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Examines the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and situates the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved.

With the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, more Canadians than ever are aware of the ugly history of Canada's residential schools. Nearly twenty years earlier, John Milloy's A National Crime provided a groundbreaking history of the schools that exposed details of the system to thousands of readers. This is a timely reissue of A National Crime.

The laws of mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.

This second edition of Farmland Preservation provides a range of views and case studies from across Canada, the United States and beyond. Its fourteen essays are intended to help the reader understand the importance of farmland preservation and the potential for applying new approaches to agricultural protection, policy tools, and intiatives.

Food insecurity takes a disproportionate toll on the health of Canada's Indigenous people. A Land Not Forgotten examines the disruptions in local food practices as a result of colonization and the cultural, educational, and health consequences of those disruptions. This work provides a comprehensive picture of the food security and health issues Indigenous peoples are encountering in Canada's rural north.

"e;Towards a New Ethnohistory"e; engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This new ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of knowing and is a direct response to critiques of scholars who have for too long foisted their own research agendas onto Indigenous communities. Community-engaged scholarship invites members of the Indigenous community themselves to identify the research questions, host the researchers while they conduct the research, and participate meaningfully in the analysis of the researchers' findings. The historical research topics chosen by the StlA community leaders and knowledge keepers for the contributors to this collection range from the intimate and personal, to the broad and collective. But what principally distinguishes the analyses is the way settler colonialism is positioned as something that unfolds in sometimes unexpected ways within StlA history,as opposed to the other way around. This collection presents the best work to come out of the world's only graduate-level humanities-based ethnohistory field school. The blending of methodologies and approaches from the humanities and social sciences is a model of twenty-first century interdisciplinarity.

The creation of community forests is one path that promises to build resilience in forest communities and ecosystems. This model provides local control over common forest lands in order to activate resource development opportunities, benefits, and social responsibilities. The contributors to Growing Community Forests actively engage in sharing experiences, resources, and tools.

During the early Cold War, thousands of Canadians attended events organised by the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society (CSFS) and subscribed to its publications. Using archival sources and oral histories, Propaganda and Persuasion looks at the CSFS as a blend of social and political activism, where gender, class and ethnicity linked communities, and ideology had significance.

Vividly recounts the author's experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. This book will appeal to readers interested in history of polar exploration, science and sovereignty. It also sheds light on a distant theatre of the Second World War.

A comprehensive review of the Manitoba party system that combines history and contemporary public opinion data to reveal the political and voter trends that have shaped the province of Manitoba over the past 130 years. The book details the histories of the Progressive Conservatives, the Liberals, and the New Democratic Party from 1870 to 2007.

North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it. This title explores the nature and development of this variety of Icelandic. It details the social and linguistic constraints of one specific feature of North American Icelandic phonology undergoing change.

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities. In Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the teachings of fourteen elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Metis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century.

When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book, Many Tender Ties, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced new areas of inquiry in women's, social, and Aboriginal history. Finding a Way to the Heart illustrates Van Kirk's extensive influence on a generation of feminist scholarship.

Indigenous North Americans continue to be overrepresented among those who are poor, unemployed, and with low levels of education. Shauna MacKinnon outlines the deeply damaging, intergenerational effects of colonial policies and describes how a neoliberal political economy serves to further exclude Indigenous North Americans.

Offers the first comprehensive study of Grey Owl's cultural and political image. While the denunciations of Grey Owl are often interpreted as a rejection of his appropriation of another culture, Albert Braz argues that what troubled many people was not only that Grey Owl deceived them about his identity, but also that he had forsaken European culture for the North American Indigenous way of life.

In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. Adara Goldberg's Holocaust Survivors in Canada highlights the immigration, resettlement, and integration experience from the perspective of Holocaust survivors and those charged with helping them.

Why don't more Metis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Metis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Metis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical impacts of colonization upon Metis relationships with spirituality on the Canadian prairies.

Takes us into the passionate hearts and minds of ordinary people caught in the heartbreak of transatlantic migration. It examines the experiences of Italian migrants to Canada and their loved ones left behind in Italy following the Second World War, when the largest migration of Italians to Canada took place.

Italian anarchism emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century, during that country's long and bloody unification. Often facing economic hardship and political persecution, many of Italy's anarchists migrated to North America. Transnational Radicals examines the transnational anarchist movement that existed in Canada and the United States.

Francis Pegahmagabow, an Ojibwe of the Caribou clan, enlisted at the onset of the First World War, served overseas as a scout and sniper, and became Canada's most decorated Indigenous soldier. Brian McInnes provides new perspective on Pegahmagabow and his experience through a unique synthesis of Ojibweoral history, historical record, and Pegahmagabow family stories.

Explores key questions surrounding the power and suppression of indigenous narrative and representation in contemporary indigenous media. The authors examine indigenous language broadcasting; Aboriginal journalism; audience creation; the roles of program scheduling and content acquisition policies; the role of digital video technologies; and the emergence of Aboriginal cyber-communities.

Traces the link between Canadian public policies, the injuries they have inflicted on Indigenous people, and Indigenous literature's ability to heal individuals and communities. Episkenew examines contemporary autobiography, fiction, and drama to reveal how these texts respond to and critique public policy, and how literature functions as "medicine" to help cure the colonial contagion.

Brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, and art, while suggesting significant options for sustained improvement of individual, family, and community well-being.

Presents the first major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system. Magic Weapons examines the ways in which Indigenous survivors of residential school mobilize narrative in their struggles for personal and communal empowerment in the shadow of attempted cultural genocide.

"My name is Weetaltuk; Eddy Weetaltuk. My eskimo tag name is E9-422." so begins From the Tundra to the Trenches. Weetaltuk means "innocent eyes" in Inuktitut, but to the Canadian government, he was known as E9-422: E for eskimo, 9 for his community, 422 to identify Eddy.