Author: Jennifer Reid
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826344151
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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"Jennifer Reid looks at the man known today as the founder of Manitoba. Not just a traditional biography, Reid examines Riel's education and religious beliefs."--[book jacket].
Author: J. M. Bumsted
Publisher: Watson & Dwyer Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9780920486238
Category : Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Author: Frank W. Anderson
Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Heritage House
ISBN:
Category : Northwest Resistance, Canada, 1885
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Author: Chester Brown
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770460853
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel. Brown won the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Metis leader's life. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, an embattled figure in Canadian history, regarded by some as a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.
Author: Tolly Bradford
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774829427
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Mixed Blessings transforms our understanding of the relationship between Indigenous people and Christianity in what is now Canada. While acknowledging the harm of colonialism, including the trauma inflicted by church-run residential schools, this book challenges the portrayal of Indigenous people as passive victims of malevolent missionaries who experienced a uniformly dark history. Instead, it illuminates the diverse and multifaceted ways that Indigenous communities and individuals across Canada have interacted, and continue to interact, meaningfully with Christianity from the early 1600s to the present. Ranging widely across time and place, these insightful case studies explore how and why some Indigenous people – including Louis Riel and Edward Ahenakew – historically aligned themselves with Christianity while others did not. It also plumbs the processes and politics involved in combining spiritual traditions and reflects on the role of Christianity in Indigenous communities today.
Author: Eric Holt-Gimenez
Publisher: Food First Books
ISBN: 0935028412
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the world's poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record harvests, are a record number of people going hungry? And why are a handful of corporations making record profits? In Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice, authors Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck offer us the real story behind the global food crisis and document the growing trend of grassroots solutions to hunger spreading around the world. Food Rebellions! contains up to date information about the current political and economic realities of our food systems. Anchored in political economy and an historical perspective, it is a valuable academic resource for understanding the root causes of hunger, growing inequality, the industrial agri-foods complex, and political unrest. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Holt-Giménez and Patel give a detailed historical analysis of the events that led to the global food crisis and document the grassroots initiatives of social movements working to forge food sovereignty around the world. These social movements and this inspiring book compel readers to confront the crucial question: Who is hungry, why, and what can we do about it?
Author: Thomas Flanagan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802071842
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Biography, focussing on Riel's prophetic mission.
Author: Richard J. Gwyn
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307356450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who made Confederation happen, who built this country over the next quarter century, and who shaped what it is today. From Confederation Day in 1867, where this volume picks up, Macdonald finessed a reluctant union of four provinces in central and eastern Canada into a strong nation, despite indifference from Britain and annexationist sentiment in the United States. But it wasn't easy. Gwyn paints a superb portrait of Canada and its leaders through these formative years and also delves deep to show us Macdonald the man, as he marries for the second time, deals with the birth of a disabled child, and the assassination of his close friend Darcy McGee, and wrestles with whether Riel should hang. Indelibly, Gwyn shows us Macdonald's love of this country and his ability to joust with forces who would have been just as happy to see the end of Canada before it had really begun, creating a must-read for all Canadians.
Author: Walter Hildebrandt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889226937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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After Batoche, everything changed for the Métis people and for Canada as well, especially in Québec.
Author: Frank Tough
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774805711
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Looks at the role of Native peoples, both Indian and Metis, in the economy of northern Manitoba from 1870 to the Depression, arguing that they played an important part in the transitional era between the mercantile fur trade and the emerging industrial economy of the mid- 20th century. Reconstructs the evolution of the economy of the fur trade era, showing that natives responded to the market economy in enterprising ways but were obstructed by government policy. Includes bandw photos and diagrams. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
