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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah A Nickel |
ISBN: | 9780774837989 0774837985 |
OCLC Number: | 1099530428 |
Awards: | Winner of Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2020 (Canada) Commended for Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History, Canadian Historical Association 2020 (Canada) |
Description: | x, 224 pages : illustrations, cartes ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Unity: "united we stand, divided we perish" -- Authority: "ordinary Indians" and the "private club" -- Money: "a blessing and a golden noose" -- Refusal: "empty words and empty promises" -- Protest: direct action through "militant May" -- Sovereignty: "if you really believe that you have the right,take it!". |
Series Title: | Women and indigenous studies series |
Responsibility: | Sarah A. Nickel. |
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Assembling Unity is an important book. Sarah Nickel's timely study of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs was shortlisted for the Canadian Historical Association's 2020 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize and was recently announced the winner of this year's CHA Indigenous History Book Prize. Both accolades are much deserved. -- Chelsea Horton * Ormsby Review * A rich examination of the work Indigenous political leaders and grassroots organizers did to negotiate unity as part of a longer history of political activism in the context of continued settler colonialism. -- Lianne C. Leddy * Herizons, Fall 2019 * Read more...


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