Canadian Plains Studies
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 400
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Voices of the Plains Cree
Author: Edward Ahenakew
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780889770836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers in this collection deal with the traditions and past history of the Plains Cree, and the effects, fifty years ago, of a changing way of life. Topics covered are the following: a winter of hardship; Indian laws; revenge against the Blackfoot; Thunderchild takes his first horses from the Blackfoot; it is Pu-chi-to now who tells his story; Thunderchild takes part in a dangerous game; encounter with the Blackfoot in the Eagle hills; a fight with the Scarcee; a story of friendship; truce making and truce breaking; Buffalo pounds; the Buffalo chase; the Grizzly bear; walking wind tell his story of the Grizzly; Thunderchild's adventure with the bears; the foot-race; a faithless woman; the first man; the sun dance; the thirst dance; and, Thunderchild's conclusion.
Clearing the Plains
Author: James William Daschuk
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0889772967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between First Nations and non-Native populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. " Clearing the Plains is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of indigenous peoples. Daschuk shows how infectious disease and state-supported starvation combined to create a creeping, relentless catastrophe that persists to the present day. The prose is gripping, the analysis is incisive, and the narrative is so chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed. For days after reading it, I was unable to shake a profound sense of sorrow. This is fearless, evidence-driven history at its finest." -Elizabeth A. Fenn, author of Pox Americana "Required reading for all Canadians." -Candace Savage, author of A Geography of Blood "Clearly written, deeply researched, and properly contextualized history...Essential reading for everyone interested in the history of indigenous North America." -J.R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires
Metis and the Medicine Line
Author: Michel Hogue
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2015-04-06
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1469621061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Living in a disputed area of the northern Plains inhabited by various Indigenous nations and claimed by both the United States and Great Britain, the Metis emerged as a people with distinctive styles of speech, dress, and religious practice, and occupational identities forged in the intense rivalries of the fur and provisions trade. Michel Hogue explores how, as fur trade societies waned and as state officials looked to establish clear lines separating the United States from Canada and Indians from non-Indians, these communities of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry were profoundly affected by the efforts of nation-states to divide and absorb the North American West. Grounded in extensive research in U.S. and Canadian archives, Hogue's account recenters historical discussions that have typically been confined within national boundaries and illuminates how Plains Indigenous peoples like the Metis were at the center of both the unexpected accommodations and the hidden history of violence that made the "world's longest undefended border."
"Your Loving Son"
Author: George McCowan King
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780889771499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a compilation of various sources that form a coherent narrative that leads up to, documents, and explores the repercussions of the death of George McCowan King, a navigator in the Royal Canadian Air Force who was shot down over Germany on September 22, 1943. Focussing on the period from late 1942 to the end of the war, but extending even into the 1990s, the voices that combine to tell the story of the navigator's life and death include his letters, the letters of other family members, correspondence with families of other servicemen & friends, diary & logbook entries, and official government missives concerning the circumstances of the death and the naming of King Creek in northern Saskatchewan.
The Kelsey Papers
Author: Henry Kelsey
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix-five years have elapsed since the Public Archives of Canada and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland first published Henry Kelsy's papers, namely his journals, letters and memoranda dealing with his long career as a servant with the Hudson's Bay Company from 1684 to 1722. The papers, long forgotten, came to public attention in 1926. The papers presented in this document consist of accounts by Kelsey of six significant episodes in his career, including his two exploratory journeys, and also of short letters and a memorandum.
Health Care in Saskatchewan
Author: Gregory P. Marchildon
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780889772083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In Health Care in Saskatchewan, the authors explain how health services are organized, financed and delivered in the province. Throughout, Saskatchewan is systematically compared to other provinces in terms of services, spending and outcomes. Marchildon and O'Fee carefully analyse the provincial health system so that health professionals, policy-makers, managers and students get an integrated view of health care in Saskatchewan."--BOOK JACKET.
The Plains Cree
Author: David Goodman Mandelbaum
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780889770133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the author's thesis. Part I was previously published in 1940 by the American Museum of Natural History. This revised edition includes two additional comparative sections.
The Canadian Prairies
Author: Gerald Friesen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 846
ISBN-13: 9780802066480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the Canadian prairie provinces from the days of Native-European contact to the 1980s.
Seeing Red
Author: Mark Cronlund Anderson
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Published: 2011-09-02
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0887554067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to examine the role of Canada’s newspapers in perpetuating the myth of Native inferiority. Seeing Red is a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English-language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day. It assesses a wide range of publications on topics that include the sale of Rupert’s Land, the signing of Treaty 3, the North-West Rebellion and Louis Riel, the death of Pauline Johnson, the outing of Grey Owl, the discussions surrounding Bill C-31, the “Bended Elbow” standoff at Kenora, Ontario, and the Oka Crisis. The authors uncover overwhelming evidence that the colonial imaginary not only thrives, but dominates depictions of Aboriginal peoples in mainstream newspapers. The colonial constructs ingrained in the news media perpetuate an imagined Native inferiority that contributes significantly to the marginalization of Indigenous people in Canada. That such imagery persists to this day suggests strongly that our country lives in denial, failing to live up to its cultural mosaic boosterism.
