New Books November 24, 2009

Greg Gillespie, Hunting for Empire: Narratives of Sport in Rupert's Land 1840 - 70. UBC Press, 2007. Dafoe SK 151 G54 2007.



Gillespie, who teaches at Brock University, has written an intellectual history of big game hunting on the Canadian prairie as practised by British tourists and army officers. Using the published accounts written by the hunters he examines their attitudes toward nature as they found it and toward the indigenous people who often worked for them as guides. The book provides many insights into the mentality of the colonizers as they blasted their way across the plains.


Joel Pfister, The Yale Indian, Duke University Press, 2009, Dafoe E90 C48 P45 2009.

A biography of Henry Roe Cloud 1884-1950, the first Native American to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at Yale. Cloud was one of the founders of the Society of American Indians, founded a preperatory school for indian students and while working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs was a "catalyst for the Indian New Deal." (from the book cover).


Shari Huhndorf, Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture. Cornell University Press, 2009. Dafoe E98 E85 H84 2009.


A collection of essays on modern indigenous culture which focuses on the transnational nature of that culture.



Alexandra Harmon, ed., The Power of Promises, University of Washington Press, 2008. Dafoe E 78 N77 P68 2008.



A collection of essays about treaties which grew out of a conference in 2004, Pacific Northwest Indian Treaties in National and International Historical Perspective. Canadian and American writers look at different aspects of the Treaty process in "...some of the finest work on treaties currently available in the literature." (from the Forward).