Reading beyond words : contexts for native history

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Reading beyond words : contexts for native history / edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown & Elizabeth Vibert.

Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940- (Added Author). Vibert, Elizabeth, 1962- (Added Author).

Summary:

"The first edition of this collection presented some of the best new efforts to examine critically the possible interpretations of Native North American history and Native-European encounters over 500 years. In so doing it has served as a model for revisiting Native History. To this thoroughly revised new edition, three new "encounter studies" have been added, presenting original and thought-provoking work not previously published: the Frobisher expeditions and their relations with the inuit in the 1570s; Thanadelthur, the remarkable Dene woman who brought her people to a peace with the Cree and to trade with the Hudson's Bay Company in the early 1700s; and the previously unexamined dynamics of Cree-Oblate missionary relations on Hudson Bay in the late 1800s to mid-1900s, as seen from both sides."

Record details

ISBN: 1551110709 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781551110707 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xxvii, 519 pages : illustraions ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Peterborough, Ontario ; Broadview Press, c1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Europeans and a New World cosmography in the 1500s / Olive Dickason -- Controlled speculation: interpreting the saga of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith / Frederic W. Gleach -- Discovering Radisson: a Renaissance adventurer between two worlds / Germaine Warkentin -- Mapping Inuktut: Inuit views of the real world / Renée Fossett -- Captain Cook and the spaces of contact at "Nootka Sound" / Daniel Clayton -- The challenge of James Douglas and Carrier Chief Kwah / Frieda Esau Klippenstein -- Country distempers: deciphering disease and illness in Rupert's Land before 1870 / Jody F. Decker -- Retelling the death of Barbue, a Gwichʼin leader / Shepard Krech III -- Strange eloquence: another look at The captivity and adventures of John Tanner / John T. Fierst -- William W. Warren's History of the Ojibway people: tradition, history, and context / Theresa Schenck -- An Ottawa letter to the Algonquin chiefs at Oka / David H. Pentland -- "The guardian of all": Jesuit missionary and Salish perceptions of the Virgin Mary / Laura Peers -- The journals and voices of a Chruch of England native catechist: Askenootow (Charles Pratt), 1851-1884 / Winona Stevenson -- Fair Wind's dream: Naamiwan Obawaajigewin / Maureen Matthews and Roger Roulette -- "Gentlemen, this is no ordinary trial": sexual narratives in the trial of Reverend Corbett, Red River, 1863 / Erica Smith -- Transcribing Insima, a Blackfoot "old lady" / Alice Beck Kehoe -- The spider and the WASP: chronicling the life of Molly Spotted Elk / Bunny McBride -- Discovery of gold on the Klondike: perspectives from oral tradition / Jule Cruikshank -- Reading photographs, reading voices: documenting the history of native residential schools / J.R. Miller -- Dr. Oronhyatekha's history lessons: reading museum collections as texts / Trucy Nicks.