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-- Twenty-one things you may not know about the Indian Act.2018., Adult, Indigenous Relations Press Call No: IND 342.71 J83t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer. Since its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has shaped, controlled, and constrained the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Peoples, and is at the root of many enduring stereotypes. Bob Joseph's book comes at a key time in the reconciliation process, when awareness from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities is at a crescendo. Joseph explains how Indigenous Peoples can step out from under the Indian Act and return to self-government, self-determination, and self-reliance--and why doing so would result in a better country for every Canadian. He dissects the complex issues around truth and reconciliation, and clearly demonstrates why learning about the Indian Act's cruel, enduring legacy is essential for the country to move toward true reconciliation.
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c1991., Dundurn Press Call No: IND 323.1 A154 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Research studies (Canada. Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing) Volume: v. 9.
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2008., National Film Board of Canada Call No: DVD 971.4 O12c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alanis Obomsawin - the Collection 270 Years of ResistanceSummary Note: Features 4 films by Alanis Obomsawin. Her lifelong documentary project finds vibrant expression and focus within this remarkable collection of four films.The 1990 Oka Crisis re-ignited historic First Nations grievances and galvanized collective resolve like few other events in recent history. With characteristic courage and generosity, Obomsawin was present to record the experience, crafting this compelling four-part tribute to cultural resistance and pride.Woven around her subjects' testimony is her own unmistakably elegant narration - measured and impassioned, committed and clear - the voice of a storyteller who's always listening.
![Alanis Obomsawin - the Collection 270 Years of Resistance [DVD] (2008). Directed by Alanis Obomsawin.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Alanis Obomsawin - the Collection 270 Years of Resistance [DVD] (2008). Directed by Alanis Obomsawin.")
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-- Revolution in 1960s Quebec.2023., Drawn + Quarterly Call No: NEW GN 971.4 O48a Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: There are no initials more volatile in Quebec history than F-L-Q. Standing for the Front de libération du Québec (or in English, the Quebec Liberation Front).The original goal of this socialist movement was to fight for workers rights of the French majority who found their rights trampled on by English bosses. The goal became ridding the province of its English oppression by means of violent revolution. Using dozens of obscure and long-forgotten sources, Oliveros skillfully weaves a comics oral history where the activists, employers, politicians, and secretaries piece together the sequence of events.
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Ã2017., University of Minnesota Press Call No: IND 323.1 S613a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women. In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking.
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2014., Adult, Dundurn Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: After the referendum in 1980, Pierre Elliott Trudeau turned his sights on repatriating the Constitution in an effort to make Canada fully independent of Britain. What should have been a simple process snowballed into a complicated intrigue.Quebec, which thought its prerogatives would be threatened if the Constitution were repatriated, mounted a charm offensive, replete with fine dining and expensive wines in order to influence key British MPs. Not to be outdone, Canada's native leaders, who felt betrayed by the British Crown, decided to enter the fray, determined to ensure that their cause would triumph. English Labour had a view on the matter as well, which chiefly involved embarrassing Prime Minister Thatcher as thoroughly as possible.Historian Frédéric Bastien describes with great flair how the maverick Trudeau and the uncompromising Thatcher entered into one of history's most unlikely marriages of convenience in order to repatriate the Canadian Constitution.
![The battle of London [eBook] : Trudeau, Thatcher, and the fight for Canada's Constitution](/Library/images/~imageCT76610.JPG "The battle of London [eBook] : Trudeau, Thatcher, and the fight for Canada's Constitution")
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c2013., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: 973.7 B789b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This book explores Canada's engagement in the American Civil War and helps to understand better both the war and how the British colonies saved themselves by becoming a nation.
