Native Art of the Northwest Coast
A History of Changing Ideas
A remarkable volume that makes accessible for the first time and in one place a broad selection of more than 250 years of writing on Northwest Coast Native art.
Cultivating Connections
The Making of Chinese Prairie Canada
The voices of Chinese immigrants who settled in the pre-1950s Canadian prairies come alive in this extraordinary record of migration, settlement, and community life.
Welcome to Resisterville
American Dissidents in British Columbia
A compelling, highly readable study of American migration to the West Kootenays and of the counterculture values that created a vibrant society in the Canadian wilderness.
Written as I Remember It
Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
This extraordinary book not only offers a rare glimpse into the life of a Coast Salish woman and the teachings of the Sliammon people, it also offers a fruitful model for collaborative research and life-history writing.
First Nations, Museums, Narrations
Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies
The story of the Franklin Motor Expedition that collected First Nations artifacts on the Prairies in 1929 as well as a larger study of the relationships between museums and the indigenous peoples whose heritage items they house.
This Is Our Life
Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practice
The story of a transformative visit by members of the Haida Nation to British museums housing their cultural artifacts.
A Timeless Place
The Ontario Cottage
An exploration of the personal, social, and cultural meanings of the iconic Canadian cottage.
Where Happiness Dwells
A History of the Dane-zaa First Nations
This innovative blend of oral history and anthropological commentary documents how the Dane-zaa survived and flourished for millennia in northern BC.