Finding a Way to the Heart

by Brownlie, Robin Jarvis; Korinek, Valerie J.

• ISBN13: 9780887557323
• ISBN10: 0887557325
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Manitoba Pr

Summary

When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book Many Tender Tiesin 1980, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced entirely new areas of inquiry in women's, social, and Aboriginal history. Finding a Way to the Heartexamines Van Kirk's work, her academic career, and her influence on a generation of feminist scholarship in fur trade and gender history, the history of Aboriginal women, the North American west, Nativenewcomer relations, and multicultural history. Using Van Kirk's themes and methodologies as a jumping-off point, the book also off ers ten new essays examining race, gender, identity, and colonization over a time period extending from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century and a geographic area reaching from the western plains to southern Ontario to New Zealand.

Author Biography

Robin Jarvis Brownlie is an associate professor in the Department of History at University of Manitoba and author of A Fatherly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939. Valerie J. Korinek is a professor in the Department of History at University of Saskatchewan, and is the author of Roughing It in Suburbia: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 3
Works by Sylvia Van Kirk	p. 22
"All These Stories About Women": "Many Tender Ties" and a New Fur Trade History	p. 25
Sylvia Van Kirk: A Feminist Appreciation of Front-line Work in the Academy	p. 37
Daring to Write a History of Western Canadian Women's Experiences: Assessing Sylvia Van Kirk's Feminist Scholarship	p. 49
Ties Across the Border	p. 65
Historiography that Breaks Your Heart: Van Kirk and the Writing of Feminist History	p. 81
Beyond the Borders: The "Founding Families" of Southern New Zealand	p. 98
Multicultural Bands on the Northern Plains and the Notion of "Tribal" Histories	p. 122
"A World We Have Lost": The Plural Society of Fort Chipewyan	p. 146
Others or Brothers?: Competing Settler and Anishinabe Discourses about Race in Upper Canada	p. 170
Attitudes Toward "Miscegenation" in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, 1860-1914	p. 195
Home Tales: Gender, Domesticity, and Colonialism in the Prairie West, 1870-1900	p. 222
"I am a proud Anishinaabekwe": Issues of Identity and Status in Northern Ontario after Bill C-31	p. 241
Contributors	p. 267
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