleon and Katie Ludwig
3 Northwest Coast Adawx Study / Susan Marsden
4 ‘A’lhut tu tet Sul’hweentst [Respecting the Ancestors]:
Understanding Hul’qumi’num Heritage Laws and
Concerns for the Protection of Archaeological Heritage
/ Eric McLay, Kelly Bannister, Lea Joe, Brian Thom, and
George Nicholas
5 Repatriation and Heritage Protection: Reflections on the
Kainai Experience / Catherine Bell, Graham Statt, and
the Mookakin Cultural Society
6 Poomaksin: Skinnipiikani-Nitsiitapii Law, Transfers, and
Making Relatives: Practices and Principles for Cultural
Protection, Repatriation, Redress, and Heritage Law
Making with Canada / Brian Noble, in consultation with
Reg Crowshoe and in discussion with the Knut-sum-atak
Society
7 Protection and Repatriation of Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Cultural
Resources: Perspectives of Community Members /
Catherine Bell and Heather McCuaig, in consultation
with the Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Tribal Council and the
Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Traditional Elders Working Group
Part 2: Experiences across the Nation
8 First Nations Cultural Heritage: A Selected Survey of
Issues and Initiatives / Catherine Bell, Graham Statt,
Michael Solowan, Allyson Jeffs, and Emily Snyder
Part 3: Reflections on Selected Themes
9 Canadian Aboriginal Languages and the Protection of
Cultural Heritage / Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace
10 Canada’s Policy of Cultural Colonization: Indian
Residential Schools and the Indian Act / Dale
Cunningham, Allyson Jeffs, and Michael Solowan
11 Owning as Belonging/Owning as Property: The Crisis
of Power and Respect in First Nations Heritage
Transactions with Canada / Brian Noble
Concluding Thoughts and Unanswered Questions / Val
Napoleon
Appendix; Contributors; Index
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First Nations Studies
Catherine Bell is a professor
of law at the University of
Alberta. Robert K. Paterson
is a professor of law at the
University of British Columbia.
2008
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Protection of First Nations Cultural
Heritage
Laws, Policy, and Reform
Edited by Catherine Bell and Robert K. Paterson
Table of Contents
Preface: Towards Reconciliation / Darlene Johnston
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations
Introduction / Catherine Bell and Robert K. Paterson
Part 1: Repatriation and Trade
1 Restructuring the Relationship: Domestic Repatriation
and Canadian Law Reform / Catherine Bell
2 International Movement of First Nations Cultural
Heritage in Canadian Law / Catherine Bell and Robert K.
Paterson
3 The Protection and Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural
Heritage in the United States / James Nafziger
Part 2: Heritage Sites and Ancestral Remains
4 Ancestral Remains in Institutional Collections: Proposals
for Reform / Robert K. Paterson
5 Unsitely: The Eclectic Regimes that Protect Aboriginal
Cultural Places in Canada / Bruce Ziff and Melodie Hope
6 Policies and Protocols for Archeological Sites and
Associated Cultural Intellectual Property / George P.
Nicholas
Part 3: Intangible Heritage
7 The Interconnection of Intellectual Property and Cultural
Property (“Traditional Knowledge”) / Robert G. Howell
and Roch Ripley
8 First Nations Cultural Heritage Concerns: Prospects
for Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional
Cultural Expressions in International Law / Rosemary J.
Coombe
9 Non-Legal Instruments for the Protection of Intangible
Cultural Heritage: Key Roles for Ethical Codes and
Community Protocols / Kelly Bannister
Part 4: Human Rights and First Nations Law
10 Indigenous Cultural Heritage Rights in International
Human Rights Law / Mohsen al Attar, Nicole Aylwin, and
Rosemary J. Coombe
11 From Time Immemorial: The Recognition of Aboriginal
Customary Law in Canada / Norman Zlotkin
12 Looking beyond the Law: Questions about Indigenous
Peoples’ Tangible and Intangible Property / Val Napoleon
Concluding Thoughts and Fundamental Questions / Michael
Asch
Appendix; Contributors; Index
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First Nations Studies
Douglas C. Harris is a
member of the Faculty of Law at
the University of British Columbia
2008
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Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British
Columbia, 1849-1925
Douglas C. Harris
Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions
and consequences of an Indian land policy premised
on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of
fisheries management intended to open the resource
to newcomers, on the other. Beginning with the first
treaties signed on Vancouver Island between 1850
and 1854, Douglas Harris maps the connections
between the colonial land policy and the law
governing the fisheries. In so doing, Harris rewrites
the history of colonial dispossession in British
Columbia, offering a new and nuanced examination
of the role of law in the consolidation of power within
the colonial state.
Table of Contents
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction
1 Treaties, Reserves, and Fisheries Law
2 Land Follows Fish
3 Exclusive Fisheries
4 Exclusive Fisheries and the Public Right to Fish
5 Indian Reserves and Fisheries
6 Constructing an Indian Food Fishery
7 Licensing the Commercial Salmon Fishery
8 Land and Fisheries Detached
Conclusion
Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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First Nations Studies
Peggy J. Blair is one of
Canada’s leading lawyers in the
field of Aboriginal law.
2008
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Lament for a First Nation
The Williams Treaties of Southern Ontario
Peggy Blair
Peggy J. Blair, a lawyer specializing in aboriginal law,
has produced an important study of the historical
context surrounding both the treaties and what she
sees as a misguided response by the Canadian
courts.
- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick,
Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 18, No.11,
November 2008
This book should prove a supportive work for trial
lawyers working in the land claim field.
- Ronald F. MacIsaac, The Barrister, Issue No.89,
September 2008
In a 1994 decision known as Howard, the Supreme
Court of Canada held that the Aboriginal signatories to
the 1923 Williams Treaties had knowingly given up not
only their title to off-reserve lands but also their treaty
rights to hunt and fish for food.
Peggy J. Blair gives the Howard decision considerable
context. She examines federal and provincial bickering
over “special rights” for Aboriginal peoples and notes
how Crown policies toward Indian rights changed as
settlement pressures increased. Blair argues that the
Canadian courts caused a serious injustice by applying
erroneous cultural assumptions in their interpretation
of the evidence. In particular, they confused provincial
government policy, which has historically favoured
public over special rights, with the understanding of
the parties at the time. Blair demonstrates that when
American courts applied the same legal principles as
their Canadian counterparts to a case involving similar
facts, they reached the opposite conclusion.
Table of Contents
Preface; Introduction
Part 1: Historical Background
1 History of the Williams Treaties First Nations
2 Imperial Crown Policy
3 A New Crown Policy
4 Jurisdictional Disputes
5 Bureaucratic Obstacles
Part 2: The Williams Treaties
6 The Push for a New Treaty
7 Differing Perceptions
8 The Howard Case
9 Analysis
Conclusion
Appendix: Relevant Treaties
Notes; Bibliography
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First Nations Studies
Hans M. Carlson is teaching
in the American Indian Studies
program at the University of
Minnesota.
2008
360 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1494-2 hc $85.00
978-0-7748-1495-9 pb $34.95
Nature | History | Society
series
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Home Is the Hunter
The James Bay Cree and Their Land
Hans M. Carlson
Carlson does more than write the Cree into our
narrative; he pens a Cree-centered narrative that
writes newcomers into it, and it is this aspect of
Carlson’s book that is the most compelling ... Home
Is the Hunter is an excellent study of human and
environmental relationships. ... Anyone with a minimal
understanding of this place and these people should
read this book, if only to see where their narratives fit
in with others and to gain a greater appreciation for
the history of the Cree and for the potential dangers
to which we all contribute by pulling resources from
the periphery while at the same time imposing our
outsider understandings over local ones.
– Jonathan Clapperton, University of Saskatchewan
Table of Contents
Contents; Maps, Figures, and Tables
Foreword by Graeme Wynn
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Why James Bay?
2 Imagining the Land
3 Inland Engagement
4 Christians and Cree
5 Marginal Existences
6 Management and Moral Economy
7 Flooding the Garden
8 Conclusion: Journeys of Wellness, Walks of the Heart
Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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First Nations Studies
John Sandlos is an assistant
professor of history at Memorial
University of Newfoundland.
2007
352 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1362-4 hc $85.00
978-0-7748-1363-1 pb $32.95
Nature | History | Society
series
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Hunters at the Margin
Native People and Wildlife Conservation in
the Northwest Territories
John Sandlos
Winner, 2008 Clio Award for the North,
Canadian Historical Association
Winner, 2008 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser
Award, Forest History Society
As John Sadlos’s book shows, nothing in
environmental politics is ever simple ... What began
as an attempt to preserve a species inevitably took on
the coloration of a social experiment. The book is full
of nuggets of interesting information.
- William R. Morrison, Environmental History
Journal, Vol. 12, N0. 4, October 2007
This hefty text is a well-written and meticulously
researched academic work. Sandlos provides
eloquent and exquisite details of the relationship
between human and animal ... It is certain to be of
interest to readers keen to better understand the
politics of northern conservation in Canada, and the
conflict between Northern indigenous communities
and Southern policy makers.
- Ben Laurie, Alternatives, Vol.34, No.2, 2008
Hunters at the Margin is well written, well produced,
and a valuable contribution to the ongoing evaluation
of the meanings of the North for those who live
there, those who are new arrivals, and those for
whom it looms large in imagination and expectation.
- Henry P. Huntington, Arctic, September 2008
Table of Contents
Maps, Tables, Figures
Foreword: The Enigmatic North by Graeme Wynn
Introduction: Wildlife and Canadian History
Part 1: Bison
1 Making Space for Wood Bison
2 Control on the Range
3 Pastoral Dreams
Part 2: Muskox
4 The Polar Ox
Part 3: Caribou
5 La Foule! La Foule!
6 To Save the Wild Caribou
7 The Caribou Crisis
Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography
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First Nations Studies
Leslie Dawn is an associate
professor in the Department
of Art at the University of
Lethbridge.
2006
456 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1217-7 pb $85.00
978-0-7748-1218-4 pb $34.95
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National Visions, National Blindness
Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s
Leslie Dawn
Winner, 2008 Raymond Klibanksy Prize, Aid to
Scholarly Publications Programme (ASPP)
If Fred Housser’s A Canadian Art Movement was
the most influential Canadian art book of the 20th
century, then National Visions, National Blindness
is the 21st century’s equivalent. Vast and complex
in conception, Dawn’s work embodies primary
research of national significance and shows the real
foundations of Canadian art.
– Nancy Townshend, Alberta Views, May 2008
This is a significant book that seeks to revise (and,
in so doing, renders problematic) long-standing
conventions relating to the landscapes of the Group
of Seven and the construction of a modern Canadian
national identity in the early twentieth century.
Dawn boldly brings out the inconsistencies and
contradictions at the heart of the new pictorial identity
and, in particular, the inherent paradox in promoting
landscapes empty of all people. The book is well
documented and offers fascinating insight into the
role of institutions and individuals, and the role of
individuals within institutions, as Canada sought to
formulate and assert its specificity. Elegantly written
and a pleasure to read, it will be of real interest to a
wide variety of readers.
– Christopher Rolfe, University of Leicester, British
Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 21.2, Autumn
2008
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Canadian Art in England
2 England in Canadian Art
3 Canadian Art in Paris
4 Canadian Primitives in Paris
5 Barbeau and Kihn with the Stoney in Alberta
6 Barbeau and Kihn with the Gitxsan in British Columbia
7 Giving Gitxsan Totem Poles a New Slant
8 Representing and Repossessing the Skeena Valley
9 West Coast Art, Native and Modern
10 The Downfall of Barbeau
11 Revisiting Carr
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Illustration; Credits; Index
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First Nations Studies
Gillian Poulter is an
associate professor of Canadian
history at Acadia University.
May 2009
390 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1441-6 hc $85.00
978-0-7748-1442-3 PB $32.95
(PB, January 2010)
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Becoming Native in a Foreign Land
Sport, Visual Culture, and Identity in
Montreal, 1840-85
Gillian Poulter
This book, both innovative and provocative, will
have a significant impact on our understanding of
the relationship between sport and national identity
construction in Canada. It not only will add to the
scholarly debate in the field, it will help shape and
direct such debate in the future.
– Colin D. Howell, author of Blood, Sweat, and
Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modern Canada
How did British colonists in Victorian Montreal come
to think of themselves as “native Canadian”? This
incisive, richly illustrated work reveals that colonists
adopted Aboriginal and French Canadian activities
– hunting, lacrosse, snowshoeing, and tobogganing –
and appropriated them by imposing British ideologies
of order, discipline, and fair play. In the process, they
constructed national attributes, or visual icons, that
were recognized at home and abroad as distinctly
“Canadian.” The new Canadian nationality mimicked
indigenous characteristics but, ultimately, rejected
indigenous players, and championed the interests
of white, middle-class, Protestant males who used
their newly acquired identity to dominate the political
realm.
Becoming Native in a Foreign Land demonstrates
that English Canadian identity was not formed solely
by emulating what was British, it gained enormous
ground by usurping what was indigenous in the
fertile landscape of a foreign land. It will appeal
to scholars and enthusiasts of Canadian history,
identity, and culture.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction
1 “Brave North Western Voyageurs”: Snowshoeing in
Montreal
2 “Men of the North”: Canadian Sport Hunting
3 “The National Game of Canada”: Lacrosse
4 “Our Winter Sports”: The Montreal Winter Carnivals
5 “No Tin Soldiers”: Canada’s First War
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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First Nations Studies
Cole Harris is a professor
emeritus of geography at the
University of British Columbia.
2008
524 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1449-2 hc $95.00
978-0-7748-1450-8 pb $39.95
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The Reluctant Land
Society, Space, and Environment in Canada
before Confederation
Cole Harris
Winner, 2008 K.D. Srivastava Prize for
Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC
Press
Written by Canada’s preeminent historical
geographer, The Reluctant Land represents a
milestone in pre-Confederation Canadian history. Cole
Harris offers a sweeping history of the processes
by which a string of European settler societies on
the margins of North America evolved to become
Canada. This book is certain to become a classic.
– Margaret Conrad, co-author of Atlantic Canada: A
Region in the Making and History of the Canadian
Peoples
Cole Harris offers a new and immensely important
interpretation of early Canada. The subject matter
is nothing less than the character of Canada. The
narrative is exhilarating and the conclusions are
significant.
– Gerald Friesen, author of The Canadian Prairies:
A History and Citizens and Nation: An Essay on
History, Communication, and Canada
Table of Contents
Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments
1 Lifeworlds, circa 1500
2 The Northwestern Atlantic, 1497-1632
3 Acadia and Canada
4 The Continental Interior, 1632-1750
5 Creating and Bounding British North America
6 Newfoundland
7 The Maritimes
8 Lower Canada
9 Upper Canada
10 The Northwestern Interior, 1760-1870
11 British Columbia
12 Confederation and the Pattern of Canada
Index
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First Nations Studies
Chad Reimer received
his PhD in history from York
University and works as an
independent historian and author
in Chilliwack, BC.
August 2009
224 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1644-1 hc $85.00
978-0-7748-1645-8 PB $29.95
(PB, July 2010)
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Writing British Columbia History,
1784–1958
Chad Reimer
This book homes in on the elisions and evasions that
are at the core of some of the central problems facing
British Columbian society today.
-Coll Thrush, professor, Department of History, UBC
Captain James Cook first made contact with the
area now known as British Columbia in 1778. The
colonists who followed soon realized they needed a
written history, both to justify their dispossession of
Aboriginal peoples and to formulate an identity for a
new settler society.
Writing British Columbia History traces how
Euro-Canadian historians took up this task, and
struggled with the newness of colonial society and
overlapping ties to the British Empire, the United
States, and Canada. This exploration of the role of
history writing in colonialism and nation building will
appeal to anyone interested in the history of British
Columbia, the Pacific Northwest, and history writing
in Canada.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Challenge of British Columbia History
1 The Earliest Pages of History
2 Pioneers, Railways, and Civilization: The Late Nineteenth
Century
3 A Greater Britain on the Pacific: History in the Edwardian
Age
4 The Domain of History: Judge Frederic Howay
5 A Professional Past: The University of British Columbia
and Walter Sage
6 W. Kaye Lamb, Margaret Ormsby, and a First Generation
of British Columbian Historians
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Index
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First Nations Studies
John Douglas Belshaw,
formerly professor of history at
Thompson Rivers University, is
now Associate Vice-President
of Education at North Island
College, Vancouver Island.
January 2009
300 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1545-1 hc $85.00
978-0-7748-1546-8 pb $32.95
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Becoming British Columbia
A Population History
John Douglas Belshaw
Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive
demographic history of the province. Investigating
critical moments in the demographic record and
linking demographic patterns to larger social and
political questions, it shows how biology, politics,
and history conspire with sex, death, and migration
to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw
overturns the widespread tendency to associate
population growth with progress by examining how
the province’s Aboriginal population of as much as
half a million was reduced by disease to fewer than
30,000 people in less than a century. He reveals
that the province has a long tradition of thinking and
acting vigorously in ways meant to control and shape
biological communities of humans, and suggests that
imperialism, race, class, and gender have historically
situated population issues at the centre of public
consciousness in British Columbia.
This absorbing work demystifies demographics in an
accessible yet scholarly and provocative way. It will
appeal to scholars and students in history, sociology,
geography, and Canadian Studies, as well as to
general readers interested in BC history.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Acronyms
1 Cradle to Grave: An Introduction 
2 Weddings, Funerals, Anything: The British Columbian
Demographic Narrative 
3 The West We Have Lost: First Nations Depopulation 
4 Girl Meets Boys: Sex Ratios and Nuptiality 
5 Ahead By A Century: Fertility 
6 Strangers in Paradise: Immigration and the Experience
of Diversity 
7 The Mourning After: Mortality 
8 The British Columbia Clearances: Some Conclusions
Appendices
A Leading Settlements/Towns/Cities, BC, 1871-1951 
B Total Population, BC, 1867-2006  
C Age and Sex Distributions, BC, 1891-2001 
D Infant Mortality Rates, BC, 1922-2002 
Notes; Suggested Reading; Index
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First Nations Studies
Hamar Foster is a professor
of law at the University of
Victoria. Benjamin L. Berger
is an assistant professor of law
at the University of Victoria.
A.R. Buck is a professor of law
and Co-Director of the Centre
for Comparative Law, History
and Governance at Macquarie
University, Australia
2008
416 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1491-1 hc $85.00
978-0-7748-1492-8 pb $34.95
Law and Society Series
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The Grand Experiment
Law and Legal Culture in British Settler
Societies
Edited by Hamar Foster, Benjamin L. Berger, and
A. R. Buck
Table of Contents
Introduction: Does Law Matter? The New Colonial Legal
History / Benjamin L. Berger, Hamar Foster, and A.R.
Buck
Part 1: Authority at the Boundaries of Empire
1 Libel and the Colonial Administration of Justice in Upper
Canada and New South Wales, c. 1825-30 / Barry
Wright
2 The Limits of Despotic Government at Sea / Bruce
Kercher
3 One Chief, Two Chiefs, Red Chiefs, Blue Chiefs:
Newcomer Perspectives on Indigenous Leadership in
Rupert’s Land and the North-West Territories / Janna
Promislow
4 Rhetoric, Reason, and the Rule of Law in Early Colonial
New South Wales / Ian Holloway, Simon Bronitt, and
John Williams
5 Sometimes Persuasive Authority: Dominion Case Law
and English Judges, 1895-1970 / Jeremy Finn
Part 2: Courts and Judges in the Colonies
6 Courts, Communities, and Communication: The Nova
Scotia Supreme Court on Circuit, 1816-50 / Jim Phillips
and Philip Girard
7 Fame and Infamy: Two Men of the Law in Colonial New
Zealand / David V. Williams
8 Moving in an “Eccentric Orbit”: The Independence of
Judge Algernon Sidney Montagu in Van Diemen’s Land,
1833-47 / Stefan Petrow
9 “Not in Keeping with the Traditions of the Cariboo
Courts”: Courts and Community Identity in Northeastern
British Columbia, 1920-50 / Jonathan Swainger
Part 3: Property, Politics, and Petitions in Colonial Law
10 Starkie’s Adventures in North America: The Emergence
of Libel Law / Lyndsay M. Campbell
11 The Law of Dower in New South Wales and the United
States: A Study in Comparative Legal History / A.R. Buck
and Nancy E. Wright
12 Contesting Prohibition and the Constitution in 1850s
New Brunswick / Greg Marquis
13 From Humble Prayers to Legal Demands: The Cowichan
Petition of 1909 and the British Columbia Indian Land
Question / Hamar Foster and Benjamin L. Berger
Afterword: Looking from the Past into the Future / John P.S.
McLaren
Notes; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index
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First Nations Studies
Susan D. Dion is an associate
professor in the Faculty of
Education at York University.
2008
252 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1517-8 hc $85.00
978-0-7748-1518-5 pb $32.95
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Braiding Histories
Learning from Aboriginal Peoples’
Experiences and Perspectives
Susan D. Dion
This book proposes a new pedagogy for addressing
Aboriginal subject material, shifting the focus
from an essentializing or “othering” exploration of
the attributes of Aboriginal peoples to a focus on
historical experiences that inform our understanding
of contemporary relationships between Aboriginal
and non-Aboriginal peoples.
Reflecting on the process of writing a series of
stories, Dion takes up questions of (re)presenting the
lived experiences of Aboriginal people in the service
of pedagogy. Investigating what happened when
the stories were taken up in history classrooms, she
illustrates how our investments in particular identities
structure how we hear and what we are “willing to
know.”
Braiding Histories illuminates the challenges of
speaking/listening and writing/reading across cultural
boundaries as an Aboriginal person to communicate
Aboriginal experience through education. It will be
useful to teachers and students of educational and
Native studies and will appeal to readers seeking a
better understanding of colonialism and Aboriginal–
non-Aboriginal relations.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Historical Amnesia and the Discourse of the Romantic,
Mythical Other
2 Listen Again and I’ll (Re)tell You a Story
3 Listening – But What Is Being Heard?
4 The Braiding Histories Project
5 “Her Solitary Place”: Teaching and Learning from
Shanawdithit’s Story
6 “We Wanted to Hear Your Stories”: Teaching and
Learning from Audrey’s Story
7 Disrupting Moulded Images
Appendix A: The Braiding Histories Stories as Distributed for
Classroom Use
Appendix B: Initial Teacher Interview Questions
Appendix C: Planning-Session Agendas and Discussion
Questions
Notes; References; Index
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First Nations Studies
George Lang is Dean of Arts
at the University of Ottawa and
president of the Association des
facultés et établissements de
lettres et de sciences humaines
(AFELSH).
2008
216 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1526-0 hc $85.00
978-0-7748-1527-7 pb $29.95
First Nations Languages
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Making Wawa
The Genesis of Chinook Jargon
George Lang
A two-edged sword of reconciliation and betrayal,
Chinook Jargon (aka Wawa) arose at the interface
of “Indian” and “White” societies in the Pacific
Northwest. Wawa’s sources lie first in the language
of the Chinookans who lived along the lower
Columbia River, but also with the Nootkans of the
outer coast of Vancouver Island. With the arrival of
the fur trade, the French of the engagés or voyageurs
provided additional vocabulary and a set of viable
cultural practices, a key element of which was
marital bonding with Indian and métisse women.
These women and their children were the first fluent
speakers of Wawa.
After several decades of contact, ensuing epidemics
brought demographic collapse to the Chinookans.
Within another decade the region was radically
transformed by the Oregon Trail. Wawa had acquired
its present shape, but lost its homeland. It became a
diaspora language in which many communities seek
some trace of their past. A previously unpublished
glossary of Wawa circa 1825 is included as an
appendix to this volume.
Making Wawa will attract the attention of linguists,
especially those involved in contact linguistics and
the languages of the Pacific Northwest. It will also
interest historians and other scholars interested in
Native and gender studies, cross-cultural conflict,
and transculturation.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Orthography
Introduction
1 The Nootka Jargon
2 Pidgin Chinook
3 Approximations at Astoria
4 The Hothouse of Fort Vancouver
5 Waves of Wawa
Conclusion
Appendix – Manuscript 195: A partially Annotated Early
Glossary of Chinook Jargon
Chronology; Notes; References; Index
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First Nations Studies
Niobe Thompson is a
documentary filmmaker, a
partner in Clearwater Media,
and a research associate at
the Canadian Circumpolar
Institute. He also teaches in the
Department of Anthropology at
the University of Alberta.
2008
316 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1467-6 hc $85.00
978-0-7748-1468-3 pb $32.95
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Settlers on the Edge
Identity and Modernization on Russia’s Arctic
Frontier
Niobe Thompson
Settlers on the Edge: Identity and Modernization
on Russia’s Arctic Frontier is a description of the
political, social and psychological factors that
accompanied this revolution. It is also a fascinating
historical account of Soviet society, and of the chaos
of the 1990s resulting from the collapse of Soviet
power, as seen from the most remote region of the
Soviet Union ... This is an important story telling how
a contemporary people dealt with events beyond
their experience and control.
– Robert McGhee, Literary Review of Canada,
Vol.16, No.10, December 2008
Deeply researched and eloquently written, Settlers
on the Edge shines light onto hitherto unexplored
territory in the literature of the Arctic, namely the
tortured birth and mercurial fortunes of Russia’s
large arctic settler population. Thompson reveals
how the orphan children of a grand Soviet project to
“civilize” the North wrought from their post-Soviet
misfortunes a new sense of themselves. The picture
that emerges – of a people of the arctic landscape –
makes an important and long-overdue contribution to
our understanding of who belongs in the North.
– Farley Mowat
Table of Contents
Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Part 1: The Soviet Years, 1955-91
2 Northern Settlement and the Late-Soviet State
3 Arctic Idyll: Living in Soviet Chukotka
Part 2: Transition to Crisis, 1991-2000
4 Idyll Destroyed
5 Surviving without the State
Part 3: Reconstruction, 2001-5
6 Modernization Again: The State Returns
7 Two Solitudes
8 Conclusion: Practices of Belonging
9 Afterword
Appendix 1: List of Informants
Appendix 2: Glossary of Russian Terms
Notes; References; Index
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First Nations Studies
Multicultural Education Policies
in Canada and the United States
Edited by Reva Joshee and
Lauri Johnson
Winner, 2008
Critics’ Choice
Award, American
Educational Studies
Association
This is an
enormously
important book,
highly original
and provocative.
The scholarship is
impeccable and
the entire volume is artfully constructed.
It should serve as standard fare in any
educational policy library for many years.
– Catherine A. Lugg, author of Kitsch:
From Education to Public Policy
After reading this book, we have a better
understanding of how multicultural
education policies and racist practices
in educational institutions and society
in Canada and the US have historically
become a strong and invisible barrier to
minority groups in these countries.
– Ranilce Guimaraes-Iosif, Journal of
Contemporary Issues in Education 3,
2008
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction
Part 1: Historical Context
Part 2: First Nations and American Indian
Education
Part 3: Immigrant and Language Education
Part 4: Race-Based Policies
Part 5: Employment Equity and Affirmative
Action
Part 6: Extending the Dialogue
List of Contributors; Index
2007, 288 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1326-6 PB $32.95
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Reshaping the University
Responsibility, Indigenous
Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift
Rauna Kuokkanen
Kuokkanen is fierce
and unflinching in
her arguments, and
her documentation
and bibliography are
flawless; her ideas
are powerful and
necessary. When
she speaks of her
own experience
and uses her own
homescape of the
Deatnu River to
articulate the paradox of an indigenous
scholar, she is...poetic and compelling.
– Kathleen Osgood Dana, University of
the Arctic, BÁIKI: The International Sámi
Journal, Spring 2008
A timely, thorough, and original
interrogation of academic practices,
Reshaping the University advocates a
radical shift in the approach to cultural
conflicts within the academy and proposes
a new logic, grounded in principles central
to indigenous philosophies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Preface
Introduction
1 The Gift
2 From Cultural Conflicts to Epistemic
Ignorance
3 The Question of Speaking and the
Impossibility of the Gift
4 Knowing the “Other” and “Learning to
Learn”
5 Hospitality and the Logic of the Gift in the
Academy
Conclusion
Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
2007, 168 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1357-0 PB $32.95
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First Nations Studies

Supporting Indigenous Indigenous Storywork

Children’s Development Educating the Heart, Mind, Body,
Community-University Partnerships and Spirit
Alan R. Pence and Jessica Ball Jo-Ann Archibald

Supporting [The] author’s

Indigenous self-reflection on
Children’s the multiple roles
Development she balanced as
describes a unique a researcher is
approach to appreciated, and
curriculum ... that her text serves
creates community- as an excellent
based, face-to-face testimonial for
learning to meet the the efficacy
needs and interests and successes
of the community of researchers
while advancing post-secondary education working collaboratively with indigenous
credentials. communities.
– Judith L. Evans, UNICEF Consultant on - M.A. Rinehart, Valdosta State University,
Early Childhood Care and Development Choice 46

Table of Contents
Preface; Acknowledgments
1 Turning the World Upside Down
2 Harnessing the Potential of Partnership
3 Co-Constructing Curriculum from the
Inside Out
4 Sitting Backwards at Our Desks
5 Grounding Learning in the Heart of
Communities
6 Transforming Knowledge through Trust and
Respect
7 Asserting the Power of Not Knowing
8 Supporting Children and Families with
Sustained Community Transformations
References; Index
2006, 152 pages, 6 x 9”
978-0-7748-1231-3 pb $32.95
Archibald’s research studies how people,
including herself, live with their stories;
moreover, how people can live well
with their stories ... Here, stories are not
material for analysis; they are not folklore
with its implication of museum culture, and
they are certainly not ‘data.’ Stories take
on their own life and become teachers ....
In her spiraling, iterative style, Archibald
gets as close as any book I have found to
a truly narrative pedagogy, as opposed to a
pedagogy of narrative.
- Arthur W. Frank, University of Calgary,
Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol.33,
No. 3
Table of Contents
Preface
1 The Journey Begins
2 Coyote Searching for the Bone Needle
3 Learning about Storywork from Sto:lo Elders
4 The Power of Stories for Educating the Heart
5 Storywork in Action
6 Storywork Pedagogy
7 A Give-Away
Notes; References; Index

2008, 192 pages, 6 x 9”

978-0-7748-1402-7 PB $29.95

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First Nations Studies

The Culture of Hunting in Do Glaciers Listen?

Canada Local Knowledge, Colonial
Edited by Jean Manore and Dale Miner Encounters, and Social Imagination
Julie Cruikshank

Table of Contents Winner, 2005 K.D.

Part 1: Hunting and
Identity
1 Why I Hunt / Leigh
Clarke
2 Learning to
Hunt at the Age of
Twenty-Seven: A
New Hunter’s Views
on Hunting / Jason E.
McCutcheon
3 Hunting with Dad /
Robert Sopuck
4 Hunting Stories / Peter Kulchyski
5 The Empire’s Eden: British Hunters, Travel
Writing, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-
Century Canada / Greg Gillespie
6 Powers of Liveness: Reading Hornaday’s
Camp-Fires / Mark Simpson
Part 2: Hunting and Conservation in History
7 Views of a Swampy-Cree Elder on the
Spiritual Relationship between Hunters and
Animals / Louis Bird and Roland Bohr
8 ‘When the Need for It No Longer Existed’:
Declining Wildlife and Native Hunting Rights
in Ontario, 1791-1898 / David Calverley
9 Contested Terrains of Space and Place:
Hunting and the Landscape Known as
Algonquin Park, 1890-1950 / Jean L. Manore
10 The Sinews of Their Lives: First Nations’
Access to Resources in the Yukon,
1890-1950 / Kenneth Coates
11 The Canadian Wildlife Service: Enforcing
Federal Wildlife Regulations / J. Alexander
Burnett
Part 3: Hunting and Contemporary Challenges
12 Aboriginal Peoples and Their Historic Right to
Hunt: A Reasonable Symbiotic Relationship /
Bruce W. Hodgins
13 Personal Expression as Exemplified by
Hunting: One Man’s View / Edward Reid
14 Gun Control in Canada / Simon Wallace
15 A Hunter’s Perspective on Gun Control in
Canada / Dale Miner
16 The Activists Move West: Recent
Experiences in Manitoba / Tim Sopuck
17 Fair Chase: To Where Does It Lead? /
Edward Hanna
Srivastava
Prize for
Excellence
in Scholarly
Publishing,
UBC Press
Winner, 2007
Clio Award
- Northern
Region,
Canadian Historical
Association
Winner, 2006 Victor Turner Prize in
Ethnographic Writing, Society for
Humanistic Anthropology
Winner, 2006 Julian Steward Award,
American Anthropological Association
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Stubborn Particularities of
Voice
Part 1: Matters of Locality
1 Memories of the Little Ice Age
2 Constructing Life Stories: Glaciers as Social
Spaces
3 Listening for Different Stories
Part 2: Practices of Exploration
4 Two Centuries of Stories from Lituya Bay:
Nature, Culture, and La Pérouse
5 Bringing Icy Regions Home: John Muir in
Alaska
6 Edward James Glave, the Alsek, and the
Congo
Part 3: Scientific Research in Sentient Places
7 Mapping Boundaries: From Stories to
Borders
8 Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Witsuwit’en Grammar Musqueam Reference Grammar

Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology Wayne Suttles
Sharon Hargus

Table of Contents Table of Contents

Author’s note; Preface ;Introduction
Abbreviations; 1 Phonology
Acknowledgements 2 Synopsis of
Part 1: Language and Morphology
dialect 3 Syntax (1): Simple
1 Witsuwit’en Sentences
Part 2: Segmental 4 Syntax (2):
phonetics and Complex Sentences
phonology 5 Syntax (3):
2 Consonant Compound Sentences
contrasts 6 Syntax (4):
3 Consonant Negation
phonetics 7 Morphology of the
4 Vowel quality Root (1): The Verb
5 Vowel quantity 8 Morphology of the Root (2): The Noun [to be
6 Consonant and vowel classes redone]
Part 3: Morphology and phonological structure 9 Morphology of the Root (3): Adjectives and
7 Nouns Adjective-like Words
8 Postpositions 10 Non-Personal Affixes (1): Voice
9 Directional system 11 Non-Personal Affixes (2): Aspectual and
10 Adjectives Modal Affixes
11 Numbers 12 Non-Personal Affixes (3): Derivational
12 Overview of verb structure Affixes
13 Verb roots 13 Non-Personal Affixes (4): Lexical Suffixes
14 Verb prefix position classes 14 The Person System
15 Aspectual verb suffixation 15 The Demonstrative System
16 Verb theme categories 16 Predicate Particles and Tags
17 Inflectionally defective verbs 17 Interrogative Words
18 Phonological domains 18 Adverbs and Adverbial and Modal Words and
Part 4: Suprasegmental phonology Phrases
19 Syllables 19 Numerals
20 Stress 20 Exclamations and Interjections
Part 5: Prefix case studies 21 Kinship Terms
22 First person plural subject prefix 22 Space and Time
23 Areal prefix 23 Sample Texts
Part 6: Conclusion Appendix 1. Index of Grammatical Elements
25 Witsuwit’en in comparative and theoretical Appendix 2. Names of Places and Peoples
perspective Appendix 3. A History of Work on Halkomelem
Appendices Bibliography; Index
26 Historical phonology
27 Writing systems for Witsuwit’en-Babine 2004, 632 pages, 6 x 9”
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29 Texts
References;Index First Nations Languages Series

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When I  Was Small – I  Wan
Kwikws
A Grammatical Analysis of St’át’imc
Oral Narratives
Edited by Lisa Matthewson
Collected in this
book are the
personal life
histories of four
female St’át’imc
elders. Theyr
are among the
last remaining
fluent speakers
of St’át’imcets, a
severely imperilled
Northern Interior
Salish language, also known as Lillooet and
spoken in the southwest interior of British
Columbia. Their stories are presented
in the original St’át’imcets as well as in
English translation. These texts are among
the longest oral narratives of the Salish
language to be grammatically analyzed.
They provide first-hand accounts of what
it was like to be a female child growing up
in the 1930s and ‘40s both within St’át’imc
communities and in residential schools.
Important historical information is woven
into the stories – about events in the
Lillooet area, the traditional St’át’imc way
of life, and the consequences of contact
with Western culture.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Overview and goals; The St’át’imc; The story-
tellers; The St’át’imc language; Methodology
Orthographical issues; Morphological issues;
Use of English in the stories;Idiolectal
variations; Related literature
2 Beverley Frank’s story
3 Gertrude Ned’s story
4 Laura Thevarge’s story
5 Rose Agnes Whitley’s story
Notes; References; Index
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The Lillooet Language
Phonology, Morphology, Syntax
Jan Van Eijk
... does an excellent
job of describing
Lillooet grammar
in a compact,
informative, and
intelligible manner;
it should be read
by anyone with
an interest in
the languages
of northwestern
North America,
and is also well worth perusal by linguists
specializing in other areas .... this attractive
and well-produced volume is a valuable
addition to the literature on Salish
languages.
– Anthropological Linguistics
This book is the first complete descriptive
grammar of Lillooet, an indigenous
Canadian language spoken in British
Columbia, now threatened with extinction.
The author discusses three major aspects
of the language – sound system, word
structure, and syntax – in great detail. Jan
Van Eijk explains terms and procedures in
order to make the book accessible not only
to the advanced linguist, but also to the
undergraduate student with basic linguistic
training. Written with great clarity, and
well organized, the book is illustrated with
copious examples drawn from many years
of fieldwork in St’át’imc territory.
Table of Contents
Preface; Introduction; Symbols and abbreviations
Part 1: Phonology Chart of phonemes
Part 2: Morphology Chart of morphological
operations
Part 3: Syntax
Comparison of Lillooet Orthographies; Bibliography
1997, 300 pages, 6 x 9”
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First Nations Studies

Nunavut Navigating Neoliberalism

Rethinking Political Culture Self-Determination and the Mikisew
Ailsa Henderson Cree First Nation
Gabrielle Slowey

Ailsa Henderson’s Ms. Slowey

Nunavut: presents a highly
Rethinking thought-provoking
Political Culture treatise on the
is an exemplary development of
work asking the self governance
question of how for First Nations
well a population peoples and it
with set attitudes will certainly be
and behaviours a useful resource
copes with for all aboriginals
having institutions in their search
foisted upon them over a short period for a desirable and workable solution to
of time ... For those interested in their demand for justice. Lawyers working
the political life of Canada’s Arctic through the land claims process towards
population, decentralisation, and the indigenous governance will find this to be a
interconnectedness of institutional design valuable text.
and political behavior, Ailsa Henderson’s - Ronald F. MacIsaac, Verdict 118,
Nunavut: Rethinking Political Culture is a September 2008
worthy addition to the bookshelf.
What happens to a First Nation after the
- Thomas J. Scotto, British Journal of
successful negotiation of a land claim?
Canadian Studies 21, Autumn 2008
In Navigating Neoliberalism, Gabrielle
Table of Contents Slowey argues that neoliberalism, which
Tables and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; drives government policy concerning
Abbreviations
First Nations in Canada, can also drive
1 Introduction
2 Politics in Nunavut self-determination. And in a globalizing
3 Inuit Political Culture world, new opportunities for indigenous
4 Political Integration in the Eastern Arctic governance may transform socioeconomic
5 Institutional Design in the Eastern Arctic well-being.
6 Consensus Politics
7 Political Participation in Nunavut Table of Contents
8 Ideological Diversity in Nunavut Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction;
9 Transforming Political Culture in Nunavut Abbreviations
10 Cultural Pluralism and Political Culture 1 Meeting Mikisew
Appendix; Notes; References; Index 2 Neoliberalism Now
3 Searching for Self-Determination
4 The Politics of Change
2007, 272 pages, 6 x 9” 5 The Economics of Change
978-0-7748-1424-9 PB $29.95 6 Transforming First Nations Governance
Notes; References; Index

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First Nations Studies

Be of Good Mind Myth and Memory

Essays on the Coast Salish Stories of Indigenous-European
Edited by Bruce Granville Miller Contact
Edited by John Sutton Lutz

Be of Good Mind This convincing

is a remarkable and solid collection
volume ... The encourages
theoretical assessment and
engagement of reassessment of
many of the authors contact narratives
makes this book .... Ten scholars
important not only from various fields,
for those working including history,
with the Coast anthropology,
Salish, but for linguistics, and
anthropologists literature, engage
wishing to critically engage with in this informative work ... Lutz’s extensive
Indigenous groups in Canada and beyond. insight regarding native and newcomer
– Kisha Supernant, University of British relations provides a solid basis for editorial
Columbia, Canadian Journal of expertise of this compendium.
Archaeology 32, 2008 – Corinne George, Simon Fraser
University, H-Canada
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Introduction Table of Contents
1 Coast Salish History Acknowledgments
2 The Not So Common Introduction. Myth Understandings: First
3 We have to Take Care of Everything That Contact, Over and Over Again
Belongs to Us 1 Close Encounters of the First Kind
4 To Honour our Ancestors We Become Visible 2 First Contact as a Spiritual Performance:
Again Encounters on the North American West
5 Toward an Indigenous Historiography: Coast
Events, Migrations, and the Formation 3 Reflections on Indigenous History and
of ‘Post-Contact’ Coast Salish Collective Memory: Reconstructing and Reconsidering
Identities Contact
6 “I can lift her up ...”: Fred Ewen’s Narrative 4 Poking Fun? Humour and Power in Kaska
Complexity Contact Narratives
7 Language Revival Programs of the Nooksack 5 Herbert Spencer, Paul Kane, and the Making
Tribe and the Stó:lo Nation of “The Chinook”
8 Stó:lo Identity and the Cultural Landscape of 6 Performing Paradox: Narrativity and the Lost
S’ólh Téméxw Colony of Roanoke
9 Conceptions of Coast Salish warfare, 7 Stories at the Margins: Toward a More
or Coast Salish Pacifism Reconsidered: Inclusive Historiography
Archaeology, History, and Ethnography 8 When the White Kawau Flies
10 Consuming the Recent for Constructing the 9 The Interpreter as Contact Point: Avoiding
Ancient: The Role of Ethnography in Coast Collisions in Tlingit America
Salish Archaeological Interpretation Notes; Bibliography; Contributors 
Contributors; Index
2007, 256 pages, 6 x 9”
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First Nations Studies

Kiumajut (Talking Back) At the Far Reaches of Empire

Game Management and Inuit The Life of Juan Francisco de la
Rights, 1950-70 Bodega y Quadra
Peter Kulchyski and Frank James Tester Freeman M. Tovell

Kulchyski and This new study by

Tester offer Freeman Tovell,
a welcome by reason of its
re-analysis of broad coverage,
the events and meticulous
consequences research, and
surrounding balanced approach,
Canadian policy will become an
and practice with indispensable tool
regard to Inuit, for any scholar
particularly through interested in this
the mechanism topic ... Taken as a
of game management. The book should whole, Freeman Tovell’s work is a notable
stimulate discussion, reaction, and further addition to the history of British Columbia.
research and interpretation of crucial events - Roderick J. Barman, BC Studies
in Canadian and Arctic history ... They have
Table of Contents
taken on a vast swath of northern history,
1 Beginnings
immersed themselves in the available Part I: The Explorer 
material, and emerged with a compelling 2 The 1775 Voyage on the Sonora
account of how relations between a 3 Preparations for the 1779 Voyage
modern state and a hunting society were 4 The 1779 Voyage
bungled with lasting consequences. 5 Away from the North Pacific
- Henry P. Huntington, Arctic, March 2008 Part II: The Commandant 
6 The Nootka Crisis and the Spanish Response
Table of Contents 7 The Administration of San Blas de Nayarit
List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction Part III: The Diplomat 
Part 1: Managing the Game 8 The Nootka Convention and the Expedition
1 Trapping and Trading: The Regulation of Inuit of the Limits
Hunting Prior to World War II 9 Bodega at Nootka
2 Sagluniit (“Lies”): Manufacturing a Caribou 10 The Commissioners’ Negotiations at Nootka
Crisis 11 Leaving Nootka
3 Sugsaunngittugulli (“We Are Useless”): 12 Results and Consequences of the Expedition
Surveying the Animals of the Limits
4 Who Counts? Challenging Science and the 13 Endings
Law Appendixes
Part 2: Talking Back A Bodega’s Secret Instructions to Eliza for the
5 Inuit Rights and Government Policy Reoccupation of Nootka
6 Baker Lake, 1957: The Eskimo Council B Revillagigedo’s Instructions to Bodega for
7 Inuit Petition for Their Rights the Expedition of the Limits
Conclusion: Contested Ground C History and Description of Bodega’s Viaje: The
Notes; Bibliography; Index Official Report of the Expedition of the Limits
D Biographical Notes
2007, 304 pages, 6 x 9” E Rank Structure of the Spanish Navy
978-0-7748-1242-9 PB $32.95 Glossary; Chronology; Abbreviations; Notes;
Bibliography; Index

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First Nations Studies

Let Right Be Done New Histories for Old

Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, Changing Perspectives on Canada’s
and the Future of Indigenous Rights Native Pasts
Edited by Hamar Foster, Heather Raven, Edited by Ted Binnema and Susan
and Jeremy Webber Neylan

Table of Contents Table of Contents

1 The Calder Maps
Decision, Aboriginal Introduction / Ted
Title, Treaties, and Binnema and Susan
the Nisga’a / Christina Neylan
Godlewska and 1 Arthur J. Ray
Jeremy Webber and the Writing of
Part 1: Reflections Aboriginal History /
of the Calder Ted Binnema and
Participants Susan Neylan
2 Frank Calder and 2 Rupert’s Land,
Thomas Berger: A Nituskeenan, Our
Conversation Land: Cree and
3 Reminiscences of English Naming and
Aboriginal Rights at the Time of the Calder Claiming around the Dirty Sea / Jennifer S.H.
Case and Its Aftermath / Honourable Gérard Brown
V. La Forest 3 Echo of the Crane: Tracing Anishnawbek and
Part 2: Historical Background Metis Title to Bawating (Sault Ste. Marie) /
4 We Are Not O’Meara’s Children: Law, Victor P. Lytwyn
Lawyers and the First Campaign for 4 Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution
Aboriginal Title in British Columbia, 1909–28 of Indian Treaty Making / J.R. Miller
/ Hamar Foster 5 Smallpox along the Frontier of the Plains
5 Then Fight for It: William Lewis Paul and Borderlands at the Turn of the Twentieth
Alaska Native Land Claims / Stephen Haycox Century / Jody Decker
Part 3: Calder and Its Implications 6 Mapping the New El Dorado: The Fraser
6 Calder and the Representation of Indigenous River Gold Rush and the Appropriation of
Society in Canadian Jurisprudence / Michael Native Space / Daniel Marshall
Asch 7 Innovation, Tradition, Colonialism, and
7 What Are Aboriginal Rights? / Brian Slattery Aboriginal Fishing Conflicts in the Lower
8 Judicial Approaches to Self-Government Fraser Canyon / Keith Thor Carlson
since Calder: Searching for Doctrinal 8 Meanings of Mobility on the Northwest
Coherence / Kent McNeil Coast / Paige Raibmon
Part 4: International Impact 9 “Choose Your Flag”: Perspectives on the
9 Customary Rights and Crown Claims: Calder Tsimshian Migration from Metlakatla, British
and Aboriginal Title in Aotearoa New Zealand Columbia, to New Metlakatla, Alaska, 1887 /
/ David V. Williams Susan Neylan
10 The Influence of Canadian and International 10 Gitxsan Law and Settler Disorder: The
Law on the Evolution of Australian Aboriginal Skeena “Uprising” of 1888 / R.M. Galois
Title / Garth Nettheim 11 Arthur J. Ray and the Empirical Opportunity /
Part 5: The Future Cole Harris
11 Let Obligations Be Done / John Borrows Contributors; Index
12 Closing Thoughts: Final Remarks from Iona
Campagnolo, Lance Finch, Joseph Gosnell, 2007, 304 pages, 6 x 9”
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The First Nations of British The Ermatingers

Columbia, 2nd edition A 19th-Century Ojibwa-Canadian
An Anthropological Survey Family
Robert J. Muckle W. Brian Stewart

The First Nations of In about 1800,

British Columbia, fur trader Charles
2nd edition, Ermatinger married
is a concise an Obijwa woman,
and accessible Mananowe. Their
overview of First three sons grew
Nations peoples, up with both their
cultures, and issues mother’s hunter/
in the province. This warrior culture
revised edition: and their father’s
• Updates European culture.
names, suggested As adults, they
readings, maps, and photographs lived adventurously
• Explains the current treaty negotiation in Montreal and St Thomas, where they
process were accepted and loved by fellow citizens
• Provides highlights of agreements while publicly retaining their Ojibwa
between First Nations and heritage. The Ermatingers is an exciting
governments up to the present story that contributes to our understanding
• Details past and present government of Indian and European biculturalism and
policies its effects on those who make up the
• Identifies the territories of major groups various forms of Métis society today.
in the province
Table of Contents
• Gives information on populations, Figures; Acknowledgments
reserves, bands, and language groups Introduction
• Summarizes archaeological, 1 The Urban Canadian Grandparents
ethnographic, historical, legal, and 2 The Upper Country Ojibwa Grandparent
political issues. 3 Charles Sr’s Fur Trade Career
4 Charles and Charlotte in Montreal
Table of Contents 5 A Wild Man’s Land and a World of Virgil
Maps and Illustrations 6 Farmer and Cavalry Man: Charles Jr
Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the 7 Ojibwa Chief and Montreal Policeman:
Second Edition Charles Jr
Part 1: First Nations Defined 8 Soldier, Clerk, and a Last Adventure: James
Part 2: Archaeology and First Peoples 9 Dandy Turned Hero: William
Part 3: Ethnology and Traditional Lifeways 10 Suppressing Riots in Montreal: William
Part 4: First Nations in Recent and 11 Murder, Militia, and Military Intelligence:
Contemporary Times William
Appendices 12 The Ermatinger Women
1 The First Nations of British Columbia 13 A Lost Past, a Future Unattained
2 Major Ethnic Groups Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
3 Excerpts from the Royal Proclamation, 1763
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The Archive of Place Despotic Dominion

Unearthing the Pasts of the Property Rights in British Settler
Chilcotin Plateau Societies
William Turkel John McLaren, A.R. Buck, and Nancy E.
Wright

2007, 304 pages, 6 x 9” 2005, 326 pages, 6 x 9”

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Nature | History | Law and Society

Society series

Creating a Modern Countryside First Nations Sacred Sites in

Liberalism and Land Resettlement Canada’s Courts
in British Columbia Michael Lee Ross
James Murton

2007, 256 pages, 6 x 9” 2005, 248 pages, 6 x 9”

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Switchbacks Indigenous Legal Traditions

Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk Edited by Law Commission of Canada
National Identity
Jennifer Kramer

2006, 168 pages, 6 x 9” 2007, 304 pages, 6 x 9”

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Unsettling Encounters Contact Zones

First Nations Imagery in the Art of Aboriginal and Settler Women in
Emily Carr Canada’s Colonial Past
Gerta Moray Edited by Myra Rutherdale and Katie
Pickles
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Tales of Ghosts Good Intentions Gone Awry

First Nations Art in British Columbia, Emma Crosby and the Methodist
1922–61 Mission on the Northwest Coast
Ronald W. Hawker Jan Hare and Jean Barman

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Northern Exposures Women and the White Man’s God

Photographing and Filming the Gender and Race in the Canadian
Canadian North, 1920–45 Mission Field
Peter Geller Myra Rutherdale

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Hunters and Bureaucrats “Real” Indians and Others

Power, Knowledge, and
Aboriginal-State Relations
in the Southwest Yukon
Paul Nadasdy
2003, 328 pages, 6 x 9”
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Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples
and Indigenous Nationhood
Bonita Lawrence
2004, 328 pages, 6 x 9”
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With Good Intentions Game in the Garden

Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal A Human History of Wildlife in
Relations in Colonial Canada Western Canada to 1940
Edited by Celia Haig-Brown and David George Colpitts
A. Nock

2006, 368 pages, 6 x 9” 2002, 216 pages, 6 x 9”

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Our Box Was Full Tsawalk

An Ethnography for the A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview
Delgamuukw Plaintiffs E. Richard Atleo
Richard Daly
2004, 384 pages, 6 x 9” 2004, 168 pages, 6 x 9”
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Shifting Boundaries Intercultural Dispute Resolution

Aboriginal Identity, Pluralist Theory, in Aboriginal Contexts
and the Politics of Self-Government Edited by Catherine Bell and David
Tim Schouls Kahane

2003, 240 pages, 6 x 9” 2004, 392 pages, 6 x 9”

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Aboriginal Autonomy and

Reclaiming Indigenous Voice
Development in Northern
and Vision
Quebec and Labrador
Marie Battiste
Edited by Colin Scott

2000, 314 pages, 6 x 9” 2001, 448 pages, 6 x 9”

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CCF Colonialism in Northern Aboriginal Conditions

Saskatchewan Research As a Foundation for Public
Battling Parish Priests, Bootleggers, Policy
and Fur Sharks Edited by Jerry P. White, Paul S. Maxim,
David Quiring and Dan Beavon

2004, 376 pages, 6 x 9” 2003, 288 pages, 6 x 9”

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Battle Grounds The Red Man’s on the Warpath

The Canadian Military and The Image of the “Indian” and the
Aboriginal Lands Second World War
P. Whitney Lackenbauer R. Scott Sheffield

2006, 368 pages, 6 x 9” 2004, 240 pages, 6 x 9”

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Studies in Canadian
Military History

Journey to the Ice Age

Ancient People of the Arctic Discovering an Ancient World
Robert McGhee Peter L. Storck

2001, 244 pages, 6 x 9” 2004, 376 pages, 6 x 9”

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Haida Gwaii Emerging from the Mist

Human History and Environment
Studies in Northwest Coast Culture
from the Time of Loon to the
History
Time of the Iron People
Edited by Quentin Mackie, Gary
Edited by Daryl W. Fedje and
Coupland, and R.G. Matson
Rolf W. Mathewes
2005, 448 pages, 6 x 9” 2003, 336 pages, 6 x 9”
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Between Justice and Certainty Protecting Aboriginal Children

Treaty Making in British Columbia Chris Walmsley
Andrew Woolford

2005, 248 pages, 6 x 9” 2005, 192 pages, 6 x 9”

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Community Mental Health in Aboriginal Education

Canada Fulfilling the Promise
Policy, Theory, and Practice Edited by Marlene Brant Castellano,
Simon Davis Lynne Davis, and Louise Lahache

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Aboriginal Autonomy and First Nations, First Lawrence, Bonita 37 Red Man’s on the Warpath
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Quebec and Labrador 38 First Nations Cultural Lillooet Language 29 Reid, Martine J. 40
Aboriginal Conditions 38 Heritage and Law 10 Lutz, John Sutton 9, 31 Reimer, Chad 19
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Macdougall, Brenda 1
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Mackie, Quentin 39
Ancient People of the First Nations Sacred Sites 25
Making Wawa 23
Arctic 39 in Canada’s Courts 35 Robertson, Leslie A. 40
Makúk 9
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Manore, Jean 27
Archive of Place 35 Peoples 41 Rutherdale, Myra 36
Mathewes, Rolf W. 39
Atleo, E. Richard 37 Food Plants of Interior First
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Matthewson, Lisa 29 Schouls, Tim 38
Empire 32 Foster, Hamar 21, 33
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Ball, Jessica 26 Game in the Garden 37 Maxim, Paul S. 38 Settlers on the Edge 24
Barman, Jean 36 Geller, Peter 36 McGhee, Robert 39 Sewid-Smith, Daisy 40
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Battle Grounds 39 Good Intentions Gone McLaren, John 35 Shifting Boundaries 38
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Becoming British Columbia Grand Experiment 21 Miller, Bruce Granville 31 Slowey, Gabrielle 30
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Haida Gwaii 39
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Haig-Brown, Celia 37
Foreign Land 17 Muckle, Robert J. 34 Storck, Peter L. 39
Haluza-DeLay, Randolph 4
Bell, Catherine 10, 11, 38 Multicultural Education Supporting Indigenous
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Belshaw, John Douglas 20 Policies in Canada and Children’s Development
Hargus, Sharon 28
Be of Good Mind 31 the United States 25 26
Harris, Cole 18
Berger, Benjamin L. 21 Murton, James 35 Suttles, Wayne 28
Harris, Douglas C. 12
Between Justice and Musqueam Reference Switchbacks 35
Hawker, Ronald W. 36
Certainty 40 Grammar 28
Healing Traditions 5 Tales of Ghosts 36
Binnema, Ted 33 Myth and Memory 31
Henderson, Ailsa 30 Tester, Frank James 32
Blair, Peggy 13
Home Is the Hunter 14 Nadasdy, Paul 37 Thompson, Niobe 24
Braiding Histories 22
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Buck, A.R. 21, 35
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Carlson, Hans M. 14 Hunters at the Margin 15 Blindness 16 Treaty Talks in British
Castellano, Marlene Huron-Wendat 41 Navigating Neoliberalism Columbia 7
Brant 40 30 Tsawalk 37
Imagining Difference 40
CCF Colonialism in New Histories for Old 33 Turkel, William 35
Indigenous Legal Traditions
Northern Saskatchewan Neylan, Susan 33 Turner, Nancy J. 41
35
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Indigenous Storywork 26 Unsettling Encounters 36
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Intercultural Dispute Urbanizing Frontiers 2
Colonial Proximities 8 Nunavut 30
Resolution in Aboriginal
Colpitts, George 37 Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie 5
Contexts 38 One of the Family 1
Community Mental Health Van Eijk, Jan 29
Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie 6 O’Riley, Pat 4
in Canada 40
Our Box Was Full 37 Walmsley, Chris 40
Contact Zones 36 Johnson, Lauri 25
Webber, Jeremy 33
Coupland, Gary 39 Joshee, Reva 25 Paddling to Where I
When I  Was Small – I  Wan
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Kwikws 29
Countryside 35 Paterson, Robert K. 11
Kahane, David 38 White, Jerry P. 38
Cruikshank, Julie 27 Pence, Alan R. 26
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Culture of Hunting in Pickles, Katie 36
Kirmayer, Laurence J. 5 Witsuwit’en Grammar 28
Canada 27 Plant Technology of
Kiumajut (Talking Back) 32 Women and the White
First Peoples of British
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Columbia 41
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Poulter, Gillian 17
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Lackenbauer, P. Whitney Children 40
Despotic Dominion 35 History, 1784–1958 19
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Deur, Douglas 41
Lahache, Louise 40 Cultural Heritage 11
Dion, Susan D. 22
Lament for a First Nation
Do Glaciers Listen? 27 Quiring, David 38
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Emerging from the Mist 39 12 “Real” Indians and Others
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Law Commission of Reclaiming Indigenous
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