Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada, vol. 1, no. 1, January 1897, pp. 140-142
Description
Book review of The Adventures of John Jewitt by John Jewitt. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Robert Brown.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 140.
Scholar, teacher and historian looks at the mystery of the vanishing Aboriginals and how colonialism affected Indigenous space in urbanizing Victoria.
Duration: 1:17:58
British Columbia Heritage Series. Series 1, Our Native Peoples ; vol. 4
Social Studies Bulletin
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Provincial Archives [of British Columbia]
Description
Booklet relating to the Haida people of northern coastal BC, describing various aspects of Haida culture such as daily subsistence, spirituality, shamanism, family life and legends.
Author tells the story of her people from the time of great flood, contact with Europeans and settlement of the treaties. Concludes with a phonetic and pictoral alphabet.
Historic Sites Series (National and Historic Parks Branch) ; no. 6
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
R.P. Bishop
Description
Booklet on Captain Bishop's efforts to locate the rock which was the westernmost point reached by Sir Alexander Mackenzie during his 1793 expedition into what is now British Columbia.
BC Studies, no. 138/139, Native Geographies, Summer/Autumn, 2003, pp. 165-172
Description
Book review of: Indian Myths & Legends From the North Pacific Coast of America: A Translation of Franz Boas' 1895 Edition of Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Kuste Amerikas edited by Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy.
Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902 edited by Igor Krupnik and William W. Fitzhugh.
Q'sapi: A History of Okanagan People as Told by Okanagan Families edited by Shirley Louis.
BC Studies, no. 204, (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific, 01 09, 2020, pp. 21-44
Description
Article re-examines the colonial narrative surrounding the Pacific Northwest costal region of British Columbia; the author situates the Village of Yuquot as a strategic portal on the Pacific and as a site of arrival for Europeans, Chinese labourers, Hawaiians and others.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, 1996, pp. 181-249
Description
Book reviews of:
All My Sins Are Relatives by William S. Penn.
Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings: An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose edited by Joseph Bruchac.
Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern Plains by Howard L.