Aboriginal Conditions
Research As a Foundation for Public Policy
Social science researchers from both within and outside of government collaborate to examine how research can and should be used as a foundation for the development of public policy.
“Real” Indians and Others
Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood
A pioneering look at how mixed-blood urban Native people understand their identities and struggle to survive in a world that often fails to recognize them.
Paddling to Where I Stand
Agnes Alfred, Qwiqwasutinuxw Noblewoman
A first-hand account of the greatest period of change experienced by the Kwakwaka'wakw people since their first contact with Europeans.
Musqueam Reference Grammar
Perhaps the fullest account of any Salish language, this is the long-awaited grammar of the Musqueam dialect of Halkomelem which was begun in the late 1950s.
Intercultural Dispute Resolution in Aboriginal Contexts
The essays collected here provide a balanced view of alternative dispute resolution, exploring its opportunities and effectiveness alongside its challenges and limits.
Compulsory Compassion
A Critique of Restorative Justice
A multi-faceted consideration and critique of the compelling and emotionally seductive rhetoric of restorative justice.
Hunters and Bureaucrats
Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon
A timely anthropological examination of the effect of land claims settlements and co-management of resources on the Kluane First Nation of the Southwest Yukon.
Shifting Boundaries
Aboriginal Identity, Pluralist Theory, and the Politics of Self-Government
Using relational pluralism as a theoretical lens, the author takes a fresh look at the complex issue of aboriginal self-government.
Emerging from the Mist
Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History
This book brings together the most recent research on the culture history and archaeology of a region of longstanding anthropological importance, whose complex societies represent the most prominent examples of hunters and gatherers.
Tales of Ghosts
First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1922-61
An insightful examination of the complex functions of Northwest Coast art objects produced between 1922 and 1961, and a vital addition to First Nations and Canadian history.
Reclaiming Aboriginal Justice, Identity, and Community
At the heart of this timely and significant book is an alternative way of thinking about Aboriginal crime and justice.
Who are Canada's Aboriginal Peoples?
Recognition, Definition, and Jurisdiction
Timely, innovative, and progressive, this collection provides an essential frame of reference to measure the development of Aboriginal legal policy respecting recognition, definition and jurisdiction in Canada.
Women and the White Man's God
Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field
Based on diaries, letters, and mission correspondence, this is the first comprehensive examination of women’s roles in Anglican missions that were active in northern British Columbia, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940.
Making Native Space
Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
It presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in BC – the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.
Preserving What Is Valued
Museums, Conservation, and First Nations
What are the “right ways” to preserve heritage? Are the aims and purposes of museums necessarily at odds with those of First Nations? This thoughtful book explores the concept of museum conservation in light of cultural repatriation issues, and helps readers understand the complex relationship between museums and Aboriginal peoples.
The Indian Association of Alberta
A History of Political Action
Best known for its role in spearheading the protest against the infamous 1969 White Paper produced by the Department of Indian Affairs, the Indian Association of Alberta played a critical role in mobilizing First Nations peoples to political action.
Citizens Plus
Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State
Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state.
Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador
The essays in this volume illuminate key conditions for autonomy and development: the definition and redefinition of national territories as cultural orders clash and mix; control of resource bases upon which northern economies depend; and renewal and reworking of cultural identity.
An Overview of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Compensation for Their Breach
Mainville provides clear and practical principles for addressing the breach of Aboriginal and treaty rights and determining appropriate compensation.
Aboriginal Education
Fulfilling the Promise
Documents the significant gains in recent years in fulfilling this promise of education – the heart of the struggle of Aboriginal peoples to regain control over their lives as communities and nations.
In Search of Sustainability
British Columbia Forest Policy in the 1990s
A provocative, sobering examination of British Columbia's forest industry in the 1990s.
A People's Dream
Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada
In this provocative and passionate book, Dan Russell argues that Aboriginal self-government is an attainable objective best achieved through a constitutional amendment, not through treaties, as has been the preoccupation of provincial and federal governments since 1982. He claims that reliance on treaties as an instrument of self-government is misguided and doomed to failure.
Cis dideen kat – When the Plumes Rise
The Way of the Lake Babine Nation
This book, the first to be written about the Lake Babine Nation in north-central British Columbia, examines its traditional legal order, self-identity, and their involvement in current treaty negotiations.
Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision
This inspiring volume elaborates a new inclusive vision of a global and national order and articulates new approaches for protecting, healing, and restoring long-oppressed peoples, and for respecting their cultures and languages.
Potlatch at Gitsegukla
William Beynon's 1945 Field Notebooks
This rare, first-hand, ethnographic account of a potlatch from Tsimshian scholar William Benyon reveals the wonderful complexities of the events that took place in Gitsegukla in 1945.
Islands of Truth
The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island
Timely, provocative, and a vital contribution to post-colonial studies, this book questions premises underlying much of present B.C. historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences.
Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World
Increasingly, Indigenous people are being drawn into global networks. In the long term, cultural isolation is unlikely to be a viable – even if sometimes desired – option, so how can Indigenous people protect and advance their cultural values in the face of pressure from an interconnected world?
Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada's Northwest Boreal Forest
This is a handbook of more than 200 traditional plants and their usage among First Nations people in Canada's northwest boreal forest (northern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta).
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage
A Global Challenge
An international appraisal of how current legal regimes worldwide fail to protect Indigenous knowledge and what needs to change
The Burden of History
Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community
Since the Time of the Transformers
The Ancient Heritage of the Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah
This book examines over 4000 years of culture history of the related Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Makah peoples on western Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula.
Huron-Wendat
The Heritage of the Circle
In this book, Georges Sioui, who is himself Wendat, redeems the original name of his people and tells their centuries-old history by describing their social ideas and philosophy and the relevance of both to contemporary life.
Privileging the Past
Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art
This book explores intellectual issues raised by postmodern theory, supported by detailed studies of projects that will interest a boad audience of students, historians, museum-goers, and those intrigued by Native American art and cultural history.
Pacific Empires
Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams
A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J.C. Beaglehole's edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955. In the forty-odd years since then ...
Urban Indian Reserves
Forging New Relationships in Saskatchewan
A much needed discussion on creating collaborative local treaty land arrangements, where First Nations and municipal governments are shaping the future of their respective communities as well as providing a model for other communities.
Once Upon an Oldman
Special Interest Politics and the Oldman River Dam
Once Upon an Oldman is an account of the controversy that surrounded the Alberta government's construction of a dam on the Oldman River to provide water for irrigation in the southern part of the province.
Colonizing Bodies
Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900-50
This detailed but highly readable ethnohistory shows how a pluralistic medical system evolved among Canada’s most populous Aboriginal population.
Ways of Knowing
Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Dene Tha
Drawing on twelve years of fieldwork at Chateh, Jean-Guy Goulet delineates the interconnections between the strands of meaning and experience with which the Dene Tha constitute and creatively engage their world.