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A Rejoinder to Body Bags: Indigenous Resilience and Epidemic Disease, from COVID-19 to First “Contact”

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lindsay M. Montgomery
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 3, COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples: Tools to Promote Equity and Best Practices, 2020, pp. 65-86
Uses oral and historical accounts to show how culturally grounded practices including dreaming, dancing, singing physical distancing were used in response to epidemics. Small pox, Spanish Flu, and COVID-19 time periods are discussed.
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Smallpox and American Indians Revisited

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James C. Riley
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 65, no. 4, October 2010, pp. 445-477
Looks at smallpox studies to see why the disease was deadlier for American Indians in North America than for Europeans.
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Smallpox and its Control in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John W.R. McIntyre
C. Stuart Houston
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 161, no. 12, December 14, 1999, pp. 1543-1547
Discusses the history of smallpox from the cowpox material used to provide immunity in 1798 to the last Canadian case in 1962.
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Smallpox and the Native American

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristine B. Patterson
Thomas Runge
American Journal of the Medical Sciences, vol. 323, no. 4, April 2002, pp. 216-222
Comments on the introduction of the smallpox virus to Native Americans by European settlers and the resulting devastation.
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Smallpox in the Pacific Northwest: The First Epidemics

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Boyd
BC Studies, no. 101, The First Nations in British Columbia, Spring, 1994, pp. 5-40
Looks at smallpox epidemics in British Columbia during the late 1770s, 1801-02, 1836-38, 1853 and 1862-63.
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Social Power and Cultural Change in Pre-Colonial British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cole Harris
BC Studies, no. 115/116, Native Peoples and Colonialism, Autumn/Winter, 1997/1998, pp. 45-82
Examines the current scholarship of colonialism by looking at three aspects of Northwest coast history: geopolitical recording and transposition of information, the introduction and distribution of disease, and the profits of fur trade.
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Tragedy in the Zoo

Articles » General
Author/Creator
France Rivet
Canada's History, vol. 96, no. 1, February/March 2016, pp. 36-42
Recalls the efforts of Johan Adrian Jacobsen, who transported eight Inuit from Labrador to Europe for display at zoos and exhibitions during which they all died from smallpox.
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The True Story of Canada's "War" of Extermination on the Pacific plus the Tsilhqot'in and Other First Nations Resistance

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Robin Fisher
BC Studies, no. 182, The Great War, Summer, 2014, pp. 217-218
Book review of The True Story of Canada's "War" of Extermination on the Pacific plus the Tsilhqot'in and Other First Nations Resistance by Tom Swanky. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 217.
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Two Ways of Knowing: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge

Alternate Title
Forests for the Future ; Unit 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Veronica Ignas

Includes explanation of the main features of the two knowledge systems and three brief case studies: Indigenous plant classification and nomenclature; pine mushroom industry in Northwestern BC; smallpox epidemic of 1862; and AIDS and its impact on Indigenous populations.

Recommended for Grade 8 Biology.

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Undermining the Social Foundations: The Impact of Colonisation on the Traditional Family Structure of the Goulburn Tribes

Alternate Title
Undermining the Social Foundations: The Impact of Colonization on the Traditional Family Structure of the Goulburn Tribes
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Taylor
David Schmitt
Parimal Roy
Aboriginal History, vol. 27, 2003, pp. [208]-223
Discusses the impact of the arrival of the Europeans and smallpox.
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We Are All Part of Treaty

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cynthia Block
Looks at the arrival of the Europeans, First Nations teaching the newcomers survival skills, treaty negotiations and more. Duration: 6:34.
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Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Guenter Lewy
Commentary, vol. 118, no. 2, September 2004, pp. 55-63
Provides a definition of genocide and argues that the vast majority of Native Americans died of diseases.
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