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From ![]() Setting the SceneThe Governments; Missionaries; The Secwepemc From: Resistance and Renewal |
The chapter highlights the role the Government and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate played in the life of Native peoples, especially the Secwepemc. | Celia Haig-Brown | 22 | 1988 | $0.44 Add |
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From ![]() ShanawdithitFrom: The Beothuk |
This chapter describes the life of the last known Beothuk individual, a woman named Shanawdithit. | Ingeborg Marshall | 6 | 2009 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() Taking the ImagePart I From: The Imaginary Indian |
The author opens part I of the book with a critique of one of the most famous Canadian themed paintings—The Death of Wolfe by Benjamin West and calls it a lie. | Daniel Francis | 25 | 1992 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() Taking the ImagePart I |
The author opens part I of the book with a critique of one of the most famous Canadian themed paintings—The Death of Wolfe by Benjamin West and calls it a lie. The author opens part I of … | Daniel Francis | 25 | 1992 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() The Art of NegotiationStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic From: Umingmak |
Readings in Part Four of this title, entitled "Turf Wars" discuss the challenges and conflicts faced by communities in the Northwest Territories during Stuart Hodgson’s career. … | Jake Ootes | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
![]() The Beothuk |
A history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. This title … | Ingeborg Marshall | 88 | 2009 | View |
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From ![]() The Bureaucrat’s IndianFrom: The Imaginary Indian |
For many decades, government Indian policy was premised on an image of the Indian as inferior. Officials repeatedly described Indians as children. Like children, Indians could not be given full … | Daniel Francis | 48 | 1992 | $4.80 Add |
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From ![]() The Bureaucrat’s Indian |
For many decades, government Indian policy was premised on an image of the Indian as inferior. Officials repeatedly described Indians as children. Like children, Indians could not be given full … | Daniel Francis | 48 | 1992 | $1.92 Add |
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From ![]() The Early Years of the Mission SchoolEducation and Discipline From: Victims of Benevolence |
Native children learned the skills they needed to survive, and the beliefs, values, and codes of behaviour appropriate to their society, by a trial-and error process of observing and imitating … | Elizabeth Furniss | 28 | 1992 | $0.56 Add |
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From ![]() The Government InvestigationFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
The Indian Superintendent of B.C., A.W. Vowell was tasked to conduct the investigation into the death of Duncan Sticks. Vowell discredited the student testimonies, putting the blame on them … | Elizabeth Furniss | 21 | 1992 | $0.42 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Great Indian Bus Tour of TorontoTRANSFORMING THE CITY From: Indigenous Toronto |
Interviews with Heather Howard-Bobiwash, Jon Johnson, and Kory Snache. | Erica Commanda; Rebeka Tabobondung | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() The Last HurrahStuart 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 … | Jake Ootes | 6 | 2020 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() The Next Thing to GodStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic From: Umingmak |
Readings in Part Three of this title, entitled "Emperor of the North" discuss Hodgson’s growing power and influence in the communities of the Northwest Territories. Topics … | Jake Ootes | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() The ResistanceFrom: Resistance and Renewal |
People rarely comply fully and easily to the introduction of oppression. Native children also produced counter-cultures in their resistance to the oppressive system which was Kamloops Indian … | Celia Haig-Brown | 27 | 1988 | $0.54 Add |
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From ![]() The Shuswap Response to ColonialismFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
Despite strong opposition, the Shuswap people were forced to adopt the colonial way of living. They were pushed out of their home and discouraged to practice sacred rituals. Ultimately, in 1891, … | Elizabeth Furniss | 24 | 1992 | $0.48 Add |
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From ![]() The Top of the WorldFrom: Umingmak |
Readings in Part Two of this title entitled "Reaching All Northerners" discusses Stuard Hodgson’s first months in the Northwest Territories. Topics discussed include his grand … | Jake Ootes | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |










