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  • When Disease Came to This Country

    Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America

    by Liza Piper ...
    Series series Global Health Histories
    Twentieth-century circumpolar epidemics shaped historical interpretations of disease in European imperialism in the Americas and beyond. In this revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern peoples, Liza Piper illuminates the ecological, spatial, and colonial relationships that allowed diseases – influenza, measles, and tuberculosis in particular – to flourish between 1860 ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Ice Blink

    Navigating Northern Environmental History

    by Tina Adcock, Emelie Cameron, Hans M. Carlson, Marionne Cronin, Matthew Farish, Arn Keeling, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Tina Loo, Paul Nadasdy, Jonathan Peyton, Liza Piper, John Sandlos, Andrew Stuhl ...
    Series Book 7 - Canadian History and Environment
    Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest in the region. This timely volume extends our understanding of the environmental history of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Environmental Activism on the Ground

    Small Green and Indigenous Organizing

    by Jessica DeWitt, Sterling Evans, Zoltan Grossman, Mark Leeming, Mark McLaughlin, John Welch, Anna Willow, Frank Zelko ...
    Series Book 9 - Canadian History and Environment
    Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to the ongoing evolution of the environmental movement while reappraising the history and character of late twentieth and early twenty-first ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Sustaining the West

    Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments

    Edited by Liza Piper, Lisa Szabo-Jones ...
    Series series Environmental Humanities
    Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex nature of the problems being addressed calls for productive interdisciplinary solutions. In this book, arts and humanities scholars ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Sacred Feathers

    The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians, Second Edition

    by Donald B. Smith ...
    Much of the ground on which Canada’s largest metropolitan centre now stands was purchased by the British from the Mississauga Indians for a payment that in the end amounted to ten shillings. Sacred Feathers (1802–1856), or Peter Jones, as he became known in English, grew up hearing countless stories of the treachery in those negotiations, early lessons in the need for Indian vigilance in ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The North-West Is Our Mother

    The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation

    by Jean Teillet ...
    There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Power of Place, the Problem of Time

    Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism

    by Keith Thor Carlson ...
    The Indigenous communities of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia (a group commonly called the Stó:lõ), have historical memories and senses of identity deriving from events, cultural practices, and kinship bonds that had been continuously adapting long before a non-Native visited the area directly. In The Power of Place, the Problem of Time, Keith Thor Carlson re-thinks the history of Native ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Valley of the Birdtail

    An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

    by Andrew Stobo Sniderman, Douglas Sanderson ...
    THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner – 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeWinner – 2023 John W. Dafoe Book PrizeWinner – 2023 High Plains Book Award for Indigenous WriterWinner – 2022 Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Local HistoryWinner – 2023 Quebec Writers’ Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction and Concord... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Shingwauk's Vision

    A History of Native Residential Schools

    by J.R. Miller ...
    With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Aboriginal Ontario

    Historical Perspectives on the First Nations

    Edited by Edward S. Rogers, Donald B. Smith ...
    Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This volume reviews the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples in Southern Ontario, as well as the Algonquians in Northern Ontario. The first section describes the climate and landforms of ... Read more

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  • Riel

    A Life of Revolution

    by Maggie Siggins ...
    Published to widespread critical acclaim, Riel: A Life of Revolution proved that an intimate and revealing portrait of one of our most enduring—and most isunderstood—legends could be an almost instant national bestseller. ‘Who is Louis Riel?’ Maggie Siggins asks, and comes up with some fascinating answers. Seen by many as an unrepentant traitor, a messianic prophet and a pathetic tyrant, Siggins ... Read more

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  • Canada’s Residential Schools: The History, Part 1, Origins to 1939

    The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 1

    by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada ...
    Series Book 80 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and their home communities.For children, life in these schools was lonely and alien. Discipline was harsh, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD