Report on: 360 Degrees of Mining Workshop at Minerals North 2014

Alternate Title
Let's Talk Mining
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jerry Asp
Dave Lefebure
Description
Comments on the "Let's Talk Mining" workshop at the conference in Vanderhoof, May 21, 2014, sponsored by the Mining Association of British Columbia. Workshop included information on community sustainability and mine development impacts and benefits.
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Report on Policing in Northern British Columbia: Backgrounder

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP
Description
Investigation examined conduct relating to policing of pubic intoxication, cross-gender searches, missing persons and domestic violence reports, use of force, and handling of files involving youth. Includes links to complaint, interim and final report, and Commissioner's response.
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Report on the Ethnological Survey of Canada [1900]

Alternate Title
Appendix II: Notes on the Skqomic of British Columbia, a Branch of the Salish Stock of North America
Appendix III: The Hurons of Lorette
Ethnological Survey of Canada -- Report of the Committee consisting ...
Notes on the Squamish of British Columbia, a Branch of the Salish Stock of North America
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[Charles Hill-Tout
Léon Gérin]
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Report on the Ethnology of the Stlatlumh of British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles Hill Tout
Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 35, Jan.-June, 1905, pp. 126-218
Description
Studies the culture of the Stlatlumh tribe of the Salish from the interior of British Columbia
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[Rescuing the Timeless Totem of SGang Gwaay]

Alternate Title
Pacific 8 ; May 21, 1959
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Bill Reid
Kelly Duncan
Arla Saare
Description
Documentary on expedition to salvage totem poles from a deserted Haida village on Anthony Island. Includes synopsis. Duration: 27:06.
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Residential School Syndrome

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles R. Brasfield
British Columbia Medical Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, March 2001
Description
Looks at how many residential school survivors present symptoms that are similar to those of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Residential Truth: Unified Future

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Ian Bee
Amber-Lynn Flamand
Courtenay Agecoutay
Bacilia Ramirez
Kim Webber
Description
Video relates personal experiences of students who attended residential schools.
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Resort Development on First Nations Land

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pushor Mitchell LLP
Description
Discusses the demand for land development and how the requirements and procedures vary from First Nation to First Nation.
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The Response of Okanagan Indians to European Settlement

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Duane Thomson
BC Studies, no. 101, The First Nations in British Columbia, Spring, 1994, pp. 96-117
Description
Discusses why the Okanagan Indians failed to successfully integrate into the European socio-economic society because of institutional discrimination.
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A Response to Gloria Frank: 'That's My Dinner On Display': on Museum Culture, (BC Studies 128 Spring/Summer 2000): 163-78

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alan Hoover
BC Studies, no. 128, 2000, pp. 65-69
Description
Response to an article which critiques the permanent First Peoples Exhibit at the Royal British Columbia Museum from a Aboriginal perspective; contends that while a personal viewpoint is legitimate, article does not have the research and knowledge to support some of criticisms.
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Rethinking Child Welfare Reform in British Columbia, 1900-60

Alternate Title
Introduction: People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Marilyn Callahan
Christopher Walmsley
Description
"This chapter highlights the importance of not discarding our past but, rather, understanding the actions of social work pioneers within the context of their times and gaining appreciation for their accomplishments". Introduction and Chapter 1 from People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia edited by Leslie T. Foster and Brian Wharf.
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Rethinking Precolonial Plant Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas Deur
Professional Geographer, vol. 54, no. 2, May 2002, pp. 140-157
Description
Argues that although portrayed as exclusively "hunter-fisher-gatherers", there is ample evidence that the peoples of this region also created gardens of edible plants using sophisticated methods. Author further argues that this portrayal was used to rationalize dispossession of traditional territories.
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Rethinking the Paratext: Digital Story-Mapping E. Pauline Johnson’s and Chief Joe & Mary Capilano’s Legends of Vancouver (1911)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alix Shield
BC Studies, no. 197, Spring, April 24, 2018, pp. 107-121
Description
Discusses the text and its critical framework—title page, introduction, and other framing elements. Considers the roles of Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Chief Joe and his wife Mary Capilano as co-authors, and the decolonization of the text by reconnecting it to unceded Coast Salish lands using platform called ArcGIS Story-Map Journals,
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Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, The Kwakwaka'wakw and the Making of Modern Cinema; Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Andrea Walsh
BC Studies, no. 188, Winter, 2015/2016, pp. 108-111
Description
Book reviews of: Return to the Land of the Head Hunters edited by Brad Evans and Aaron Glass. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan. Entire book review section on one pdf. To read this review scroll to p. 108.
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