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By Strength, We Are Still Here
Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840940
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
In this ground-breaking book, Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Gwitch’in concepts of individual and collective fortitude to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools. Led by survivor testimony, Fraser shows how both students and their parents played a role in changing the system to protect and empower their communities.
Irrepressible- Yukon's Martha Black
From Gold Rush to Parliament Hill
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780888396792
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Hancock House
“What I wanted was not shelter and safety, but liberty and opportunity.”At the age of 32, the unconventional spirit expressed in that statement took Martha to gold-rush-era Yukon while her first...
The Missing Caribou Hide
Traditional T???cho? Stories and Legends
Price:
CA$9.95
ISBN: 9780888397638
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: Hancock House
The Missing Caribou Hide is a story that passes through the years in Tlicho history. It tells of times when people lived a simpler life built around the fur trade, hard work and helping one another. It tells of times when relationships with animals and our environment were stronger than they are today. In this story, a young girl who lives with her grandmother, wishes to own a sled so that she can go sliding like the other children in her community. However, her grandmother needs her to help with chores around the home. The young girl has developed a friendship with Tatso (Raven), Ihk'aa (Canada Jay), Nomba (Weasel) and Nooge (Fox). Because of her kindness, the four animal friends decide to help her out. Included in this book is the use of Tlicho language as well as Tlicho legends told about these animals from the traditional stories of community...
Lock, Stock, and Icebergs
A History of Canada's Arctic Maritime Sovereignty
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774831093
Pub Date: July 2016
Imprint: UBC Press
Lock, Stock, and Icebergs recounts the events, pressures, and behind-the-scenes negotiations that shaped Canada’s legal claim to the Northwest Passage and the waters of the Arctic Archipelago.
Acts of Occupation
Canada and Arctic Sovereignty, 1918-25
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774818681
Pub Date: July 2011
Imprint: UBC Press
This fascinating tale of the rivalries and intrigues that played out as Canada secured the Arctic illuminates an under-explored era in Canadian foreign policy.
The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
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CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774815338
Pub Date: January 2010
Imprint: UBC Press
A revealing history of human impact in the Canadian North, this book focuses on the causes and consequences of the industries that replaced the fur trade.
Hunters at the Margin
Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774813631
Pub Date: January 2008
Imprint: UBC Press
Hunters at the Margin examines the conflict in the Northwest Territories between Native hunters and conservationists, arguing that game regulations and national parks helped assert state authority over traditional hunting cultures.
Tammarniit (Mistakes)
Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63
Price:
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774854795
Pub Date: October 2007
Imprint: UBC Press
Recent media attention on the dire living conditions of the Innu in Davis Inlet, Labrador, has served as a stark reminder of the tragic outcome of Canadian government policy toward the Inuit in the...
Northern Exposures
Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780774809283
Pub Date: July 2005
Imprint: UBC Press
Illustrated throughout with archival photographs, this book examines the photographic and film practice of the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson’s Bay Company, the three major colonial institutions involved in the arctic and sub-arctic.
The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774807319
Pub Date: May 2000
Imprint: UBC Press
The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biography of a man who played a key role in the events which marked the political, social, and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Gamblers and Dreamers
Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774806510
Pub Date: May 1998
Imprint: UBC Press
Gamblers and Dreamers tackles some of the myths about the history of the North in the era of the gold rush.
Gold at Fortymile Creek
Early Days in the Yukon
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780774804929
Pub Date: January 1994
Imprint: UBC Press
Michael Gatesfollows the first gold-seekers from their arrival in 1873 until the stampede to the Klondike in 1896, capturing the essence of these early years of the gold rush and chronicling the trials and successes of the hardy individualists who searched for gold in the wilderness.
The Klondike Stampede
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774804905
Pub Date: January 1994
Imprint: UBC Press
This classic in Yukon gold rush literature was originally published in 1900 and has long been out of print.
Yukon
The Last Frontier
Price:
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774804417
Pub Date: January 1993
Imprint: UBC Press
Covering vast distances in time and space, Yukon: The Last Frontier begins with the early Russian fur trade on the Aleutian Islands and closes with what Melody Webb calls 'the technological frontier'....
By Strength, We Are Still Here
Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781772840940
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
In this ground-breaking book, Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Gwitch’in concepts of individual and collective fortitude to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools. Led by survivor testimony, Fraser shows how both students and their parents played a role in changing the system to protect and empower their communities.
Irrepressible- Yukon's Martha Black
From Gold Rush to Parliament Hill
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780888396792
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Hancock House
The Missing Caribou Hide
Traditional T???cho? Stories and Legends
CA$9.95
ISBN: 9780888397638
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: Hancock House
Lock, Stock, and Icebergs
A History of Canada's Arctic Maritime Sovereignty
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774831093
Pub Date: July 2016
Imprint: UBC Press
Acts of Occupation
Canada and Arctic Sovereignty, 1918-25
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774818681
Pub Date: July 2011
Imprint: UBC Press
The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774815338
Pub Date: January 2010
Imprint: UBC Press
Hunters at the Margin
Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774813631
Pub Date: January 2008
Imprint: UBC Press
Tammarniit (Mistakes)
Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774854795
Pub Date: October 2007
Imprint: UBC Press
Northern Exposures
Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780774809283
Pub Date: July 2005
Imprint: UBC Press
The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774807319
Pub Date: May 2000
Imprint: UBC Press
Gamblers and Dreamers
Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774806510
Pub Date: May 1998
Imprint: UBC Press
Gold at Fortymile Creek
Early Days in the Yukon
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780774804929
Pub Date: January 1994
Imprint: UBC Press
The Klondike Stampede
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780774804905
Pub Date: January 1994
Imprint: UBC Press
Yukon
The Last Frontier
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780774804417
Pub Date: January 1993
Imprint: UBC Press