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Performing Indians

Performing Indians

From: The Imaginary Indian

Movies, shows and theatre invariably situate Indians in the past, usually on the western frontier. The result is that Indians in the movies seem marginal to modern life. Sympathetic regret or … 45 $4.50 Add
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Plans to Conciliate the Beothuk

Plans to Conciliate the Beothuk

From: The Beothuk

This chapter explorers how the colonial government in Newfoundland interacted with the Beothuk around the turn of the 19th century. 4 $0.40 Add
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Preface

Preface

From: Victims of Benevolence

In most books, historical records have been written by non-Natives and thus reflect a non-Native cultural orientation. As a result, Native perspectives are often excluded from documentary sources … 16 $0.16 Add
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Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction

Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction

From: Resistance and Renewal

The author, Celia Haig-Brown, lays the groundwork for the research for Resistance and Renewal. 17 $0.17 Add
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Prehistory

Prehistory

From: The Beothuk

This chapter investigates the prehistory of the Beothuk: When and how they first arrived in Newfoundland and the archaeological evidence discovered at numerous sites around the island. 4 $0.40 Add
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Presenting the Image

Presenting the Image

Part II

From: The Imaginary Indian

Non-Native Canadians came to know the Indian: in books, in public performance, at country fairs, in museums and schoolrooms, at summer camp and in the movies. There were very few places, in fact, … 24 $2.40 Add
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Presenting the Image

Presenting the Image

Part II

From: The Imaginary Indian

Non-Native Canadians came to know the Indian: in books, in public performance, at country fairs, in museums and schoolrooms, at summer camp and in the movies. There were very few places, in fact, … 24 $2.40 Add
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Recognition

Recognition

Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic

From: Umingmak

Readings in Part Five of this title, entitled "Farewell" discuss the end of Stuart Hodgson’s career in the North and the long lasting impact he had on the region. Topics discussed … 3 $0.30 Add
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Red Coats and Redskins.

Red Coats and Redskins.

From: The Imaginary Indian

The romance of the Mountie Police comes dressed as an adventure story, an adventure in nation-building, but it is far more than that. Like all treasured national stories, myths if you prefer, it … 45 $4.50 Add
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Red Coats and Redskins.

Red Coats and Redskins.

From: The Imaginary Indian

The romance of the Mountie Police comes dressed as an adventure story, an adventure in nation-building, but it is far more than that. Like all treasured national stories, myths if you prefer, it … 45 $4.50 Add
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Relations between Beothuk and Mi’kmaq, Labrador Montagnais (Innu) and Inuit

Relations between Beothuk and Mi’kmaq, Labrador Montagnais (Innu) and Inuit

From: The Beothuk

This chapter explorers the relationship between Beothuk communities and other indigenous groups, and how these relationships changed over time. 3 $0.30 Add
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Relations between Beothuk and Newcomers in the 1500s and 1600s

Relations between Beothuk and Newcomers in the 1500s and 1600s

From: The Beothuk

This chapter discusses initial contact between the Beothuk and European explorers in the 16th century and how this initial contact began to destabilize the Beothuk way of life 3 $0.30 Add
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Relations between the Beothuk and Mi’kmaq in the Early 1800’s

Relations between the Beothuk and Mi’kmaq in the Early 1800’s

From: The Beothuk

This chapter describes the evolving relationship between the Beothuk at Notre Dame bay and the Mi’kmaq community who lived there in the early 1800s 3 $0.30 Add
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Remember Like We Do
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Remember Like We Do

AGREEMENTS, NAMING, AND PLACES

From: Indigenous Toronto

An essay on Toronto’s Indigenous narratives. 12 $1.20 Add
Resistance and Renewal

Resistance and Renewal

Surviving the Indian Residential School

One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian … 172 View
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Rising Like a Cloud: New Histories of ‘Old’ Toronto
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Rising Like a Cloud: New Histories of ‘Old’ Toronto

From: Indigenous Toronto

This reading introduces the book and explores Toronto’s history. 6 $0.60 Add