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Table of contents

Environmental studies New Histories for Old 18

Edited by Theodore Binnema and
Speaking for Ourselves 1
Susan Neylan
Edited by Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph
Haluza-DeLay, and Pat O’Riley The Red Man’s on the Warpath 18
R. Scott Sheffield
Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors 2
Charlotte Coté, Foreword by Micah McCarty
BC Studies
Hunters at the Margin 3
Writing British Columbia History, 19
John Sandlos
1784–1958
Home Is the Hunter 3 Chad Reimer
Hans M. Carlson
Urbanizing Frontiers 20
Penelope Edmonds
politics & Nation
Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy 4 Colonial Proximities 21
Edited by Mario Blaser, Ravi De Costa, Renisa Mawani
Deborah McGregor, and William D. Coleman
Becoming British Columbia 22
John Belshaw
Politics
Makúk 22
Finding Dahshaa 5
John Sutton Lutz
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
First Nations of British Columbia, 23
Unsettling the Settler Within 6
Paulette Regan 2nd edition
Robert J. Muckle
First Nations, First Thoughts 7
Edited by Annis May Timpson Be of Good Mind 23
Edited by Bruce Granville Miller
Indigenous Women and Feminism 8
Edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Tsawalk 24
Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman E. Richard Atleo (Umeek)

Being Again of One Mind 9 Treaty Talks in British Columbia, 24

Lina Sunseri Third Edition
Christopher McKee
No need of a chief for this band 10
Martha Elizabeth Walls Law
Nunavut 11 Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples 25
Ailsa Henderson Edited by Louis A. Knafla and Haijo Westra

Hunters and Bureaucrats 11 Between Consenting Peoples 26

Paul Nadasdy Edited by Jeremy Webber and
Colin M. Macleod
“Real” Indians and Others 12
Bonita Lawrence Indigenous Legal Traditions 27
Edited by the Law Commission of Canada
Navigating Neoliberalism 12
Gabrielle Slowey Let Right Be Done 27
Edited by Hamar Foster, Jeremy Webber,
Aboriginal & Metis Histories and Heather Raven

One of the Family 13 Lament for a First Nation 28

Brenda Macdougall Peggy J. Blair

Gathering Places 14 Landing Native Fisheries 28

Edited by Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers Douglas C. Harris

Fort Chipewyan and the Shaping 15 Protection of First Nations Cultural 29

of Canadian History, 1788–1920s Heritage
Patricia A. McCormack Edited by Catherine Bell and Robert K. Paterson

Taking Medicine 16 First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law 29

Kristin Burnett Edited by Catherine Bell and Val Napoleon

Contact Zones 17 Between Justice and Certainty 30

Edited by Myra Rutherdale and Katie Pickles Andrew Woolford

Paddling to Where I Stand 17

Edited by Martine J. Reid and Daisy Sewid-Smith
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Education & Health paradigm Publishers

Braiding Histories 30 Indigenous Peoples and Globalization 37
Susan D. Dion Thomas D. Hall and James V. Fenelon

Inuit Education and Schools in 31 University of Arizona Press

the Eastern Arctic
Heather E. McGregor
Supporting Indigenous Children’s 32
Development
Jessica Ball and Alan R. Pence
Indigenous Storywork 32
Jo-ann Archibald
Healing Traditions 33
Edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer and
Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Protecting Aboriginal Children 33
Chris Walmsley
Northern Studies
Settlers on the Edge 34
Niobe Thompson
Kiumajut (Talking Back) 34
Peter Kulchyski and Frank James Tester
international polar institute Press
Inuit Folk-Tales 35
Collected by Knud Rasmussen
university of washington Press
Art Quantum 35
Edited by James Nottage
Becoming Tsimshian 36
Christopher F. Roth
The Power of Promises 36
Edited by Alexandra Harmon
Native American Performance and
Representation 37
Edited by S.E. Wilmer
Mining, the Environment, and 38
Indigenous Development Conflicts
Saleem H. Ali
Landscapes and Social Transformations 38
on the Northwest Coast
Jeff Oliver
Across a Great Divide 39
Laura Scheiber and Mark D. Mitchell
Athabasca University Press
The Importance of Being Monogamous 39
Sarah Carter
Trail of Story, Travellers’ Path 40
Leslie Main Johnson
The West and Beyond 40
Edited by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and
Peter Fortna
Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance 41
Keith D. Smith
Imagining Head-Smashed-In 41
Jack W. Brink
The Beaver Hills Country 42
Graham A. MacDonald
Icon, Brand, Myth 42
Edited by Max Foran
backlist 43

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Publishers Represented in Canada

Brookings Institution Press, Earthscan Publishers, Island Press, Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
Manchester University Press, Michigan State University Press, Oregon State University Press,
Paradigm Publishers, Transaction Publishers, University of Arizona Press, University Press of New
England (includes Wesleyan and Tufts University Presses), and University of Washington Press
(includes Hong Kong University Press, National Gallery of Australia Press, Silkworm Books, and
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History).

Publishers Represented Worldwide

AU Press, Canadian Forest Service, Canadian Wildlife Service - Pacific Region, Environmental
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Environmental
environmental studies
studies
Speaking for Ourselves
Environmental Justice in Canada
Edited by Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, and Pat O’Riley
Julian Agyeman is a professor
in and chair of the Department
of Urban and Environmental
Policy and Planning at Tufts
University. Peter Cole is an
associate professor of Aboriginal
and Northern Studies at the
University College of the North.
Randolph Haluza-DeLay is an
assistant professor of sociology
at King’s University College.
Pat O’Riley is an associate
professor in the Department
of Equity Studies, Faculty of
Liberal Arts & Professional
Studies at York University.
2009, 978-0-7748-1618-2 hc $85.00
January 2010
978-0-7748-1619-9 pb $32.95
306 pages, 6 x 9"
9 charts, 1 map
Environmental Advocacy & Activism
Environmental Politics and Policy
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
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Speaking for Ourselves is one of the most
important books I have read in a long time. It has
profoundly shaped my thinking about the scholarly
and political work being done on environmental
justice issues and about the world we live in and
share with other beings ... This book will extend
the fields of environmental justice studies and
indigenous studies in new and productive ways.
– David Pellow, University of California, San Diego
Contents
Prologue: Notes from Prison – Protecting Algonquin
Lands from Uranium Mining / Robert Lovelace
Introduction: Speaking for Ourselves, Speaking Together
– Environmental Justice in Canada / Randolph Haluza-
DeLay, Pat O’Riley, Peter Cole, and Julian Agyeman
1 Honouring Our Relations: An Anishnaabe Perspective
on Environmental Justice /
Deborah McGregor
2 Reclaiming Ktaqamkuk: Land and Mi’kmaq
Identity in Newfoundland / Bonita Lawrence
3 Why Is There No Environmental Justice in Toronto? Or
Is There? / Roger Keil, Melissa Ollevier, and Erica Tsang
4 Invisible Sisters: Women and Environmental
Justice in Canada / Barbara Rahder
5 The Political Economy of Environmental
Inequality: The Social Distribution of Risk as
an Environmental Injustice/ S. Harris Ali
6 These Are Lubicon Lands: A First Nation
Forced to Step into the Regulatory Gap / Chief
Bernard Ominayak, with Kevin Thomas
7 Population Health, Environmental Justice,
and the Distribution of Diseases: Ideas and
Practices from Canada / John Eyles
8 Environmental Injustice in the Canadian Far North:
Persistent Organic Pollutants and Arctic Climate
Impacts / Sarah Fleisher Trainor, Anna Godduhn,
Lawrence K. Duffy, F. Stuart Chapin III, David C.
Natcher, Gary Kofinas, and Henry P. Huntington
9 Environmental Justice and Community-Based
Ecosystem Management / Maureen G. Reed
10 Framing Environmental Inequity in Canada:
A Content Analysis of Daily Print News
Media / Leith Deacon and Jamie Baxter
11 Environmental Justice as a Politics in Place: An
Analysis of Five Canadian Environmental Groups’
Approaches to Agro-Food Issues / Lorelei L. Hanson
12 Rethinking “Green” Multicultural
Strategies / Beenash Jafri
13 Coyote and Raven Talk about Environmental
Justice / Pat O’Riley and Peter Cole
Index
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Environmental studies
Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors
Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions
Charlotte Coté, Foreword by Micah McCarty
Charlotte Coté is associate
professor of American
Indian Studies at the
University of Washington.
July 2010
328 pages, 6 x 10"
22 illustrations, 3 maps
978-0-2959-9046-0 pb $24.95
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Environmental History
Anthropology
BC Environment
Canadian History
BC Politics
Canadian Rights only. Published
outside of Canada by the
University of Washington Press.
2 Aboriginal Studies 2010
Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors offers a
valuable perspective on the issues surrounding
indigenous whaling, past and present.
Following the removal of the gray whale from the
Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe
of northwest Washington State and the Nuu-chah-
nulth Nation of British Columbia announced that
they would revive their whale hunts. The Makah
whale hunt of 1999 was met with enthusiastic
support and vehement opposition. A member of the
Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation, Charlotte Coté offers
a valuable perspective on the issues surrounding
indigenous whaling. Her analysis includes major
Native studies and contemporary Native rights
issues, addressing environmentalism, animal rights
activism, anti-treaty conservatism, and the public's
expectations about what it means to be “Indian."
Contents
Foreword by Micah McCarty
Introduction: Honoring Our Whaling Ancestors
1 Ts awalk: The Centrality of Whaling to
Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Life
2 Utla: Worldviews Collide: The Arrival
of Mamalhn’i in Indian Territory
3 Kutsa: Maintaining the Cultural
Link to Whaling Ancestors
4 Muu: The Makah Harvest a Whale
5 Sucha: Challenges to Our Right to Whale
6 Nupu: Legal Impediments Spark a 2007 Hunt
7 Atlpu: Restoring Nanash’agtl Communities
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Environmental Studies
Hunters at the Margin
Native People and Wildlife
Conservation in the Northwest
Territories
John Sandlos
Winner of the
2008 Clio Award
for the North,
Canadian Historical
Association
Winner of the
2008 Charles A.
Weyerhaeuser
Award, Forest
History Society
Hunters at the Margin examines the conflict
in the Northwest Territories between
Native hunters and conservationists over
three big game species: the wood bison,
the muskox, and the caribou. John Sandlos
argues that the introduction of game
regulations, national parks, and game
sanctuaries was central to the assertion of
state authority over the traditional hunting
cultures of the Dene and Inuit. His archival
research undermines the assumption that
conservationists were motivated solely by
enlightened preservationism, revealing
instead that commercial interests were
integral to wildlife management in Canada.
John Sandlos is an assistant
professor of history at Memorial
University of Newfoundland.
2007, 978-0-7748-1363-1 pb $34.95
352 pages, 6 x 9"
20 b&w photographs, 4 maps, 3 tables
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Northern History
Environmental Policy
Nature | History | Society series
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Environmental Studies
Home Is the Hunter
The James Bay Cree and Their Land
Hans M. Carlson
Shortlisted, 2010
Harold Adams Innis
Prize, Canadian
Federation for the
Humanities and
Social Science
Since 1970 in Quebec, there has been
immense change for the Cree, who now
live with the consequences of Quebec’s
massive development of the North. Home
Is the Hunter presents the historical,
environmental, and cultural context
from which this recent story grows. Hans
Carlson shows how the Cree view their
lands as their home, their garden, and their
memory of themselves as a people. By
investigating the Cree’s three hundred years
of contact with outsiders, he illuminates
the process of cultural negotiation at
the foundation of ongoing political and
environmental debates. This book offers a
way of thinking about indigenous peoples’
struggles for rights and environmental
justice in Canada and elsewhere.
Hans M. Carlson has travelled extensively
in northern Quebec and Labrador by canoe
and snowshoe. He is currently teaching in
the American Indian Studies program at
the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
2008, 978-0-7748-1495-9 pb $34.95
344 pages, 6 x 9"
9 b&w illustrations, 8 maps
Aboriginal History
Northern Studies
Quebec History
Environmental History
Nature | History | Society series
Aboriginal Studies 2010 3
politics & Nation
Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy
Insights for a Global Age
Edited by Mario Blaser, Ravi De Costa, Deborah McGregor, and William D. Coleman
Mario Blaser is Canada
Research Chair in Aboriginal
studies at Memorial University.
Ravi de Costa is an assistant
professor in the Faculty of
Environmental Studies at York
University. Deborah McGregor
is an associate professor cross-
appointed in the Department
of Geography and Planning
and the Aboriginal studies
program at the University of
Toronto. William D. Coleman
is the chair in Globalization and
Public Policy, Balsillie School of
International Affairs, Waterloo.
May 2010
978-0-7748-1792-9 hc $85.00
January 2011
978-0-7748-1793-6 pb $32.95
312 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Globalization
International Relations
Political Science
Globalization and Autonomy
series
4 Aboriginal Studies 2010
This innovative collection examines how Indigenous
peoples in various contexts have thought about,
and responded to, the pressures of globalization on
their cultural, political, and geographical autonomy.
This volume presents case studies from around
the world that explore how Indigenous peoples
are engaging with and challenging globalization
and Western views of autonomy. Taken together,
these insightful studies reveal that concepts such
as globalization and autonomy neither encapsulate
nor explain Indigenous peoples’ experiences.
Contents
Preface
Part 1: Introduction
1 Reconfiguring the Web of Life: Indigenous
Peoples, Relationality, and Globalization /
Mario Blaser, Ravi de Costa, Deborah
McGregor, and William D. Coleman
2 Ayllu: Decolonial Critical Thinking and (An)
other Autonomy / Marcelo Fernández Osco
Part 2: Emergences
3 Neoliberal Governance and James Bay Cree
Governance: Negotiated Agreements, Oppositional
Struggles, and Co-Governance / Harvey A. Feit
4 Global Linguistics, Mayan Languages, and the
Cultivation of Autonomy / Erich Fox Tree
5 Global Activism and Changing Identities:
Interconnecting the Global and the Local
– The Grand Council of the Crees and the
Saami Council / Kristina Maud Bergeron
6 Indigenous Perspectives on Globalization:
Self-Determination through Autonomous
Media Creation / Rebeka Tabobondung
7 Reconfiguring Mare Nullius: Torres Strait
Islanders, Indigenous Sea Rights, and the
Divergence of Domestic and International
Norms / Colin Scott and Monica Mulrennan
Part 3: Absences
8 Making Alternatives Visible: The Meaning
of Autonomy for the Mapuche of Cholchol
(Ngulumapu, Chile) / Pablo Marimán Quemenado
9 Twentieth-Century Transformations of
East Cree Spirituality and Autonomy /
Richard J. “Dick" Preston
Part 4: Hope
10 The International Order of Hope: Zapatismo
and the Fourth World War / Alex Khasnabish
Afterword / Ravi de Costa
Works Cited; Index
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politics
Finding Dahshaa
Self–Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
holds a doctorate in polar studies
from Cambridge University
and for the past decade has
worked for Indigenous peoples
on self-government and
related political development
processes in Canada’s Northwest
Territories. For more information,
visit findingdashaa.ca.
2009, 978-0-7748-1625-0 pb $32.95
216 pages, 6 x 9"
24 b&w photos, 2 maps
Aboriginal History
Political Science
Canadian Social Policy
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Shortlisted for the 2010 Canadian Aboriginal History
Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Shortlisted for the 2010 Donald Smiley Prize,
Canadian Political Science Association
Finding Dahshaa draws on Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox’s
extensive hands-on negotiating experience, and
formidable research and academic skills, to offer
badly needed analysis of past and current issues
impeding progress on aboriginal self-government
in the Mackenzie Valley. I recommend this book.
– Mary Simon, President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Just as dahshaa – a rare type of dried, rotted
spruce wood – is essential to the Dene moosehide-
tanning process, self-determination and the
alleviation of social suffering are necessary to
Indigenous survival in the Northwest Territories.
But is self-government an effective path to
self-determination? Finding Dahshaa shows where
self-government negotiations between Canada
and the Dehcho, Délînê, and Inuvialuit and Gwich’in
peoples have gone wrong and offers, through
descriptions of tanning practices that embody
principles and values central to self-determination,
an alternative model for negotiations. This accessible
book, which includes a foreword by Dene National
Chief Bill Erasmus, is the first ethnographic study
of self-government negotiations in Canada.
Contents
Foreword /  Bill Erasmus, Dene National Chief
Acknowledgments
Pronunciation Guide
Introduction
1 Context and Concepts
2 Tanning Moosehide
3 Dehcho Resource Revenue Sharing
4 Délînê Child and Family Services
5 Inuvialuit and Gwich’in Culture and Language
Conclusion
Notes; References; Index
Aboriginal Studies 2010 5
politics
Unsettling the Settler Within
Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada
Paulette Regan
Paulette Regan is a senior
researcher for the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission of
Canada.
November 2010
978-0-7748-1777-6 hc $85.00
July 2011
978-0-7748-1778-3 pb $34.95
304 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Law
Law & Society
6 Aboriginal Studies 2010
This book is significant not only as it concerns
relations between indigenous peoples and
Canadians; it will be of interest to those working
in multicultural settings of many kinds where
power imbalances have affected relations. Paulette
Regan manages to combine scholarly discourse
with personal accounts in ways that buttress its
credibility and make it a must-read for anyone
interested in reconciliation between peoples.
– L. Michelle LeBaron, Professor of Law and
Director, UBC Program on Dispute Resolution
Unsettling the Settler Within weaves together a
unique blend of empirical evidence and personal
vignettes to show why all Canadians should care
deeply about the history of Indian residential
schools and work actively to dismantle their legacy.
Paulette Regan, a former residential schools claims
manager, reveals the truth behind the rhetoric
of benevolence that has falsely coloured settler-
Indigenous relations. Her personal account of a
transformative experience at a Gitxsan apology feast
conveys a powerful lesson: Canadians must engage
in their own unsettling journey of decolonization
if true healing and reconciliation are to occur.
Contents
Foreword / Taiaiake Alfred
Introduction: A Settler’s Call to Action
1 An Unsettling Pedagogy of History and Hope
2 Rethinking Reconciliation: Truthtelling,
Restorying History, Commemoration
3 Deconstructing Canada’s Peacemaker Myth
4 The Alternative Dispute Resolution
Program: Reconciliation as Re-gifting
5 Indigenous Diplomats: Counter-
Narratives of Peacemaking
6 The Power of Apology and Testimony:
Settlers as Ethical Witnesses
7 An Apology Feast in Hazelton: A
Settler’s “Unsettling” Experience
8 Peace Warriors and Settler Allies
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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politics
First Nations, First Thoughts
The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada
Edited by Annis May Timpson
Annis May Timpson is Director
of the Centre of Canadian Studies
at the University of Edinburgh.
2009, 978-0-7748-1552-9 pb $32.95
336 pages, 6 x 9"
3 b&w photos, 4 tables
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Aboriginal Law
Canadian Public Policy &
Administration
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First Nations, First Thoughts is a comprehensive
argument for decolonization, focusing specifically
on the reconciliation of Indigenous thought with a
transformed discourse of the Canadian state and
with many of the institutions of Canadian society ...
This book has no rival in its coverage of the multiple
issues involved in the search for reconciliation.
– Alan C. Cairns, author of Citizens Plus:
Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State
Contents
Introduction: Indigenous Thought in
Canada / Annis May Timpson
Part 1: Challenging Dominant Discourses
1 First Nations Perspectives and Historical
Thinking in Canada / Robin Jarvis Brownlie
2 Being Indigenous within the Academy: Creating
Space for Indigenous Scholars / Margaret Kovach
Part 2: Oral Histories and First Nations Narratives
3 Respecting Oral Histories of First Nations:
Copyright Complexities in Archiving
Aboriginal Stories / Leslie McCartney
4 Nápi and the City: Siksikaitsitapi Narratives
Revisited / Martin Whittles and Tim Patterson
Part 3: Cultural Heritage and Representation
5 Colonial Photographs and Postcolonial
Relationships: The Kainai-Oxford Photographic
Histories Project / Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown
6 Museums Taken to Task: Representing
First Peoples at the McCord Museum of
Canadian History / Stephanie Bolton
Part 4: Aboriginal Thought and Innovation
in Subnational Governance
7 The Manitoba Government’s Shift to
“Autonomous” First Nations Child Welfare:
Empowerment or Privatization? / Fiona MacDonald
8 Rethinking the Administration of Government:
Inuit Representation, Culture, and Language in
the Nunavut Public Service / Annis May Timpson
9 A Fine Balance? Aboriginal Peoples in
the Canadian North and the Dilemma of
Development / Gabrielle A. Slowey
Part 5: Thinking Back, Looking Forward: Political
and Constitutional Reconciliation
10 Civilization, Self-Determination, and
Reconciliation / Michael Murphy
11 Take 35: Reconciling Constitutional
Orders / Kiera L. Ladner
Index
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politics
Indigenous Women and Feminism
Politics, Activism, Culture
Edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman
Cheryl Suzack is an assistant
professor at the University of
Toronto. Shari M. Huhndorf
is an associate professor at the
University of Oregon. Jeanne
Perreault is a professor and
associate head at the University
of Calgary. Jean Barman
is professor emeritus at the
University of British Columbia.
Contributors: Kim Anderson,
Jean Barman, Laura Donaldson,
Patricia Demers, Julia Emberley,
Katherine L.Y. Evans, Minnie Grey,
Patricia Hilden, Shari Huhndorf,
Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, Leece M.
Lee, ann-elise lewallen, Pamela
McCallum, Jeanne Perreault,
Cheryl Suzack, Rebecca Tsosie,
and Teresa Zackodnik
October 2010
978-0-7748-1807-0 hc $85.00
July 2011
978-0-7748-1808-7 pb $34.95
296 pages, 6 x 9"
8 b&w photographs, 2 tables
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Women’s Studies
8 Aboriginal Studies 2010
Taking up a range of topics related to indigenous
politics, activism, and culture, this volume makes
a strong contribution to the debates surrounding
indigenous feminist theories and practices.
Indigenous feminism has often been subsumed
within the categories of women of colour and
postcolonial feminism, but in truth it goes beyond
these constructs to engage in crucial issues of
cultural identity, nationalism, and decolonization.
This collection looks at developments in indigenous
feminist culture, activism, and politics to explore
how indigenous women are creating a space
within feminism specific to their interests.
Contents
Introduction: Indigenous Feminism
– Theorizing the Issues
Part 1: Politics
1 From the Tundra to the Boardroom to
Everywhere in Between: Politics and the
Changing Roles of Inuit Women in the Arctic
2 Native Women and Leadership: An
Ethics of Culture and Relationship
3 “But we are your mothers, you are our
sons”: Gender, Sovereignty, and the Nation
in Early Cherokee Women’s Writing
4 Indigenous Feminism: The Project
Part 2: Activism
5 Affirmations of an Indigenous Feminist
6 Indigenous Feminism on the Cusp of Contact
7 Reaching Toward a Red-Black Coalitional Feminism:
Anna Julia Cooper’s “Women versus the Indian”
8 Emotion before the Law
9 Beyond Feminism: Indigenous Ainu Women
and Narratives of Empowerment in Japan
Part 3: Culture
10 Indigenous Feminism, Performance, and the
Politics of Memory in the Plays of Monique Mojica
11 “Memory Alive”: An Inquiry into the Uses
of Memory by Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette
Armstrong, Louise Halfe, and Joy Harjo
12 Race, Gender, and Representational Violence
in Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson’s Stolen
Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
13 Painting the Archive: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras
14 “Our Lives Will Be Different Now”: The Indigenous
Feminist Performances of Spiderwoman Theater
15 Bordering on Feminism: Space, Solidarity, and
Transnationalism in Rebecca Belmore’s Vigil
16 Location, Dislocation, Relocation:
Shooting Back with Cameras
Index
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politics
Being Again of One Mind
Oneida Women and the Struggle for Decolonization
Lina Sunseri
Lina Sunseri, whose Longhouse
name is Yeliwi:saks (Gathering
Stories/Knowledge), from the
Oneida Nation of the Thames, Turtle
Clan, is an assistant professor of
sociology at Brescia University
College, an affiliate of the University
of Western Ontario. She is also
co-editor of Colonialism and Racism
in Canada: Historical Traces and
Contemporary Issues and Not
Disappearing: Racism, Colonialism,
and Indigeneity in Canada.
November 2010
978-0-7748-1935-0 hc $85.00
July 2011
978-0-7748-1936-7 pb $32.95
304 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
Social & Cultural Anthropology
Women’s Studies
Canadian Aboriginal History
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By giving a voice to Oneida women’s thoughts on
tradition and nation, this book challenges mainstream
feminist critiques of nation and nationalism.
Being Again of One Mind combines a critical reading of
feminist literature on nationalism with the narratives
of Oneida women of various generations to reveal
that some Indigenous women view nationalism
in the form of decolonization as a way to restore
traditional gender balance and well-being to their
own lives and communities. These insights challenge
mainstream feminist ideas about the masculine
bias of Western theories of nation and about the
dangers of nationalist movements that idealize
women’s so-called traditional role, questioning
whether they apply to Indigenous women
Contents
Foreword / Patricia A. Monture
Introduction
1 Theorizing Nations and Nationalisms: From
Modernist to Indigenous Perspectives
2 A History of Oneida Nation: From
Creation Story to the Present
3 Struggles of Independence: From a Colonial
Existence toward a Decolonized Nation
4 Women, Nation and National Identity:
Oneida Women Standing in and Speaking
about Matters of the Nation
5 Dreaming of a Free, Peaceful, Balanced
Decolonized Nation: Being Again of One Mind
6 Concluding Remarks
Notes; Reference; Index
Aboriginal Studies 2010 9
politics
No need of a chief for this band
Maritime Mi’kmaq and Federal Electoral Legislation, 1899–1951
Martha Elizabeth Walls
Martha Elizabeth
Walls teaches Canadian,
Atlantic Canadian, and
First Nations history.  and goals. Compelling and timely, this book supports
May 2010
978-0-7748-1789-9 hc $85.00
January 2011
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9 b&w photos, 16 tables, 1 map
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Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Atlantic History
Political Science
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This important, compelling study reveals the
creativity and persistence of the Mi'kmaq in
responding to the federal assimilation campaign.
By demonstrating the flexibility with which the
Mi'kmaq resisted, accommodated, and adapted
the triennial elective band council system, Walls
contributes significantly to a more nuanced
understanding of Mi'kmaw cultural change, political
engagement, and interaction with government.
–Robin Jarvis Brownlie, author of A Fatherly
Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and
Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939
In 1899 the Canadian government passed legislation
to replace the community appointment of Mi’kmaw
leaders and Mi’kmaw political practices with
the triennial system, a Euro-Canadian system of
democratic band council elections. Officials in Ottawa
assumed that the federally mandated and supervised
system would redefine Mi’kmaw politics. They were
wrong. Many Mi’kmaw communities rejected or
amended the legislation, while others accepted it
only sporadically to meet specific community needs
Aboriginal claims to self-governance and complicates
understandings of state power by showing that the
Mi’kmaq, rather than succumbing to imposed political
models, retained political practices that distinguished
them from their Euro-Canadian neighbours.
Contents
Introduction
1 The Mi’kmaw World in 1900
2 Continuity and Change in Mi’kmaw Politics to 1899
3  The Origins of the Triennial Band Council System
4 Federal Interference and Political
Persistence in Mi’kmaw Communities
5 The Limits of Triennial Elections
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Politics
Nunavut
Rethinking Political Culture
Ailsa Henderson
Shortlisted for
the 2008 Donald
Smiley Book Prize,
Canadian Political
Science Association
Political culture in Nunavut has long been
characterized by different approaches
to political life: traditional Inuit attitudes
toward governance, federal aspirations
for the political integration of Inuit, and
territorial strategies for institutional
development. Ailsa Henderson links these
features to contemporary political attitudes
and behaviour, concluding that a distinctive
political culture is emerging in Nunavut.
Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and
quantitative analysis, this book provides the
first systematic, empirical study of political
life in Nunavut, offering comprehensive
analysis of the evolving nature of aboriginal
self-government in the Arctic and shedding
crucial light on Inuit–non-Inuit relations.
Ailsa Henderson is a senior lecturer
in the School of Social and Political
Science at the University of Edinburgh.
2007, 978-0-7748-1424-9 pb $30.95
272 pages, 6 x 9"
29 b&w figures and tables
Northern Studies
Nunavut
Political Science
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Politics
Hunters and Bureaucrats
Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-
State Relations in the Southwest
Yukon
Paul Nadasdy
Winner, 2004
Julian Steward
Prize, American
Anthropological
Association
This book challenges the conventional
wisdom that land claims and
co-management – two of the most
visible and celebrated elements of the
restructuring of the relationship between
Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state
– will help reverse centuries of inequity.
Based on three years of ethnographic
research in the Yukon, this book examines
the complex relationship between the
people of Kluane First Nation, the land and
animals, and the state. This book moves
beyond conventional models of colonialism,
in which the state is treated as a monolithic
entity, and instead explores how “state
power” is reproduced through everyday
bureaucratic practices – including struggles
over the production and use of knowledge.
Paul Nadasdy is an associate professor
of anthropology at Cornell University.
2003, 978-0-7748-0984-9 pb $34.95
328 pages, 6 x 9"
23 b&w photographs, 5 tables, 3 maps
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Northern Studies
Aboriginal Studies 2010 11
Politics
“Real” Indians and Others
Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples
and Indigenous Nationhood
Bonita Lawrence
In this pioneering book, Bonita Lawrence
draws on the first-person accounts of
thirty Toronto residents of Aboriginal
descent, as well as archival materials,
sociological research, and her own urban
Native heritage and experiences, to shed
light on the Canadian government’s efforts
to define Native identity through the
years. She describes the devastating loss
of community that has resulted and how
urban Native people have wrestled with
their past and current identities. Lawrence
also explores the forms of nation-building
that can reconcile the differences in
experiences and distinct agendas of urban
and reserve-based Native communities.
Bonita Lawrence is an associate
professor at York University, where she
teaches anti-racism and Native Studies.
2004, 978-0-7748-1103-3 pb $34.95
328 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
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Politics
Navigating Neoliberalism
Self-Determination and the Mikisew
Cree First Nation
Gabrielle Slowey
Navigating Neoliberalism argues that
neoliberalism, which drives government
policy concerning First Nations in Canada,
can also drive self-determination. And in
a globalizing world, new opportunities for
indigenous governance may transform
socioeconomic well-being. Gabrielle Slowey
studies the development of First Nations
governance in health, education, economic
development, and housing. Contrary
to the popular belief that First Nations
suffer in an age of state retrenchment,
privatization, and decentralization,
Slowey finds that the Mikisew First
Nation has successfully exploited
opportunities for greater autonomy
and well-being that the current political
and economic climate has presented.
Gabrielle Slowey is an
assistant professor of political
science at York University.
2008, 978-0-7748-1406-5 pb $30.95
160 pages, 6 x 9"
3 maps, 2 tables
Aboriginal Law
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Political Science
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Aboriginal & Metis Histories
One of the Family
Metis Culture in Nineteenth–Century Northwestern Saskatchewan
Brenda Macdougall
Brenda Macdougall is an
associate professor in the
Department of Native Studies at
the University of Saskatchewan.
February 2010
978-0-7748-1729-5 hc $85.00
July 2010
978-0-7748-1730-1 pb $34.95
360 pages, 6 x 9"
8 b&w photos, 5 maps,
24 family trees
Aboriginal History
Saskatchewan History
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The central concept that underlies this important
new book is wahkootowin, “a worldview linking land,
family, and identity in one interconnected web of
being.” This original and richly researched work
follows four generations of widely connected Metis
families in the Île à la Crosse region, illuminating
their lives and histories as concrete expressions
of this powerful organizing principle learned from
their Aboriginal mothers and grandmothers.
– Jennifer S.H. Brown, FRSC, professor of
history and director, Centre for Rupert’s
Land Studies, University of Winnipeg
In this groundbreaking study, Brenda Macdougall
employs the concept of wahkootowin – the Cree
term for a worldview that privileges family and
values interconnectedness – to trace the emergence
of a Metis community in northern Saskatchewan.
Wahkootowin describes how relationships worked
and helps to explain how the Metis negotiated
with local economic and religious institutions
while nurturing a society that emphasized family
obligation and responsibility. This innovative
exploration of the birth of Metis identity offers
a model for future research and discussion.
Contents
Introduction
1 “They are strongly attached to the
country of rivers, lakes, and forests”: The
Social Landscapes of the Northwest
2 “The bond that connected one human being to
another”: Social Construction of the Metis Family
3 “To live in the land of my Mother”: Residency and
Patronymic Connections Across the Northwest
4 “After a man has tasted of the comforts of
married life this living alone comes pretty tough”:
Family, Acculturation, and Roman Catholicism
5 “The only men obtainable who know the
country and Indians are all married”:
Family, Labour, and the HBC
6 “The HalfBreeds of this place always
did and always will dance”: Competition,
Freemen, and Contested Spaces
7 “I Thought it advisable to furnish him”: Freemen
to Free Traders in the Northwest Fur Trade
Conclusion
Appendix; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography;
Index of Names; Index of Subjects
Aboriginal Studies 2010 13
Aboriginal & Metis Histories
Gathering Places
Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories
Edited by Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers
Carolyn Podruchny teaches
history at York University.
Laura Peers teaches and
is a curator at the Pitt Rivers
Museum, University of Oxford.
September 2010
978-0-7748-1843-8 hc $85.00
July 2011
978-0-7748-1844-5 PB $34.95
352 pages, 6 x 9"
17 photos, 3 paintings, 1 map, 4
tables
Aboriginal History /
Historiography /
Anthropology
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British traders and Ojibwe hunters. Cree women
and their metis daughters. These people and their
complex identities were not featured in history
writing until the 1970s, when scholars from multiple
disciplines began to bring new perspectives to
bear on the past. Gathering Places presents some
of the most innovative approaches to metis, fur
trade, and First Nations history being practised
today. By drawing on archaeological, material, oral,
and ethnographic evidence and exploring personal
approaches to history and scholarship, the authors
depart from the old paradigm of history writing
and offer new models for recovering Aboriginal
and cross-cultural experiences and perspectives.
Contents
 Preface
1 Introduction: Complex Subjectivities, Multiple Ways
of Knowing / Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny
Part 1: Using Material Culture
2 Putting Up Poles: Power, Navigation, and Cultural
Mixing in the Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny,
Frederic W. Gleach, and Roger Roulette
3 Dressing for the Homeward Journey: Western
Anishinaabe Leadership Roles Viewed
through Two Nineteenth-Century Burials /
Cory Willmott and Kevin Brownlee
Part 2: Using Documents
4 Anishinaabe Toodaims: Contexts for
Politics, Kinship, and Identity in the
Eastern Great Lakes / Heidi Bohaker
5 The Contours of Everyday Life: Food and Identity
in the Plateau Fur Trade / Elizabeth Vibert
6 “Make it last forever as it is”: John McDonald
of Garth’s Vision of a Native Kingdom in
the Northwest / Germaine Warkentin
 Part 3: Ways of Knowing
7 Being and Becoming Métis: A Personal
Reflection / Heather Devine
8 Historical Research and the Place
of Oral History: Conversations from
Berens River / Susan Elaine Gray
Part 4: Ways of Representing
9 Border Identities: Métis, Halfbreed, and
Mixed-Blood / Theresa Schenck
10 Edward Ahenakew’s Tutelage by Paul
Wallace: Reluctant Scholarship, Inadvertent
Preservation / David R. Miller
11 Aboriginal History and Historic Sites: The Shifting
Ground / Laura Peers and Robert Coutts
Afterword: Aaniskotaapaan – Generations
and Successions / Jennifer S.H. Brown
Index
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Aboriginal & Metis Histories
Fort Chipewyan and the Shaping of Canadian History, 1788–1920s
We like to be free in this country
Patricia A. McCormack
Patricia a. McCormack is
an associate professor in the
Faculty of Native Studies at
the University of Alberta.
November 2010
978-0-7748-1668-7 hc $85.00
July 2011
978-0-7748-1669-4 pb $39.95
352 pages, 6 x 9"
50 b&w photos, 8 maps, 8 tables, 2
family trees
Aboriginal History
Alberta History
Historiography
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The story of the expansion of civilization into the
wilderness continues to shape perceptions of how
Aboriginal people became part of nations such as
Canada. Patricia McCormack subverts this narrative
of modernity by examining nation building from
the perspective of a northern community and its
residents. Fort Chipewyan, she argues, was never
an isolated Aboriginal community but a plural
society at the crossroads of global, national, and
local forces. By tracing the events that led its
Aboriginal residents to sign Treaty 8, and their
struggle to maintain autonomy thereafter, this
groundbreaking study shows that Aboriginal peoples
and others can and have become modern without
relinquishing cherished beliefs and practices.
Contents
1 Writing Fort Chipewyan History
2 Building a Plural Society at Fort Chipewyan
3 The Fur Trade Mode of Production
4 The Creation of Canada: A New
Plan for the Northwest
5 Local Impacts: State Expansion, the
Athabasca District, and Fort Chipewyan
6 Christian Missions
7 The Ways of Life at Fort Chipewyan:
Cultural Baselines at the Time of Treaty
8 Treaty 8 and Métis Scrip: Canada
Bargains for the North
9 The Government Foot in the Door
10 Fort Chipewyan and the New Regime
Epilogue: Facing the Future
Appendix; References; Index
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Aboriginal & Metis Histories
Taking Medicine
Women’s Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta,
1880–1930
Kristin Burnett
Kristin Burnett is a member
of the Department of History
at Lakehead University.
October 2010
978-0-7748-1828-5 hc $85.00
July 2011
978-0-7748-1829-2 pb $32.95
200 pages, 6 x 9"
15 b&w photographs, 1 map
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Health
Alberta History
Women’s Studies
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Hunters, medicine men, and missionaries continue
to dominate images and narratives of the West,
even though historians have recognized women’s
role as colonizer and colonized since the 1980s.
Kristin Burnett helps to correct this imbalance
by presenting colonial medicine as a gendered
phenomenon. Although the imperial eye focused
on medicine men, Aboriginal women in the Treaty
7 region served as healers and caregivers – to
their own people and to settler society – until
the advent of settler-run hospitals and nursing
stations. By revealing Aboriginal and settler
women’s contributions to health care, Taking
Medicine challenges traditional understandings
of colonial medicine in the contact zone.
Contents
Introduction
1 The North-Western Plains and Its People
2 Setting the Stage: Engendering the
Therapeutic Culture of the Siksika,
Kainai, Pikuni, Tsuu T’ina, and Stoney
3 Giving Birth: Women’s Health Work and
Western Settlement, 1850-1900
4 Converging Therapeutic Systems:
Encounters between Aboriginal and
Non-Aboriginal Women, 1870s-1890s
5 Laying the Foundation: The Work of
Nurses, Nursing Sisters, and Female
Attendants on Reserves, 1890 to 1915
6 Taking Over the System: Graduate Nurses,
Nursing Sisters, Female Attendants, and
Indian Health Services, 1915-1930
7  The Snake and the Butterfly:
Midwifery and Birth Control
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography
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Contact Zones
Aboriginal and Settler Women in
Canada’s Colonial Past
Edited by Myra Rutherdale and
Katie Pickles
Winner of the 2006
Best Article on the
History of Sexuality
in Canada, CCHS,
Canadian History
Association
As both colonizer and colonized (sometimes
even simultaneously), women were uniquely
positioned at the axis of the colonial
encounter – the so-called “contact zone”
– between Aboriginals and newcomers.
Aboriginal women shaped identities for
themselves in both worlds. By recognizing
the necessity to “perform,” they enchanted
and educated white audiences across
Canada. On the other side of the coin,
newcomers imposed increasing regulation
on Aboriginal women’s bodies. Contact
Zones provides insight into the ubiquity
and persistence of colonial discourse.
What bodies belonged inside the nation,
who were outsiders, and who transgressed
the rules – these are the questions at
the heart of this provocative book.
Katie Pickles is an associate professor in
the Department of History at the University
of Canterbury. Myra Rutherdale is an
associate professor in the Department of
History at York University.
Contributors: Jean Barman, Robin
Jarvis Brownlie, Sarah Carter, Jo-Anne
Fiske, Carole Gerson, Cecilia Morgan,
Dianne Newell, Adele Perry, Joan I.
Sangster, Veronica Strong-Boag.
2005, 978-0-7748-1136-1 pb $34.95
320 pages, 6 x 9"
16 b&w photographs
Aboriginal History
Women’s Studies
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Paddling to Where I Stand
Agnes Alfred, Qwiqwasutinuxw
Noblewoman
Edited by Martine J. Reid and Daisy
Sewid-Smith
Honourable
Mention, 2005
British Columbia
Historical Federation
Book Prize
Honourable Mention,
2004 Lieutenant-
Governor’s Medal
for Historical Writing,
BC Historical
Federation
The first-ever biography written about
a woman of the Northwest Coast’s
Kwakwakawakw people, Paddling to
Where I Stand presents the memoirs of
Agnes Alfred (c.1890-1992), a non-literate
noble Qwiqwasutinuxw woman of the
Kwakwaka'wakw Nation and one of the
last great storytellers among her peers
in the classic oral tradition. Agnes Alfred
documents, through myths, historical
accounts, and personal reminiscences,
the foundations and the enduring pulse
of her living culture. But this is more than
another anthropological interpretation; it
is the first-hand account of the greatest
period of change the Kwakwaka’wakw
people experienced since first contact
with Europeans, and Alfred’s memoirs
flow from her urgent desire to pass on
her knowledge to younger generations.
Martine J. Reid (editor) is an independent
scholar whose interests are in the field of
Northwest Coast cultural and aesthetic
anthropology. Daisy Sewid-Smith
(translator) is Agnes Alfred’s granddaughter,
a cultural historian, and a Kwakwaka'wakw
language instructor in the Faculty of
Education at the University of Victoria.
2004, 978-0-7748-0913-9 pb $34.95
325 pages, 6 x 9"
36 b&w photos, 8 illustrations, 1 map
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Aboriginal & Metis Histories
New Histories for Old
Changing Perspectives on
Canada’s Native Pasts
Edited by Theodore Binnema and
Susan Neylan
Scholarly depictions of the history of
Aboriginal people in Canada have changed
dramatically since the 1970s when Arthur J.
(“Skip”) Ray entered the field. New Histories
for Old examines this transformation while
extending the scholarship on Canada’s
Aboriginal history in new directions. This
collection combines essays by prominent
senior historians, geographers, and
anthropologists with contributions by
new voices in these fields. The chapters
reflect themes including Native struggles
for land and resources under colonialism,
the fur trade, “Indian” policy and treaties,
mobility and migration, disease and
well-being, and Native-newcomer relations.
Ted Binnema is professor of history at the
University of Northern British Columbia.
Susan Neylan is associate professor
of history at Wilfrid Laurier University.
2007, 978-0-7748-1414-0 pb $34.95
304 pages, 6 x 9"
4 b&w tables
Aboriginal History
Canadian Aboriginal History
Historiography
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Aboriginal & Metis Histories
The Red Man’s on the Warpath
The Image of the “Indian” and the
Second World War
R. Scott Sheffield
During the Second World War, thousands of
First Nations people joined in the national
crusade to defend freedom and democracy.
High rates of Native enlistment and public
demonstrations of patriotism encouraged
Canadians to re-examine the roles and
status of Native people in Canadian society.
The Red Man’s on the Warpath explores how
wartime symbolism and imagery propelled
the “Indian problem” onto the national
agenda, and why assimilation remained
the goal of post-war Canadian Indian
policy – even though the war required
that it be rationalized in new ways.
R. Scott Sheffield teaches in
the History Department at the
University of the Fraser Valley.
2003, 978-0-7748-1095-1 pb $34.95
240 pages, 6 x 9"
9 b&w photos
Aboriginal History
Military History
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BC Studies
Writing British Columbia History, 1784–1958
Chad Reimer
Chad Reimer received his PhD in
history from York University and
works as an independent historian
and author in Chilliwack, BC.
2009, 978-0-7748-1644-1 hc $85.00
July 2010
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440 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
BC History
Historiography
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This sweeping exploration of history writing in
British Columbia shows how historians helped
to construct Canada’s settler society. This highly
readable book has reshaped the way I think about
BC history. Reimer follows five generations of BC
historians as they tried to make the province “home"
by creating a past that celebrated and justified a
“White Man’s Province" dominated by an Anglo elite
... Historians, as Reimer eloquently shows, played
an essential role in the colonization of British
Columbia and the maintenance of minority rule by
a capitalist, Anglo, male elite through the late 20th
century. This book is essential for anyone interested
in the creation of a past for British Columbia.
– John Sutton Lutz, author of Makúk: A New
History of Aboriginal-White Relations
Captain James Cook first made contact with the
area now known as British Columbia in 1778. The
colonists who followed soon realized they needed a
written history, both to justify their dispossession
of Aboriginal peoples and to formulate an identity
for a new settler society. Writing British Columbia
History traces how Euro-Canadian historians took
up this task, and struggled with the newness
of colonial society and overlapping ties to the
British Empire, the United States, and Canada.
This exploration of the role of history writing in
colonialism and nation building will appeal to anyone
interested in the history of British Columbia, the
Pacific Northwest, and history writing in Canada.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Earliest Pages of History
2 Pioneers, Railways, and Civilization:
The Late Nineteenth Century
3 A Greater Britain on the Pacific:
History in the Edwardian Age
4 The Domain of History: Judge Frederic Howay
5 A Professional Past: The University of
British Columbia and Walter Sage
6 W. Kaye Lamb, Margaret Ormsby, and a
First Generation of BC Historians
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Index
Aboriginal Studies 2010 19
BC Studies
Urbanizing Frontiers
Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities
Penelope Edmonds
Penelope Edmonds is an
Australian Research Council
Postdoctoral Fellow in the
School of Historical Studies at
the University of Melbourne.
2009, 978-0-7748-1621-2 hc $85.00
July 2010
978-0-7748-1622-9 pb $35.95
328 pages, 6 x 9"
24 b&w photos, 5 maps
Aboriginal History
BC History
Australian History
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This book makes an original and highly important
contribution to the specific historiographies of
Canada and Australia, as well as to the broader
literatures on colonialism, urban development,
and race ... Transnational comparative analysis
is an increasingly important approach to
understanding the past, especially in the study
of colonialism and settler-indigenous relations,
and to my knowledge no other study with this
scope and theoretical bent has been published.
– Lisa-Anne Chilton, Department of History,
University of Prince Edward Island
This book explores the lives of Indigenous peoples
and settlers in two Pacific Rim cities – Victoria,
British Columbia, and Melbourne, Australia. Built
on Indigenous lands and overtaken by gold rushes,
these cities emerged between 1835 and 1871 in
significantly different locations, yet both became
cross-cultural and segregated sites of empire. This
innovative study traces how these spaces, and the
bodies in them, were transformed, sometimes in
violent ways, creating new spaces and new polities.
Contents
Introduction
1 Extremities of Empire: Two Settler-Colonial
Cities in Comparative Perspective
2 Settler-Colonial Cities: A Survey of
Bodies and Spaces in Transition
3 “This Grand Object": Building Towns in
Indigenous Space [Melbourne, Port Phillip]
4 First Nations Space, Protocolonial Space
[Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1843-58]
5 The Imagined City and Its Dislocations:
Segregation, Gender, and Town Camps
[Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1839-50]
6 Narratives of Race in the Streetscape: Fears
of Miscegenation and Making White Subjects
[Melbourne, Port Phillip, 1850s-60s]
7 From Bedlam to Incorporation: First Nations
Peoples, Public Space, and the Emerging City
[Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1858-60s]
8 Nervous Hybridity: Bodies, Spaces,
and the Displacements of Empire
[Victoria, British Columbia, 1858-71]
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921
Renisa Mawani
Renisa Mawani is an associate
professor of sociology at the
University of British Columbia.
2009, 978-0-7748-1634-2 pb $32.95
288 pages, 6 x 9"
16 b&w photos, 2 tables
Aboriginal History
BC History
Canadian Legal History
Socio-legal History
Law and Society Series
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This book offers fascinating new perspectives on the
roots of Canadian racism. Moving beyond traditional
narratives of Aboriginal-European contact and
Chinese-European relations, Renisa Mawani probes
the unsettled landscape of crossracial encounters
between “Indians" and “Chinese" in British Columbia
history. She deftly captures the frenzied anxieties
that whites harboured over ungovernable mixed-
race activities, and brilliantly dissects the renewed
state racisms that were born of such encounters.
– Constance Backhouse, Distinguished University
Professor and University Research Chair,
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European
colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race
populations generated a range of racial anxieties
that underwrote colonialism in BC. By focusing on
these points of contact, this book forges critical links
between histories of migration and dispossession.
The book highlights the legal and spatial strategies
of rule mobilized by Indian agents, missionaries, and
legal authorities who sought to restrict crossracial
encounters. Mawani illustrates how interracial
proximities in one colonial contact zone inspired
the production of juridical racial truths and modes
of governance that continue to linger in the racial
politics of contemporary settler societies.
Contents
1 Introduction: Heterogeneity and Interraciality
in British Columbia’s Colonial “Contact Zone"
2 The Racial Impurities of Global Capitalism:
The Politics of Labour, Interraciality, and
Lawlessness in the Salmon Canneries
3 (White) Slavery, Colonial Knowledges,
and the Rise of State Racisms
4 National Formations and Racial Selves:
Chinese Traffickers and Aboriginal Victims
in British Columbia’s Illicit Liquor Trade
5 “The Most Disreputable Characters": Mixed-
Bloods, Internal Enemies, and Imperial Futures
Conclusion: Colonial Pasts, Entangled
Presents, and Promising Futures
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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BC Studies
Becoming British Columbia
A Population History
John Belshaw
Becoming British Columbia is the first
comprehensive, demographic history of this
province. Investigating critical moments
in the demographic record and linking
demographic patterns to larger social and
political questions, it shows how biology,
politics, and history conspired with sex,
death, and migration to create a particular
kind of society. John Belshaw overturns
the widespread tendency to associate
population growth with progress by
examining how the province’s Aboriginal
population of as much as half a million was
reduced by disease to fewer than 30,000
people in less than a century. He reveals that
the province has a long tradition of thinking
and acting vigorously in ways meant to
control and shape biological communities
of humans, and suggests that imperialism,
race, class, and gender have historically
situated population issues at the centre of
public consciousness in British Columbia.
John Douglas Belshaw, formerly
a professor of history at Thompson
Rivers University, is now Associate
Vice-President of Education at North
Island College, Vancouver Island.
2009, 978-0-7748-1546-8 pb $34.95
300 pages, 6 x 9"
4 maps, 19 charts, and 26 tables
Aboriginal History
BC History
22 Aboriginal Studies 2010
BC Studies
Makúk
A New History of Aboriginal–White
Relations
John Sutton Lutz
Winner of the 2010
Harold Adams Innis
Prize, Canadian
Federation for the
Humanities and
Social Science
Winner of the 2009
Clio Award for BC,
Canadian Historical
Association
Selected, Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE
John Lutz traces Aboriginal people’s
involvement in the new economy, and their
displacement from it, from the arrival of
the first Europeans to the 1970s. Drawing
on an extensive array of oral histories,
manuscripts, newspaper accounts,
biographies, and statistical analysis, Lutz
shows that Aboriginal people flocked to
the workforce and prospered in the late
nineteenth century. He argues that the
roots of today’s widespread unemployment
and “welfare dependency” date only from
the 1950s, when deliberate and inadvertent
policy choices – what Lutz terms the “white
problem” drove Aboriginal people out of the
capitalist, wage, and subsistence economies,
offering them welfare as “compensation.”
John Sutton Lutz teaches in the
Department of History at the University
of Victoria. He is editor of Myth and
Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European
Contact and co-editor of Situating Race
and Racisms in Space, Time, and Theory.
2008, 978-0-7748-1140-8 pb $34.95
460 pages, 6 x 9"
180 b&w photos, 10 maps, 8 charts, and 10
tables
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Aboriginal Health
Canadian Aboriginal History
Canadian Aboriginal Political Science
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BC Studies
First Nations of British
Columbia, 2nd edition
An Anthropological Survey
Robert J. Muckle
The First Nations of British Columbia,
Second Edition, is a concise and accessible
overview of First Nations peoples, cultures,
and issues in the province. Robert Muckle
familiarizes readers with the history,
diversity, and complexity of First Nations
to provide a context for contemporary
concerns and initiatives. This fully revised
edition explains the current treaty
negotiation process and provides highlights
of agreements between First Nations
and governments. It also details past and
present government policies, identifies
the territories of major groups in the
province, gives information on populations,
reserves, bands, and language groups, and
summarizes archaeological, ethnographic,
historical, legal, and political issues.
Robert J. Muckle has been involved
in numerous anthropological research
projects, served as a consultant to several
First Nations, and taught at postsecondary
institutions throughout British Columbia.
He currently teaches anthropology at
Capilano College in North Vancouver.
2006, 978-0-7748-1349-5 pb $20.95
168 pages, 6 x 9"
31 b&w illustrations, 3 maps
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Aboriginal Anthropology
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BC Studies
Be of Good Mind
Essays on the Coast Salish
Edited by Bruce Granville Miller
In this book, anthropologists, archaeologists,
historians, linguists, and Aboriginal
leaders focus on how Coast Salish lives
and identities have been influenced by two
colonizing nations – Canada and the US –
and by shifting Aboriginal circumstances.
Contributors point to the continual
reshaping of Coast Salish identities and
our understandings of them through
litigation and language revitalization,
as well as community efforts to reclaim
their connections with the environment.
They point to significant continuity of
networks of kinfolk, spiritual practices,
and understandings of landscape. This
is the first book-length effort to directly
incorporate Aboriginal perspectives
and a broad interdisciplinary approach
to research about the Coast Salish.
Bruce Granville Miller is a
professor of anthropology at the
University of British Columbia.
2007, 978-0-7748-1324-2 pb $34.95
320 pages, 6 x 9"
15 b&w illustrations, 13 maps
Aboriginal History
Northwest History
Aboriginal Studies 2010 23
BC Studies
Tsawalk
A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview
E. Richard Atleo (Umeek)
In Tsawalk , hereditary chief Umeek
develops a theory of “Tsawalk,” meaning
“one,” that views the nature of existence
as an integrated and orderly whole, and
thereby recognizes the intrinsic relationship
between the physical and spiritual. Umeek
demonstrates how Tsawalk provides a
viable theoretical alternative that both
complements and expands the view of
reality presented by Western science.
Tsawalk, he argues, allows both Western
and indigenous views to be combined in
order to advance our understanding of
the universe. In addition, he shows how
various fundamental aspects of Nuu-chah-
nulth society are based upon Tsawalk,
and what implications it has today for
both Native and non-Native peoples.
E. Richard Atleo, whose Nuu-chah-nulth
name is Umeek, is a hereditary chief. He
served as co-chair of the internationally
recognized Scientific Panel for Sustainable
Forest Practices in Clayoquot Sound
and teaches in the First Nations Studies
Department at Malaspina University College.
2004, 978-0-7748-1085-2 pb $30.95
168 pages, 6 x 9"
15 b&w photos, 2 b&w illustrations, 1 map
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Anthropology
Philosophy
24 Aboriginal Studies 2010
BC Studies
Treaty Talks in British Columbia,
Third Edition
Building a New Relationship
Christopher McKee
This updated edition of Treaty Talks in
British Columbia traces the origins and
development of treaty negotiations in
the province and includes a postscript,
co-authored with Peter Colenbrander,
that provides an extensive overview of
the treaty process from 2001 to 2009. The
authors outline the achievements of and
challenges for the treaty process and review
some of the most recent jurisprudence
affecting Native and non-Native rights.
They also reflect on the growing number
of initiatives outside the treaty process to
achieve reconciliation between First Nations
and the Crown and raise questions about
the future relationship between these
initiatives and treaty negotiations. Succinct
and informative, this book brings clarity to
a complex and often contentious issue.
Christopher McKee is a former political
scientist at the University of British
Columbia and currently Chairman of
Gavea Emerging Markets Corporation.
Peter Colenbrander joined the
BC Treaty Commission in 1995. From
2001 until his retirement in 2008, he
was the manager of the Commission’s
facilitation and monitoring activities.
2009, 978-0-7748-1515-4 pb $30.95
200 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal Policy & Politics
Aboriginal Law
Canadian History
BC Studies
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law
Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Edited by Louis A. Knafla and Haijo Westra
Louis A. Knafla is professor
emeritus of the Department
of History and director of
Socio-Legal Studies at the
University of Calgary. Haijo
Westra is a professor of
Greek and Roman Studies at
the University of Calgary.
April 2010
978-0-7748-1560-4 hc $85.00
January 2011
978-0-7748-1560-4 PB $32.95
272 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal Law
Aboriginal History
Political Science
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This book enriches the literature, which is not
greatly endowed with comparative scholarship
on indigenous rights, and it will help scholars,
policy makers, students, and indigenous groups
to better appreciate both historical and recent
legal developments in common law jurisdictions.
– Benjamin J. Richardson, Osgoode Hall
Law School, York University
Contents
Introduction. “This Is Our Land": Aboriginal
Title at Customary and Common Law in
Comparative Contexts / Louis A. Knafla
Part 1: Sovereignty, Extinguishment, and
Expropriation of Aboriginal Title
1 From the US Indian Claims Commission Cases
to Delgamuukw: Facts, Theories, and Evidence
in North American Land Claims /  Arthur Ray
2 Social Theory, Expert Evidence, and the Yorta
Yorta Rights Appeal Decision / Bruce Rigsby
3 Law’s Infidelity to Its Past: The Failure
to Recognize Indigenous Jurisdiction in
Australia and Canada / David Yarrow
4 The Defence of Native Title and Dominion
in Sixteenth-Century Mexico Compared
with Delgamuukw / Haijo Westra
5 Beyond Aboriginal Title in Yukon: First
Nations Land Registries / Brian Ballantyne
 Part 2: Native Land, Litigation, and Indigenous Rights
6 The “Race" for Recognition: Toward a
Policy of Recognition of Aboriginal Peoples
in Canada / Paul L.A.H. Chartrand
7 The Sources and Content of Indigenous
Land Rights in Australia and Canada: A
Critical Comparison / Kent McNeil
8 Common Law, Statutory Law, and the Political
Economy of the Recognition of Indigenous
Australian Rights in Land / Nicolas Peterson
9 Claiming Native Title in the Foreshore
and Seabed / Jacinta Ruru
10 Waterpower Developments and Native Water
Rights Struggles in the North American West
in the Early Twentieth Century: A View from
Three Stoney Nakoda Cases / Kenichi Matsui
Conclusion. Power and Principle: State-
Indigenous Relations across Time
and Space / Peter W. Hutchins
Selected Bibliography; General Index; Index of Cases;
Index of Statutes, Treaties, and Agreements
Aboriginal Studies 2010 25
Law
Between Consenting Peoples
Political Community and the Meaning of Consent
Edited by Jeremy Webber and Colin M. Macleod
Jeremy Webber holds the
Canada Research Chair in Law
and Society at the University of
Victoria and is a Trudeau Fellow.
Colin M. Macleod is an associate
professor of law and philosophy
at the University of Victoria.
November 2010
978-0-7748-1883-4 hc $85.00
July 2011
978-0-7748-1884-1 pb $34.95
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Law & Society
Law & Politics
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Constitutional Law
Political Science
26 Aboriginal Studies 2010
By examining how consent serves as the foundation
for political community, especially in relations
between indigenous and nonindigenous peoples, this
book seeks to draw perspectives from indigenous
relations into the heart of political theory.
Consent has long been used to establish the
legitimacy of society. But when one asks – who
consented? how? to what type of community? –
consent becomes very elusive, more myth than
reality. In Between Consenting Peoples, leading
scholars of legal and political theory examine the
different ways in which consent has been used
to justify political communities and the authority
of law, especially in indigenous-nonindigenous
relations. They explore the kind of consent – the
kind of attachment – that might ground political
community and establish a fair relationship
between indigenous and nonindigenous peoples.
Contents
Introduction
1 The Meanings of Consent / Jeremy Webber
Part 1: The Challenges of Consent
in Indigenous Contexts
2 Living Together: Gitksan Legal Reasoning as
a Foundation for Consent / Val Napoleon
3 “Thou Wilt Not Die of Hunger ... for I Bring
Thee Merchandise": Consent, Intersocietal
Normativity, and the Exchange of Food at
York Factory, 1682-1763 / Janna Promislow
4 The Complexity of the Object of Consent:
Some Australian Stories / Tim Rowse
Part 2: Reconceiving Consent in Political
and Legal Philosophy
5 Indigenous Peoples and Political
Legitimacy / Margaret Moore
6 Consent, Legitimacy, and the Foundation of
Political and Legal Authority / David Dyzenhaus
7 Consent or Contestation? / Duncan Ivison
8 Beyond Consent and Disagreement: Why Law’s
Authority is Not Just about Will / Andrée Boisselle
Concluding Reflections
9 Consent, Hegemony, and Dissent in
Treaty Negotiations / James Tully
Index
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Law
Indigenous Legal Traditions
Edited by the Law Commission of
Canada
The essays in this book present important
perspectives on the role of Indigenous
legal traditions in reclaiming and
preserving the autonomy of Aboriginal
communities and in reconciling the
relationship between these communities
and Canadian governments. Although
Indigenous peoples had their own systems
of law based on their social, political, and
spiritual traditions, under colonialism their
legal systems have often been ignored
or overruled by non-Indigenous laws.
Today, however, these legal traditions are
being reinvigorated and recognized as
vital for the preservation of the political
autonomy of Aboriginal nations and the
development of healthy communities.
The Law Commission of Canada
is an independent federal law reform
agency that advises Parliament on how
to improve and modernize Canada’s laws.
Contributors: Dawnis Kennedy, Andrée
Lajoie, Ghislain Otis, Ted Palys and Wenona
Victor, Paulette Regan, and Perry Shawana.
2007, 978-0-7748-1371-6 pb $34.95
192 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Law
Legal Dimensions series
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Law
Let Right Be Done
Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case,
and the Future of Indigenous Rights
Edited by Hamar Foster, Jeremy Webber,
and Heather Raven
In 1973 the Supreme Court of Canada issued
a landmark decision in the Calder case,
confirming that Aboriginal title constituted a
right within Canadian law. Let Right Be Done
examines the doctrine of Aboriginal title
thirty years later and puts the Calder case
in its legal, historical, and political context,
both nationally and internationally. With
its innovative blend of scholarly analysis
and input from many of those intimately
involved in the case, this book should be
essential reading for anyone interested in
Aboriginal law, treaty negotiations, and the
history of the “BC Indian land question.”
Hamar Foster is Professor of Law
at the University of Victoria. Heather
Raven is Senior Lecturer in Law at the
University of Victoria. Jeremy Webber
holds the Canada Research Chair in Law
and Society at the University of Victoria.
2007, 978-0-7748-1404-1 pb $34.95
352 pages, 6 x 9"
12 b&w photos, 1 map
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Law
Constitutional Law
Legal History
Law and Society Series
Aboriginal Studies 2010 27
Law
Lament for a First Nation
The Williams Treaties of
Southern Ontario
Peggy J. Blair
In a 1994 decision known as Howard, the
Supreme Court of Canada held that the
Aboriginal signatories to the 1923 Williams
Treaties had knowingly given up not only
their title to off-reserve lands but also their
treaty rights to hunt and fish for food. No
other First Nations in Canada have ever
been found to have willingly surrendered
similar rights. Blair argues that the
Canadian courts caused a serious injustice
by applying erroneous cultural assumptions
in their interpretation of the evidence.
In particular, they confused provincial
government policy, which has historically
favoured public over special rights, with the
understanding of the parties at the time.
Peggy J. Blair is one of Canada’s leading
lawyers in the field of Aboriginal law.
2008, 978-0-7748-1513-0 pb $34.95
364 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal Law
Ontario History
Legal History
Law and Society Series
28 Aboriginal Studies 2010
Law
Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights
in British Columbia, 1849–1925
Douglas C. Harris
Honourable Mention,
2009 Lieutenant-
Governor’s Medal
for Historical Writing,
BC Historical
Federation
Landing Native Fisheries reveals the
contradictions and consequences of an
Indian land policy premised on access
to fish, on one hand, and a program
of fisheries management intended to
open the resource to newcomers, on the
other. Beginning with the first treaties
signed on Vancouver Island between
1850 and 1854, Douglas Harris maps the
connections between the colonial land
policy and the law governing the fisheries.
In so doing, Harris rewrites the history of
colonial dispossession in British Columbia,
offering a new and nuanced examination
of the role of law in the consolidation
of power within the colonial state.
Douglas C. Harris is a member of
the Faculty of Law at the University
of British Columbia and the author of
Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal
Capture of Salmon in British Columbia
2008, 978-0-7748-1420-1 pb $34.95
268 pages, 6 x 9"
15 b&w photos, 25 maps, 3 tables
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Law
BC History
Foresty, Fisheries & Resources
Legal History
Law and Society Series
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Law
Protection of First Nations
Cultural Heritage
Laws, Policy, and Reform
Edited by Catherine Bell and
Robert K. Paterson
Indigenous peoples around the world are
seeking greater control over tangible and
intangible cultural heritage. In Canada,
issues concerning repatriation and trade of
material culture, heritage site protection,
treatment of ancestral remains, and control
over intangible heritage are governed by
a complex legal and policy environment.
This volume looks at the key features
of Canadian, US, and international law
influencing indigenous cultural heritage in
Canada. Legal and extralegal avenues for
reform are examined and opportunities and
limits of existing frameworks are discussed.
Is a radical shift in legal and political
relations necessary for First Nations
concerns to be meaningfully addressed?
Catherine Bell is a professor of law
at the University of Alberta. Robert
K. Paterson is a professor of law at
the University of British Columbia.
2009, 978-0-7748-1464-5 pb $34.95
464 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Law
Social & Cultural Anthropology
Law & Society
Law and Society Series
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Law
First Nations Cultural Heritage
and Law
Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
Edited by Catherine Bell and
Val Napoleon
First Nations Cultural Heritage and
Law explores First Nations perspectives
on cultural heritage and issues of reform
within and beyond Western law. Written in
collaboration with First Nation partners,
it contains seven case studies featuring
indigenous concepts, legal orders,
and encounters with legislation and
negotiations; a national review essay; three
chapters reflecting on major themes; and a
self-reflective critique on the challenges of
collaborative and intercultural research.
Catherine Bell is a professor of law at the
University of Alberta. Val NapoleOn teaches
in the Faculty of Native Studies and the
Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta.
2008, 978-0-7748-1462-1 pb $34.95
544 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Law
Social & Cultural Anthropology
Law & Society
Law and Society Series
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Law
Between Justice and Certainty
Treaty Making in British Columbia
Andrew Woolford
Since the BC treaty process was established
in 1992, two discourses have become
prominent within the treaty negotiations.
The first, a discourse of justice, asks how we
can remedy the past injustices imposed on
BC First Nations. The second, a discourse
of certainty, asks whether historical repair
can occur in a manner that provides a
better future for all British Columbians.
Andrew Woolford examines the interplay
between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
visions of justice and certainty to determine
whether there is a space between the
two concepts in which modern treaties
can be made. He suggests that greater
attention to justice is necessary if we are
to initiate a process of reconciliation.
Andrew Woolford is associate
professor in the Department of Sociology
at the University of Manitoba.
2006, 978-0-7748-1132-3 pb $34.95
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Aboriginal Law
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Sociology
30 Aboriginal Studies 2010
Education & Health
Braiding Histories
Learning from Aboriginal Peoples’
Experiences and Perspectives
Susan D. Dion
This book proposes a new pedagogy for
addressing Aboriginal subject material,
shifting the focus from an essentializing
or “othering” exploration of the attributes
of Aboriginal peoples to a focus on
historical experiences that inform
our understanding of contemporary
relationships between Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal peoples. Reflecting on the
process of writing a series of stories, Dion
takes up questions of (re)presenting the
lived experiences of Aboriginal people
in the service of pedagogy. Investigating
what happened when the stories were
taken up in history classrooms, she
illustrates how our investments in
particular identities structure how we
hear and what we are “willing to know."
Susan D. Dion is a professor in the
Faculty of Education at York University.
2009, 978-0-7748-1518-5 pb $34.95
252 pages, 6 x 9"
16 b&w photos
Aboriginal Education
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Education & HEalth
Inuit Education and Schools in the Eastern Arctic
Heather E. McGregor
Heather E. McGregor is a
researcher who currently works
for the public service in Nunavut.
May 2010
978-0-7748-1744-8 hc $85.00
January 2011
978-0-7748-1745-5 pb $32.95
224 pages, 6 x 9"
9 b&w photos, 1 map
Aboriginal Education
Educational Policy & Theory/
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Northern Canada
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This book is very important to the field of Inuit
education. In April 2008 Inuit Tapiritsat Kanatmi,
the pan-Canadian Inuit political organization,
called a national summit to address the failure of
current schooling to meet the academic, social,
and cultural needs of Inuit students in formal
schooling in the four Inuit regions of Canada.
This book clearly shows that when schools create
different power relationships with Inuit families
and communities, positive results can be seen.
– Joanne Tompkins, author of Teaching in a Cold
and Windy Place: Change in an Inuit School
Since the mid-twentieth century, sustained contact
between Inuit and newcomers in the Eastern Arctic
has led to profound changes in education, including
the experience of colonization and progress toward
the re-establishment of traditional education in
schools. Heather McGregor assesses these trends
over four periods – the traditional, the colonial
(1945–70), the territorial (1971–81), and the local
(1982–99). She concludes that education is most
successful when Inuit involvement and local control
support a system reflecting Inuit culture and visions.
Contents
Introduction
1 History of the Eastern Arctic:
Foundations and Themes
2  Living and Learning on the Land: Inuit
Education in the Traditional Period
3  Qallunaat Schooling: Assimilation
in the Colonial Period
4  Educational Change: New Possibilities
in the Territorial Period
5  Reclaiming the Schools: Inuit
Involvement in the Local Period
Afterword
Appendix: Inuit Qaujimajatuqanginnik
(IQ) Guiding Principles
Notes; Bibliography; Index
Aboriginal Studies 2010 31
Education & HEalth
Supporting Indigenous
Children’s Development
Community-University Partnerships
Jessica Ball and Alan R. Pence
This book challenges and offers an
alternative to the imposition of best
practices on communities by outside
specialists. It tells of an unexpected
partnership initiated by an Aboriginal tribal
council with the University of Victoria’s
School of Child and Youth Care. The
partnership produced a new approach
to professional education, in which
community leaders are co-constructors of
the curriculum. Word of this “generative
curriculum” has spread, and now more
than sixty communities have participated
in the First Nations Partnerships Program.
The authors show how this innovative
program has strengthened community
capacity to design, deliver, and evaluate
culturally appropriate programs to
support young children’s development.
Jessica Ball and Alan r. Pence are
professors in the School of Child and
Youth Care at the University of Victoria.
2006, 978-0-7748-1231-3 pb $34.95
152 pages, 6 x 9"
4 b&w illustrations, 9 tables, 1 map
Aboriginal Education
Pre-School Education
32 Aboriginal Studies 2010
Education & HEalth
Indigenous Storywork
Educating the Heart, Mind, Body,
and Spirit
Jo-ann Archibald
Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with
Coast Salish Elders and storytellers, who
shared both traditional and personal
life-experience stories, in order to
develop ways of bringing storytelling
into educational contexts. Indigenous
Storywork is the result of this research and
it demonstrates how stories have the power
to educate and heal the heart, mind, body,
and spirit. It builds on the seven principles
of respect, responsibility, reciprocity,
reverence, holism, interrelatedness,
and synergy that form a framework for
understanding the characteristics of stories,
appreciating the process of storytelling,
establishing a receptive learning context,
and engaging in holistic meaning-making.
Jo-ann Archibald, also known as
Q’um Q’um Xiiem, from the Stó:lo
Nation, is Associate Dean for Indigenous
Education in the Faculty of Education
at the University of British Columbia.
2008, 978-0-7748-1402-7 pb $29.95
192 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal Education
BC Aboriginal Studies
Literature, Languages & Linguistics
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Education & HEalth Education & HEalth

Healing Traditions Protecting Aboriginal Children

The Mental Health of Aboriginal Chris Walmsley
Peoples in Canada
Edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer and
Gail Guthrie Valaskakis

Since the 1980s, bands and tribal councils

have developed unique community-based
child welfare services to better protect
Aboriginal children. Protecting Aboriginal
Aboriginal peoples in Canada have diverse
Children explores contemporary approaches
cultures but share common social and
to the protection of Aboriginal children
political challenges that have contributed
through interviews with practising social
to their experiences of health and illness.
workers employed at Aboriginal child
This collection addresses the origins of
welfare organizations and the child
mental health and social problems and
protection service in British Columbia. It
the emergence of culturally responsive
places current practice in a sociohistorical
approaches to services and health
context, describes emerging practice in
promotion. Healing Traditions is not a
decolonizing communities, and identifies
handbook of practice but a resource for
the effects of political and media
thinking critically about current issues in
controversy on social workers. This is the
the mental health of indigenous peoples.
first book to document emerging practice
Laurence J. Kirmayer is James McGill in Aboriginal communities and describe
Professor and Director of the Division child protection practice simultaneously
of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry from the points of view of Aboriginal
at McGill University; Director of the and non-Aboriginal social workers.
Culture and Mental Health Research
Christopher Walmsley teaches in
Unit of the Institute for Community and
the School of Social Work and Human
Family Psychiatry at the Jewish General
Service at Thompson Rivers University.
Hospital, Montreal; and Co-Director of
the National Network for Aboriginal 2005, 978-0-7748-1171-2 pb $30.95
Mental Health Research. Gail Guthrie 192 pages, 6 x 9"
Valaskakis was Director of Research, Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Aboriginal Healing Foundation, Ottawa, Social Work
and Co-Director of the National Network
for Aboriginal Mental Health Research.

2008, 978-0-7748-1524-6 pb $39.95

528 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal Health
Mental Health

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Northern
NorthernStudies
Studies
Settlers on the Edge
Identity and Modernization on
Russia’s Arctic Frontier
Niobe Thompson
Deeply researched and eloquently
written, Settlers on the Edge shines light
onto hitherto unexplored territory in
the literature of the Arctic, namely the
tortured birth and mercurial fortunes of
Russia’s large arctic settler population.
Thompson reveals how the orphan children
of a grand Soviet project to “civilize” the
North wrought from their post-Soviet
misfortunes a new sense of themselves.
The picture that emerges – of a people of
the arctic landscape – makes an important
and long-overdue contribution to our
understanding of who belongs in the North.
– Farley Mowat
Niobe Thompson is a documentary
filmmaker, a partner in Clearwater
Media, and a research associate at
the Canadian Circumpolar Institute.
He also teaches in the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Alberta.
2008, 978-0-7748-1468-3 pb $34.95
316 pages, 6 x 9"
31 b&w photos, 3 maps
Ethnographies
Asian History
34 Aboriginal Studies 2010
Northern Studies
Kiumajut (Talking Back)
Game Management and Inuit Rights,
1950–70
Peter Kulchyski and Frank James Tester
Kiumajut examines Inuit relations with the
Canadian state, with a particular focus on
two interrelated issues. The first is how a
deeply flawed set of scientific practices
for counting animal populations led
policymakers to develop policies and laws
intended to curtail the activities of Inuit
hunters. Animal management informed
by this knowledge became a justification
for attempts to educate and, ultimately, to
regulate Inuit hunters. The second issue is
Inuit responses to the emerging regime of
government intervention. The authors look
closely at resulting court cases and rulings,
as well as Inuit petitions. The activities of
the first Inuit community council are also
examined in exploring how Inuit began
to “talk back” to the Canadian state.
Peter Kulchyski is a professor in the
Department of Native Studies at the
University of Manitoba. Frank James
Tester is a professor in the School of
Social Work at the University of British
Columbia. Kulchyski and Tester are
co-authors of Tammarniit [Mistakes]: Inuit
Relocation in the Eastern Arctic 1939–63.
2007, 978-0-7748-1242-9 pb $34.95
336 pages, 6 x 9"
Canadian History
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Northern Studies
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international polar institute Press
Inuit Folk-Tales
Collected by Knud Rasmussen
Translated by W. Worster
Native languages and ways of living,
including the arts of sea kayaking and dog
sledding, fascinated Knud Rasmussen,
himself of Inuit and Danish descent.
Rasmussen devoted much of his life to
ethnological and cultural studies throughout
Arctic North America. Establishing a base
station in Thule, Greenland in 1910, he
visited as many Inuit peoples as he could,
took meticulous notes and made sketches,
and compiled hundreds of Native legends
and songs. The tales are grounded in
the Inuit belief system, itself defined by
superstition and transformation. Thanks
to his own mixed heritage, Rasmussen
understood Inuit stories at a deeper level
than did most observers, and documented
many priceless legends that the West
might have otherwise not have noticed.
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (1879–
1933) was a Greenlandic polar explorer and
anthropologist. He has been called the
“father of Eskimology” and was the first to
cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled.
2009, 978-0-9821-7031-1 pb $23.95
320 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
International Polar Institute Press
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university of washington Press
Art Quantum
The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native
American Fine Art, 2009
Edited by James Nottage
While blood quantum laws have been used
to determine an individual’s inclusion in a
Native group, Eiteljorg fellowship artists
have instead come to view themselves
as belonging to the “Art Tribe,” through
the universal process of art creation and
collaboration. Art Quantum presents
a selection of the extraordinary work
created by the five artists selected for
the 2009 Eiteljorg Fellowship. Essays
by James Nottage, Jennifer Complo
McNutt, Ashley Holland (Cherokee),
and Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche) help
to situate the larger issue of Native
identity in the contemporary art world.
March 2010, 978-0-2959-8996-9 pb $29.95
96 pages, 6 x 9"
90 color illustrations
Aboriginal Studies
Aboriginal Art
University of Washington Press
Published with the Eiteljorg Museum
of American Indians and Western Art,
Indianapolis
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Becoming Tsimshian The Power of Promises

The Social Life of Names Rethinking Indian Treaties in the
Christopher F. Roth Pacific Northwest
Edited by Alexandra Harmon

shian
tsim
ming
beco AM ES The POWER of PROMISES
OF N
LI FE
SO CI A L
TH E
CHRISTOPHER F. ROTH

R E T H I N K I N G I N D I A N T R E AT I E S
I N T H E PAC I F I C N ORT H W E S T
Edited by Alexandra Harmon

The Tsimshian people of coastal British In The Power of Promises , a distinguished

Columbia use a system of hereditary
name-titles in which names are treated as
objects of inheritable wealth. Becoming
Tsimshian examines the way in which names
link members of a lineage to a past and
to the places where that past unfolded. In
investigating the different dimensions of
the Tsimshian naming system, Christopher
F. Roth draws extensively on recent
literature, archival reference, and elders in
Tsimshian communities. Becoming Tsimshian
covers important themes in linguistic and
cultural anthropology and ethnic studies.
Christopher F. Roth is a lecturer
in anthropology at the University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
2008, 978-0-2959-8807-8 pb $32.95
296 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal Studies
Aboriginal Anthropology
BC Aboriginal Studies
BC Anthropology
Linguistics
University of Washington Press
Canadian rights only
group of scholars, representing many
disciplines, discuss the legacy of treaties
with Native American groups in the Pacific
Northwest, which have had profound
implications for land ownership, resource
access, and political rights. Treaties have
been employed hundreds of times to define
relations between indigenous and colonial
societies, many such pacts have continuing
legal force, and many have been the focus
of recent, high-stakes legal contests. This
book shows that treaties have implications
for important aspects of human history and
contemporary existence, including struggles
for political and cultural power, law’s effect
on people’s self-conceptions, the functions
of stories about the past, and the process
of defining national and ethnic identities.
Alexandra Harmon is associate
professor of American Indian studies at
the University of Washington and author of
Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and
Indian Identities around Puget Sound. .
2008, 978-0-2959-8839-9 pb $34.95
384 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Law
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
University of Washington Press
Published with the Center for the Study of the
Pacific Northwest
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paradigm Publishers University of Arizona Press

Indigenous Peoples and Native American Performance

Globalization and Representation
Resistance and Revitalization Edited by S.E. Wilmer
Thomas D. Hall and James V. Fenelon
Foreword by Duane Champagne

The issues native peoples face intensify

with globalization. Through case studies
from around the world, Hall and Fenelon
demonstrate how indigenous peoples’
movements can be understood only by
linking highly localized processes with
larger global and historical forces. The
authors show that indigenous peoples
have been resisting and adapting to
encounters with states for millennia.
Native American Performance and
Unlike other antiglobalization activists,
Representation provides a comprehensive
indigenous peoples primarily seek
study of Native performance, a
autonomy and the right to determine their
multifaceted and changing art form as
own processes of adaptation and change,
well as a swiftly growing field of research.
especially in relationship to their origin
Notable researchers and performers use
lands and community. The authors link
multiple perspectives, such as feminism,
their analyses to current understandings
literary and film theory, and postcolonial
of the evolution of globalization.
discourse, to look at the varying nature
Thomas D. Hall is the Edward Myers of Native performance strategies, They
Dolan Professor of Anthropology at consider such issues as the effects of
DePauw University. James V. Fenelon miscegenation on traditional customs,
is Professor of Sociology at California Native women’s position in a multicultural
State University-San Bernardino. society, and the relationship between
authenticity and hybridity in Native
2009, 978-1-5945-1658-0 pb $33.95 performance. An important addition to
208 pages, 6 x 9" Native performance studies, Wilmer’s book
Aboriginal Studies cuts across disciplines and areas of study
Globalization in a way no other book in the field does.
Paradigm Publishers
Canadian rights only S.E. Wilmer is an associate professor of
drama and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin,
and he has served as a visiting professor
at Stanford University and UC Berkeley.

2009, 978-0-8165-2646-8 hc $59.95

296 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal Studies
Communication & Cultural Studies
Multiculturalism & Transnationalism
University of Arizona Press
Canadian rights only

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university of arizona Press
Mining, the Environment,
and Indigenous Development
Conflicts
Saleem H. Ali
This book gets to the heart of mining
resource conflicts and environmental impact
assessment by asking why indigenous
communities support mining development
on their lands in some cases but not in
others. The author challenges conventional
theories of conflict based on economics
and environmental concerns, proposing
that the underlying issue is sovereignty.
Activist and environmental groups, he
observes, fail to understand such tribal
concerns and often have problems working
with tribes on issues where they presume
a common environmental interest. This
book goes beyond popular perceptions
of environmentalism to examine how and
when the concerns of industry, society, and
tribal governments converge or conflict.
Saleem H. Ali is an assistant professor
of environmental studies at the University
of Vermont and a research scholar at
the Watson Institute for International
Studies at Brown University.
2009, 978-0-8165-2879-0 pb $39.95
254 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal Politics & Policy
Environmental Advocacy & Activism
Resource Mangement
University of Arizona Press
Canadian rights only
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university of arizona Press
Landscapes and Social
Transformations on the
Northwest Coast
Colonial Encounters in the
Fraser Valley
Jeff Oliver
The Fraser Valley in British Columbia
has been viewed historically as a typical
setting of Indigenous-white interaction. Jeff
Oliver now reexamines the social history
of this region from pre-contact to the
violent upheavals of nineteenth- and early-
twentieth-century colonialism to argue that
the dominant discourses of progress and
colonialism often mask the real social and
physical process of change that occurred
here. He demonstrates how social change
and cultural understanding are tied to
the way that people use and remake the
landscape. Drawing on ethnographic texts,
archaeological evidence, cartography, and
historical writing, he has created a deep
history of the valley that enables us to view
how human entanglements with landscape
were creative of a variety of contentious
issues. It offers a new lens for viewing a
region as it provides fresh insight into such
topics as landscape change, perceptions
of place, and Indigenous-white relations.
2010, 978-0-8165-2787-8 hc $65.95
264 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
Aboriginal Anthropology
Aboriginal Archaeology
Geography
University of Arizona Press
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University of Arizona Press
Across a Great Divide
Continuity and Change in Native
American Societies, 1400–1900
Laura Scheiber and Mark D. Mitchell
If archaeologists are to bridge the
artificial divide separating history from
prehistory, they must overturn a whole
range of colonial ideas about native
Americans and their history. Using data
from a wide variety of geographical,
temporal, and cultural settings, this
book examines economic, social, and
political stability and transformation in
indigenous societies before and after the
advent of Europeans. With case studies
ranging from sixteenth-century Florida
to nineteenth-century coastal Alaska,
Across a Great Divide shows that empirical
archaeological research can help replace
long-standing models of indigenous culture
change rooted in colonialist narratives
– and play a major role in decolonizing
knowledge about native peoples.
Laura L. Scheiber is an assistant
professor of anthropology at Indiana
University and co-editor of Archaeological
Landscapes on the High Plains . Mark
D. Mitchell is a PhD candidate in
anthropology at the University of Colorado.
2010, 978-0-8165-2871-4 hc $72.95
304 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal Studies
Archaeology
University of Arizona Press
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Athabasca University Press
The Importance of Being
Monogamous
Marriage and Nation Building
in Western Canada to 1915
Sarah Carter
Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering
efforts of government, legal, and religious
authorities to impose the “one man, one
woman” model of marriage upon Mormons
and Aboriginal people in Western Canada.
This lucidly written, richly researched book
revises what we know about marriage and
the gendered politics of late-nineteenth-
century reform, shifts our understanding
of Aboriginal history during that time, and
brings together the fields of indigenous and
migrant history in new and important ways.
Sarah Carter is professor and
Henry Marshall Tory Chair in both the
Department of History and Classics
and the Faculty of Native Studies
at the University of Alberta..
2008, 978-0-8886-4490-9 pb $29.95
304 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
Canadian Social History
Women’s History
Sociology of Gender & Family
Athabasca University Press
Aboriginal Studies 2010 39
Athabasca University Press
Trail of Story, Travellers’ Path
Reflections on Ethnoecology and
Landscape
Leslie Main Johnson
Trail of Story, Traveller’s Path examines
the meaning of landscape, drawn from
Leslie Main Johnson’s rich experience
with diverse environments and peoples,
including the Gitksan and Witsuwit’en
of northwestern British Columbia, the
Kaska Dene of the southern Yukon, and
the Gwich’in of the Mackenzie Delta. With
passion and conviction, Johnson maintains
that our response to our environment
shapes our culture, determines our lifestyle,
defines our identity, and sets the tone
for our relationships and economies. She
documents the landscape and contrasts the
ecological relationships with land of First
Nations peoples to those of non-indigenous
scientists. The result is an absorbing study
of local knowledge of place and a broad
exploration of the meaning of landscape.
Leslie Main Johnson is an associate
professor in the Centre for Work and
Community Studies and the Centre for
Integrated Studies at Athabasca University.
2010, 978-1-8974-2535-0 pb $34.95
264 pages, 6 x 9"
b/w and colour images, maps
Environmental History
Aboriginal Studies
Canadian History
Athabasca University Press
40 Aboriginal Studies 2010
Athabasca University Press
The West and Beyond
New Perspectives on an
Imagined “Region”
Edited by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and
Peter Fortna
The West and Beyond evaluates and
appraises the state of Western Canadian
history, acknowledging and assessing
the contributions of historians of the
past and present while showcasing the
research interests of a new generation
of scholars. It charts new directions
for the future and stimulates further
interrogations of our past. The editors
hope the collection encourages dialogue
among generations of historians of the
West and among practitioners of diverse
approaches to the past. It also reflects a
broad range of disciplinary and professional
boundaries, suggesting a number of
different ways to understand the West.
Alvin Finkel is a professor of history at
Athabasca University. Sarah Carter,
F.R.S.C., is a professor and the Henry
Marshall Tory Chair in the Department
of History and Classics and Faculty
of Native Studies at the University
of Alberta. Peter Fortna is the
heritage research coordinator for the
Métis Local 1935 in Fort McMurray.
2010, 978-1-8974-2580-0 pb $29.95
226 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
Historiography
Athabasca University Press
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athabasca University Press
Liberalism, Surveillance,
and Resistance
Indigenous communities in Western
Canada, 1877–1927
Keith D. Smith
Canada is regularly presented as a
country where liberalism has ensured
freedom and equality for all. Yet with
the expansion of settlers into the First
Nations territories that became southern
Alberta and British Columbia, liberalism
proved to be an exclusionary rather than
inclusionary force. Between 1877 and
1927, government officials, police officers,
church representatives, ordinary settlers,
and many others operated to exclude and
reform Indigenous people. Presenting
Anglo-Canadian liberal capitalist values and
structures and interests as normal, natural,
and beyond reproach devalued virtually
every aspect of Indigenous cultures. This
book explores the means used to facilitate
and justify colonization, their effects on
Indigenous economic, political, social, and
spiritual lives, and how they were resisted.
Keith D. Smith is chair of the Department
of First Nations Studies and teaches in
the Department of History at Vancouver
Island University in Nanaimo.
2009, 978-1-8974-2539-8 pb $39.95
256 pages, 6 x 9"
2 maps
Aboriginal History
British Empire History
Canadian Political History
Athabasca University Press
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athabasca University Press
Imagining Head-Smashed-In
Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the
Northern Plains
Jack W. Brink
For millennia, Aboriginal hunters on
the North American Plains used their
knowledge of the land and of buffalo
behaviour to drive their quarry over cliffs.
Archaeologist Jack Brink has written a
major study of the mass buffalo hunts
and the culture they supported before
and after European contact. By way of
example, he draws on his twenty-five
years excavating at Head-Smashed-In
Buffalo Jump in southwestern Alberta
– a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Jack W. Brink is Archaeology Curator at
the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton.
2008, 978-1-8974-2504-6 pb $35.95
360 pages, 6 x 9"
Aboriginal History
Anthropology
Archaeology
Athabasca University Press
Aboriginal Studies 2010 41
Athabasca University Press
The Beaver Hills Country
A History of Land and Life
Graham A. MacDonald
This book explores a relatively small, but
interesting and anomalous, region of
Alberta between the North Saskatchewan
and the Battle Rivers. The Beaver Hills arose
where mountain glaciers from the west met
continental ice-sheets from the east. An
overview of the hills’ physiography helps
us to grasp the complexity and diversity
of landscapes, soil types, and vegetation
communities. Ecological themes, such as
climatic cycles, ground water availability,
vegetation succession and the response of
wildlife, and the impact of fires, shape the
possibilities and provide the challenges
to those who have called the region home
or used its varied resources: Aboriginal
peoples, Métis, and European immigrants.
Graham A. MacDonald has worked
as a public historian for the Ontario
Parks Branch, the Manitoba Heritage
Branch, and Parks Canada, and as
a heritage planner in Winnipeg.
2009, 978-1-8974-2537-4 pb $29.95
190 pages, 6 x 9"
35 b&w photos, 10 maps, 2 illustrations, 1 table
Environmental History
Canadian History
Historical Geography
Athabasca University Press
42 Aboriginal Studies 2010
Athabasca University Press
Icon, Brand, Myth
The Calgary Stampede
Edited by Max Foran
An investigation of the meanings and
iconography of the Stampede, an invented
tradition that takes over the city of
Calgary for ten days every July. Since 1923,
archetypal “Cowboys and Indians” are
seen again at the chuckwagon races, on
the midway, and throughout Calgary. Each
essay in this collection examines a facet
of the experience — from the images on
advertising posters to the ritual of the
annual parade. This study of the Calgary
Stampede as a social phenomenon reveals
the history and sociology of the city of
Calgary and the social construction of
identity for western Canada as a whole.
Max Foran is a professor in the
Faculty of Communication and History
at the University of Calgary.
2008, 978-1-8974-2505-3 pb $29.95
352 pages, 6 x 9"
16 b&w illustrations
Canadian Social History
Sociology
Athabasca University Press
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Making Native Space Tales of Ghosts

Colonialism, Resistance, and First Nations Art in British
Reserves in British Columbia Columbia, 1922–61
R. Cole Harris Ronald W. Hawker

Winner of the 2002 Sir 2003, 248 pages, 6 x 9"

John A. Macdonald 978-0-7748-0955-9
Prize, Canadian pb $32.95
Historical Association

Winner of the 2002

Clio Award for British
Columbia, Canadian
Historical Association

Finalist, 2002
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize for best
non-fiction literary book, BC Book Prizes
National Visions,
Winner of the 2003 Massey Medal, National Blindness
Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Canadian Art and Identities
Winner of the 2003 K.D. Srivastava Prize in the 1920s
for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing
Leslie Dawn
2003, 448 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-0901-6 2007, 456 pages, 6 x 9"
pb $34.95 978-0-7748-1218-4
Brenda and David McLean pb $34.95
Canadian Studies Series

Making Wawa Reshaping the University

The Genesis of Chinook Jargon Responsibility, Indigenous
George Lang
Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift
Rauna Kuokkanen

2009, 216 pages, 6 x 9" 2007, 168 pages, 6 x 9"

978-0-7748-1527-7 978-0-7748-1356-3
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First Nations
Languages Series

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Indian Education in Canada, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights

Volume 1 in Canada
The Legacy Edited by Michael Asch
Edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne
1997, 300 pages, 6 x 9"
Hébert, and Don McCaskill
978-0-7748-0581-0
pb $32.95
1986, 180 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-0243-7
pb $29.95

Indian Education in Canada, Aboriginal Conditions

Volume 2 Research As a Foundation for
The Challenge Public Policy
Edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne Edited by Jerry P. White, Paul S.
Hébert, and Don McCaskill Maxim, and Dan Beavon

1987, 265 pages, 6 x 9"

2004, 288 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-0265-9
978-0-7748-1022-7
pb $29.95
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First Nations Education The Ermatingers

in Canada A 19th-Century Ojibwa-Canadian
The Circle Unfolds Family
Edited by Marie Battiste and W. Brian Stewart
Jean Barman
2008, 224 pages, 6 x 9"
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Good Intentions Gone Awry Our Box Was Full

Emma Crosby and the Methodist An Ethnography for the
Mission on the Northwest Coast Delgamuukw Plaintiffs
Jan Hare and Jean Barman Richard Daly

Commended for the Shortlisted for the

2006 Book Writing 2006 Harold Adams
Competition on Innis Prize, Canadian
BC History, British Federation for the
Columbia Historical Humanities and
Federation Social Science

2006, 344 pages, 6 x 9" 2005, 384 pages, 6 x 9"

978-0-7748-1271-9 978-0-7748-1075-3
pb $30.95 pb $34.95

Intercultural Dispute Resolution Northern Exposures

in Aboriginal Contexts Photographing and Filming the
Edited by Catherine Bell and Canadian North, 1920–45
David Kahane Peter Geller

2005, 392 pages, 6 x 9" 2005, 280 pages, 6 x 9"

978-0-7748-1027-2 978-0-7748-0928-3
pb $39.95 pb $34.95

Poverty Aboriginal Plant Use in

Rights, Social Citizenship, Canada’s Northwest Boreal
and Legal Activism Forest
Edited by Margot Young, Susan B. Robin Marles
Boyd, Gwen Brodsky, and Shelagh Day
2000, 256 pages, 6 x 9"
2008, 400 pages, 6 x 9" 978-0-660-19869-9
978-0-7748-1288-7 pb $25.95
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Contact and Conflict Ways of Knowing

Indian-European Relations in British Experience, Knowledge, and Power
Columbia, 1774–1890, 2nd edition among the Dene Tha
Robin Fisher Jean-Guy A. Goulet

1992, 282 pages, 6 x 9" 1998, 368 pages, 6 x 9"

978-0-7748-0400-4 978-0-7748-0681-7
pb $32.95 pb $32.95

Colonizing Bodies Aboriginal Education

Aboriginal Health and Healing in Fulfilling the Promise
British Columbia, 1900–50 Edited by Marlene Brant Castellano,
Mary-Ellen Kelm Lynne Davis, and Louise Lahache

Winner of the 1999 2001, 296 pages, 6 x 9"

Clio Award for British 978-0-7748-0783-8
Columbia, Canadian pb $32.95
Historical Association

1999, 272 pages, 6 x 9"

978-0-7748-0678-7
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Eagle Down Is Our Law Reclaiming Indigenous Voice

Witsuwit’en Law, Feasts, and Vision
and Land Claims Marie Battiste
Antonia Mills

1994, 238 pages, 6 x 9" 2000, 314 pages, 6 x 9"

978-0-7748-0513-1 978-0-7748-0746-3
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Indigenous Cultures in Preserving What Is Valued

an Interconnected World Museums, Conservation,
Edited by Claire Smith and and First Nations
Graeme Ward Miriam Clavir

2001, 236 pages, 6 x 9" Winner of the

978-0-7748-0806-4 2002 Outstanding
pb $29.95 Achievement Award,
Conservation Category,
Canadian Museums
Association

2002, 320 pages, 6 x 9"

978-0-7748-0861-3
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Cis dideen kat – Life Lived Like a Story

When the Plumes Rise Life Stories of Three Yukon
The Way of the Lake Babine Nation Native Elders
Jo-Anne Fiske and Betty Patrick Julie Cruikshank

Shortlisted for the Winner of the 1992

2002 Harold Adams Sir John A. Macdonald
Innis Prize, Canadian Prize, Canadian
Federation for the Historical Association
Humanities and
Social Sciences 1992, 428 pages, 6 x 9"
978-0-7748-0413-4
2001, 272 pages, 6 x 9" pb $29.95
978-0-7748-0812-5
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The Indian Association With Good Intentions

of Alberta Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal
A History of Political Action Relations in Colonial Canada
Laurie Meijer Drees Edited by Celia Haig-Brown and
David A. Nock
2003, 272 pages, 6 x 9"
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Tammarniit (Mistakes) A People's Dream

Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Aboriginal Self-Government in
Arctic, 1939–63 Canada
Frank James Tester and Peter Dan Russell
Kulchyski

Winner of the 1997 2000, 258 pages, 6 x 9"

Outstanding Book, 978-0-7748-0799-9
Gustavus Myers Center pb $32.95
for the Study of Human
Rights in North America

1994, 434 pages, 6 x 9"

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Myth and Memory Shifting Boundaries

Stories of Indigenous-European Aboriginal Identity, Pluralist Theory,
Contact and the Politics of Self-Government
Edited by John Sutton Lutz Tim Schouls

2008, 248 pages, 6 x 9" 2003, 240 pages, 6 x 9"

978-0-7748-1263-4 978-0-7748-1047-0
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The Social Life of Stories Huron-Wendat

Narrative and Knowledge The Heritage of the Circle
in the Yukon Territory Georges F. Sioui
Julie Cruikshank Translated by Jane Brierley

2000, 240 pages, 6 x 9" 1999, 280 pages, 6 x 9"

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OUR AWARD-WINNING LIST UBC Press publishes books by leading scholars
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EFFICIENCY UBC Press is one of the most progressive and entrepreneurial
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SIZE As a mid-sized publisher, UBC Press is big enough to have efficient

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CONTACT US UBC Press welcomes new book proposals. They should be

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