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  • The Ojibwa of Western Canada 1780-1870

    by Laura Peers ...
    Series Book 8 - Manitoba Studies in Native History
    Among the most dynamic Aboriginal peoples in western Canada today are the Ojibwa, who have played an especially vital role in the development of an Aboriginal political voice at both levels of government. Yet, they are relative newcomers to the region, occupying the parkland and prairies only since the end of the 18th century. This work traces the origins of the western Ojibwa, their adaptations ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa

    Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation

    by Laura Peers, Alison Brown ...
    Series series Heritage
    In 1925, Beatrice Blackwood of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum took thirty-three photographs of Kainai people on the Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta as part of an anthropological project. In 2001, staff from the museum took copies of these photographs back to the Kainai and worked with community members to try to gain a better understanding of Kainai perspectives on the images. ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Playing Ourselves

    Interpreting Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions

    by Laura Peers ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Across North America, hundreds of reconstructed “living history” sites, which traditionally presented history from a primarily European perspective, have hired Native staff in an attempt to communicate a broader view of the past. Playing Ourselves explores this major shift in representation, using detailed observations of five historic sites in the U.S. and Canada to both discuss the theoretical ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Visiting With the Ancestors

    Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces

    by Laura Peers, Alison K. Brown ...
    Series series Campus Alberta Collection
    In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company acquired them. The shirts were later transported to England, where they had ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Museums and Source Communities

    A Routledge Reader

    Edited by Alison K. Brown, Laura Peers ...
    This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and source communities.Focusing on museums in the UK, North America and the Pacific, the book highlights three areas which demonstrate the new developments most clearly:the museum as field site or 'contact ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • The Company

    The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

    by Stephen Bown ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERA thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins.The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling.The Company started out small in 1670, trading ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

    by Daniel Heath Justice ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The North-West Is Our Mother

    The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation

    by Jean Teillet ...
    There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters

    Edited by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, Christi Belcourt ...
    In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work.Since its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Native and Indigenous people in the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Men and Masculinities

    Legacies, Identities, Regeneration

    by Warren Cariou, Ty P. Kāwika Tengan, Brendan Hokowhitu, Daniel Heath Justice, Gregory Scofield, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Sam McKegney, Bob Antone, Phillip Borell, Kimberly Minor, Richard Van Camp, Robert Henry, Allison Piché, Sasha Sky, Leah Sneider, Erin Sutherland, John Swift, Lisa Tatonetti, Lloyd L. Lee, William Kahalepuna Richards Jr., Thomas Ka’auwai Kaulukukui Jr., Scott L. Morgensen ...
    What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. Indigenous Men and Masculinities, edited by Kim Anderson and Robert Alexander Innes, brings together prominent thinkers to ... Read more

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  • The Lakotas and the Black Hills

    The Struggle for Sacred Ground

    by Jeffrey Ostler ...
    The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain itThe Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills in South Dakota, where they found plentiful game and held religious ceremonies at charged locations like Devil ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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