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Sophie Morigeau (1836-1916) was a remarkable woman. Of mixed
Indian-white heritage, she lived her life on her own terms. She
traded in Canadian mining camps and ran pack trains across the
Northern Rocky Mountains. For years she maintained a trading post
on Tobacco Plains on the border between Canada and the United
States. She broke through the accepted roles for women in the
nineteenth century to become an Indian entrepreneur. Jean Barman's
biography of Morigeau details the available historical evidence of
a woman who cut her own path, was an important trader for the
Kootenai Indians, and was a member of both the Indian and white
communities in nineteenth-century northwest Montana and southern
British Columbia. Sophie Morigeau was a resourceful and courageous
woman on the cultural frontier.
Can the specific concerns of Indigenous women be addressed within
current mainstream feminist and post-colonial discussions?
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture proposes
that a dynamic new line of inquiry -- Indigenous feminism -- is
necessary to truly engage with the crucial issues of cultural
identity, nationalism, and decolonization particular to Indigenous
contexts. Through the lenses of politics, activism, and culture,
this wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of
Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the
relevance of contemporary literature, art, and performance for an
emerging Indigenous feminist project. The questions at the heart of
these essays -- What is at stake in conceptualizing Indigenous
feminism? How does feminism relate to Indigenous claims to land and
sovereignty? What lessons can we learn from the past? How do
Indigenous women engage ongoing violence and social and political
marginalization? -- cross disciplinary, national, academic, and
activist boundaries to explore deeply the unique political and
social positions of Indigenous women. A vital and sophisticated
discussion that will change the way we think about modern feminism,
Indigenous Women and Feminism will be invaluable to scholars,
activists, artists, community organizers, and those concerned with
Indigenous and feminist issues at home and abroad.
The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the
first full-length discussion of this important subject since the
adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian
control of Indian education. Volume 1 analyzes the education of
Indian children by whites since the arrival of the first Europeans
in Canada. Volume 2 is concerned with the wide-ranging changes that
have taken place since 1972.
Jean Barman rewrites the history of the Pacific Northwest from the
perspective of the French Canadians involved in the fur economy,
the Indigenous women whose presence in their lives encouraged them
to stay, and their descendants. For half a century, French
Canadians were the region's largest group of newcomers,
facilitating early overland crossings, driving the fur economy,
initiating non-wholly-Indigenous agricultural settlement, and
easing relations with Indigenous peoples. When the region was
divided in 1846, they also ensured that the northern half would go
to Britain, ultimately giving Canada its Pacific shoreline.
Can the specific concerns of Indigenous women be addressed within
current mainstream feminist and post-colonial discussions?
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture proposes
that a dynamic new line of inquiry -- Indigenous feminism -- is
necessary to truly engage with the crucial issues of cultural
identity, nationalism, and decolonization particular to Indigenous
contexts. Through the lenses of politics, activism, and culture,
this wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of
Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the
relevance of contemporary literature, art, and performance for an
emerging Indigenous feminist project. The questions at the heart of
these essays -- What is at stake in conceptualizing Indigenous
feminism? How does feminism relate to Indigenous claims to land and
sovereignty? What lessons can we learn from the past? How do
Indigenous women engage ongoing violence and social and political
marginalization -- cross disciplinary, national, academic, and
activist boundaries to explore deeply the unique political and
social positions of Indigenous women. A vital and sophisticated
discussion that will change the way we think about modern feminism,
Indigenous Women and Feminism will be invaluable to scholars,
activists, artists, community organizers, and those concerned with
Indigenous and feminist issues at home and abroad.
This comprehensive bibliography provides complete coverage of the
English-language literature on contemporary Canadian childhood and
youth. It covers scholarly, professional, and other substantial
writings, including books, monographs, the reports of government
commissions, scholarly and professional articles, and magistral and
doctoral dissertations. The material is arranged geographically and
includes full subject and author indexes. A companion volume covers
the literature on the history of Canadian childhood.
This comprehensive bibliography provides complete coverage of the
English-language literature on contemporary Canadian childhood and
youth. It covers scholarly, professional, and other writings,
including books, monographs, the reports of government commissions,
scholarly and professional articles, and magistral and doctoral
dissertations. The material is arranged geographically, and the
work includes an extensive subject index and a full author index. A
companion volume provides coverage of contemporary Canadian
childhood and youth.
Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787.
Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or
as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century
more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the
Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have
gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through
painstaking archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California,
and Hawaii, Jean Barman and Bruce Watson pieced together what is
known about these sailors, laborers, and settlers from 1787 to
1898, the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United
States. In addition, the authors include descriptive biographical
entries on some eight hundred Native Hawaiians, a remarkable and
invaluable complement to their narrative history. "Kanakas" (as
indigenous Hawaiians were called) formed the backbone of the fur
trade along with French Canadians and Scots. As the trade waned and
most of their countrymen returned home, several hundred men with
indigenous wives raised families and formed settlements throughout
the Pacific Northwest. Today their descendants remain proud of
their distinctive heritage. The resourcefulness of these pioneers
in the face of harsh physical conditions and racism challenges the
early Western perception that Native Hawaiians were indolent and
easily exploited. Scholars and others interested in a number of
fields-Hawaiian history, Pacific Islander studies, Western U.S. and
Western Canadian history, diaspora studies-will find Leaving
Paradise an indispensable work.
This new edition explores the myriad ways that education, broadly
defined, molds each of us in profound and enduring ways. Laid
against the supporting scaffolding of modern critical theory, the
chapters offer cutting edge perspectives of going to school in
British Columbia. How has education been tailored by race, class,
gender? How do representations of schools and schooling change over
time and whose interests are served? What echoes of current
tensions can we hear in the past? The book offers a glimpse of the
deep contradictions inherent in an experience that we all share.
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