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Wawahte: Subject: Canadian Indian Residential Schools
Par Robert P Wells. 2012
Racism takes many forms. When it rises from simply being the opinion of a handful of people to becoming widely…
accepted by a nation, it can result in official programs that may to the public be touted as beneficial, but that can actually discriminate against entire ethnic groups. In his book about Canada's Indian Residential Schools, the author has compiled detailed information along with first-hand accounts of individuals affected by the country's former laws toward its original residents. 2012.Vermeer's hat: the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
Par Timothy Brook. 2008
A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl, while in another, a…
woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. These pictures offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. Moving outward from Vermeer's studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe, and shows how the urge to acquire foreign goods was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2008.Unsettling Canada: a national wake-up call
Par Naomi Klein, Arthur Manuel, Ronald M Derrickson. 2015
As the son of George Manuel, who served as president of the National Indian Brotherhood and founded the World Council…
of Indigenous Peoples in the 1970s, Arthur Manuel was born into the struggle. From his unique and personal perspective, as a Secwepemc leader and an Indigenous activist who has played a prominent role on the international stage, Manuel describes the victories and failures, the hopes and the fears of a generation of activists fighting for Aboriginal title and rights in Canada. Bestseller. 2015.In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people – especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg,…
and Cree – travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were they hoping to find? Unearths the stories of Indigenous peoples including Mississauga Methodist missionary and Ojibwa chief Reverend Peter Jones, the Scots-Cherokee officer and interpreter John Norton, Catherine Sutton, a Mississauga woman who advocated for her people with Queen Victoria, E. Pauline Johnson, the Mohawk poet and performer, and many others. 2017.This is an honour song: twenty years since the blockades, an anthology of writing on the "Oka crisis"
Par Leanne Simpson, Kiera L Ladner. 2010
A collection of narratives, poetry, and essays exploring the impact of the 1990 resistance at Kanehsatà:ke, otherwise known as the…
“Oka Crisis”. The book is written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, scholars, activists and traditional people, and is sung as an Honour Song celebrating the commitment, sacrifices and achievements of the Kanien’kehaka individuals and communities involved. c2010.They called me number one: secrets and survival at an Indian residential school
Par Bev Sellars. 2013
Like thousands of other Aboriginal children, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a…
church-run residential school. These institutions attempted to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers only, not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves. Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family - from substance abuse to suicide attempts - and articulates her own path to healing. 2013.The white roots of peace: the Iroquois book of life
Par Paul A. W Wallace. 1993
The story of how one man united the five warring Iroquois nations - Mohawks, Senecas, Oneidas, Cayugas and Onandagas -…
into a single confederacy over 500 years ago. Deganawidah, The Peacemaker, became the greatest of all spiritual leaders of the Iroquois. His work is preserved in the Confederacy's traditional constitution, and had a major impact in shaping the American Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. Some descriptions of violence. 1994.The voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights
Par Russell Freedman. 2005
In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor…
Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights. Junior High. 2005.The unknown Matisse: a life of Henri Matisse: the early years, 1869-1908
Par Hilary Spurling. 2001
Hilary Spurling presents an account of Matisse's early life, from his beginnings as the son of shopkeepers in Flanders through…
his impoverished days as a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Tracing Matisse's life through his thirties, Spurling describes how the artist's stubborn northern temperament helped sustain him through many challenges, both artistic and financial, as he found his way as a painter. 2001.The shameful life of Salvador Dalí
Par Ian Gibson. 1998
Biography of the twentieth-century surrealist Spanish painter. Gibson describes Dalí's escapades in Europe, New York, and Hollywood. Explores his confused…
sexual relationships with poet García Lorca and others, and the role of the painter's superstitious wife, Gala. Examines Dalí's major accomplishments, all achieved before age forty; summarizes events preceding his death in 1989. 1998.The reconciliation manifesto: recovering the land, rebuilding the economy
Par Arthur Manuel, Ronald M Derrickson. 2017
Manuel and Grand Chief Derrickson challenge virtually everything that non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous Peoples and the…
steps that are needed to place this relationship on a healthy and honourable footing. They show how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous Peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate and distort the relationship. They review the current state of land claims, tackle the persistence of racism, and celebrate Indigenous Rights Movements while decrying the role of government-funded organizations like the Assembly of First Nations. They document the federal government's disregard for the substance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples while claiming to implement it. This will appeal to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who are open and willing to look at the real problems and find real solutions. Winner of the 2018 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. 2017.The rare and the beautiful: the art, loves, and lives of the Garman sisters
Par Cressida Connolly. 2004
The scandalous, bohemian Garman sisters were famous for their passion for the arts, defiance of convention, and the power to…
turn heads and break hearts. Kathleen, an artist's model and aspiring pianist, was the lover of sculptor Jacob Epstein; Mary married poet Roy Campbell; and Lorna became the lover of poet Laurie Lee and of painter Lucian Freud. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.The perfect house: a journey with the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio
Par Witold Rybczynski. 2002
An appreciation of the residential work of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The author provides a detailed analysis, both historical and…
architectural, of ten of the 30 villas attributed to Palladio. Includes biographical detail, precise descriptions of design elements, and insights into daily life in the 16th century. 2002.The paper garden: an artist {begins her life's work} at 72 (Maple leaf audio)
Par Molly Peacock. 2011
Celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age…
of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into beautiful paper "mosaick" flowers still revered today. 2011.The Manitous: the spiritual world of the Ojibway
Par Basil Johnston. 1995
A collection of Ojibway legends and spiritual teachings, based on their ancient oral tradition. Though the word "Manitou" can have…
many meanings, the title characters here are mainly good or evil spirits that pervade the earth. The stories, recounted by an expert on the Ojibway, reveal the tribe's understanding of human nature, the universe, and their purpose on earth. Includes glossary. 1995.The many deaths of Tom Thomson: separating fact from fiction
Par Gregory Klages. 2016
Commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the death of the renowned Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson, the book offers a…
review of the historical record, testimony, and archives about the artist's tragic and mysterious demise. Putting the whole range of theories under examination, the author separates truth from legend in this great Canadian mystery. 2016.The life of William Morris
Par J. W Mackail. 1995
William Morris was a poet, an artist, a manufacturer and a socialist whose works and ideas had a great effect…
on Victorian art, design and industry. This biography was first published within a few years of his death and remains the primary biographical source on his life and work. 1995.The last mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the hidden history of Hollywood
Par Dennis McDougal. 1998
Biography of one of Hollywood's most powerful moguls who joined the industry at the beginning of talking films and could…
singlehandedly make or break a career. Wasserman was also a confidant to other powerful people; politicians and businessmen as well as Mafia bosses, as the head of Universal Studios. Some strong language. c1998.The laughing one: a journey to Emily Carr
Par S. M Crean. 2001
A combination of historical research and fictionalized accounts of five key periods in the life of Canadian artist and writer…
Emily Carr, that attempts to discover how and why she became a national icon. The book touches on issues of feminism, colonialism, native-white relations, and art, presented in the context of legal and illegal events shaping the fate of BC's native peoples. Crean attempts to discover Carr's true attitude to native culture and to explore not her famous eccentricities but her work. 2001.The inlet: memoir of a modern pioneer
Par Helen Piddington. 2001