Recent debates about the health of First Nations peoples have drawn a flurry of public attention and controversy, and have placed the relationship between Aboriginal well-being and reserve locations and allotments in the spotlight. Aboriginal access to medical care and the transfer of funds and responsibility for health from the federal government to individual bands and tribal councils are also bones of contention. Comprehensive discussion of such issues, however, has often been hampered by a lack of historical analysis.
Colonizing Bodies examines the impact of colonization...
Recent debates about the health of First Nations peoples have drawn a flurry of public attention and controversy, and have placed the relationship ...
From Ellen Gabriel to Tantoo Cardinal, many of the faces of Aboriginal people in the media today are women. In the Days of Our Grandmothers is a collection of essays detailing how Aboriginal women have found their voice in Canadian society over the past three centuries. Collected in one volume for the first time, these essays critically situate Aboriginal women in the fur trade, missions, labour and the economy, the law, sexuality, and the politics of representation.
Leading scholars in their fields demonstrate important methodologies and interpretations that have advanced the...
From Ellen Gabriel to Tantoo Cardinal, many of the faces of Aboriginal people in the media today are women. In the Days of Our Grandmothers ...
Now what shall I tell you first? The days...have been so full of interests and fresh things that I know not where to begin. Suppose I say right here that I believe I shall be very happy here and also that it seems a post I can fit and having said that I'll just write consecutively to give you as good an idea as possible of how we are placed. -- Margaret Butcher, September 4, 1916
From 1916 to 1919, Margaret Butcher served as a missionary nurse and teacher at the Elizabeth Long Memorial Home, a residential school in Kitamaat, British Columbia. The Letters of Margaret Butcher:...
Now what shall I tell you first? The days...have been so full of interests and fresh things that I know not where to begin. Suppose I say right here t...
From Ellen Gabriel to Tantoo Cardinal, many of the faces of Aboriginal people in the media today are women. In the Days of Our Grandmothers is a collection of essays detailing how Aboriginal women have found their voice in Canadian society over the past three centuries. Collected in one volume for the first time, these essays critically situate Aboriginal women in the fur trade, missions, labour and the economy, the law, sexuality, and the politics of representation.
Leading scholars in their fields demonstrate important methodologies and interpretations that have advanced the...
From Ellen Gabriel to Tantoo Cardinal, many of the faces of Aboriginal people in the media today are women. In the Days of Our Grandmothers ...
A controversial sport, rodeo is often seen as emblematic of the West's reputation as a ?white man's country.? A Wilder West complicates this view, showing how rodeo has been an important contact zone - a chaotic and unpredictable place of encounter that challenged expected social hierarchies. Rodeo has brought people together across racial and gender divides, creating friendships, rivalries, and unexpected intimacies. Fans made hometown cowboys, cowgirls, and Aboriginal riders local heroes. Lavishly illustrated and based on cowboy / cowgirl biographies and memoirs, press coverage,...
A controversial sport, rodeo is often seen as emblematic of the West's reputation as a ?white man's country.? A Wilder West complicates this...
