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Book Encountering Riel

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Orr
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-02-15
  • ISBN : 9780995064553
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Encountering Riel written by David Orr and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie Lorimer is a young poetry student who forgot to resign his commission in the Canadian militia. When he is called up to join the fight against the Métis rebel leader, Louis Riel, Willie is scared, but bolstered by his own naïveté. The journey to the heart of the rebellion is long and full of anguish. When the militia reach the West, things go tragically wrong, and their once-heroic cause is marred by the cynical realities of politics, and the harsh realities of war.

Book The Riel Problem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Albert Braz
  • Publisher : University of Alberta
  • Release : 2024-06-06
  • ISBN : 1772127485
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book The Riel Problem written by Albert Braz and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Louis Riel’s metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patriot and a pan-Indigenous leader. After being hanged for high treason in 1885, the Métis politician, poet, and mystic has emerged as a quintessential Canadian champion. The Riel Problem maps this representational shift by examining a series of cultural and scholarly commemorations of Riel since 1967, from a large-scale opera about his life, through the publication of his extant writings, to statues erected in his honour. Braz also probes how aspects of Riel’s life and writing can be problematic for many contemporary Métis artists, scholars, and civic leaders. Analyzing representations of Riel in light of his own writings, the author exposes both the constructedness of the Canadian nation-state and the magnitude of the current historical revisionism when dealing with Riel.

Book 1885 and After

Download or read book 1885 and After written by F. L. Barron and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The papers contained in this volume were presented originally at the "1885 and After" Conference, held at the University of Saskatchewan ..."--P. [vii]

Book Saturday Night

Download or read book Saturday Night written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Louis Riel

Download or read book Louis Riel written by Hartwell Bowsfield and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of Louis Riel (1844-85) spanned only fifteen years, yet he is one of the most controversial and colourful people in Canadian history. The central figure in two rebellions, which he led on behalf of the French-speaking half-breeds called Metis, Riel has caught the imagination of Canadians as few other historical personalities have done. His career began with the acts of resistance at the Red River Settlement in 1869, and continued through the formation of a Provisional Government and the notorious shooting of Thomas Scott in 1870, through years of mental illness and exile in the United States, to the North West Rebellion of 1885. It reached an inevitable climax with his surrender and trial and the passionate outpouring of feeling that rocked the country when he was found guilty of treason and executed. The religious and racial emotions of the time, the bigotry and opportunism of politicians, and Riel's own unstable mental condition all combine to make of his life a Canadian tragedy, one that had profound consequences for Confederation.

Book Seeking the Self     Encountering the Other

Download or read book Seeking the Self Encountering the Other written by Tuomas Huttunen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other offers new insights into diasporic experiences, encounters and representations. This collection of texts examines diaspora narratives and the ways in which different encounters with the other are represented, as well as how these encounters might be read and interpreted in ethical terms. The anthology explores questions of ethics in narratives of displacement or belonging, nationalist narratives of exclusion and borderline narratives, constructed on the foundation provided by encounters with the cultural, sexual, gendered and ethnic other. The contributors’ aim is to explore questions of responsibility and ethics in the study of diaspora, migration, and alterity from a wide range of perspectives. Following a Levinasian one, if the other is always ultimately transcendental and ungraspable through language, we are required to consider ethics every time we write, read or interpret an encounter with the other.

Book Crossroads of the Continent

Download or read book Crossroads of the Continent written by Barbara Huck and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Rupert s Land

Download or read book In Rupert s Land written by Walter Traill and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of life as Hudson's Bay clerk during late 1800's.

Book Attorney for the Frontier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dale Gibson
  • Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
  • Release : 1983-01-01
  • ISBN : 0887550797
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Attorney for the Frontier written by Dale Gibson and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this biography is to bring to public attention the importance of the contributions made by Enos Stutsman, an American, to the history of the province and the Northwest generally. It also attempts to impress and entertain the reader by highlighting Stutsman’s personal qualities.

Book Amazing Stories

Download or read book Amazing Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Introduction to Native North America

Download or read book An Introduction to Native North America written by Mark Q. Sutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the Native peoples of North America, covering what are now the United States, northern Mexico, and Canada. In this updated and revised new edition, Mark Q. Sutton has expanded and improved the existing text, adding to the case studies, updating the text with the latest research, increasing the number of images, providing more coverage of the Arctic regions, and including new perspectives, particularly those of Native peoples. The book addresses the history of research, the European invasion, and the impact of Europeans on Native societies. A final chapter introduces contemporary Native Americans, discussing issues that affect them, including religion, health, and politics. The book retains a wealth of pedological features to aid and reinforce learning. Featuring case studies of many Native American groups, as well as some eighty-four maps and images, An Introduction to Native North America is an indispensable tool to those studying the history of North America and its Native peoples.

Book Literacy  Language  and Community Publishing

Download or read book Literacy Language and Community Publishing written by Jane Mace and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this collection is to contribute to views and policies about adult literacy. From a range of experiences in adult literacy, language education and community publishing, each contributor draws on the practical business of working for good quality learning and development opportunities. Each chapter describes a particular context or site in which writing takes place, such as adult language classes; each author then explores relevant issues, such as blocks to writing and each then asserts features from experience which constituted good practice. The chapters are grouped into three sections, broadly addressing three themes common to writing development with adults both in educational settings and in the context of community writing and publishing groups.

Book Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada

Download or read book Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultural Policy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diane St-Pierre
  • Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
  • Release : 2021-03-30
  • ISBN : 0776628976
  • Pages : 583 pages

Download or read book Cultural Policy written by Diane St-Pierre and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Canadian provincial and territorial governments intervene in the cultural and artistic lives of their citizens? What changes and influences shaped the origin of these policies and their implementation? On what foundations were policies based, and on what foundations are they based today? How have governments defined the concepts of culture and of cultural policy over time? What are the objectives and outcomes of their policies, and what instruments do they use to pursue them? Answers to these questions are multiple and complex, partly as a result of the unique historical context of each province and territory, and partly because of the various objectives of successive governments, and the values and identities of their citizens. Cultural Policy: Origins, Evolution, and Implementation in Canada’s Provinces and Territories offers a comprehensive history of subnational cultural policies, including the institutionalization and instrumentalization of culture by provincial and territorial governments; government cultural objectives and outcomes; the role of departments, Crown corporations, other government organizations, and major public institutions in the cultural domain; and the development, dissemination, and impact of subnational cultural policy interventions. Published in English.

Book Gabriel Dumont

Download or read book Gabriel Dumont written by George Woodcock and published by Andersen Press (UK). This book was released on 1975 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The struggle of the Metis of the Saskatchewan River against the government of Canada culminated in the Riel Rebellion of 1885 - an event of central importance in shaping almost all of the key polarities of Canadian history. If Riel provided the intellectual inspiration for the Rebellion, it was Gabriel Dumont who provided its strategy, and arguably its soul. Dumont, a leading figure in the Metis society of hunters along the South Saskatchewan, had been president of the short-lived local government, and became "Adjutant General of the Metis people" when a Provisional Government was declared in 1885. After the defeat of the Rebellion by the Canadian militia Dumont lived for several years in the United States, and was for some time a performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. In his last years he returned to his old home near Batoche (site of the final defeat of the Metis forces in 1885), where he died in 1906."--BOOK JACKET.

Book House of Commons Debates  Official Report

Download or read book House of Commons Debates Official Report written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: