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Proceedings of the Fort Chipewyan and Fort Vermilion Bicentennial Conference
Focuses on the aboriginal beginnings, histories, present conditions, and future prospects of the regions, touching on prehistory and early contact, the fur trade, farming, the evolving role of government, economic development, and the quality of community life. Introductions by: R. Geoffrey Ironside and Patricia A. McCormack; Father Lucien Casterman; Pearl Newman; Ross Wein; and J.S. O'Neill. Papers by: Jennifer S.H. Brown; Morris Zaslow; Michael Asch; Milt Wright; John W. Ives; Fridolin Marcel; Benjamine Marcel; James M. Parker; Marc Stevenson; Heinz W. Pysczyk; Martin P.R. Magne; Theresa A. Ferguson; C.S. MacKinnon; Shirlee Anne Smith; Michael Forsman; Charles Marten; W.A. Tracy; Evelyn Ha...
The Uncovered Past
Northern Alberta has been homeland for Aboriginal peoples for thousands of years. Its post-contact history exemplifies themes common in Canadian history: the advent of the fur trade, the arrival of European missionaries, the expansion of the Canadian State, agricultural land development, and modern transportation and communication systems. The volume focuses on the archaeology, fur trade, economics, culture, and record of human settlement. Papers by: John W. Ives; Heinz W. Pyszczyk; Michael R.A. Forsman; Theresa A. Ferguson; Jennifer S.N. Brown; Patricia A. McCormack; Robert J. Carney; Richard T. Price; Michael Asch and Shirleen Smith; Andrew Haden; and Patrick Moore.
The Uncovered Past
This collection of eleven papers on northern Alberta includes aspects of the archaeological and fur trade record, the economy (fur trade, hunting and trapping, agriculture), and culture (education, residential schools, religion, history, native dance).
Bringing Back the Past
Over the past century and a half, Canadian archaeology rehabilitated large portions of a history once thought to be lost beyond recovery. This book is among the first to document and analyze the growth of archaeology in Canada.
Voices from Hudson Bay
In Voices from Hudson Bay Cree elders recall the daily lives and experiences of the men and women who lived and worked at the Hudson's Bay Company post at York Factory in Manitoba. Their stories, their memories of family, community, and daily life, define their past and provide insights into a way of life that has largely disappeared in northern Canada.
From Rupert's Land to Canada
Dr. John E. Foster spent many years researching and interpreting the Metis, continually re-examining his own thinking about the fur trade and the West, trying to find new lines of inquiry across disciplinary boundaries, and, playing with ideas that re-imagined the Canadian West. In From Rupert's Land to Canada, in tribute to John's work, his friends and colleagues further explore themes related to "Native History and the Fur Trade," "Metis History," and the "Imagined West". Contributors include Michael Payne, Nicole St-Onge, Jan Grabowski, Jennifer Brown, Heather Rollason, Frits Pannekoek, Heather Devine, Gerhard Ens, Gerry Friesen, Ted Binnema, Ian MacLaren, Rod Macleod, Tom Flanagan and Glen Campbell.
Fort Chipewyan and the Shaping of Canadian History, 1788-1920s
The story of the expansion of civilization into the wilderness continues to shape perceptions of how Aboriginal people became part of nations such as Canada. Patricia McCormack subverts this narrative of modernity by examining nation building from the perspective of a northern community and its residents. Fort Chipewyan, she argues, was never an isolated Aboriginal community but a plural society at the crossroads of global, national, and local forces. By tracing the events that led its Aboriginal residents to sign Treaty No. 8 and their struggle to maintain autonomy thereafter, this groundbreaking study shows that Aboriginal peoples and others can and have become modern without relinquishing cherished beliefs and practices.
Human Rights and the Third World
Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World: Whether alternative perspectives should be taken as the standard for human rights in the Third World countries? Should there be a universalistic notion of rights for Homo sapiens or are we talking about two diametrically opposite trends and standards of human rights for the same species? How far these Third World perspectives of human rights can ensure the protection of the minorities and the vulnerable sections of population, particularly the women and children within the Third World? Can these alternative perspectives help in fighting the Third World problems like poverty, hunger, corruption, despotism, social exclusion like the caste system in India, communalism, and the like? Can there be reconciliation between the Third World perspectives and the Western perspective of human rights?
The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith
Marie Rose Delorme Smith was a woman of French-Métis ancestry who was born during the fur trade era and who spent her adult years as a pioneer rancher in the Pincher Creek district of southern Alberta. The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith examines how Marie Rose negotiates her identities--as mother, boarding house owner, homesteader, medicine woman, midwife, and writer--during the changing environment of the western plains during the late nineteenth century.
Pemmican Empire
Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.
