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Related Resources

The following is a list of resources beyond those in the Colonial Injustices and Current Realities annotated bibliography, dealing with 1) UVic histories, 2) UVic and local lands, 3) Historical in/justice in postsecondary institutions, and 4) a sample of reports from various postsecondary institutions.

UVic Histories

• Harvey, Edward B. The Lansdowne Era: Victoria College, 1946-63. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.
• Heffernan, Claire. The Changing Face of University of Victoria Campus Lands. UVic Archives exhibit and publication, 1992. https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/8905aaa1-e52d-48d6-a9f0-f9a644d5dfe8.
• Jupp, Ursula. From Cordwood to Campus in Gordon Head: The Story of a District from its Days as Primeval Forest to the Establishment of a University. Jupp, 1975.
• MacPherson, Ian. Reaching Outward and Upward: The University of Victoria: 1963-2013. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012.
• Roy, Patricia. History of the UVic History Department. UVic Department of History, 2012. https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/assets/docs/History%20of%20History%20Final%20version.pdf.
• Smith, Peter L. A Multitude of the Wise: UVic Remembered. The Alumni Association of the University of Victoria, 1993. https://ia801802.us.archive.org/21/items/multitudeofwiseu00smit/multitudeofwiseu00smit.pdf.

UVic and Local Lands

• Burley, Leah. “Voices for Change: Racism, Ethnocentrism, and Cultural Insensitivity at the University of Victoria.” MA Thesis, University of Victoria, 2006. A follow up to the 1998 report to University of Victoria’s President: “Voices for Change: Racism, Ethnocentrism, and Cultural Insensitivity at the University of Victoria,” a report by Yvonne M. Martin and Rennie Warburton, 1998. Voices for Changes 2 report1 may06 format aug07.doc.
• Claxton, Nicholas, Denise Fong, Fran Morrison, Christine O’Bonsawin, Maryka Omatsu, John Price, and Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, eds. Challenging Racist “British Columbia”: 150 Years and Counting. University of Victoria and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2021. https://www.challengeracistbc.ca/.
• Claxton, Nicholas, and John Price. “Whose Land Is It? Rethinking Sovereignty in British Columbia.” In (Un)Settling the Islands: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific, edited by Christine O’Bonsawin and John Price. Special issue of BC Studies 204 (2020): 115–138. https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i204.191508.
• Cook, Peter, Neil Vallance, John Lutz, Graham Brazier, and Hamar Foster, eds. To Share, Not Surrender: Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty-Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. UBC Press, 2021.
• Elliott, Dave Sr. Saltwater People. A Resource Book for the Saanich Native Studies Program. Edited by Janet Poth. School District 63 (Saanich), 1990. Saltwater People.
• Kanakos, Jeannie L. “The Negotiations to Relocate the Songhees Indians, 1843–1911.” MA thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1974. https://hallmarkheritagesociety.ca/archives/history-articles/the-negotiations-to-relocate-the-songhees-1843-1911/.
• Keddie, Grant. Songhees Pictorial: History of the Songhees People as Seen by Outsiders, 1790–1912. Royal BC Museum, 2003.
• Living Lab Project. The Living Lab Plant Life Guide: in English, Senćoŧen, Lekwungen (Lək̓ ʷiʔnəŋ), and Scientific Names, 18 March 2021. https://livinglabproject.ca/plant-and-marine-guides/.
• Martin, Yvonne M., and Rennie Warburton. “Voices for Change: Racism, Ethnocentrism, and Cultural Insensitivity at the University of Victoria.” Report submitted to David Strong, President, University of Victoria, 1998.
• Rose-Redwood, Reuben. ‘Reclaim, Rename, Reoccupy’: Decolonizing Place and the Reclaiming of PKOLS, 2016. Rose-Redwood 2016. https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1215.
• Victoria Modern: The Emergence of Architectural Modernism in Victoria, Town and Gown, exhibit curated by Martin Seger. University of Victoria Art Collection, 2011. https://uvac.uvic.ca/Architecture_Exhibits/index.html.

Historical In/Justice at Postsecondary Institutions

• Campbell, James, Leslie M. Harris, and Alfred L. Brophy. Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies. University of Georgia Press, 2019.
• Harvey, Caitlin. “The Wealth of Knowledge: Land-Grab Universities in a British Imperial and Global Context.” Native American and Indigenous Studies 8, no. 1 (2021): 97–105.
• Lee, Robert, and Tristan Ahtone. “Land-Grab Universities: Expropriated Land is the Foundation of the Land-grant University System,” High Country News, 30 March 2020, https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities.
• Rhodes Must Fall Collective. Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire. Bloomsbury, 2018.
• Stein, Sharon. Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education. John Hopkins University Press, 2022.
• Wilder, Craig Steven. Ebony and Ivory: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
• Willie, Charles Vert. The Ivory and Ebony Towers: Race Relations and Higher Education. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1981.

A Sample of Reports from Various Postsecondary Institutions

• Columbia University, New York, NY: “Columbia University and Slavery: A Research and Justice Initiative.”
• Cornell University, Ithica, NY: Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project, “Assessing Cornell University’s Responses to Recent Revelations,” 11 August 2022. (Includes responses from other postsecondary institutions)
• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: “Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery.”
• McGill University, Montreal: “Slavery and McGill University: Bicentenary Recommendations,” by Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson and student authors, 2020.
• Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto: “Mash Koh Wee Kah Poo Win Standing Strong Task Force Report and Recommendations,”18 August 2021.
• University of California, San Diego: “Unmapping UC Mat-Koo-La-Hoo-EE.”
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: “Addressing Racism: Black History at the University and Beyond.”
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: “Minnesota Transform: A Just University for Just Futures.” (Includes links to projects at other postsecondary institutions)
• University of the South, Sewanee, TN: “Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation.” (See also History of the Project; Research Summary)
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA: “President’s Commission on Slavery and the University.” (See also “Universities Studying Slavery”)