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Long-Ago Sewing We Will Remember

By (author) Judy Thompson & Ingrid Kritsch
Categories: Social Science

The reproduction of a nineteenth-century outfit marks a three-year collaboration between the Gwich?n and two Canadian museums to revive skills and knowledge employed in making traditional caribou-skin ...

Securing Borders

Anna Pratt takes a close look at the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War. She demonstrates that although the desire to fortify the border against ...

Ideas

For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th ...

Living by Stories

By (author) Harry Robinson
Edited by Wendy Wickwire
Categories: Social Science

Following on two previous collections? Write It on Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller (1989) and Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller (2004), Talonbooks is pleased ...

The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab

Edited by Hartmut Lutz
Categories: Biography: general

In August 1880, businessman Adrian Jakobsen convinced eight Inuit men, women, and children from Hebron and Nakvak, Labrador to accompany him to Europe to be "exhibited" in zoos and Völkerschauen (ethnographic ...

Social Work in Health and Mental Health

Edited by Tuula Heinonen & Anna Metteri
Categories: Social work

Social Work in Health and Mental Health: Issues, Developments, and Actions was created for final year undergraduate and master’s level students in the health and mental health fields. It is primarily ...

Hidden in Plain Sight

The history of Aboriginal people in Canada taught in schools and depicted in the media tends to focus on Aboriginal displacement from native lands and the consequent social and cultural disruptions they ...

Recent Social Trends in Canada, 1960-2000

Lance W. Roberts is professor of sociology, University of Manitoba.
Rodney A. Clifton is professor of education, University of Manitoba.
Barry Ferguson is professor of history, University of Manitoba. ...

Telling Our Stories

Since the 1970s, Louis Bird, a distinguished Aboriginal storyteller and historian, has been recording the stories and memories of Omushkego (Swampy Cree) communities along western Hudson and James Bays. ...