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Why an Aboriginal Public School? A Report To the Prince George School District No. 57 Aboriginal Education Board

Alternate Title
[Report of the Aboriginal Education Task Force]: Appendix 6
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Paul Michel
Mavis A. Erickson
Paul R. Madak
Provides information to help in the development of an Aboriginal school. Related documents: Report of the Aboriginal Education Task Force: Executive Summary. Aboriginal Culturally Focused Secondary School Initiative Report. Summary Report: SD #91 Aboriginal Education Needs Asse
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Why Treaties?: A Legal Perspective

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
BC [British Columbia] Treaty Commission
Updated version includes three new court cases: Tsilhqo’tin Nation v. British Columbia, Hupacasath First Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests) and Cook v. The Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation.
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Wild About Harry Robinson

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alan Twigg
Contains autobiographical information about the storyteller from the Lower Similkameen Indian band in British Columbia and his collaborations with Wendy Wickwire that produced three volumes of stories: Write It on Your Heart, Nature Power, and Living by Stories.
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William Beynon and the Anthropologists

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara J. Winter
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 1984, pp. 279-292
Examines field notes by William Beynon, a Tsimshian, working in British Columbia for anthropologists Franz Boas and Marius Barbeau.
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Windspeaker Sports Briefs

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sam Laskaris
Windspeaker, vol. 27, no. 11, February 2010, p. 21

Discusses the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Truce Northern Outreach Project and the distribution of spirit boxes to remote northern Aboriginal communities.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.21.

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With Reserves: Colonial Geographies and First Nations Health

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah de Leeuw
Sean Maurice
Travis Holyk
Margo Greenwood
Warner Adam
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 102, no. 5, Geographies of Health, 2012, pp. 904-911
Looks at health data from interviews with members of First Nations in Carrier, Sekani, Wet'suwet'en and Babine territories.
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The Women in the Trees

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Theresa Kishkan
BC Studies, no. 154, 2007, pp. 149-151
Book review of: The Women in the Trees by Gerry William. To access this review, scroll to page 149.
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Work 2 Give: Fostering Collective Citizenship through Artistic and Healing Spaces for Indigenous Inmates and Communities in British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen Brown
Kelsey Timler
BC Studies , no. 202, Arts, Crafts, and Healing: Understanding Social Citizenship in British Columbia, Summer, 2019, pp. 21-40
Article uses the Work 2 Give program—which gives incarcerated men the opportunity to create goods and harvest for the Tŝilhqot’in First Nation—as a case study to examine the “healing potential of the arts and therapeutic craft in BC prisons.”
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Workmanship and Relationships: Indigenous Food Trading and Sharing Practices on Vancouver Island

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Johnnie Manson
BC Studies , no. 200, 50th Anniversary, Winter, 2019, pp. 215-239
Author explore issues surrounding the improvement of Indigenous food security and food sovereignty, noting the traditional and non-traditional market-based food-based practices of Indigenous peoples are simultaneously structured by Indigenous and liberal governmental logics.
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The World is as Sharp as a Knife: A Review Article

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wayne Suttles
BC Studies, no. 56, Winter, 1982-83, pp. 82-91
Review article of: The World is as Sharp as a Knife: An Anthology in Honour of Wilson Duff edited by Donald N. Abbott.
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Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958.

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Donald Wright
The Canadian Historical Review, vol. 91, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 763-765
Book review of: Writing British Columbia History, 1784-1958 by Chad Reimer.
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WSANEC: Emerging Land or Emerging People

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack Horne
Arbutus Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Special Focus on Indigenous Governance, 2012, pp. 6-19
Reviews scholarship on British Columbia resettlement, examines the Saanichton Marina court case, and discusses ongoing disputes over recognition of the Douglas Treaties.
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The X Files

Alternate Title
The X-Files: By Signing Applications for Land Grants, Were the Prairie Métis Drawn Into One of the Largest Property Swindles in Canadian History
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Linda Goyette
Canadian Geographic, vol. 123, no. 2, March-April 2003, pp. 70-[?]
Researchers find some signatures in land grant records including scrip from the early 1900's that may have been forged.
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Xweliqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Leslie Robertson
BC Studies, no. 186, Summer, 2015, pp. 156-157
Book review of Xweliqwiya by Rena Point Bolton and Richard Daly. Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 156.
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