Canada's Bridge Warriors
Author : Roy Hughes
Publisher : Master Point Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781897106211
Author : Roy Hughes
Publisher : Master Point Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781897106211
Author : Richardson (Major, John)
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 1832
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Richardson
Publisher : Digital Antiquaria
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1580573037
Originally published in 1832, Wacousta is a tale of the conspiracy of Ottawa chief Pontiac, who organized an alliance to drive the English from the lands of the Indians after the French and Indian War (1755-1763). The author was the first Canadian novelist to write in English, and John Richardson (1796-1852) still ranks as one of Canada's literary icons. Wacousta is not really an Indian, but an Englishman masquerading as an Indian to achieve his revenge. However, he is not really an Englishman, either, as he had served in Montcalm's French army at the battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759). Therein lies the essence of the Canadian soul, a combination of English, French and American features - both good and bad.This masterfully crafted eBook is a faithful and unabridged presentation of the first edition. It is fully searchable and fully printable. (386pp, 2.65 Mb)
Author : Craig Wallace
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0359518877
Sometime in the near future a major war breaks out in the Middle East. The oil fields in the region are destroyed. As the price of oil "explodes" around the world, the Canadian government takes action directed at Canadian oil producing regions that will leave "Canada in Pieces."
Author : Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1629639559
The first collection of its kind, this anthology by members of the Mohawk Warrior Society uncovers a hidden history and paints a bold portrait of the spectacular experience of Kanien'kehá:ka survival and self-defense. Providing extensive documentation, context, and analysis, the book features foundational writings by prolific visual artist and polemicist Karoniaktajeh Louis Hall (1918–1993)—such as his landmark 1979 pamphlet, The Warrior's Handbook, as well as selections of his pioneering artwork. This book contains new oral history by key figures of the Rotisken'rhakéhte's revival in the 1970s, and tells the story of the Warriors’ famous flag, their armed occupation of Ganienkeh in 1974, and the role of their constitution, the Great Peace, in guiding their commitment to freedom and independence. We hear directly the story of how the Kanien'kehá:ka Longhouse became one the most militant resistance groups in North America, gaining international attention with the Oka Crisis of 1990. This auto-history of the Rotisken'rhakéhte is complemented by a Mohawk history timeline from colonization to the present, a glossary of Mohawk political philosophy, and a new map of Iroquoia in Mohawk language. At last, the Mohawk Warriors can tell their own story with their own voices, and to serve as an example and inspiration for future generations struggling against the environmental, cultural, and social devastation cast upon the modern world.
Author : John Richardson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 1987-12-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0773573445
Set on the northwest frontier during the Pontiac conspiracy of the 1760s, this story of false identity, wasted love, diabolic vengeance and unquenchable hatred articulates themes and mythologies relevant to French, British, Canadian and American history.
Author : Richardson (Major, John)
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 1833
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Major Richardson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Categorized as the first attempt by a Canadian-born author at historical fiction, Wacousta, by John Richardson, is a Gothic story about Pontiac's War. The author described the 1763 uprising which was led by Pontiac, chief of the Ottawa Indians, at Fort Detroit. In the author's evocative depiction, Pontiac's campaign against Fort Detroit is planned by the mystifying Wacousta, a Byronic anti-hero whose desire for revenge against the fortress commander results in madness. Its themes include prophecy and opposites, such as manliness vs. effeminacy, wilderness/wildness vs. civilization, sensibility vs. compassion, and the natural vs. the supernatural. This suspenseful novel creates a world of illusion and panic in which justification is vague and the boundary between hierarchy and anarchy undefined. Despite its stressed sentimentalism, the novel has been treated as a seminal work in the development of a Canadian literary sensibility. The work is also often claimed as the first Canadian novel.
Author : Robin Redhead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135054770
Exercising Human Rights investigates why human rights are not universally empowering and why this damages people attempting to exercise rights. It takes a new approach in looking at humans as the subject of human rights rather than the object and exposes the gendered and ethnocentric aspects of violence and human subjectivity in the context of human rights. Using an innovative visual methodology, Redhead shines a new critical light on human rights campaigns in practice. She examines two cases in-depth. First, she shows how Amnesty International depicts women negatively in their 2004 ‘Stop Violence against Women Campaign’, revealing the political implications of how images deny women their agency because violence is gendered. She also analyses the Oka conflict between indigenous people and the Canadian state. She explains how the Canadian state defined the Mohawk people in such a way as to deny their human subjectivity. By looking at how the Mohawk used visual media to communicate their plight beyond state boundaries, she delves into the disjuncture between state sovereignty and human rights. This book is useful for anyone with an interest in human rights campaigns and in the study of political images.
Author : David Hesse
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1847799167
Why does a Parisian banker re-enact the medieval wars of Wallace and Bruce in his spare time? Why do more than 20,000 people attend the Schotse Weekend bagpipe competition in Bilzen, Flanders? Why does an entire village in the Italian Alps celebrate a lost Scottish regiment? And why is there a Highland Games circuit of at least 30 kilted strength competitions in Austria, with dedicated athletes tossing hay-balls and pulling tractors? This is the first study of the self-professed ‘Scots’ of Europe. It follows the many thousands of Europeans who are determined to discover their inner Scotsman, and argues that by imitating the Scots of popular imagination, the self-styled European Highlanders hope to reconnect with their own ancestors – their lost songs, traditions and tribes. They approach Scotland as a site of European memory. This book explores issues of performance and celebration, memory and nostalgia, heritage and identity, and will be of interest to specialists on Scottish emigration and diaspora, Scottish history and myth, and to the ‘Scots’ of Europe themselves.