TRC57 Speaker Series

an Indigenous learning series

Wendy Wickwire

Topic:A Story Of Early Allyship

with Wendy Wickwire
Webinar Date: November 4, 2020 / 12-1pm PT
Wendy Wickwire will share with us some captivating stories about James Teit, a Canadian ethnographer and political activist who, in the early 1900s, helped his Indigenous friends and colleagues across the province contest the federal and provincial governments on the ‘BC Indian Land Question,’ conscription, enforced enfranchisement and the potlatch ban.

At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging
Wendy Wickwire
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About Wendy Wickwire

Wendy Wickwire is professor emerita in the Department of History at the University of Victoria where she taught courses in Indigenous history, environmental history, BC history and the history of anthropology on the Northwest Coast. Her 2019 book [At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging (UBC Press)] just won the $10,000 Canada Prize (Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities) for the best book in the humanities and social sciences published in 2019. It also won the Canadian Historical Association’s Clio prize for the best book in BC history for 2019; and the Canadian Anthropology Society’s Labrecque-Lee award for the best book in anthropology. Her previous books include Stein: The Way of the River (with Michael M’Gonigle), which won the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award at the BC Book Awards; Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller (with Harry Robinson), which won the Roderick Haig-Brown Prize for best regional book at the BC Book Awards; Write It On Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller (with Harry Robinson), which was shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Prize; and Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory (with Harry Robinson). For more information, visit www.wendywickwire.com.