Waiser, Bill
Bill Waiser, William Waiser
University of Saskatchewan, History
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[Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
W.A. Waiser
Native Studies Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 1989, pp. 191-196
Description
Book review of, Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885 by D.N. Sprague.
[Loyal Till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Brenda Macdougall
Oral History Forum, vol. 19-20, Indigenous Voices from the Great Plains, 1999-2000, pp. [135]-137
Description
Book review of: Loyal Till Death by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Big Bear at Stony Mountain Penitentiary
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Image of Big Bear seated with four non-Aboriginal men standing behind him; outdoor scene. Caption: "When Big Bear surrendered at Carlton on 4 July 1885, he had been reduced to a shell of his former self, and his strategy for dealing with the Canadian government lay in total ruin."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Capturing Women: The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada's Prairie West
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bill Waiser
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 80, no. 2, June 1, 1999, p. 306
Description
Book review of: Capturing Women: The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada's Prairie West by Sarah Carter.
Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bill Waiser
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 84, no. 1, March 2003, pp. 108-111
Description
Book review of: Common and Contested Ground by Theodore Binnema.
Louis Riel and the North-West Rebellion
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
WIlliam Waiser
Andre Lalonde
Description
Brief annotated bibliography.
On the North Trail: the Treaty 8 Diary of O.C. Edwards
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bill Waiser
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 81, no. 4, December 2000, p. 691
Description
Book review of: On the North Trail edited by David Leonard and Beverly Whalen.
Our Shared Destiny? Saskatchewan in 1905 and 2005
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bill Waiser
Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, vol. 35, no. 2, Spring 2006
Description
Looks at the history of Saskatchewan, past discrimination and treaty land entitlement.
Poundmaker and French Journalists
Alternate Title
Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Images » Photographs
Description
Photograph. Caption: "Poundmaker surrounded by a group of visiting French journalists at Stony Mountain Penitentiary."
From the book Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion by Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser.
Protecting Ontario's Wilderness: A History of Changing Ideas and Preservation Politics, 1927-1973
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bill Waiser
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 82, no. 4, December 2001, p. 772
Description
Book review of: Protecting Ontario's Wilderness by George M. Warecki.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Eric Robinson, President, Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg
Documents & Presentations
Description
File contains a presentation by Eric Robinson, President of the Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg. Robinson discusses his organizations purpose, and mainly focuses on the problems facing the urban Status and Treaty people in Winnipeg, and across Canada. He stresses the need for the Federal government to take action on behalf of Treaty people who live off reserve to alleviate poverty, discrimination, and lack of access to services. Following the presentation, Robinson introduces Mary Guilbeault's (also fo the Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg) presentation.
Saskatchewan: A New History
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Max Foran
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 2, Spring, 2007, pp. 139-140
Description
Book review of: Saskatchewan: A New History by Bill Waiser.
Surveyors at War: A.O. Wheeler’s Diary of the North-West Rebellion
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W.A. Waiser
Saskatchewan History, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring, 1985, pp. 41-52
Description
Wheeler’s anecdotal 1934 article in The Canadian Surveyor has served as the basis for describing surveyors' role in the 1885 Resistance, the discovery of his journal allows historians to examine how his perception of the North-West Resistance has changed over time. Entire issue on one PDF, scroll to page 41.
The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community (Book Review)
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Bill Waiser
The Western Historical Review, vol. 31, no. 3, Autumn, 2000, pp. 384-385
Description
Book review of: The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community by Elizabeth Furniss.