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Thomas Crosby and the Tsimshian

Author : Clarence R. Bolt
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774842860

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Thomas Crosby and the Tsimshian by Clarence R. Bolt Pdf

In Thomas Crobsy and the Tsimshian: Small Shoes for Feet Too Large, Clarence Bolt demonstrates that the Indians were conscious participants in the acculturation and conversion process -- as long as this met their goals -- and not merely passive receivers of the blessings as typically reported by the missionaries. In order to understand the complexities of Indian-European contact, Bolt argues, one must look at the reasons for the Indians' behaviour as well as those of the Europeans. He points out that the Indians actively influenced the manner in which their relationships with the white population developed, often resulting in a complex interaction in which the values of both groups rubbed off on each other.

Canada's Residential Schools: The History, Part 1, Origins to 1939

Author : Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773598188

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Canada's Residential Schools: The History, Part 1, Origins to 1939 by Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada Pdf

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and their home communities. For children, life in these schools was lonely and alien. Discipline was harsh, and daily life was highly regimented. Aboriginal languages and cultures were denigrated and suppressed. Education and technical training too often gave way to the drudgery of doing the chores necessary to make the schools self-sustaining. Child neglect was institutionalized, and the lack of supervision created situations where students were prey to sexual and physical abusers. Legal action by the schools’ former students led to the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2008. The product of over six years of research, the Commission’s final report outlines the history and legacy of the schools, and charts a pathway towards reconciliation. Canada’s Residential Schools: The History, Part 1, Origins to 1939 places Canada’s residential school system in the historical context of European campaigns to colonize and convert Indigenous people throughout the world. In post-Confederation Canada, the government adopted what amounted to a policy of cultural genocide: suppressing spiritual practices, disrupting traditional economies, and imposing new forms of government. Residential schooling quickly became a central element in this policy. The destructive intent of the schools was compounded by chronic underfunding and ongoing conflict between the federal government and the church missionary societies that had been given responsibility for their day-to-day operation. A failure of leadership and resources meant that the schools failed to control the tuberculosis crisis that gripped the schools for much of this period. Alarmed by high death rates, Aboriginal parents often refused to send their children to the schools, leading the government adopt ever more coercive attendance regulations. While parents became subject to ever more punitive regulations, the government did little to regulate discipline, diet, fire safety, or sanitation at the schools. By the period’s end the government was presiding over a nation-wide series of firetraps that had no clear educational goals and were economically dependent on the unpaid labour of underfed and often sickly children.

Good Intentions Gone Awry

Author : Jan Hare,Jean Barman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774840699

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Good Intentions Gone Awry by Jan Hare,Jean Barman Pdf

Emma Crosby's letters to family and friends in Ontario shed light on a critical era and bear witness to the contribution of missionary wives. They mirror the hardships and isolation she faced as well as her assumptions about the supremacy of Euro-Canadian society and of Christianity. They speak to her "good intentions" and to the factors that caused them to "go awry." The authors critically represent Emma's sincere convictions towards mission work and the running of the Crosby Girls' Home (later to become a residential school), while at the same time exposing them as a product of the times in which she lived. They also examine the roles of Native and mixed-race intermediaries who made possible the feats attributed to Thomas Crosby as a heroic male missionary persevering on his own against tremendous odds.

Shingwauk's Vision

Author : James Rodger Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802078583

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Shingwauk's Vision by James Rodger Miller Pdf

This book is an absolute first in its comprehensive treatment of this subject. J.R. Miller has written a new chapter in the history of relations between indigenous and immigrant peoples in Canada.

The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah

Author : Peggy Brock
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780774820080

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The Many Voyages of Arthur Wellington Clah by Peggy Brock Pdf

First-hand accounts of Indigenous people's encounters with colonialism are rare. A daily diary that extends over fifty years is unparalleled. Based on a transcription of Arthur Wellington Clah's diaries, this book offers a riveting account of a Tsimshian man who moved in both colonial and Aboriginal worlds. From his birth in 1831 to his death in 1916, Clah witnessed profound change: the arrival of traders, missionaries, and miners, and the establishment of industrial fisheries, wage labour, and reserves. His many voyages � physical, cultural, and spiritual � provide an unprecedented Aboriginal perspective on colonial relationships on the Pacific Northwest Coast.

In the Days of Our Grandmothers

Author : Mary-Ellen Kelm,Lorna Townsend
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802079602

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In the Days of Our Grandmothers by Mary-Ellen Kelm,Lorna Townsend Pdf

From Ellen Gabriel to Tantoo Cardinal, many of the faces of Aboriginal people in the media today are women. In the Days of Our Grandmothers is a collection of essays detailing how Aboriginal women have found their voice in Canadian society over the past three centuries. Collected in one volume for the first time, these essays critically situate Aboriginal women in the fur trade, missions, labour and the economy, the law, sexuality, and the politics of representation. Leading scholars in their fields demonstrate important methodologies and interpretations that have advanced the fields of Aboriginal history, women's history, and Canadian history. A scholarly introduction lays the groundwork for understanding how Aboriginal women's history has been researched and written and a comprehensive bibliography leads readers in new directions. In the Days of our Grandmothers is essential reading for students and anyone interested in Aboriginal history in Canada.

Becoming Tsimshian

Author : Christopher F. Roth
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295989235

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Becoming Tsimshian by Christopher F. Roth Pdf

The Tsimshian people of coastal British Columbia use a system of hereditary name-titles in which names are treated as objects of inheritable wealth. Human agency and social status reside in names rather than in the individuals who hold these names, and the politics of succession associated with names and name-taking rituals have been, and continue to be, at the center of Tsimshian life. Becoming Tsimshian examines the way in which names link members of a lineage to a past and to the places where that past unfolded. At traditional potlatch feasts, for example, collective social and symbolic behavior �gives the person to the name.� Oral histories recounted at a potlatch describe the origins of the name, of the house lineage, and of the lineage's rights to territories, resources, and heraldic privileges. This ownership is renewed and recognized by successive generations, and the historical relationship to the land is remembered and recounted in the lineage's chronicles, or adawx. In investigating the different dimensions of the Tsimshian naming system, Christopher F. Roth draws extensively on recent literature, archival reference, and elders in Tsimshian communities. Becoming Tsimshian, which covers important themes in linguistic and cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, will be of great value to scholars in Native American studies and Northwest Coast anthropology, as well as in linguistics.

Heavens Are Changing

Author : Susan Neylan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773523272

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Heavens Are Changing by Susan Neylan Pdf

A study of Protestant missionization among the Tsimshianic-speaking peoples of the North Pacific Coast of British Columbia during the latter half of the nineteenth century

The Holy People of God

Author : Svetlana Khobnya,Arseny Ermakov,Deirdre Brower Latz,Peter Rae,MiJa Wi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666772715

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The Holy People of God by Svetlana Khobnya,Arseny Ermakov,Deirdre Brower Latz,Peter Rae,MiJa Wi Pdf

This collection of essays addresses aspects of Christian identity formation as God’s holy people in a global context in the midst of various challenges. The contributors offer interdisciplinary explorations on what it means to live as God’s holy people in different settings and consider challenging questions from biblical, historical, theological, missiological, and pastoral perspectives.

Framing the West

Author : Carol J. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0198033494

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Framing the West by Carol J. Williams Pdf

Framing the West argues that photography was intrinsic to British territorial expansion and settlement on the northwest coast. Williams shows how male and female settlers used photography to establish control over the territory and its indigenous inhabitants, as well as how native peoples eventually turned the technology to their own purposes. Photographs of the region were used to stimulate British immigration and entrepreneuralism, and imagies of babies and children were designed to advertise the population growth of the settlers. Although Indians were taken by Anglos to document their "disappearing" traditions and to show the success of missionary activities, many Indians proved receptive to photography and turned posing for the white man's camera to their own advantage. This book will appeal to those interested in the history of the West, imperialism, gender, photography, and First Nations/Native America. Framing the West was the winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Prize of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.

To the Charlottes

Author : George Mercer Dawson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0774804157

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To the Charlottes by George Mercer Dawson Pdf

Details geologist Dawson's 1878 exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands. The editors have extracted comments from his journals on this area and have appended a separate report of Dawson's on the ethnology of the Native people living in the region. Includes 25 photos by Dawson. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Narratives of Citizenship

Author : Aloys N.M. Fleischmann,Nancy Van Styvendale,Cody McCarroll
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780888646187

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Narratives of Citizenship by Aloys N.M. Fleischmann,Nancy Van Styvendale,Cody McCarroll Pdf

Examining various cultural products-music, cartoons, travel guides, ideographic treaties, film, and especially the literary arts-the contributors of these thirteen essays invite readers to conceptualize citizenship as a narrative construct, both in Canada and beyond. Focusing on indigenous and diasporic works, along with mass media depictions of Indigenous and diasporic peoples, this collection problematizes the juridical, political, and cultural ideal of universal citizenship. Readers are asked to envision the nation-state as a product of constant tension between coercive practices of exclusion and assimilation. Narratives of Citizenship is a vital contribution to the growing scholarship on narrative, nationalism, and globalization. Contributors: David Chariandy, Lily Cho, Daniel Coleman, Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Aloys N.M. Fleischmann, Sydney Iaukea, Marco Katz, Lindy Ledohowski, Cody McCarroll, Carmen Robertson, Laura Schechter, Paul Ugor, Nancy Van Styvendale, Dorothy Woodman, and Robert Zacharias.

With Good Intentions

Author : Celia Haig-Brown,David A. Nock
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774811385

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With Good Intentions by Celia Haig-Brown,David A. Nock Pdf

This edited colleciton examines aspects of the lives of individuals of European ancestry and organizations working with Aboriginal peoples against injustice in colonial Canada between the mid-19th century and the first 2 decades of the 20t century. The people in these chapters allied themselves with Aboriginal people who were actively resisting injustices, and worked in various ways to address them.

The Story of Radio Mind

Author : Pamela E. Klassen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226552873

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The Story of Radio Mind by Pamela E. Klassen Pdf

At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, a settler-mystic living on northwest coast of British Columbia invented radio mind: Frederick Du Vernet—Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist—announced a psychic channel by which minds could telepathically communicate across distance. Retelling Du Vernet’s imaginative experiment, Pamela Klassen shows us how agents of colonialism built metaphysical traditions on land they claimed to have conquered. Following Du Vernet’s journey westward from Toronto to Ojibwe territory and across the young nation of Canada, Pamela Klassen examines how contests over the mediation of stories—via photography, maps, printing presses, and radio—lucidly reveal the spiritual work of colonial settlement. A city builder who bargained away Indigenous land to make way for the railroad, Du Vernet knew that he lived on the territory of Ts’msyen, Nisga’a, and Haida nations who had never ceded their land to the onrush of Canadian settlers. He condemned the devastating effects on Indigenous families of the residential schools run by his church while still serving that church. Testifying to the power of radio mind with evidence from the apostle Paul and the philosopher Henri Bergson, Du Vernet found a way to explain the world that he, his church and his country made. Expanding approaches to religion and media studies to ask how sovereignty is made through stories, Klassen shows how the spiritual invention of colonial nations takes place at the same time that Indigenous peoples—including Indigenous Christians—resist colonial dispossession through stories and spirits of their own.

Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples

Author : Alvyn Austin,Jamie S. Scott
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802037848

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Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples by Alvyn Austin,Jamie S. Scott Pdf

Christian missions and missionaries have had a distinctive role in Canada's cultural history. With Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples, Alvyn Austin and Jamie S. Scott have brought together new and established Canadian scholars to examine the encounters between Christian (Roman Catholic and Protestant) missionaries and the indigenous peoples with whom they worked in nineteenth- and twentieth-century domestic and overseas missions. This tightly integrated collection is divided into three sections. The first contains essays on missionaries and converts in western Canada and in the arctic. The essays in the second section investigate various facets of the Canadian missionary presence and its legacy in east Asia, India, and Africa. The third section examines the motives and methods of missionaries as important contributors to Canadian museum holdings of artefacts from Huronia, Kahnawaga, and Alaska, as well as China and the South Pacific. Broadly adopting a postcolonial perspective, Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples contributes greatly to the understanding of missionaries not only as purveyors of western religious values, but also as vehicles for cultural exchange between Native and non-Native Canadians, as well as between Canadians and the indigenous peoples of other countries.