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Spring 2004
Native Studies
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Aboriginal Books Issue:
This spring, Prairie books NOW goes to school with scholarly/popular tales of First Nations and Métis heroes …
Big brother for real: Book studies devastating effects of Ottawa’s Indian policies
“Many of my students… they seem to get a kind of glossy, upbeat version of the past that emphasizes co-operation in the fur trade and Canada’s benevolence in signing treaties.”
A Fatherly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power,
and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918 - 1939
Robin Jarvis Brownlie
Oxford University Press
204 pages
$29.95 pb, ISBN 0-19-541784-4
$89.95 hc, ISBN 0-19-541891-3
A hero gets his due: Woodcock’s Gabriel Dumont places history in context
“Dumont’s place in Canadian history should be more prominent than it is.”
Gabriel Dumont: The Métis Chief and His Lost World
George Woodcock, ed. J.R. Miller
Broadview Press
$24.95 pb, 256 pages
ISBN 1-55111-575-1
Out of the margins: Métis writer finds a fur trader on the family tree
“She wanted her forebear to receive more recognition. But it’s a good yarn too.”
Jemmy Jock Bird: A Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier
John C. Jackson
University of Calgary Press
$24.95 pb, 198 pages
ISBN 1-55238-111-0
Aboriginal book snapshots
Quick looks at a host of new Aboriginal books for children, young adults, fiction, non-fiction and even more . . .
Prairie places
Catching Saskatchewan: Province’s people celebrated
“It’s the people here, we retain a sense of civility and dignity of the individual that I believe to be essential in any society.”
Saskatchewan’s Own: People Who Made a Difference
Verne Clemence
Fifth House Publishers
$18.95 pb, 240 pages
ISBN 1-894004-90-6
To Edmonton, with love: Centenary book a 10-year endeavour
“Much has been written or is known about the more famous people and events that are honoured in place names. It is the information on the less famous ones that is often hard to come by.”
Naming Edmonton: Ada to Zoie
City of Edmonton
Compiled by Historic Site Committee, Edmonton Historical Board
University of Alberta Press
$39.95 hc, 424 pages
ISBN 0-88864-423-X
All you imagined: Winnipeg as the subject of fiction
“There’s something about Winnipeg that you can’t get away from. It’s a powerful, generating place.”
The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg
Edited by David Arnason and Mhari Mackintosh
Turnstone Press
$29.95 pb, 128 pages
ISBN 0-88801-298-5
Prairie books roundup
Quick looks at even more books on Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
fiction
Alberta bound: Sawyer reaches for the western sky
“There’s no doubt that Alberta is Canada’s SF capital… I think it’s the stunning prairie night skies-the Milky Way arching from horizon to horizon, the aurora weaving back and forth. You can’t help thinking about your place in the universe with that canopy overhead.”
Letters from the Flesh
Marcos Donnelly
Robert J. Sawyer Books/Red Deer Press
$26.95 hc, 208 pages
ISBN 0-88995-302-3
Iterations
Robert J. Sawyer
Red Deer Press
$22.95 pb, 303 pages
ISBN 0-88995-303-1
So political: Fantasy world sets stage for Machiavellian intrigue
“Power politics underpin everything but it doesn’t get recognized for the force that it has… Religion is political; sex is political; family is political, in the sense of politics meaning there are relationships of power.”
Even the Stones
Marie Jakober
Edge/Hades Publications
$19.95 pb, 350 pages
ISBN 1-894063-18-X
non-fiction
Prairie north: Finding undocumented territory in Manitoba
“I am already planning on undertaking a far more wide-ranging study of the relationship between people and the natural environment in the north. So no, it is not exhaustive-nor is it the last word on the subject. Nothing ever is.”
Formidable Heritage: Manitoba’s Northern Resources and the Cost of Development
Jim Mochoruk
University of Manitoba Press
$24.95 pb, 350 pages
ISBN 0-88755-076-0
Tumbling down: Disappearing grain elevators take history with them
“I wrote this book because the timing was right, both personally and historically. My husband, Dale, worked for the Alberta Wheat Pool for 20 years, and as his career advanced, wooden grain elevators began to come down.”
Gone But Not Forgotten: Tales of the Disappearing Grain Elevators
Elizabeth McLachlan
NeWest Press
$24.95 pb, 224 pages
ISBN 1-896300-72-3
Weather thou goest: Manitobans need Storm Signals
“We have this love/hate relationship with weather. We boast about our ability to live in a harsh climate, and we complain about it… For better or worse, it’s part of our reputation as it forms the basis for how the rest of the world sees us.”
Storm Signals: A History of Weather in Manitoba
Shelley Penziwol
Great Plains Publications
$29.95 pb, 176 pages
ISBN 1-894283-46-5
Grave endeavours: Canadian epitaphs tell their story
“Are graveyards depressing? Not for me. They are the record of lives lived and I’m there remembering them. That’s what I’m supposed to do in a graveyard-remember, so I’m not depressed at all.”
The Final Word: The Book of Canadian Epitaphs
Nancy Millar
Brindle and Glass Publishing
$16.95 pb, 116 pages
ISBN 1-894739-03-5
