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A vivid, contemporary travelogue by Fred A. Reed. From Bosnian actuality to Macedonian potentiality, Reed’s travels in this region lead him to encounter a landscape inscribed with a shocking testimony: ethno-racialist aspirations remain the only coin in which peoples feel they can express their belonging, their social solidarity – the only credible alternative to the blight of free market globalism.

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Previously ignored or misunderstood by historians, the war between the Hwulmuhw or “People of the Land” and the colonial government of British Columbia remains of utmost significance in today’s world of unsettled First Nations land claims. Chris Arnett reconstructs the fascinating account of the events of 1863 using newspaper editorials, letters, and articles; government and police correspondence; and navy logs.

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A comprehensive look at how Canadian, particularly British Columbian, society “reveals itself” through its courtroom performances in Aboriginal title litigation. Focusing in particular on the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en case, the book traces the trial of Delgamuukw. v. Regina from 1987 and 1991 to its successful appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, which issued a landmark ruling in 1997.

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Taking as her alter-ego Lily Briscoe – the painter in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse – Mary Meigs portrays herself, her family, and her friends in Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait, a book that is both autobiography and memoir. She describes the three major decisions of her life: “not to marry, to be an artist,” and to listen to her “own voices.”

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Boas, Teit, Hill-Tout, Barbeau, Swanton, Jenness, the luminaries of field research in British Columbia, are discussed herein, and their work in Indian folklore evaluated. Other scholars, amateurs, and Native informants of the past and present are given consideration, making this book a comprehensive survey of myth collecting in B.C. a valuable reference tool for beginning or advanced students of anthropology.

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Volume IV of The Salish People deals with the Sechelt and the South-Eastern tribes of Vancouver Island. This four-volume series collects for the first time field reports (circa 1895) written by ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout, who studied the anthropology of British Columbia, in the Pacific Northwest.

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Volume III of The Salish People deals with the Mainland Halkomelem, the people of the Fraser River from Vancouver to Chilliwack, and includes the earliest account of B.C. archaeological sites. The Salish People collects for the first time field reports (circa 1895) written by ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout.

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Field reports from nineteenth-century ethnographer Charles Hill-Tout are collected in this four-volume series, The Salish People. Volume II deals with the people of the Squamish and the Lillooet. It includes an account of the Origin Myth as told by a 100-year-old blind storyteller whose mother saw Captain Cook sail into Howe Sound in 1792. Hill-Tout’s “asides,” too, are uniquely informative.

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These four volumes, edited by Ralph Maud, are rich in stories and factual details about the old customs of the Pacific Coast and Interior Salish in British Columbia. Each volume covers a specific geographical area. Volume 1 deals with the people of the Thompson and Okanagan. It includes stories told to Charles Hill-Tout by Chief Mischelle of Lytton in 1896.

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In Canada’s first bilingual play, an award-winning classic, the English and the French-Canadian working class take on the Establishment. Three families and the neighbourhood delivery boy sit on balconies in the heat of a Montreal summer, forced to listen to election promises in both languages from the broadcast truck of Gaétan Bolduc, who is running for re-election for the Liberals.

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