First Nations Education in Canada
The Circle Unfolds
Written mainly by First Nations and Metis people, this book examines current issues in First Nations education.
- Copyright year: 1995
Taking Control
Power and Contradiction in First Nations Adult Education
A critical ethnography of the Native Education Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Copyright year: 1995
Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
This book provides the first systematic and comparative treatment of the social policy of assimilation that was followed in these three countries.
- Copyright year: 1995
Captured Heritage
The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
Douglas Cole Examines the process of anthropological collecting on the Northwest Coast between 1875 and the Great Depression, in the context of the development of museums and anthropology.
- Copyright year: 1995
Eagle Down Is Our Law
Witsuwit'en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims
The struggle of the Witsuwit'en peoples to establish the meaning of aboriginal rights.
- Copyright year: 1994
Indigenous Peoples of the World
Their Past, Present and Future
A comprehensive survey of the Indigenous Peoples of the world, including who they are, where they live, and similarities in their history and future challenges.
- Copyright year: 1993
Bitter Feast
Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64
The first book to pay serious attention to the European economic and political factors which promoted colonization, this book argues that the prime determinant was the uneven development of agricultural systems in western Europe.
- Copyright year: 1993
Whose North?
Political Change, Political Development, and Self Government in the Northwest Territories
This provides the context for a better understanding of these issues and traces the evolution of an innovative, increasingly indigenous, governmental process.
- Copyright year: 1992
Thomas Crosby and the Tsimshian
Small Shoes for Feet Too Large
Clarence Bolt demonstrates that the Aboriginal peoples of Canada were conscious participants in the acculturation and conversion process -- as long as this met their goals.
- Copyright year: 1992
The Early Years of Native American Art History
The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting
This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline.
- Copyright year: 1992
Kwakiutl String Figures
Kwakiutl String Figures will interest students of comparative cultures and will delight all who have time (and string) on their hands.
- Copyright year: 1992
Contact and Conflict
Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890 (2nd edition)
Originally published in 1977, Contact and Conflict has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans – fur traders as well as settlers.
- Copyright year: 1992
Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes
The Anthropology of Museums
Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes poses a number of probing questions about the role and responsibility of museums and anthropology in the contemporary world.
- Copyright year: 1992
A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau
Traditional Stl'atl'imx Resource Use
This volume considers two British Columbia Native communities – the Lillooet and Shuswap communities of Fountain and Pavilion – and traces their development into complex societies.
- Copyright year: 1992
Kachina Dolls
Much has been written about the popular kachina dolls carved by the Hopi Indians of northern Arizona, but little has been revealed about the artistry behind them. Now Helga Teiwes describes the development of this art form from early traditional styles to the action-style kachina dolls made popular in galleries throughout the world, and on to the kachina sculptures that have evolved in the last half of the 1980s.
Teiwes explains the role of the Katsina spirit in Hopi religion and that of the kachina dollthe carved representation of a Katsinain the ritual and economic life of the Hopis. In tracing the history of the kachina doll in Hopi culture, she shows how these wooden figures have changed since carvers came to be influenced by their marketability among Anglos and how their carving has been characterized by increasingly refined techniques.
Unique to this book are Teiwes's description of the most recent trends in kachina doll carving and her profiles of twenty-seven modern carvers, including such nationally known artists as Alvin James Makya and Cecil Calnimptewa. Enhancing the text are more than one hundred photographs, including twenty-five breathtaking color plates that bring to life the latest examples of this popular art form.
- Copyright year: 1991
Objects of Myth and Memory
American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum
Objects of Myth and Memory is the first publication devoted to the Brooklyn Museum's influential collection of Native American art of the Pacific Northwest
- Copyright year: 1993
Life Lived Like a Story
Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders
The life stories of three remarkable and gifted women of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry who were born in the southern Yukon Territory around the turn of the century - when storytelling provides a customary framework for discussing the past.
- Copyright year: 1991
Native Writers and Canadian Writing
A co-publication with the journal Canadian Literature – Canada's foremost literary journal – this collection examines the growing prominence of contemporary Native writing.
- Copyright year: 1991
Aboriginal Peoples and Politics
The Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 1849-1989
This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of the land question in British Columbia and is the first to examine the modern political history of British Columbia Indians.
- Copyright year: 1990
Chiefs of the Sea and Sky
Haida Heritage Sites of the Queen Charlotte Islands
Presents an overview of extensive research carried out by archeologist George MacDonald in the 1960s and 1970s to document the history of the Haida villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands.
- Copyright year: 1989
Indian Education in Canada, Volume 2
The Challenge
The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education.
- Copyright year: 1987
Robes of Power
Totem Poles on Cloth
Not only the first major publication to focus on button blankets, but also the first oral history about them and their place in the culture of the Northwest Coast.
- Copyright year: 1987
Indian Education in Canada, Volume 1
The Legacy
The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education.
- Copyright year: 1986
A Narrow Vision
Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada
In A Narrow Vision, Brian Titley chronicles the career of Confederation poets Duncan Campbell Scott in the Department of Indian Affairs between 1880 and 1932.
- Copyright year: 1986
The Subarctic Fur Trade
Native Social and Economic Adaptations
- Copyright year: 1984
A Sarcee Grammar
This book presents a comprehensive grammar, dealing with deals with all major areas of linguistic structure, including syntax, phonology, and morphology of Sarcee, an Athapaskan language spoken in southern Alberta.
- Copyright year: 1984
Haida Monumental Art
Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands
Combining archeology and ethnohistory, this book presents an integrated framework for understanding the physical structure of a Haida village, through remarkable photographs, site plans and detailed descriptions of fifteen major villages
- Copyright year: 1994
As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows
A Reader in Canadian Native Studies
This collection of papers focuses on Canadian Native history since 1763 and presents an overview of official Canadian Indian policy and its effects on the Indian, Inuit, and Metis.
- Copyright year: 1983
Totem Poles
An Illustrated Guide
This bestseling guide helps readers interpret and enjoy the form and meaning of totem poles -- as ancestral emblems and ceremonial objects, as expressions of wealth and power, as mythological symbols and magnificent artistic works of the people of the Pacific Northwest.
- Copyright year: 1981