Northern Exposures
Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
Illustrated throughout with archival photographs, this book examines the photographic and film practice of the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson’s Bay Company, the three major colonial institutions involved in the arctic and sub-arctic.
- Copyright year: 2004
Hunters and Bureaucrats
Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon
A timely anthropological examination of the effect of land claims settlements and co-management of resources on the Kluane First Nation of the Southwest Yukon.
- Copyright year: 2003
Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador
The essays in this volume illuminate key conditions for autonomy and development: the definition and redefinition of national territories as cultural orders clash and mix; control of resource bases upon which northern economies depend; and renewal and reworking of cultural identity.
- Copyright year: 2001
Gamblers and Dreamers
Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike
Gamblers and Dreamers tackles some of the myths about the history of the North in the era of the gold rush.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Social Life of Stories
Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory
In this illuminating study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social power and significance of storytelling.
- Copyright year: 1998
As Their Natural Resources Fail
Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930
In this groundbreaking study, Frank Tough examines the role of Native peoples, both Indian and Metis, in the economy of northern Manitoba from Treaty 1 to the Depression.
- Copyright year: 1996
The Klondike Stampede
This classic in Yukon gold rush literature was originally published in 1900 and has long been out of print.
- Copyright year: 1994
Gold at Fortymile Creek
Early Days in the Yukon
Michael Gatesfollows the first gold-seekers from their arrival in 1873 until the stampede to the Klondike in 1896, capturing the essence of these early years of the gold rush and chronicling the trials and successes of the hardy individualists who searched for gold in the wilderness.
- Copyright year: 1994
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
The Subarctic Fur Trade
Native Social and Economic Adaptations
- Copyright year: 1984