The nature of empires and the empires of nature indigenous peoples and the Great Lakes environment / Karl S. Hele, editor.
| Other author | Hele, Karl S. (Karl Scott), 1970- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2013] |
| Description | xxi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Indigenous studies series Indigenous studies series. ^A1191122 |
| Contents | A meditation on environmental history / John MacKenzie -- Tricky medicine : something old for something new / Heather Marie Annis -- Rediscovering relationships / Alesha Jane Breckenridge -- Learning to relate : environmental and place-based education in Northern Ontario / Lori-Beth Hallock -- Bridging academia and indigenous environmental science : is it too late? / Brian Rice -- Empire revisited : the covenant chain of silver, land policy, and the Proclamation of 1763 in the Great Lakes region, 1760-1800 / Karen J. Travers -- Lines on the land : surveying townships after the 1790 Treaty / Rhonda Telford -- Poisoning the serpent : the effects of the uranium industry on the Serpent River First Nation, 1953-1988 / Lianne C. Leddy -- Divided spaces, divided stories : animal control programs in Canada's indigenous communities / Maureen Riche -- First Nations diasporas in Canada : a case of recognition / María Cristina Manzano-Munguía -- Assessing environmental health risks through collaborative research and oral histories : the water quality issue at Walpole Island First Nation / Christianne V. Stephens and Regna Darnell -- Landscape and mindscape conjoined : the empire of nature and the nature of empire in the journals of Ezhaaswe (William A. Elias) (c. 1848-1929) / David T. McNab -- A world of beauty : the spirits within nature in the writings of Louise Erdrich / Ute Lischke -- Settler narrative and indigenous resistance in The Baldoon mystery / Rick Fehr -- The great Indian bus tour : mapping Toronto's urban First Nations oral tradition / Jon Johnson. |
| Abstract | Explores the power of Nature and the attempts by Empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it from Indigenous or Indigenous influenced perspectives. This title hopes to inspire ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the people and empires contained within it. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-330) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic formats. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016417477 |
| ISBN | 9781554583287 |
| ISBN | 9781554584222 (e-pub) |
| ISBN | 9781554584215 (pdf) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |