Canadian History Roundup – Weeks of December 16, 23, and 30, 2018 and January 6, 2019

The latest in blog posts, news, and podcasts from the world of Canadian history.

Missed the previous roundup? Check it out here.

Week of December 16, 2018

Environmental History

• The most commonly-used words in #envhist last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: “history,” “History,” and “manufacturing.”
• And she was back with her monthly look at recommended readings in environmental history over on NiCHE.
• Jessica also compiled her thoughts on reading Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape in this Twitter moment.
• Finally, she posted Part 2 of her comps notes on National Parks.
• If you can remember all the way back to December 4, NiCHE published a review of the Anthropocene exhibit at the National Gallery by several historians. This week, Tina Loo shared her thoughts on Twitter.
• Alan MacEachern writes the funniest Tweets… 
• NiCHE editors published their annual list of their favourite books from 2018 and those they are most looking forward to in 2019. I’m writing in the future, so it feels strange to refer to 2019 as next year….

Military History

• Jonathan Scotland posted a follow-up to my previous blog post about poppies with this look at the Great War Veterans’ Association and early poppy campaigns on Active History. I never thought I would be cited in a work on military history….
• Check out this cool map from the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force. Is it just me, or does that kinda look like a UFO?
• Once upon a time, there was a Canadian martial art named Defendo. But the real star in this story is Bill Underwood. Seriously, this piece is a must-read.

Archaeology

• Archaeologists have found a crate of 19^thcentury muskets off the coast of Cape Freels.

History Education

• I love this great project where Katie Rollwagen’s Public History class worked with the Nanaimo Museum to create an exhibit on the Spanish Flu.

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History

• This week on Borealia, Patrick Mannion discussed Irish nationalism in North America, and how the Irish diaspora engaged in Irish politics in the early twentieth century.
• Lucille Marr discussed her experience at the recent “A People for Diversity” conference on Canadian Mennonite history since 1970.
• The BC government is seeking input about establishing a new Chinese-Canadian museum. 
  • More here.
• Bashir Mohamed contextualized the Yellow Vest movement with a look at lynching threats in 1900s Edmonton. Content warning. 

Indigenous History

• Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) is calling on the Vatican to revoke the papal bull that has come to be called “the doctrine of discovery.”
• Andrew Nurse has a pretty solid response for anyone who thinks anything good came of the residential school system.TL;DR: NO. 
• Zoe Todd (Métis) explained how settlers understand Indigenous culture and erase Indigenous law. This Twitter thread was created in response to a production company stealing an Indigenous name for a character.
• American Indian Sign Language (also known as hand talk or sign talk) has been used for at least 200 years all over this continent.
• Betsey Baldwin explored the meaning and history of treaty annuities in this land currently known as Canada for Active History.
• Marie Campbell’s Halfbreed will be republished to include her account of being sexually assaulted by an RCMP officer. Content warning: sexual assault, violence against Indigenous women and girls. 
• Find out about the long history between the Mi’kmaq people and the Black Ash, and the art of basket making.
• Métis and non-status First Nations are launching a Sixties Scoop lawsuit, since they were left out of the settlement agreement that was reached in 2018.
• A class action lawsuit has been filed against the government of Alberta on behalf of Indigenous women who were sterilized without their consent. Content warning: medical violence, violence against Indigenous women and girls.
• This project by Haley Rains (enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation), which reimagines Edward S. Curtis’ photography with images of contemporary Indigenous peoples, is so cool. Love, love, love.

New France/British North America

• The earliest known reference to a Scottish ship sailing to North America (Newfoundland) was just located, dating to 1596.

Political History

• Shirley Tillotson  explained why the Maritimes would have refused Confederation if they were required to tax income.

Social History

• I need this.
• This week LAC took on the Grey Fox, train robber Bill Miner. 
  • This is in honour of a new LAC Co-Lab challenge to transcribe materials related to Miner.
• Knitting history alert!
• The Canadian Encyclopedia published a new entry on the HBC Point Blanket. That’s the official name for the one that is off-white with stripes in bright colours. 
• Steven High explained the historical context of the auto industry in southern Ontario in the wake of the Oshawa plant closure announcement.
• Find out how the Spanish Flu impacted people living in Saskatchewan.
• The McGill Library Matters blog celebrated James Naismith and shared some of their archival holdings related to him.

The History of Gender and Sexuality

• The latest biography from The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is for social reformer Frances Mathilde Barnard.
• I don’t normally include stories about adoption reunions, but this piece does a good job of showing just how devastating it was to be an unwed mother in the 1950s.
• The Centre d’histoire des regulations sociales interviewed Louise Toupin about her research on the Women’s Movement in Quebec.

Local History

• Lucy Maud Montgomery’s kitchen is now back in Cavendish.  
• Once again, there were several new entries from Historic Nova Scotia, including:
  • Iris V. Shea and the Mainland South Heritage Society on the Armdale Choir.
  • The Yarmouth County Museum and Archives on 
    • Frost Park
    • Yarmouth County Museum
    • Killiam Brothers
  • Sharon Murray with the Uniacke Estate House Museum on Rosina (Black) Uniacke’s life in recipes.  
  • The Fisherman’s Life Museum on the Myers fishing family.
• If you know anything about Victoria, BC, you’ve probably heard of the Empress Hotel. Find out more about it here from the UBC Digitization blog. No, I have not had tea there because I refuse to pay that much money for a cup of tea. I can make a perfectly good one and not even have to leave the house. 
• Find out how an archival mystery at the Whistler Museum got solved.
• MyKawartha.com remembered the Peterborough Quaker Oats factory, and the 1916 fire.
• Did you know there is a neon museum in Edmonton? 
• In this piece, Camille Robert took a look at religious symbols in public spaces in Quebec history.

Digital and Public History

• Aaron Boyes and Sean Graham were back on Active History with their sixth annual year in review, 100 years later! Find out what their pick was for the biggest moment of 1918.

Doing History

• Noooooooooo, not the Osler Library! That’s my favourite library!
• More news on the Saskatchewan Archives situation: the Regina Branch of the Saskatchewan Archives is closed until August.
• Find our about BAnQ’s extensive judicial holdings. 
• This week on Unwritten Histories, we looked back at 2018 in Canadian History, and shared some of our highlights!

Miscellaneous

• Also new from The Dictionary of Canadian Biography this week is an entry for the so-called “Apostle of the Outports,” Oliver Jackson. 
  • And another for PEI farmer-premier, Walter Maxfield Lea.
• Check out some vintage McGill martlets…

Podcasts

• The latest episode of the Secret Life of Canada celebrated the career of Jazz singer and entertainer, Eleanor Collins.
• The Living Heritage podcast spoke with Joanna Dawson, Community Engagement Coordinator of Canada’s History, about her work.
• This week’s History Chats episode featured a talk by Chad Gaffield on universities in the digital age.

Better Late Than Never

• I’m just squee-ing all over this dollhouse. I always wanted a dollhouse just like this.
• Anyone remember owning this phone? 
• A group of volunteers recently restored the abandoned Barber Cemetery in Gatineau.
• This beautiful exhibit tells the story of three generations of Inuit women artists from a single family, Pitseolak Ashoona, Napachie Pootoogook, and Annie Pootoogook.
• This talk by Morag Kersel explains how Early Bronze Age pots ended up in Canadian institutions, and why this matters. I’ve just loved the Shannon Lectures this year, and major props to Carleton’s history department for making them available online.
• The Stuff You Missed in History podcast posted an episode looking at five instances where Canadian history echoed US history.
• These beautiful old sketches show what life was like in New Brunswick in the mid 1800s.  

Calls for Papers

• The Black Canadian Studies Association has issued a CFP for their upcoming meeting at Congress in June 2019. This year’s theme is “Asserting Black Life, Insisting on Black Freedom, Imagining the Decolonial: Demanding Reparations and State/Institutional Accountability.” Proposals are due January 28.
• Histoire Engagée has issued a CFP for their series, “Présences et absences : historiciser les (dis)continuités et (in)interruptions des voix et expériences autochtones.” Proposals are due February 15. 
• The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling has issued a CFP for their upcoming “Emerging Scholars Symposium On Oral History, Digital Story Telling, and Creative Practice.” Proposals are due January 18. 
• The Energy and Scale: Trans-Scalar And Multi-Scalar Interactions In Energy Transitions) international conference, to be held in Banff, has issued a CFP. Proposals are due January 15. Yes, historians are also invited.

Christmas and New Years (I’m just going to put it all here)

• The Canadian Centre for the Great War looked at Christmas celebrations on the home front.
• The Atlantic Loyalist Connections Blog shared two seasonal poems from 1830s Shelburne by Olivia Rosamund Enslow.
• This is a really lovely story about Métis interpreter Peter Erasmus, and the time he dressed up as Santa Claus in 1862.
• Steve Penfold has written the latest blog post for Findings/Trouvailles, telling the story of a really cool picture from Eaton’s Santa Claus Parade.
  • And he’s also in the latest podcast episode from Witness to Yesterday.
• Jeffrey Pilcher and Daniel Bender reflected on how Christmas dinners have changed since the 19^thcentury.
• This story of a couple that was engaged at Christmas and married in the spring is just adorable.
• The UBC Digitization Lab shared some images from their collection showing winter, including snow at UBC!
• Eve Lazarus shared some cool stories if you need some conversational kickstarters. This is why historians are awesome at cocktail parties. 
• Toronto’s Eaton and Simpson stores also used to have holiday window displays, but I’m sure they weren’t as good as the Montreal version. 😉
• I don’t think this is historical, but I don’t care. 
• Did you know that a Canadian is the reason why we sing Auld Lang Syne at News Years?
  • Also, how about some bust history? That thing looks creepy.
• CBC looked back at some of Newfoundland and Labrador’s holiday traditions.
• Did you know there is a Canadian connection to “The Night Before Christmas?” Maybe?
• LAC wants everyone to know that they are on top of conserving the naughty and nice lists, direct from Santa. But, apparently, someone allowed cookies into the archives??? 
• Check out how people have celebrated the holidays in Whistler.
• Celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas with the USask archives!
• Lauren Markewicz shared some excerpts from the Fort Langley HBC journals of New Year’s Eves past.

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Week of December 23

Environmental History

• The most commonly-used words in #envhist last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: “history,” “British,” and “Environmental.”
• Jessica DeWitt also posted her comps notes from the section on Rivers and Forests.

Military History

• This CBC News Interactive looks at memories and families in relation to a military plane crash near the Arctic Circle in 1950.
• The Deseronto Archives made a Google map showing the burial or memorial locations for all of the men from this area who died in WW1.

Indigenous History

• The twenty-one First Nations who are beneficiaries of the Robinson-Huron Treaty have won their court case against the provincial and federal governments! Congrats to the Robinson Huron Treaty Litigation Fund!
• Krista Zawadski (Inuit) spoke with CBC about her hope that Inuit artwork and artifacts can return home.
• The latest blog post from Dibaajimowin explained the development of a “multi-ethnic” Indian community at Turtle Mountain.

New France/British North America

• The last duel on “Canadian” soil took place in Newfoundland in 1873, and was over a woman’s affections. Her reaction is the best part of the story. 
• This folk art carving tells the story of the Bewitched Canoe.

Social History

• Find out how the Spanish Flu came to Alberta by train.
• I really wish I could go to the McCord Museum to see this amazing exhibit on toys from the past 100 years.

Doing History

• Check out some of the cool artifacts at Edmonton’s artifact centre!
• Inspired by my year in review, Gail Dever also looked back at Canadian genealogy in review!

Podcasts

• Joseph Gagné was interviewed by the MonsterTalk podcast about La Corriveau, and he cited Stephanie Pettigrew!
• The latest episode of the Living Heritage Podcast featured a talk with Denise Mahoney on the preservation and education of cemeteries.

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Week of December 30, 2018

Environmental History

• The most commonly-used words in #envhist last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: “Electricity,” “Power,” and “Gas.”
• She also posted her comps notes on socio-ecological metabolism.
• NiCHE posted a list of their top five posts from 2018!
• And Alan MacEachern also put together an awesome post about movie apocalypses for NiCHE.

Archaeology

• It’s looking increasingly like the burial ground at Fort Anne is in fact an Acadian burial site.

History Education

• Unreserved is asking all teachers to let them know about the challenges they face teaching Indigenous content in the classroom, and what would make it easier. The thread itself is well-worth reading.
• Karin Wulf reflected on her experiences teaching Vast Early American history, with a focus on what the term actually means.

Transnational History

• There is currently a petition to give The Northwest Angle to Canada.This bizarre border is the result of poor maps during negotiations for the Treaty of Paris.

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History

• Darryl Leroux explained the work of three academics who are working to support the “Eastern Métis” narrative.

Indigenous History

• Skylee-Storm Hogan’s awesome story map project on Chief Shingwauk’s journey was profiled in the news!
• You may remember that I mentioned the lawsuit filed by the Blood Tribe asserting that the Canadian government misappropriated land that rightfully belongs to them in a previous roundup. The judge heard final arguments at the beginning of December. Darnel Tailfeathers provided some important context and history here.
• Check out this neat post on the history of Coast Salish “Woolly Dogs.”
• Ongoing restoration at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford has uncovered writing on the beams and walls from Six Nations students who attended the residential school in the 20^thcentury. 
• The Canadian Museum of History shared an image of this beautifully carved bear from the Middle Dorset period.

New France/British North America

• Did you know there is such a thing as Arctic Grails, purported to belong to the Franklin Expedition?
• Jean-François Nadeau explored the mystery surrounding a famous portrait that is supposed to depict Jeanne Mance. But does it?

Social History

• Pauline Gravel takes a critical perspective on the myth that the Baby Boom was due to extraordinarily fertile women.The reality of the Baby Boom was much more complex. 
• Hat fashion, anyone?

The History of Gender and Sexuality

• The latest entry from The Canadian Encyclopedia is for the Ursulines.

Local History

• This week Eve Lazarus shared the story of the BowMac Sign.
• Heritage Winnipeg profiled the Assiniboine Park Pavilion.
• Do you know the history of Saint John’s Haymarket Square?

Digital and Public History

• This week the UBC Digitizer’s Blog profiled PRISM International, the oldest literary magazine in Western Canada.
• CBC profiled Sarah Spike’s work, particularly through the Twitter account, Small History NS.
• The Italian Fallen Workers project is asking for donations to digitize the Corriere Canadese newspaper.
• Matthew Sears published a piece arguing that academics need to get out of the “ivory tower”,an article that launched a thousand social media posts….
• Someone stole, and then returned, a digital archive containing artwork from Art City’s twenty-year history.
• Find out what the Wilfrid Laurier campus might have looked like…
• The Digitizing the Ancestors project is working to digitize thousands of Indigenous recordings dating back to the 1960s.
  • More about how these recordings were found here!
• Exciting open-access news: both Scientia Canadensis andThe Northern Mariner are now open-access! 

Podcasts

• Part five of the Museum Chat Life series on the Fallen Workers of the Welland Canal is now available, and focuses on crime.
• This week’s History Chats is a talk on the status and rights of LGTBQ+ folks in Sochi during the Olympics.

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Week of January 6, 2019

Environmental History

• The most commonly-used words in #envhist last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: “Nieuwland,” “Said,” and “Environmental.”
• And she also posted another set of her comps notes, this time for state, provincial, and historic parks.
• Ali Nazemi and Shakil Jiwa have made historical Canadian climate data dating back 1840s available online for the public through three apps. So cool!

Military History

• Fellow UVic grad, Hugh A. Gordon, has published the first post in a new series on the Laurier Centre blog about the decommissioning of the HMCS Bonaventure. The first post looks at the origins of the submarine, and its wasted potential.
• The Canadian War Museum has just released four new military history research guides.

Archaeology

• Robyn Lacy was back with another post in her Curious Canadian Cemeteries series. This week, she was in my neck of the woods, and profiled the Fairview Cemetery in Oliver, BC.
• Kim Christenson was also back with part two of her Dig It series, on our relationship with dogs.
• Terry Beaulieur explained how archaeologists are combining archaeological data and modern computer analysis to better understand forgotten river crossings and how Indigenous knowledge was erased from the landscape.
• Archaeologists have found some pretty amazing stuff while excavating Hamilton Public Library’s Mount Hope location.

History Education

• Major props to Daniel Ross and Laura Madokoro, along with their collaborators and advisory committee, for creating this awesome Canadian Immigration History syllabus as a tool for educators! This is just so fantastic!
• The Université Laval is launching a new online course on the history of North American Francophone communities.

Transnational History

• Ralf Futselaar has written a new piece for the Convict Voyages project on convict transportation from small German states. Many of these convicts were sent to North America, starting in the 1750s, when banishment was no longer a practical option. 

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History

• The Star put together a pretty neat piece about racist ads from their own pages, and the readers who protested them.
• While not specifically Canadian, this piece by Dionna Richardson on the imperial origins of white women’s modern racial profiling, is still relevant.
• Nico Slate and Clayton Vaughn-Roberson have put together a reading list on Transnational African American history!
• LAC, in collaboration with Landscapes of Injustice, has completed the digitization of 40,000 pages of textual material and 180 photographs documenting Japanese-Canadian internment.
• Saku Pinta has written a new post for Active History, focusing on an image of an unidentified man inside a Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union account ledger dating back to the 1920s, and what this image can tell us about the Finnish labour experience in Canada.

Indigenous History

• There is an amazing new exhibit in Cambridge Bay on the history and evolution of the parka, including five Inuinnait parkas! The piece includes a talk with Mary Avalak (Inuit), an Elder who worked on the exhibit, as well as Pamela Gross (Inuit) who is the executive director of the Kitikmeot Heritage Society.
• Jack Daby spoke with Sierra Tasi Baker (Coast Salish, Tlingit, Kwakwaka’wakw) about historical research as a form of healing, following her visit to the Horniman Museum.
• The premier of Saskatchewan apologized this week to Sixties Scoop survivors.
• The organization charged with overseeing compensation as part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement is back in the news. It is overturning awards to families of deceased survivors if the claim application lacks their signature. I just do not understand. 
• Niigaan Sinclair (Anishinaabe) has written another fantastic piece about Canada’s treaty obligations.
• However, there is a new website that launched this week to help residential school survivors request/consent to preserving their IAP records. 
  • Sean Carleton explained why this is so important.
• This week Unreserved took a look at iconic images from Indigenous history in Canada.
  • And listed some of the images discussed here.
• These snowshoes are just incredible.

New France/British North America

• Jean-François Lozier spoke with La Presse about his recent book, Flesh Reborn, and relations between seventeenth-century settlers/missionaries and Indigenous peoples in the Saint Lawrence Valley (Algonquin, Innu, Wendat, Iroquois, and Wabanaki). Lozier focused specifically on the Indigenous founders of local missions, and their relationship with the colonial regime.
• Crawford Kilian reviewed Adam Sholts’ new book, A History of Canada in 10 Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land for The Tyee.
• Justine Jawanda has written the lastest blog post for the Scots in BC History blog, focusing on the problem of contact history and how it obscures the reality of Simon Fraser’s “explorations.”

Social History

• In 1982, the Canadian Mount Everest Expedition helped two Canadians reach the summit for the first time ever. Find out how the Banff Centre Archives is preserving this story.
• Ian Mosby was in the news again this week, due to the launch of the new Canada’s Food Guide. He was also interviewed here!
• Find out about this really cool project coming soon from Heather Green. 
• Christo Aivalis announced that he is writing the new introduction of Norman Penner’s edited collection on the Winnipeg General Strike. In this Twitter thread he explained what he had in mind while writing the introduction.

Local History

• There were two more entries this week from Historic Nova Scotia:
  • Janet Guildford and the Local Council of Women Halifax:
    • on the first two decades of the organization;
    • and social reformer and feminist, Edith Archibald.
  • The Lake Charlotte Area Heritage Society and the Eastern Shore Archives on the Salmon River House.
• The Toronto Public Library shared these images of wintery scenes from Ontario history.
• Sara Spike reviewed Pam Hall’s Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge: Excerpts from Chapters I and II for the Acadiensis blog this week.
• The Richmond Archives blog was back with part four of their look at Richmond’s Town Halls. And finally, we’ve reached the current building, which I run past every weekend and think is really pretty.
• Heritage Winnipeg premiered a new series this week reflecting on the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike. The first post, by Dennis Lewycky, focused on the Walker Theater meeting.
• Check out seven maps from the City of Ottawa archive that tell the history of the city.
• Check out this really cool new project to help people learn how to pronounce and understand some Squamish words.
• Khelsilem (Squamish) explained Squamish governance laws, and the difference between the hereditary council and the Band Council.
• This week Eve Lazarus shared the story of Fritz Autzen’s amazing images of Vancouver in the 1960s.

Digital and Public History

• I am just absolutely in awe of this list by Kenneth R. Marks of online Canadian newspapers.
• The Nova Scotia Museum has published a new online exhibit/archival collection, featuring documents from the Halifax Mechanics’ Institute.
• This week the UBC Digitizer’s blog shared some of their favourite images from early 19^thcentury Scottish naturalist John Richardson’s Flora boreali-americana and Fauna boreali-americana.
• Lauren Markewicz visited the Diefenbunker!

Doing History

• Sarah Spike also put together a great thread about 19^thcentury Nova Scotian Newspapers.
• As you may remember from a previous roundup, the City of Montreal archives are in the process of moving. Find out about how this process works in this feature in Le Devoir.
• Whoever runs the McMaster Archives and Research Collections Twitter account totally won this week with their awesome thread about an actual, verifiable discovery in the archives.
• Jean Drapeau’s archival papers will soon be available to the public!
• A few weeks ago, Krista McCracken and I issued a call out for all women and non-binary historians to let us know about their accomplishments in 2018. Here is the resulting blog post, where we talk about the meaning and importance of celebrating accomplishments and the need for inclusive language.

Miscellaneous

• The latest biography from The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is for notary and politician, Narcisse Pérodeau.

Podcasts

• In the latest episode of the Ben Franklin’s World podcast, Liz Covart spoke with Margaret Ellen Newell about slavery codes in early New England.
• Sean Graham published a new episode of the History Slam podcast, in which he spoke with Harold R. Johnson about his new book, Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People and Yours.
• The latest episode of History Chats is a recording of Lynda Baril’s “Nos Glorieuses: 100 Years of Women’s Hockey in Quebec.”
• The Secret Life of Canada shared the story of activist Madhu Verma this week.

Better Late Than Never

• The Montecristo Magazine did two new posts that I missed in previous months.
  • The first is on the Buntzen Lake Powerhouses
  • And the second focused on Vancouver’s early streetcars.

Calls for Papers

• The Western Canadian Studies Conferences will be held in Brandon in September 2019. Proposals on Western Canada or by people living in Western Canada are all welcome, and are due April 12.
• The 2019 Robarts Graduate Conference is seeking proposals. This year’s theme is: “Canada on the Edge? Peoples Places and Perspectives.” Proposals are due February 8.

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This week has seen absolutely abhorrent violence on the part of the RCMP against non-violent protestors on Wet’suwet’en lands at the Gidimt’en Checkpoint and Unist’ot’en Camp. History is an important part of understanding what is going on.

• I highly recommend this piece by Nicholas XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton (W̱SÁNEĆ) and John Price about the confrontation at Wedzin Kwah and the history of the Wet’suwet’en peoples.
• Starleigh Grass (Tsilhqot’in) provided information on what you can do to help the protestors, and what the recognition of territory really means.
• Angela Sterritt (Gitxsan) put together a really helpful pronunciation guide.
• This piece by Judith Sayers ((Kekinusuqs) is from the Hupacasath First Nation in Port Alberni) explained aboriginal rights and title, how they apply to the Unist’ot’en Movement, and how the RCMP is violating Canadian law.
• Shiri P put together a must-read thread on internal provincial responses to the Delgamuukw decision, which has direct bearings on the conflict on Wet’suwet’en land.
  • You can read the Delgamuukw Trial Transcripts here.
• Joanne Hammond explained the mechanisms through which BC has expropriated reserve lands.
• Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee) unpacked the settler notion of the “rule of law.”
• Veldon Coburn (Anishinaabe from Pikwàkanagàn) shared some images from Kent Monkman’s work, depicting the RCMP.
• Gwitchin Kris explained how the ignorance of BC and Canadian history is a major factor in how settlers are responding to the crisis in Wet’suwet’en.
• Sean Carleton put together several fantastic Twitter essays on the subject, including one that even appeared on the Facebook pages of some of my knitting friends!
  • In this one, Sean discussed the origins of the RCMP, and how the events at Unist’ot’en are part of a much longer movement to suppress Indigenous resistance. Also check out the comments.
  • He expanded on the thread here with a much more detailed explanation.
• Maddie Knickerbocker (who is keeping me company while writing the roundup!) also put together a thread explaining how the RCMP stormed a Stó:lō historical gathering site (Coqualeetza) in 1976 to remove peaceful protestors.
• Jeffrey Monaghan explained the RCMP’s fundamental bias against Indigenous social movements both past and present.
• For information on donating to the Unist’ot’en Legal Fund, go here.

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It has been quite an eventful four weeks. I hope you enjoyed this giant-sized roundup. If you did, please consider sharing it on the social media platform of your choice! And don’t forget to check back on Tuesday for the November/December edition Best New Articles! I promise, it’s just a regular-sized one. See you then!