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  • Before the Roads, Before the Mines

    Denesuliné Memories, Narratives, and the Legacy of a Northern Hunting Society

    by Robert Jarvenpa ...
    Before the Roads, Before the Mines is a narrative-based ethnohistory of a Denesułiné community, also known as the Chipewyan, Kesyehot’ine, or Poplar House People. The discovery of high-grade uranium deposits in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, in the mid- to late 1970s ushered in an era of mining and roadbuilding that largely replaced the traditional livelihoods of these subarctic hunter-fishers ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Declared Defective

    Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow

    by Robert Jarvenpa ...
    Series series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
    Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in upstate New York, the biologists were repulsed by the poverty and behavior of the people in Nam ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Gender in Archaeology

    by Benjamin Alberti, Bettina Arnold, Wendy Ashmore, Elisabeth A. Bacus, Diane Bolger, Karen Olsen Bruhns, Hetty Jo Brumbach, Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Bonnie J. Clark, Pam Crabtree, Virginia Ebert, Julia A. Hendon, Sandra E. Hollimon, Robert Jarvenpa, RosemaryA Joyce, Janet E. Levy, Diane Lyons, Emer O'Donnell, Thomas C. Patterson, Jane D. Peterson, Carla M. Sinopoli, Claire Smith, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, Barbara L. Voss, Kathryn Weedman, Ruth Whitehouse, Laurie A. Wilkie ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    The pursuit of gender in the archaeological record is explored in this exciting new collection of essays by renowned archaeologists and gender theorists. These essays place gender in the context of the past, by approaching the data in light of the previous decades of gender research. Issues such as tool-making, hunting, and evolution take on new meaning as the contributors examine the impact of ... Read more

    $276.49 CAD

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    by Thomas King ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with ... Read more

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  • Making the White Man's West

    Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

    by Jason E. Pierce ...
    The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he ... Read more

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  • A Geography of Blood

    Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape

    by Candace Savage ...
    •Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex ... Read more

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  • The Trouble with White Women

    A Counterhistory of Feminism

    by Kyla Schuller ...
    An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied themWomen including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate ... Read more

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  • Canoe Country

    The Making of Canada

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who ... Read more

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  • The American Dream

    A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation

    by Jim Cullen ...
    "The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning of the American Dream, or rather the several American Dreams that have both reflected and shaped American identity from the Pilgrims to the ... Read more

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  • Once They Were Hats

    In Search of the Mighty Beaver

    by Frances Backhouse ...
    "Unexpectedly delightful reading—there is much to learn from the buck-toothed rodents of yore" ( National Post).Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent's most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from ... Read more

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  • Domestic Revolutions

    A Social History Of American Family Life

    by Steven Mintz, Susan Kellogg ...
    An examination of how the concept of “family” has been transformed over the last three centuries in the U.S., from its function as primary social unit to today’s still-evolving model.Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of “family” in the United States over the course of ... Read more

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  • Sources of the River, 2nd Edition

    The Artwork of Ray Troll

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    In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. ... Read more

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