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We are all treaty people
Par Maurice Switzer. 2011
The Anishinabek Nation includes the Algonquin, Delaware, Mississauga, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi, and this guide provides a brief look at history…
from their perspective. Covers their first contact with white settlers, North American wars, the creation of reserves, land rights issues, the spirit and intent of treaties, the development of legislation called the Indian Act, the creation of residential schools, the 1969 White Paper, the growth of First Nations leadership, and the creation of the Assembly of First Nations. Also deals with the events at Oka, Gustafsen Lake, and Ipperwash. Grades 3-6. c2011.Istanbul: a tale of three cities
Par Bettany Hughes. 2017
For much of its history it was known simply as The City, but Istanbul is not just a city, but…
a story. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its real and imagined boundaries. Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this is a captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul. 2017.The inconvenient Indian: a curious account of native people in North America
Par Thomas King. 2012
Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular…
tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and articulates a deep and revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2015. Winner of the 2014 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. 2012.The Iraq invasion of 2003 was only the latest in a long line of episodes of Western manipulation in that…
country, which owes its existence - and its complex and troubled demographics - to the designs of British imperialists. The brunt of Lando's argument is that the U.S. has routinely played Iraq for profit and strategic advantage yet consistently evaded responsibility for exacerbating the carnage of its destructive wars and humanitarian crises. Descriptions of violence and strong language. 2007.The last governor: Chris Patten and the hand over of Hong Kong
Par Jonathan Dimbleby. 2000
Children of Cambodia's killing fields: memoirs by survivors
Par Dith Pran, Kim DePaul. 1997
The long exile: A True Story Of Deception And Survival Amongst The Inuit Of The Canadian Arctic
Par Melanie McGrath. 2006
1953. A young and inexperienced Irish-Canadian policeman, Ross Gibson, was asked by the Canadian government to draw up a list…
of Inuit who were to be experimentally resettled in the uninhabited polar Arctic and left to fend as best they could. Among them was Joseph Flaherty, the son of Robert Flaherty who had shot the film "Nanook of the North" 30 years earlier. 2006.India: a history
Par John Keay. 2001
Accommodating Pakistan and Bangladesh and other embryonic nation states like the Sikh Punjab, Muslim Kashmir and Assam, this text examines…
the legacy of the 1947 partition, and looks at the colonial era from the overall context of Indian history. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent, while sharing a common history and culture, are not now, and never have been, a single unitary state.For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of…
James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace. Nungak relates the inside story of how the young Inuit and Cree "Davids" took action when Québec began construction on the giant James Bay hydro project. They fought in court and at the negotiation table for an accord that effectively became Canada's first land-claims agreement. Nungak's account is accompanied by his essays on Nunavik history. Together they provide a fascinating insight into a virtually unknown chapter of Canadian history. 2017.Women of the Raj
Par Margaret MacMillan. 1988
The role of the women of the Raj was to create a replica of British society in the face of…
almost insuperable difficulties. They were in exile and surrounded by alien and mysterious language, religion and customs; nor could they have the professional training and commitment that inspired their menfolk. How did they adjust to the moves, the separation from their children and the utter boredom? Extracts from letters, memoirs and novels tell their story. 1988.Wind in the tower: Mao Tsetung and the Chinese revolution, 1949-1975
Par Suyin Han. 1976
This biography covers Mao's later life. Utilizing press reports, speeches, and interviews, Han Suyin discusses Sino-Soviet relations, the Cultural Revolution,…
Nixon's visit to China, and the power struggles within China. Sequel to "The morning deluge". 1976.White Mughals: love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India
Par William Dalrymple. 2004
White Mughals is a vehicle for Dalrymple's understanding of the complex legacy of the English Empire in India, that he…
defines more in terms of exchange and negotiation than dominance and subjugation. It is a plea by Dalrymple to understand the cultural intermingling and hybridity that defines both eastern and western cultures, and a convincing rejection of religious intolerance and ethnic essentialism. 2004.Washington's long war on Syria
Par Stephen Gowans. 2017
Gowans examines the decades-long struggle between secular Arab nationalism, political Islam, and United States imperialism for control of Syria, the…
self-proclaimed Den of Arabism, and last secular pan-Arabist state in the region. 2017.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.War at the top of the world: the struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet
Par Eric S Margolis. 2002
Foreign correspondent Margolis explores South Asia, discussing Afghanistan, the border conflicts in Kashmir and Siachen between India and Pakistan, and…
China's occupation of Tibet, which he sees as a model for how China might come into bloody conflict with India. Describes the way that British, American and Russian policies have fueled the arms and territory battles in Afghanistan, and what India's and Pakistan's battling has cost them in lost social and economic development. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.Vietnam: the valor and the sorrow : from the home front to the front lines in words and pictures
Par Thomas D Boettcher. 1985
Veiled threat: the hidden power of the women of Afghanistan
Par Sally Armstrong. 2002
Denied schooling, employment and adequate health care and confined to their homes unless accompanied by a male relative, the women…
of Afghanistan struggled to survive under the Taliban regime. The author describes the ways these women and girls rebelled against the Taliban. 2002.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.Une école à la dérive: essai sur le système d'éducation au Nunavik
Par Nicolas Bertrand. 2016
Depuis l'implantation des premières écoles fédérales au milieu du siècle dernier, le système d'éducation au Nunavik n'a cessé d'être en…
crise. Absentéisme fréquent, faibles résultats scolaires, décrochage important des élèves au secondaire. le portrait est, hélas, familier. L'école échoue par ailleurs à enseigner adéquatement la culture inuite, ce qui attise les critiques à son égard. Prenant appui sur son expérience personnelle à titre de suppléant dans le village de Kangirsuk, Nicolas Bertrand dresse le portrait de cette école dont la dérive a des racines profondes et complexes. Il réfléchit aussi à la manière de réformer ce système et démontre la difficulté de cette entreprise. Car tant et aussi longtemps que l'école sera perçue par les Inuits, à tort ou à raison, comme un obstacle et non comme une condition de leur émancipation, sa légitimité sera contestée et sa mission, compromise. De l'éducation de sa jeunesse dépend pourtant l'avenir du Nunavik qui, sans renier son passé, doit aussi accepter pleinement sa modernité. 2016.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.