Native Peoples

★ Arctic Stories

By Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, Vladyana Langer Krykorka, illus.

Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Langer Krykorka, collaborators on A Promise Is a Promise, have created another colourful mixture of Northern legend and historical fact. Arctic Stories is based on Kusugak’s childhood experiences in the ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art

By Allan J. Ryan

Scene: Christmas in Victoria, the parlour of a 1914 Arts and Crafts revamp. The floors are first- growth fir, there is dark wainscotting, the ceilings are high. A chatty cocktail soirée for periodical writers who ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ A Story as Sharp as a Knife: An Introduction to Classical Haida Literature

By Robert Bringhurst

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives

By Renée Hulan, ed.

Until very recently, aboriginal literature (AbLit) in Canada was dismissed as protest literature, or, worse, used as the basis for ethnographic study of aboriginal culture. Although this has changed somewhat in recent years, there is ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Just Another Indian: A Serial Killer and Canada’s Indifference

By Warren Goulding

In 1996, John Martin Crawford was convicted of one count of first- and two counts of second-degree murder in the 1992 deaths of Shelley Napope, Calinda Waterhen, and Eva Taysup. The remains of the women, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Spirit Dance at Mezidian: Joseph Gosnell and the Nisga’a Treaty

By Alex Rose

Alex Rose’s Spirit Dance at Mezidian is a short, sharp, and considered explication of the land settlement treaty drafted between the Nisga’a and the B.C. and Canadian governments. It could, in fact, be nicknamed the ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis

By Peter Edwards

Most Canadians assume that the police and the army exist to protect their civil rights. The police and military response to land-rights demonstrations at Oka and Ontario’s Ipperwash Provincial Park illustrate why aboriginal people in ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Where Fire Speaks: A Visit with the Himba

By Sandra Shields, David Campion, photog.

In 1995, the Himba people of northwest Namibia were under threat from a proposed hydroelectric dam project. With the help of a grant from the International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development, photographer David ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ Rogue Diamonds: The Rush for Northern Riches on Dene Land

By Ellen Bielawski

Rogue Diamonds begins right where it should: on the land. Specifically, the land of the Dene Súliné people, near the northeastern part of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. But it soon shifts to ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival

By Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence, eds.

Strong Women Stories picks up where Kim Anderson’s last book left off. In A Recognition of Being, the Cree/Metis social- and health-policy analyst detailed the ways in which native women have been stereotyped and stripped ... Read More »

November 19, 2003 | Filed under: Native Peoples

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★ Arctic Stories

★ The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art

★ A Story as Sharp as a Knife: An Introduction to Classical Haida Literature

Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives

Just Another Indian: A Serial Killer and Canada’s Indifference

Spirit Dance at Mezidian: Joseph Gosnell and the Nisga’a Treaty

One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis

Where Fire Speaks: A Visit with the Himba

★ Rogue Diamonds: The Rush for Northern Riches on Dene Land

Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival

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