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Resettling the Range
Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia
This unconventional history looks at the resettlement of interior British Columbia from the perspective of campaigns to exterminate grasshoppers and wild horses, creatures considered by some to be pests.
2016, Winner - Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia, UBC Library
2016, Shortlisted - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, BC Book Prizes
2016, Winner - KD Srivastava Award
- Copyright year: 2015
Teaching Each Other
Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies
Drawing on Nehinuw (Cree) educational concepts, this book provides a new theoretical and practical model for teaching Indigenous students.
2015, Shortlisted - University of Saskatchewan President’s Office Non-Fiction Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Copyright year: 2014
Nationhood Interrupted
Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems
Co-founder of the international movement Idle No More, Sylvia McAdam shares nêhiyaw (Cree) laws so that future generations may understand and live by them, revitalizing Indigenous nationhood.
2016, Shortlisted - Non-Fiction Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
2016, Winner - Rasmussen, Rasmussen and Charowsky Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
2016, Winner - Regina Public Library Aboriginal Peoples’ Publishing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
2016, Shortlisted - University of Saskatchewan Non-Fiction Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
2016, Winner - Aboriginal Peoples’ Publishing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Copyright year: 2015
The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960
A history of the convergence of Western and Chinese medical practices in modern China.
2015, Shortlisted - ICAS Book Prize, International Convention of Asia Scholars
- Copyright year: 2014
“Métis”
Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
A provocative meditation on how “Métis” has come to signify an ever-expanding racial category rather than an indigenous people with a shared sense of history and culture.
2015, Winner - NAISA Best Subsequent Book Prize, NAISA
- Copyright year: 2014
Staging Corruption
Chinese Television and Politics
A study of the television dramas about government corruption that became hugely popular in the mid-1990s and their reflection of China’s post-Socialist anxieties.
2015, Long-listed - ICAS Book Prize, International Convention of Asia Scholars
- Copyright year: 2014