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A look at some wild ways Canadians cashed in on goods and services.

Book Review: James Daschuk’s much-heralded Clearing the Plains is an intricate and well-crafted examination of the historical role of food and disease in the life of First Nations of Western Canada. In a strong first chapter, Daschuk dispenses notions that indigenous sickness and starvation were “new” while gesturing to food security and political autonomy as reasons why these communities flourished for centuries before European contact.

Book Review: The cycle of life on the Canadian prairies has always revolved around the land. From Aboriginal reliance on the bison, to potash in the modern economy, it always goes back to the land. In A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905, noted historian Bill Waiser reveals a sweeping panorama of the archaeology and Indigenous life of the region and the factors that played into its development.

Book Review: J. Edward Chamberlin takes a personal approach in The Banker and the Blackfoot, a memoir of his grandfather John Cowdry’s pioneering adventures in the years before Saskatchewan and Alberta attained provincehood in 1905. It offers a compelling account of how European society collided with Indigenous peoples in the West and how those on each side of the divide contended with the consequences.

Madeline Knickerbocker's presentation “Ilhtsel t’áméx te’í:lé kw’els ílh stl’ítl’qelh”: Stó:lō Weavers and Settler Anthropology in the 1960s” from the Beyond 150: Telling Our Stories Twitter Conference held in August 2017. 

When Serqualouk started laying out the lines of foundations that year he put a bend in them. It wasn't much, but still – a bend.

Fiction Feature: Based on a famous court case in B.C. about First Nations land rights, this story illustrates the different ideas around ownership.

Book Review: This book is an illustrated history focussing on images of Sir John Franklin artifacts, maps, written documents, paintings, and wood engravings.

Book Review: Michael Palin’s book Erebus treats the larger history of HMS Erebus throughout its long history with the British navy.