IGNACE, MARIANNE B.

Handbook for Aboriginal Language Program Planning in British Columbia

North Vancouver, BC: First Nations Education Steering Committee, 1998. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. Very light shelf wear is evident.; A bright, solid book.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 114 pages; "This book was written by Dr. Ignace for the First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC). The handbook was prepared in an effort to assist First Nations communities in designing, expanding or enhancing their efforts towards language revitalization. It provides information related to the state of First Nations languages, as well as local, regional and international initiatives directed at reversing language loss.". Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 18643

Catalogue: Native Studies::Language study

Keywords: Linguistics first nations

JACOBS, JANE

A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska the Story of Hannah Breece

Toronto: Random House Canada, 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394224760. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, sun-faded on spine. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages; "Over fifty years ago Hannah Breece bestowed upon her great niece, Jane Jacobs, her manuscript, roughly culled together from diaries and letters from when she was a school teacher in Alaska and the Yukon. In the summer of 1994, Ms. Jacobs traveled to Alaska to do the research necessary to complete her great aunt's book. In 1904, Hannah Breece set off for Alaska, where she was sent by the American government to teach Aleuts, Dina'ina, Athabascans, and people of mixed-European and Native blood. She remained in Alaska until 1918 and in this book tells her story. Diary-like in its mingling of domestic matters, work, public events and chance encounters, Hannah Breece's narrative is spiced with litany of adventures, for she was a women who went anywhere and stood up to anybody.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 20790

Catalogue: Native Studies::Alaska

Keywords: 0394224760 Alaska Aleuts

JAENEN, CORNELIUS J

Friend and Foe Aspects of French

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771043945. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 207 pages; "a chronicle of early French relations with the tribes inhabiting America- relations far less friendly and cooperative than are portrayed in French history and assumed in popular depictions". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21840

Catalogue: Native Studies

Keywords: 0771043945 History::Canada Native Studies

JENISH, D'ARCY

Indian Fall the Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy

Toronto: Penguin Books Canada, 2000. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0140275614. Card covers show light creasing, lower fore corner bumped. Remainder mark on bottom page edges. ; A bright, solid book.; B&W Illustrations; 8.4 X 5.4 X 0.9 inches; 341 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 19128

Catalogue: Native Studies::Cree

Keywords: 0140275614 Blackfoot cree

JENKINS, MCKAY

Bloody Falls of the Coppermine Madness, Murder, and the Collision of Cultures in the Arctic, 1913

New York: Random House, 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0375507213. As new, only slight wear to book and dust jacket.; A bright, solid book, dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Publisher's promotional sheets laid in. ; 9.40 X 6 X 1.10 inches; 278 pages; "In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as the Barren Lands, until they reached the place where the Coppermine River dumps into the Arctic Ocean.Their fate, and the fate of the people they hoped to teach about God, was about to take a tragic turn. Three days after reaching their destination, the two priests were murdered, their livers removed and eaten. Suddenly, after having survived some ten thousand years with virtually no contact with people outside their remote and forbidding land, the last hunter-gatherers in North America were about to feel the full force of Western justice.As events unfolded, one of the Arctic’s most tragic stories became one of North America’s strangest and most memorable police investigations and trials. Given the extreme remoteness of the murder site, it took nearly two years for word of the crime to reach civilization. When it did, a remarkable Canadian Mountie named Denny LaNauze led a trio of constables from the Royal Northwest Mounted Police on a three-thousand-mile journey in search of the bodies and the murderers. Simply surviving so long in the Arctic would have given the team a place in history; when they returned to Edmonton with two Eskimos named Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, their work became the stuff of legend.Newspapers trumpeted the arrival of the Eskimos, touting them as two relics of the Stone Age. During the astonishing trial that followed, the Eskimos were acquitted, despite the seating of an all-white jury. So outraged was the judge that he demanded both a retrial and a change of venue, with himself again presiding. The second time around, predictably, the Eskimos were convicted.A near perfect parable of late colonialism, as well as a rich exploration of the differences between European Christianity and Eskimo mysticism, Jenkins’s Bloody Falls of the Coppermine possesses the intensity of true crime and the romance of wilderness adventure. Here is a clear-eyed look at what happens when two utterly alien cultures come into violent conflict.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 17571

Catalogue: Native Studies::Missions

Keywords: 0375507213 Missions Coppermine river Arctic Barren Lands Priests Missionaries Native Studies

JENSEN, VICKIE

Where the People Gather Carving a Totem Pole

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0295972203. Gift notation on front free end paper otherwise as new ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar.; B&W Photographs; 9.70 X 8.40 X 0.80 inches; 175 pages. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 16107

Catalogue: Native Studies

Keywords: 0295972203 British Columbia first nations totem poles coastal natives Native Studies

JOHNSON, HAROLD R.

Peace and Good Order the Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2019. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771048726. DJ and boards show shelf wear, moisture stains back of DJ and top edges of boards, fading showing on DJ is part of the design.; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 198 X 21 X 136 millimeters; 153 pages; "In early 2018, the failures of Canada's justice system were sharply and painfully revealed in the verdicts issued in the deaths of Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine. The outrage and confusion that followed those verdicts inspired former Crown prosecutor and bestselling author Harold R. Johnson to make the case against Canada for its failure to fulfill its duty under Treaty to effectively deliver justice to Indigenous people, worsening the situation and ensuring long-term damage to Indigenous communities. In this direct, concise, and essential volume, Harold R. Johnson examines the justice system's failures to deliver "peace and good order" to Indigenous people. He explores the part that he understands himself to have played in that mismanagement, drawing on insights he has gained from the experience; insights into the roots and immediate effects of how the justice system has failed Indigenous people, in all the communities in which they live; and insights into the struggle for peace and good order for Indigenous people now.". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 21075

Catalogue: Native Studies

Keywords: 0771048726

KAMMER, JERRY

The Second Long Walk the Navajo

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0826305490. Boards show light shelf wear only, DJ shows heavy shelf wear with tears, chipping along top edge. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Illustrated with B&W photos ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 239 pages; The author tries to clarify the issues in the dispute in question. "''THE SECOND LONG WALK'' covers the tragic conflict between two tribes of American Indians who inhabit the northeast quarter of Arizona. Some 8,000 Hopis live on a small reservation surrounded by the much larger reservation of an estimated 150,000 Navajos. The Hopis are farmers by tradition and, until recently, lived in medieval-looking stone villages built, for reasons of defense, on the tops of cliff-rimmed mesas. According to their own mythology, the Hopis have been here forever; according to anthropological research, they have lived here for at least 700 years. The Navajos, according to anthropological lore, are relatively recent arrivals on the North American continent (like the rest of us). They came roving down from the north in small, nomadic bands, a hunting, gathering and raiding society, and arrived in what is now Arizona about 500 years ago, not long before the Spanish. Adaptable and relentlessly expansionistic, they acquired horses, sheep, goats and the arts of silversmith". Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 20947

Catalogue: Native studies::Arizona

Keywords: 0826305490 Navajo arizona hopi

KIDD, KENNETH E.

Canadians of Long Ago; the Story of the Canadian Indian

Toronto: Longman Canada Ltd, 1975. Later Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated boards show light shelf wear, short tear top of spine, school district stamp on half-title page. Apart from school stamp there are no markings. ; A bright solid book, text unmarked, decorative endpapers. B&W illustrations throughout ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 174 pages; This was originally published in 1951 for use in public schools. The information is fairly general, dealing with the origins, traditions etc of tribes from the West Coast, the Plains and Ontario and Quebec. The book has omitted the tribes native to the Maritimes.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 19885

Catalogue: Native Studies::Juvenile

Keywords: Aboriginal Haida Blackfoot iroquois Native Studies

VAN KIRK, SYLVIA

"Many Tender Ties" Women in Fur-Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670

Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer Publishing Ltd, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0920486061. DJ shows shelf wear with short tears, light chipping and scuffing. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches; 303 pages; The author discusses the role that women, both native and white played in the fur trade in the early days in the Canadian west. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 20375

Catalogue: Native Studies

Keywords: 0920486061 Fur Trade Native chippewa Hudson bay Aboriginal History::Canada Native Studies

KLESNER, MARGARET

Language Arts for Native Indian Studies

Victoria, BC: Ministry of Education, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0771990863. Card covers show light shelf wear, light soiling.; A tight solid book. ; Trade PB; B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 118 pages; This is a teaching reference for use in British Columbia schools. Very Good .

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Book number: 17471

Catalogue: Native Studies

Keywords: 0771990863 first nations British Columbia Language Native Studies

KUNIN, ROSLYN, PH.D.

Prospering Together the Economic Impact of the Aboriginal Title Settlements in B. C

Vancouver BC: Laurier Institution, 2001. Revised Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0968234313. Only slight edge wear and corner curl of card covers. ; A bright, solid book, text unmarked. ; Trade PB; 8.90 X 6 X 0.90 inches; 208 pages; "This updated, fully indexed edition contains a new chapter that captures the developments in the B.C. treaty process since the original publication in 1998, including an analysis of the ground-breaking Nisga'a Final Agreement and new approaches to the treaty process. The book also examines the effect settlements and their costs will likely have on investment and the provincial economy... written in plain language, looks at the many important economic concerns about title settlements, including: land and resource tenure, access to natural resources, investment, human resources, education, health, funding and self-government. A new chapter discusses the Nisga'a treaty in detail.". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 16198

Catalogue: Native Studies::British Columbia::Nisga'a

Keywords: 0968234313 Aboriginal British Columbia Land transfer Nisga'a title settlements Native Studies

LEESON, NELSON [ET AL]

Nisga'a People of the Mighty River

New Aiyansh, BC: Nisga'a Tribal Council, 1992. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Card covers show very light shelf wear.; A tight solid book. Illustrated with B&W photographs ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 24 pages; This is a small information booklet defining the Nisga'a peoples.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 20963

Catalogue: Native Studies

Keywords: Nisga'a

LILLARD, CHARLES (EDITOR) AND FATHER AUGUSTIN BRABANT

Mission to Nootka 1874

Sidney, BC: Gray's Publishing, 1977. 1st Thus. Softcover. ISBN: 0888260725. Card covers show very light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book. Illustrated with B&W photographs ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 120 pages; This book has appeared a number of forms under different titles and deals with Father Augustin Brabant's attempts to Christianize the native peoples of Hesquiat. Charles Lillard has "simplified some some of the descriptions and updated the spellings of place and tribal names". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 20938

Catalogue: Native Studies

Keywords: 0888260725 hesquiat Father Augustin Brabant Vancouver Island RELIGION Native Studies

LYNCH, ALICE J

Qizhjeh the Historic Tanaina Village of Kijik and the Kijik Archeological District

Fairbanks AK: University of Alaska, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Light wear to corners; Signed by author on title page, author inscription back of title page; Occasional paper no. 32; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 89 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 14177

Catalogue: Native Studies

Keywords: qizhjeh tanaina