A Blackfoot History: The Winter Counts
Book Reviews
Alberta History, vol. 65, no. 2, Spring, 2017, p. 26
Description
Book review of A Blackfoot History by Paul M. Raczka.
Descriptive study to determine if obesity and self-reported diabetes rise with increasing geographic accessibility to urban centres.
Discusses a play, The Book of Jessica, that illustrates the struggle women have in understanding what being "a woman" means, including across the barriers of race, culture, privilege and age.
Discusses entities currently responsible for official place names and their processes, and some of the practicalities which need to be addressed when reverting to the Indigenous names.