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  • Cartographic Poetry

    Examining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps

    by Ted Binnema, François Lanoë, Heinz W. Pyszczyk ...
    “Poetry is language condensed; Blackfoot cartography is landscape distilled.”Cartographic Poetry is the first book-length, multidisciplinary study of five maps drawn in 1801 and 1802 by several Blackfoot and Gros Ventre people for the Hudson’s Bay Company. Representing some of the oldest documents created by Indigenous people on the North American prairies and foothills, these maps preserve ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Vancouver Island Treaties and the Evolving Principles of Indigenous Title

    by Ted Binnema ...
    The Vancouver Island Treaties and the Evolving Principles of Indigenous Title illuminates the history of the enigmatic Vancouver Island treaties of the 1850s, offering new interpretations based on a fresh, exhaustive, and multidisciplinary critical analysis of relevant evidence.To understand as fully as possible the motivations, intentions, and understandings of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 28 No. 2, 2017

    by Ian Wereley, Ted Binnema, Béatrice Craig, IAN MCKAY, BETTINA BRADBURY, MAGDA FAHRNI, KATHRYN MCPHERSON, ROBERT C.H. SWEENY, ELIZABETH BLACKMAR, Tracy Neumann, DESMOND FITZ-GIBBON, ALEXIA YATES ...
    Series Book 28 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The importance of decisions regarding the allocation of jurisdiction over Indigenous affairs in federal states can only be understood well when studied transnationally and comparatively. Historians of Canada appear never to have considered the significance of the fact that the British North America Act (1867) gave the Canadian federal government exclusive jurisdiction over Indian affairs, even ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Company

    The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

    by Stephen Bown ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERA thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins.The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling.The Company started out small in 1670, trading ... Read more

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  • A Fair Country

    Telling Truths About Canada

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an ... Read more

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    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
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