Not only the first major publication to focus on button blankets, but also the first oral history about them and their place in the culture of the Northwest Coast.

The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education.

This autobiography traces Shrum's beginnings on a southern Ontario farm to his distinguished academic career as chancellor of Simon Fraser University, head of B.C. Hydro, Robson Square, and the Vancouver Museum.

In A Narrow Vision, Brian Titley chronicles the career of Confederation poets Duncan Campbell Scott in the Department of Indian Affairs between 1880 and 1932.

George MacDonald combines archival material and scientific and photographic evidence to record what is known of the history of Ninstints and its people.

Combining archeology and ethnohistory, this book presents an integrated framework for understanding the physical structure of a Haida village, through remarkable photographs, site plans and detailed descriptions of fifteen major villages

This collection of papers focuses on Canadian Native history since 1763 and presents an overview of official Canadian Indian policy and its effects on the Indian, Inuit, and Metis.

Poet-critic Tom Marshall examines four stages in the development of a purely Canadian tradition in poetry through a focus on the work of major poets writing in English from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Set against the background of Canada's twentieth century transformation from a rural and agricultural society into an urban technological nation, General Pearkes's career makes a compelling biographical study.

A unique account of the way social and economic conditions were actually felt and experienced in B.C. at the time of Confederation.