Fur Trade & Exploration
Colonialism and First Nations Women in Canada
Alternate Title
Chapter 2: Colonialism and First Nations Women in Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Winona Stevenson
Description
Provides an overview of the historical colonization of First Nations women from contact to the end of the early reserve era.
Chapter in Scratching the Surface: Canadian, Anti-racist, Feminist Thought edited Enakshi Dua and Angela Robertson. To view article scroll down to page 49.
Colonialism and the Sexual Exploitation of Canada's First Nations Women
Alternate Title
American Psychological Association Annual Convention ; 106th, 1998
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jackie Lynne
Description
Describes aspects of the historical roots of exploitation including capitalism, the church, the state, and the military.
Colonialism to Post-Colonialism in Canada's Western Interior: The Case of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert M. Bone
Historical Geography, vol. 30, Indigenous Peoples: Contested Lands, Contested Identities, 2002, pp. [59]-73
Description
Comments on the key role the Kitsaki Management Limited Partnership plays in the economic life of northern Saskatchewan.
Colonization Road
Alternate Title
CBC Firsthand ; June 18, 2017
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Michelle St. John
Jordan O'Connor
Ryan McMahon
Description
Ryan McMahon travels across Ontario talking to Indigenous leaders, lawyers, historians, researchers and policy makers about the building of roads and the effects on Indigenous people and their land. Includes stories about isolation from people of Shoal Lake 40.
Duration: 44:07.
Commerce de Fourrures et Competition a Betsiamites de 1850 a 1880
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacques Frenette
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 1987, pp. 41-56
Description
(Abstract in French and English, article in French)
Examines how the Montagnais benefitted from competition between the Hudson's Bay Company and independent fur traders in this region and the methods employed by the Company while trying to control the market.
Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Gretchen G. Harvey
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 167-168
Description
Book review of: Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains by Theodore Binnema.
“Common Disaster”?!: Three Works Revealing the Importance of Inuit Presence and Inuit Oral History [On the Writings about the Man in Charge / the Men Aboard / the Unceasing Searching for the Erebus and Terror]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah Stiles
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 2, Spring, 2017, pp. 520-532
Description
Article examines non-fiction texts about the search for the Northwest Passage to illustrate the contributions of Inuit people and communities to Arctic exploration.
"Complete Liberty"? Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Social Change on the Lower Columbia River, 1805-1838
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gray Whaley
Ethnohistory, vol. 54, no. 4, Between Empires: Indians in the American West During the Age of Empire, Fall, 2007, pp. 669-695
Description
Looks at colonialism and the sexual exploitation of the Chinookan woman by the newcomers.
Conceptualising Historical Privilege: The Flip Side of Historical Trauma, a Brief Examination.
Alternate Title
Conceptualizing Historical Privilege
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Belinda Borell
Helen Moewaka Barnes
Tim McCreanor
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 1, March 2018, pp. 25-34
Description
Looks at how the intergenerational effects of colonization have produced improved economic, social and political wellbeing of settlers' descendants.
Connecting Traditions: Secsepemc Pre-contact Village Life [Winter Map]
Alternate Title
[Connecting Traditions: Explore Secwepemc Pre-Contact Life]
[Secwepemc-Kuc: Let the Journey Begin]
[Secwepemc-kuc: We are the Secwepemc]
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[First Nations Education Council
School District 73?]
Description
Mouse over images to link to: household life (includes clothing, cooking, preserving food, etc.), village information (homes), resource gathering, society (includes role of elders and chiefs, governance, naming), gatherings (includes dancing and singing, trade), stages of life, and games.
Conquest and Recovery in Early Writings from America
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larzer Ziff
American Literature, vol. 68, no. 3, September 1996, pp. 509-525
Description
Focuses on explorer Captain John Smith's descriptions of the New World and Roger Williams' A Key into the Language of America.
Consent in a (Neo)Colonial Society: Aboriginal Women as Sexual and Legal 'Other'
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larissa Behrendt
Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 15, no. 33, November 2000, pp. 353-367
Description
Discusses the sexual abuse of Aboriginal women by white men and the lack of protection from colonial law in Australia.
Contact-Induced Lexical Development in Yupik and Inuit Languages
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anna Berge
Lawrence Kaplan
Études/Inuit/Studies, vol. 29, no. 1-2, Preserving Language and Knowledge, 2005, pp. 285-305
Description
Reports on the influences of contact with European cultures on northern languages.
Contact Languages at the Northern Territory British Military Settlements 1824-1849
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Harris
Aboriginal History, vol. 9, no. 2, 1985, pp. 148-169
Description
Looks at an era whereby the presence of English speakers created a situation of culture contact and new languages were created to allow for verbal communication.
Contesting Patriarchies: Nlha7pamux and Stl'atl'imx Women and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nadine Schuurman
Gender, Place & Culture, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 141-158
Description
Uses archival material to show the interaction between First Nations women and European settlers in the last half of the nineteenth century.
Continuation of Henry’s Journal: Covering Adventures and Experiences in the Fur Trade on the Red River, 1799-1801
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Charles N. Bell
Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, no. 35, Series 1, March 28, 1889, p. [?]
Description
Excerpts from the Journal of Alexander Henry to Lake Superior, Red River, Assiniboine, Rocky Mountains, Columbia and the Pacific, 1799 to 1811, To Establish the Fur Trade, covering the years 1801-1806.,
Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Liam Haggarty
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 95, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 463-465
Description
Book review of: Contours of a People edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny and Brenda MacDougall.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 463.
Contrasting Worlds
Alternate Title
Métis Development and the Canadian West ; 1
E-Books
Author/Creator
Calvin Racette
Description
Overview of Métis history from the 1600s to the early 1870s when many Métis migrated from Manitoba to Saskatchewan. Includes questions for students.
2nd edition.
Cooking and Commensality along the Bering Food Bridge
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sveta Yamin-Pasternak
Igor Pasternak
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 45, no. 1/2, Chukotka: Understanding the Past, Contemporary Practices, and Perceptions of the Present, 2021, pp. 259-282
Description
Looks at the culinary exchange between American and Russian Indigenous populations across the Bering Strait.
The Copper Eskimos
Alternate Title
Encyclopedia Arctica ; 8
Encyclopedia Arctica. Anthropology and Archeology
E-Books » Chapters
Description
Digitized copy of typescript is part of the unpublished reference work on the Northern Arctic and subarctic regions. Project ran from 1947-1951
Copy of notes made by Hon. David Laird upon Qu'Appelle Treaty / 1874.
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Laird
Description
This file contains a carbon copy of a typescript of Laird's notes which give a detailed account of the individuals and incidents involved in the negotiations of the Qu'Appelle Treaty. The notes record the events, beginning on 8 September 1874 and concluding on 6 October 1874, which surrounded the treaty-making process.
The Cost of Early Canada's Native Alliances: Reality and Scarcity's Rhetoric
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine M. Desbarats
William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 4, 3rd series, October 1995, pp. 609-630
Description
Discusses the mutually beneficial relationship between the French and First Nations, including Abenakis, Mi'kmaq and others, during early history.