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Book The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser  1806 1808

Download or read book The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser 1806 1808 written by Simon Fraser and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Librarian W. Kaye Lamb provides an illuminating introduction and annotations to the journals of Simon Fraser, ?founder of British Columbia.”

Book The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser  1806 1808  Edited with an Introduction by W  Kaye Lamb   With Maps and a Portrait

Download or read book The Letters and Journals of Simon Fraser 1806 1808 Edited with an Introduction by W Kaye Lamb With Maps and a Portrait written by Simon FRASER (of the "North-West Company" of Canada.) and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Simon Fraser   Letters   Journals  1806 1808

Download or read book Simon Fraser Letters Journals 1806 1808 written by Simon Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters and Journal of Simon Fraser  1806 1808

Download or read book The Letters and Journal of Simon Fraser 1806 1808 written by Simon Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The letters and journals

Download or read book The letters and journals written by Simon Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters and Journals

Download or read book The Letters and Journals written by Simon Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gathering Places

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolyn Podruchny
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2011-07-01
  • ISBN : 0774859695
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Gathering Places written by Carolyn Podruchny and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British traders and Ojibwe hunters. Cree women and their metis daughters. Explorers and anthropologists and Aboriginal guides and informants. These people, their relationships, and their complex identities were not featured in histories until the 1970s, when scholars from multiple disciplines brought new perspectives and approaches to bear on the past. Gathering Places presents some of the most innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to metis, fur trade, and First Nations history being practised today. Whether they are discussing dietary practices on the Plateau, the meanings of totemic signatures, or issues of representation in public history, the authors present novel explorations of evidence that extend beyond earlier histories centred on the archive. By drawing on archaeological, material, oral, and ethnographic evidence and by exploring personal approaches to history and scholarship, these essays mark a significant departure from the old paradigm of history writing and will serve as models for recovering Aboriginal and cross-cultural experiences and perspectives.

Book Faces in the Forest

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael D. Blackstock
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780773522565
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Faces in the Forest written by Michael D. Blackstock and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Faces in the Forest Michael Blackstock, a forester and an artist, takes us into the sacred forest, revealing the mysteries of carvings, paintings, and writings done on living trees by First Nations people. Blackstock details this rare art form through oral histories related by the Elders, blending spiritual and academic perspectives on Native art, cultural geography, and traditional ecological knowledge. Faces in the Forest begins with a review of First Nations cosmology and the historical references to tree art. Blackstock then takes us on a metaphorical journey along the remnants of trading and trapping trails to tree art sites in the Gitxsan, Nisga'a, Tlingit, Carrier, and Dene traditional territories, before concluding with reflections on the function and meaning of tree art, its role within First Nations cosmology, and the need for greater respect for all of our natural resources. This fascinating study of a haunting and little-known cultural phenomenon helps us to see our forests with new eyes.

Book The Canadian Prairies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald Friesen
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1987-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802066480
  • Pages : 846 pages

Download or read book The Canadian Prairies written by Gerald Friesen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Canadian prairie provinces from the days of Native-European contact to the 1980s.

Book Blue Portugal and Other Essays

Download or read book Blue Portugal and Other Essays written by Theresa Kishkan and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. Gathering personal genealogies, medical histories, and early land surveys together with insights from music, colour theory, horticulture, and textile production, Kishkan weaves a pattern of richly textured threads, welcoming readers to share her intellectual and emotional preoccupations. With an intimate awareness of place and time, a deep sensitivity to family, and a poetic delight in travel, local food and wine, and dogs, Blue Portugal and Other Essays offers up a sense of wonder at the interconnectedness of all things.

Book A Bounded Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cole Harris
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2020-11-01
  • ISBN : 0774864443
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book A Bounded Land written by Cole Harris and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada is a bounded land – a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a border to the south. Cole Harris traces how society was reorganized – for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike – when Europeans resettled this distinctive land. Through a series of vignettes that focus on people’s experiences on the ground, he exposes the underlying architecture of colonialism, from first contacts, to the immigrant experience in early Canada, to the dispossession of First Nations. In the process, he unearths fresh insights on the influence of Indigenous peoples and argues that Canada’s boundedness is ultimately drawing it toward its Indigenous roots.

Book Road to Egdon Heath

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard W. Bevis
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780773518001
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book Road to Egdon Heath written by Richard W. Bevis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he traces its development up to 1878 and one of its earliest conscious articulations, Thomas Hardy's description of Egdon Heath in The Return of the Native."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Kingdom of the Mind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter E. Rider
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2014-05-14
  • ISBN : 077357641X
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Kingdom of the Mind written by Peter E. Rider and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Kingdom of the Mind ethnographers, material culture specialists, and contributors from a wide variety of disciplines explore the impact of the Scots on Canadian life, showing how the Scots' image of their homeland and themselves played an important role in the emerging definition of what it meant to be Canadian.

Book In Good Relation

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  • Author : Sarah Nickel
  • Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
  • Release : 2020-05-01
  • ISBN : 0887558526
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book In Good Relation written by Sarah Nickel and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Indigenous women have long recognized that their intersectional realities were not represented in mainstream feminism, which was principally white, middle-class, and often ignored realities of colonialism. As Indigenous feminist ideals grew, Indigenous women became increasingly multi-vocal, with multiple and oppositional understandings of what constituted Indigenous feminism and whether or not it was a useful concept. Emerging from these dialogues are conversations from a new generation of scholars, activists, artists, and storytellers who accept the usefulness of Indigenous feminism and seek to broaden the concept. In Good Relation captures this transition and makes sense of Indigenous feminist voices that are not necessarily represented in existing scholarship. There is a need to further Indigenize our understandings of feminism and to take the scholarship beyond a focus on motherhood, life history, or legal status (in Canada) to consider the connections between Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous philosophies, the environment, kinship, violence, and Indigenous Queer Studies. Organized around the notion of “generations,” this collection brings into conversation new voices of Indigenous feminist theory, knowledge, and experience. Taking a broad and critical interpretation of Indigenous feminism, it depicts how an emerging generation of artists, activists, and scholars are envisioning and invigorating the strength and power of Indigenous women.

Book Robert W  Service

Download or read book Robert W Service written by Robert W. Service and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-04-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing of Robert W. Service is mostly known through his poems and ballads. Immortalized by his two iconic ballads, "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," he has entered the world's imagination as the Bard of the Yukon. But Service was much more than a chronicler of the Great North. A traveller and adventurer who tried his hand at many occupations, Service left a fascinating set of impressions: the successful literary life in the course of which he produced everything from poems and ballads to fictional romance to thrillers and how to stave off the dreary process of aging. Robert W. Service is a fresh selection of the most interesting and significant works of the author with a biographical introduction and a select bibliography of additional readings.

Book Performance Studies in Canada

Download or read book Performance Studies in Canada written by Laura Levin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception as an institutionalized discipline in the United States during the 1980s, performance studies has focused on the interdisciplinary analysis of a broad spectrum of cultural behaviours including theatre, dance, folklore, popular entertainments, performance art, protests, cultural rituals, and the performance of self in everyday life. Performance Studies in Canada brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the national emergence of performance studies as a field in Canada. To date, no systematic attempts has been made to consider how this methodology is being taught, applied, and rethought in Canadian contexts, and Canadian performance studies scholarship remains largely unacknowledged within international discussions about the discipline. This collection fills this gap by identifying multiple origins of performance studies scholarship in the country and highlighting significant works of performance theory and history that are rooted in Canadian culture. Essays illustrate how specific institutional conditions and cultural investments – Indigenous, francophone, multicultural, and more – produce alternative articulations of “performance” and reveal national identity as a performative construct. A state-of-the-art work on the state of the field, Performance Studies in Canada foregrounds national and global performance knowledge to invigorate the discipline around the world.