NEW BOOKS AUGUST 10, 2009

Gail Valaskakis, Madeleine Stout, Eric Guimond, eds., Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community and Culture, University of Manitoba Press, 2009. Dafoe E98 W8 P48 2009.

Written by fifteen Aboriginal scholars, activists and community leaders this book brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politcs, education, community healing and art..." from the book cover.

Sharon Gmelch, The Tlingit Encounter with Photography, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2009.

Dafoe E99 T6 G64 2009.

This study looks at the vast array of photographs taken of the Tlingit of Southern Alaska in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. The author attempts to answer questions about the reactions of the Tlingit to being photographed and their own early use of photography.

Keith Smith, Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877 - 1927. Dafoe E78 C2 S65 2009.

Professor Smith, the Chair of First Nations Studies at Vancouver Island University, has written a study of the methods used by whites to keep First Nations people in Alberta and B.C. under surveillance with a view to controlling every aspect of their lives. He shows how these activities were informed by the dominant liberal world view of the white community.







Ronald Niezen, The Rediscovered Self: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice, McGill Queens University Press, 2009. Dafoe E99 E7 H54 2009.

In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezen discusses how new rights standards and networks of activist collaboration aid indigenous claims abour culture and increase the coherence of aboriginal histories, institutions, and group qualities.




Rebecca Coulter ed., The Gifts Within: Carrying Eachother Forward in Aboriginal Education, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2009.

Dafoe E96.2 G53 2009.

"This timely volume explores Aboriginal education from the perspectives of those who work within it. The book covers a range of topics relevant to discussions about First Nation education in Canada today and is written in an accessible style by eduators for teachers, parents and others interested in the education of Aboriginal children and youth." from the cover.