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The New Left Goes North: The Berger Commission and its Aftermath, 1973–2000
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The New Left Goes North: The Berger Commission and its Aftermath, 1973–2000

From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises

In this chapter, Palmer discusses the federal governments colonial policies regarding northern pipelines in Canada, the impact of the late 1970s Berger pipeline inquiry, and how Indigenous groups … 11 $1.10 Add
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The New Men of Power and Confederation’s Capitalist Triumph

The New Men of Power and Confederation’s Capitalist Triumph

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890

This chapter addresses the weakening of the aristocratic and radical groups in Canada by the end of the 1840s and the triumph of the capitalist class and its ideology throughout the following decades. 11 $1.10 Add
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The New Minister Has Gone Too Far

The New Minister Has Gone Too Far

From: Cheated

Chapter Three, beginning in 1896, details the leadership of Clifford Sifton, then newly appointed Indian Affairs minister. ; 20 $2.00 Add
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The Peoples’ Movement

The Peoples’ Movement

1977-1979

From: Brotherhood to Nationhood

Chapter seventeen of George Manuel’s biography covers his work in British Columbia in the late 1970s on Indian fishing rights. ; 17 $1.70 Add
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The Political Renter Class in So-Called Australia
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The Political Renter Class in So-Called Australia

From: Dispatches from the Threshold

In this chapter, the authors examine the political renter class in Melbourne during the 2020 pandemic, linking Australia’s housing crisis to settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession. ; 9 $0.90 Add
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The Politics of Becoming

The Politics of Becoming

From: Songs Upon the Rivers

The authors muse on the role Métis people played in the history of North America, and the way history has been represented/rewritten to exclude their participation in and influence on this … ; ; 33 $3.30 Add
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The Resistance

The Resistance

From: TSQELMUCWÍLC

In Chapter Four the author describes forms of resistance by the students within Kamloops Indian Residential School. ; ; 23 $2.30 Add
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The Struggle for Freedom

The Struggle for Freedom

From: We Were Not The Savages

Chapter 14 concludes the book with the present day challenges and continued struggles Indigenous people across the maritimes and Canada. 64 $6.40 Add
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The Tragedy of the 1880s

The Tragedy of the 1880s

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890

This chapter discusses the state of Canada in the 1880s. Though still a British colony, the country had emerged as a powerful industrial capitalist state yet was deeply fragmented along economic, … 13 $1.30 Add
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The Treaty of 1725 and Proclamations

The Treaty of 1725 and Proclamations

From: We Were Not The Savages

Chapter 5 focuses on the Treaty of 1725. 14 $1.40 Add
The Truth About Stories

The Truth About Stories

A Native Narrative

"Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional … 184 View
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The Wayfinders

The Wayfinders

From: The Wayfinders

In this chapter, Davis traces the Polynesian settlement of the Pacific, from the Lapita diaspora beginning around 1500 BC to the peopling of Aotearoa by AD 1000. 44 $4.40 Add
Toronto: The First 13,000 Years
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Toronto: The First 13,000 Years

An Illustrated History

A richly illustrated history of Toronto spanning 13,000 years, which traces the enduring presence and cultures of its first peoples alongside colonial and industrial transformations to the … 162 View
Tracking the Caribou Queen
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Tracking the Caribou Queen

Memoir of a Settler Girlhood

In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the ’60s and ’70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined … 296 View
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Trauma in the Classroom

Trauma in the Classroom

From: Colonized Classrooms

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Trials and Triumphs: The Mask of Colonialism and the Grid of Capitalism (Railways and Guns) in the 1880s and 1890s

Trials and Triumphs: The Mask of Colonialism and the Grid of Capitalism (Railways and Guns) in the 1880s and 1890s

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890

This chapter details the ongoing war of the Canadian state against the Metis populations throughout the 1880s, the trial of Louis Riel and the continued push westward of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 14 $1.40 Add