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Cover image: 1884/1951, 67 spun Copper cups. Cups; 

grande sized. Installation; various. Sonny Assu, 2009. 

sonnyassu.com. Installation view, How Soon Is Now, 

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Table of conTenTs 

environmenTal sTudies 

Speaking for Ourselves 1 

Edited by Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph 

Haluza-DeLay, and Pat O’Riley 

Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors 2 

Charlotte Coté, Foreword by Micah McCarty 

Hunters at the Margin 3 

John Sandlos 

Home Is the Hunter 3 

Hans M. Carlson 

poliTics & naTion 

Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy 4 

Edited by Mario Blaser, Ravi De Costa, 

Deborah McGregor, and William D. Coleman 

Finding Dahshaa 5 

Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox 

Unsettling the Settler Within 6 

Paulette Regan 

First Nations, First Thoughts 7 

Edited by Annis May Timpson 

Indigenous Women and Feminism 8 

Edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, 

Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman 

Being Again of One Mind 9 

Lina Sunseri 

No need of a chief for this band 10 

Martha Elizabeth Walls 

Nunavut 11 

Ailsa Henderson 

Hunters and Bureaucrats 11 

Paul Nadasdy 

“Real” Indians and Others 12 

Bonita Lawrence 

Navigating Neoliberalism 12 

Gabrielle Slowey 

aboriginal & meTis HisTories 

One of the Family 13 

Brenda Macdougall 

Gathering Places 14 

Edited by Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peers 

Fort Chipewyan and the Shaping 15 

of Canadian History, 1788–1920s 

Patricia A. McCormack 

Taking Medicine 16 

Kristin Burnett 

Contact Zones 17 

Edited by Myra Rutherdale and Katie Pickles 

Paddling to Where I Stand 17 

Edited by Martine J. Reid and Daisy Sewid-Smith 

New Histories for Old 18 

Edited by Theodore Binnema and 

Susan Neylan 

The Red Man’s on the Warpath 18 

R. Scott Sheffield 

bc sTudies 

Writing British Columbia History, 19 

1784–1958 

Chad Reimer 

Urbanizing Frontiers 20 

Penelope Edmonds 

Colonial Proximities 21 

Renisa Mawani 

Becoming British Columbia 22 

John Belshaw 

Makúk 22 

John Sutton Lutz 

First Nations of British Columbia, 23 

2nd edition 

Robert J. Muckle 

Be of Good Mind 23 

Edited by Bruce Granville Miller 

Tsawalk 24 

E. Richard Atleo (Umeek) 

Treaty Talks in British Columbia, 24 

Third Edition 

Christopher McKee 

law 

Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples 25 

Edited by Louis A. Knafla and Haijo Westra 

Between Consenting Peoples 26 

Edited by Jeremy Webber and 

Colin M. Macleod 

Indigenous Legal Traditions 27 

Edited by the Law Commission of Canada 

Let Right Be Done 27 

Edited by Hamar Foster, Jeremy Webber, 

and Heather Raven 

Lament for a First Nation 28 

Peggy J. Blair 

Landing Native Fisheries 28 

Douglas C. Harris 

Protection of First Nations Cultural 29 

Heritage 

Edited by Catherine Bell and Robert K. Paterson 

First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law 29 

Edited by Catherine Bell and Val Napoleon 

Between Justice and Certainty 30 

Andrew Woolford

Table of conTenTs 

educaTion & HealTH 

Braiding Histories 30 

Susan D. Dion 

Inuit Education and Schools in 31 

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 

paradigm publisHers 

Indigenous Peoples and Globalization 37 

Thomas D. Hall and James V. Fenelon 

universiTy of arizona press 

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 

order form 49 

ordering informaTion 50 

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 

Training Centre, Laval University Press (English-language books), and Western Geographical Press 

order online: www.ubcpress.ca

environmenTal 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 

order online: www.ubcpress.ca 

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 

Aboriginal Studies 2010 1

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 

978-0-7748-2053-0 pb $24.95 

Aboriginal History 


Environmental History 

Anthropology 

BC Environment 

Canadian History 

BC Politics 

Canadian Rights only. Published 

outside of Canada by the 

University of Washington Press. 

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-chahnulth 

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 

2 Aboriginal Studies 2010 order online: www.ubcpress.ca

environmenTal sTudies 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 


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 



Northern History 

Environmental Policy 

NATURE | HISTORY | SOCIETY SERIES 

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 


Northern Studies 

Quebec History 


NATURE | HISTORY | SOCIETY SERIES 



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 crossappointed 

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" 


Globalization 

International Relations 

Political Science 

GLOBALIZATION AND AUTONOMY 

SERIES 

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 



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 



Canadian Social Policy 


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 moosehidetanning 

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 


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 



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 Law 

Law & Society 

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 




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 



Canadian Public Policy & 

Administration 


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 



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 


Women’s Studies 

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 



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" 


Social & Cultural Anthropology 


Canadian Aboriginal History 


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 



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. 

May 2010 

978-0-7748-1789-9 Hc $85.00 

January 2011 

978-0-7748-1790-5 pb $29.95 

216 pages, 6 x 9" 

9 b&w photos, 16 tables, 1 map 



Atlantic History 


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 

and goals. Compelling and timely, this book supports 

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 



poliTics & naTion poliTics & naTion 

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 


Nunavut 


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 





poliTics & naTion poliTics & naTion 

“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" 



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 






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 


Saskatchewan History 


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 



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 

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 



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 


Alberta History 

Historiography 


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 



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 Health 

Alberta History 


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 


aboriginal & meTis HisTories aboriginal & meTis HisTories 

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, 


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 



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 lieutenantgovernor’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 



aboriginal & meTis HisTories 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 




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 


Military History 


c 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 

978-0-7748-1645-8 pb $29.95 

440 pages, 6 x 9" 


BC History 



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 


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 


c 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" 



BC History 

Australian History 

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 



c sTudies 

colonial proximities 

Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921 

renisa mawani 

renisa mawani is an associate 

professor of sociology at the 


2009, 978-0-7748-1634-2 pb $32.95 

288 pages, 6 x 9" 

16 b&w photos, 2 tables 


BC History 

Canadian Legal History 

Socio-legal History 

LAW AND SOCIETY SERIES 


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 mixedrace 

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 



c sTudies 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 


BC History 

makúk 

A New History of Aboriginal–White 

Relations 

John sutton lutz 


Harold adams innis 





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 





Canadian Aboriginal Political Science 



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" 




Aboriginal Anthropology 


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 


2007, 978-0-7748-1324-2 pb $34.95 

320 pages, 6 x 9" 



Northwest History 



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-chahnulth 

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 



Philosophy 

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 



BC Studies 


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" 





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 


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 

272 pages, 6 x 9" 

Law & Society 

Law & Politics 


Constitutional Law 


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 


law 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" 



LEGAL DIMENSIONS SERIES 


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 



Constitutional Law 

Legal History 



law 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" 


Ontario History 

Legal History 


landing native fisheries 

Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights 

in British Columbia, 1849–1925 

douglas c. Harris 

Honourable Mention, 

2009 lieutenantgovernor’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 



BC History 

Foresty, Fisheries & Resources 

Legal History 



law 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" 




Law & Society 



first nations cultural Heritage 

and law 

Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives 


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" 




Law & Society 



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 

248 pages, 6 x 9" 



Sociology 


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 



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 


Educational Policy & Theory/ 



Northern Canada 


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 




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 


Pre-School Education 


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" 


BC Aboriginal Studies 

Literature, Languages & Linguistics 



Healing Traditions 

The Mental Health of Aboriginal 

Peoples in Canada 

edited by laurence J. kirmayer and 

gail guthrie valaskakis 

Aboriginal peoples in Canada have diverse 

cultures but share common social and 

political challenges that have contributed 

to their experiences of health and illness. 

This collection addresses the origins of 

mental health and social problems and 

the emergence of culturally responsive 

approaches to services and health 

promotion. Healing Traditions is not a 

handbook of practice but a resource for 

thinking critically about current issues in 

the mental health of indigenous peoples. 

laurence J. kirmayer is James McGill 

Professor and Director of the Division 

of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry 

at McGill University; Director of the 

Culture and Mental Health Research 

Unit of the Institute for Community and 

Family Psychiatry at the Jewish General 

Hospital, Montreal; and Co-Director of 

the National Network for Aboriginal 

Mental Health Research. gail guTHrie 

valaskakis was Director of Research, 

Aboriginal Healing Foundation, Ottawa, 

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" 


Mental Health 



protecting aboriginal children 

chris walmsley 

Since the 1980s, bands and tribal councils 

have developed unique community-based 

child welfare services to better protect 

Aboriginal children. Protecting Aboriginal 

Children explores contemporary approaches 

to the protection of Aboriginal children 

through interviews with practising social 

workers employed at Aboriginal child 

welfare organizations and the child 

protection service in British Columbia. It 

places current practice in a sociohistorical 

context, describes emerging practice in 

decolonizing communities, and identifies 

the effects of political and media 

controversy on social workers. This is the 

first book to document emerging practice 

in Aboriginal communities and describe 

child protection practice simultaneously 

from the points of view of Aboriginal 

and non-Aboriginal social workers. 

cHrisTopHer walmsley teaches in 

the School of Social Work and Human 

Service at Thompson Rivers University. 

2005, 978-0-7748-1171-2 pb $30.95 

192 pages, 6 x 9" 


Social Work 



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" 


Ethnographies 

Asian History 


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" 






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" 



Canadian rights only 



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 


Published with the Eiteljorg Museum 

of American Indians and Western Art, 

Indianapolis 



universiTy of wasHingTon press universiTy of wasHingTon press 

becoming Tsimshian 

The Social Life of Names 

christopher f. roth 

CHRISTOPHER F. ROTH 

becoming tsimshian 

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF NAMES 

The Tsimshian people of coastal British 

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" 



BC Aboriginal Studies 

BC Anthropology 

Linguistics 



The power of promises 

Rethinking Indian Treaties in the 

Pacific Northwest 

edited by alexandra Harmon 

The POWER of P RO MISES 

RETHINKING INDIAN TREATIES 

IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 

Edited by Alexandra Harmon 

In The Power of Promises, a distinguished 

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" 





Published with the Center for the Study of the 

Pacific Northwest 




indigenous peoples and 

globalization 

Resistance and Revitalization 

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. 

Unlike other antiglobalization activists, 

indigenous peoples primarily seek 

autonomy and the right to determine their 

own processes of adaptation and change, 

especially in relationship to their origin 

lands and community. The authors link 

their analyses to current understandings 

of the evolution of globalization. 

THomas d. Hall is the Edward Myers 

Dolan Professor of Anthropology at 

DePauw University. James v. fenelon 

is Professor of Sociology at California 

State University-San Bernardino. 

2009, 978-1-5945-1658-0 pb $33.95 

208 pages, 6 x 9" 


Globalization 





native american performance 

and representation 

edited by s.e. wilmer 

Native American Performance and 

Representation provides a comprehensive 

study of Native performance, a 

multifaceted and changing art form as 

well as a swiftly growing field of research. 

Notable researchers and performers use 

multiple perspectives, such as feminism, 

literary and film theory, and postcolonial 

discourse, to look at the varying nature 

of Native performance strategies, They 

consider such issues as the effects of 

miscegenation on traditional customs, 

Native women’s position in a multicultural 

society, and the relationship between 

authenticity and hybridity in Native 

performance. An important addition to 

Native performance studies, Wilmer’s book 

cuts across disciplines and areas of study 

in a way no other book in the field does. 

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" 


Communication & Cultural Studies 

Multiculturalism & Transnationalism 




universiTy of arizona press 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" 


Environmental Advocacy & Activism 

Resource Mangement 



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 Archaeology 

Geography 





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" 


Archaeology 





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-nineteenthcentury 

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" 


Canadian Social History 

Women’s History 

Sociology of Gender & Family 



aTHabasca universiTy press 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 





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" 






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 


British Empire History 

Canadian Political History 



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" 


Anthropology 

Archaeology 




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 



Historical Geography 


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 



acklisT 

making native space 

Colonialism, Resistance, and 

Reserves in British Columbia 

r. cole Harris 


Winner of the 2002 sir 

John a. macdonald 


Historical Association 


clio award for british 

columbia, Canadian 


Finalist, 2002 

Hubert evans non-fiction prize for best 

non-fiction literary book, BC Book Prizes 

Winner of the 2003 massey medal, 

Royal Canadian Geographical Society 

Winner of the 2003 k.d. srivastava prize 

for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing 

2003, 448 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0901-6 

pb $34.95 

BRENDA AND DAVID MCLEAN 

CANADIAN STUDIES SERIES 

making wawa 

The Genesis of Chinook Jargon 

george lang 

2009, 216 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1527-7 

pb $30.95 

FIRST NATIONS 

LANGUAGES SERIES 

Tales of ghosts 

First Nations Art in British 

Columbia, 1922–61 

ronald w. Hawker 

2003, 248 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0955-9 

pb $32.95 

national visions, 

national blindness 

Canadian Art and Identities 

in the 1920s 

leslie dawn 

2007, 456 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1218-4 

pb $34.95 

reshaping the university 

Responsibility, Indigenous 

Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift 

rauna kuokkanen 

2007, 168 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1356-3 

Hc$85.00 


acklisT 

indian education in canada, 

volume 1 

The Legacy 

edited by Jean barman, yvonne 

Hébert, and don mccaskill 

1986, 180 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0243-7 

pb $29.95 

indian education in canada, 

volume 2 

The Challenge 

edited by Jean barman, yvonne 

Hébert, and don mccaskill 

1987, 265 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0265-9 

pb $29.95 

first nations education 

in canada 

The Circle Unfolds 

edited by marie battiste and 

Jean barman 

1995, 375 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0517-9 

pb $32.95 

aboriginal and Treaty rights 

in canada 

edited by michael asch 

1997, 300 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0581-0 

pb $32.95 

aboriginal conditions 

Research As a Foundation for 

Public Policy 

edited by Jerry p. white, paul s. 

maxim, and dan beavon 

2004, 288 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1022-7 

pb $34.95 

The ermatingers 

A 19th-Century Ojibwa-Canadian 

Family 

w. brian stewart 

2008, 224 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1234-4 

pb $30.95 


acklisT 

good intentions gone awry 

Emma Crosby and the Methodist 

Mission on the Northwest Coast 

Jan Hare and Jean barman 

Commended for the 

2006 book writing 

competition on 

bc History, British 

Columbia Historical 

Federation 


2006, 344 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1271-9 

pb $30.95 

intercultural dispute resolution 

in aboriginal contexts 


david kahane 

2005, 392 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1027-2 

pb $39.95 

poverty 

Rights, Social Citizenship, 

and Legal Activism 

edited by margot young, susan b. 

boyd, gwen brodsky, and shelagh day 

2008, 400 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1288-7 

pb $30.95 

LAW AND SOCIETY 

SERIES 

our box was full 

An Ethnography for the 

Delgamuukw Plaintiffs 

richard daly 

Shortlisted for the 

2006 Harold adams 

innis prize, Canadian 




2005, 384 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1075-3 

pb $34.95 

northern exposures 

Photographing and Filming the 

Canadian North, 1920–45 

peter geller 

2005, 280 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0928-3 

pb $34.95 

aboriginal plant use in 

canada’s northwest boreal 

forest 

robin marles 

2000, 256 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-660-19869-9 

pb $25.95 


acklisT 

contact and conflict 

Indian-European Relations in British 

Columbia, 1774–1890, 2nd edition 

robin fisher 

1992, 282 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0400-4 

pb $32.95 

colonizing bodies 

Aboriginal Health and Healing in 

British Columbia, 1900–50 

mary-ellen kelm 


clio award for british 

columbia, Canadian 


1999, 272 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0678-7 

pb $32.95 

eagle down is our law 

Witsuwit’en Law, Feasts, 

and Land Claims 

antonia mills 

1994, 238 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0513-1 

pb $29.95 

ways of knowing 

Experience, Knowledge, and Power 

among the Dene Tha 

Jean-guy a. goulet 

1998, 368 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0681-7 

pb $32.95 

aboriginal education 

Fulfilling the Promise 

edited by marlene brant castellano, 

lynne davis, and louise lahache 

2001, 296 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0783-8 

pb $32.95 

reclaiming indigenous voice 

and vision 

marie battiste 

2000, 314 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0746-3 

pb $32.95 


acklisT 

indigenous cultures in 

an interconnected world 

edited by claire smith and 

graeme ward 

2001, 236 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0806-4 

pb $29.95 

cis dideen kat – 

when the plumes rise 

The Way of the Lake Babine Nation 

Jo-anne fiske and betty patrick 

Shortlisted for the 

2002 Harold adams 

innis prize, Canadian 



Social Sciences 

2001, 272 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0812-5 

pb $32.95 

The indian association 

of alberta 

A History of Political Action 

laurie meijer drees 

2003, 272 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0877-4 

pb $32.95 


preserving what is valued 

Museums, Conservation, 

and First Nations 

miriam clavir 


2002 outstanding 

achievement award, 

conservation category, 

Canadian Museums 

Association 

2002, 320 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0861-3 

pb $32.95 

life lived like a story 

Life Stories of Three Yukon 

Native Elders 

Julie cruikshank 


sir John a. macdonald 



1992, 428 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0413-4 

pb $29.95 

with good intentions 

Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal 

Relations in Colonial Canada 

edited by celia Haig-brown and 

david a. nock 

2006, 368 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1138-5 

pb $34.95 


acklisT 

Tammarniit (mistakes) 

Inuit Relocation in the Eastern 

Arctic, 1939–63 

frank James Tester and peter 

kulchyski 


outstanding book, 

Gustavus Myers Center 

for the Study of Human 

Rights in North America 

1994, 434 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0494-3 

pb $32.95 

myth and memory 

Stories of Indigenous-European 

Contact 

edited by John sutton lutz 

2008, 248 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1263-4 

pb $34.95 

The social life of stories 

Narrative and Knowledge 

in the Yukon Territory 

Julie cruikshank 

2000, 240 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0649-7 

pb $29.95 

a people's dream 

Aboriginal Self-Government in 

Canada 

dan russell 

2000, 258 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0799-9 

pb $32.95 

shifting boundaries 

Aboriginal Identity, Pluralist Theory, 

and the Politics of Self-Government 

Tim schouls 

2003, 240 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-1047-0 

pb $30.95 

Huron-wendat 

The Heritage of the Circle 

georges f. sioui 

Translated by Jane brierley 

1999, 280 pages, 6 x 9" 

978-0-7748-0714-2 

Hc $32.95 


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