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Many promote Reconciliation as a “new” way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator Leanne Betasamosake Simpson asserts reconciliation...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2012-03-01
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"Weinstein has given us a beautiful history of the M?tis nationà.Quiet Revolution West is a vivid tale of constant struggle and sacrifice. It is a gripping account of political intrigue and brinksmanship that will raise eyebrows in many quarters."-- From the Foreword by...
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Fifth House Books
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2011-09-28
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In Finding My Talk, fourteen aboriginal women who attend residential schools, or were affected by them, reflect on their experiences.
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Fifth House Books
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2011-09-28
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The first book to examine the role of Canada’s newspapers in perpetuating the myth of Native inferiority. Seeing Red is a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English-language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day. It assesses a wide...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2011-09-02
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DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example,DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals,...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2010-10-27
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Indigenous media challenges the power of the state, erodes communication monopolies, and illuminates government threats toIndigenous cultural, social, economic, and political sovereignty. Its effectiveness in these areas, however, is hampered by government control of...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2010-09-01
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North American Aboriginal Hide Tanning examines the methodology, tools and spiritual aspects of what was once almost a lost art. Over the course of research that has spanned some 30 years, the author has interviewed more than 40 tanners from the Northwest Territories to...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2010-01-01
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Nuu-chah-nulth “family histories” are actually tribal histories since their idea of family encompasses the tribe. Eighteen such histories are presented here, chronicling the origins and resources of a number of tribal families. In lieu of written records, these oral...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2009-01-01
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This last segment of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts includes three first-hand accounts of the Tlkwa:na, or Wolf Ritual, a principal ceremony of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations of the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The ritual, which takes several days to enact, is...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2007-01-01
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In August 1880, businessman Adrian Jakobsen convinced eight Inuit men, women, and children from Hebron and Nakvak, Labrador to accompany him to Europe to be "exhibited" in zoos and Völkerschauen (ethnographic shows). Abraham, Maria, Noggasak, Paingo, Sara, Terrianiak,...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2005-09-01
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Drawing on artifacts held in the collections of the Canadian Museum of History, this book provides a fascinating look at the richness of Mi’kmaq and Maliseet cultural practice, technological ingenuity and artistic expression. Designed as a finding aid, this book will...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2005-01-01
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A three-year collaboration between the Gwich’in — the most northerly of Canada’s Athapaskan peoples — the Canadian Museum of History and the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre results in a revival of skills and knowledge employed in making traditional clothing of...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2005-01-01
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This richly illustrated book profiles the legacy and artistry of the traditional Dene babiche bag. Once a commonplace item in every Dene home, the art of the babiche bag—a netted bag made of caribou thong—was all but lost until the recent grassroots revival described in...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2004-01-01
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Legendary Hunters features twenty-eight accounts of traditional hunting life among the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) peoples of Canada’s West Coast. Drawn from a collection of oral history gathered between 1910 and 1923, these narratives present a vivid portrait of whaling...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2003-01-01
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In recognizing the established intellectual and institutional authority of Aboriginal artists, curators, and academics working in cultural institutions and universities, this volume serves as an important primer on key questions and issues accompanying the changing...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2002-01-01
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In 1999, Suzan Marie, a Dene with a passion for the traditional arts of her people, initiated a project to reintroduce the lost art of spruce root basketry to small Dene communities. This richly illustrated book tells the story of this modern revival of a traditional...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2002-01-01
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In Aboriginal People and Other Canadians, leading scholars discuss key issues in Native studies including social exclusion, marginalization and identity; justice, equality and gender; self-help and empowerment in Aboriginal communities and in the cities; and...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2001-12-06
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Long out-of-print, My Old People Say has remained a primary resource for students of the history and culture of northwestern North America. Catherine McClellan’s three decades of collaboration with the Inland Tlingit, Tagish and Southern Tutchone resulted in two...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2001-01-01
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Long out-of-print, My Old People Say has remained a primary resource for students of the history and culture of northwestern North America. Catherine McClellan’s three decades of collaboration with the Inland Tlingit, Tagish and Southern Tutchone resulted in two...
Editeur :
Mercury-Mercure
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2001-01-01
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This book celebrates Dorothy Burnham’s many contributions to ongoing research on the Museum’s ethnographic collections from the Northern Athabaskan, Arctic, Plateau and Eastern Woodlands regions of North America. Eleven papers highlight the important role that...
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Mercury-Mercure
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2001-01-01
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