Dr Laura Peers

Books

2010

Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny
Gathering Places: Essays in Aboriginal and Fur Trade. Histories, 2010, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

2007

Laura Peers
Playing Ourselves: Native American and First Nations Interpreters at Historic Reconstructions, 2007, AltaMira Press: Maryland.
Laura Peers
On the treatment of dead enemies: indigenous human remains in Britain in the early 21st century, 2007.

2006

Laura Peers and Alison Brown and members of the Kainai Nation

2003

Laura Peers
Museums and Source Communities: a Routledge Reader, 2003, Routledge.

1994

Laura Peers
The Ojibwa in Western Canada, 1780-1870, 1994, University of Manitoba Press, Native History Series, and St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press: Winnipeg.

1993

Laura Peers and Jacqueline Peterson
Sacred Encounters: Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West. A Catalogue of the Exhibition, 1993, University of Oklahoma Press.

Edited books

2002

Laura Peers
My First Years in the Fur Trade: the Journals of 1802-1804, George Nelson, 2002, Minnesota Historical Society Press and McGill-Queen’s University Press: St. Paul and Montreal.

1995

Laura Peers and Regina Flannery, John S. Long
Ellen Smallboy: Glimpses of a Cree Woman's Life, 1995, Rupert's Land Record Society, McGill-Queen's University Press.

Articles

2009

Laura Peers
'Almost true': Peter Rindisbacher's early images of Rupert's Land, 1821-26, Art History 32 (3), June 2009, pp. 516-544.
Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown
Colonial Photographs and Postcolonial Relationships: the Kainai-Oxford Photographic Histories Project, In Annis May Timpson (ed.) First Nations, First Thoughts: the impact of Indigenous thought in Canada, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009, pp. 123-144.
Laura Peers
‘Material Culture, Identity, and Colonial Society in the Canadian Fur Trade’, In Maureen Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin Women and Things, 1750-1950: Gendered Material Strategies, Ashgate, 2009, pp. 55-74.
Laura Peers
‘On the treatment of dead bodies: indigenous human remains in Britain in the early 21st century’, In Helen Lambert and Maryon Macdonald (eds) Social Bodies, Berghahn, 2009, pp. 77-99.

2004

Laura Peers
Repatriation: a gain for science?, Anthropology Today Dec.2004 20 (6), 2004, pp. 3–4.

2003

Laura Peers

2002

Laura Peers and Alison Brown
‘Sharing Knowledge’, Museums Journal , 2002, pp. 25-27.
Laura Peers
‘Revising the Past: the Heritage elite and Native peoples in North America’, Association of Social Anthropology Monographs 38 , 2002, pp. 173-188.

2000

Laura Peers
‘A Review of the Chase Manhattan Gallery’, Anthropology Today 16 (6), 2000, pp. 8–13.
Laura Peers and Jennifer Brown
There is No End to Relationships Among the Indians, The History of the Family: an International Quarterly 4 (4), 2000, pp. 529-555.

1999

Laura Peers
‘Many Tender Ties’: The Shifting Contexts and Meanings of the S BLACK Bag, World Archaeology 31 (2), 1999, pp. 288-302.
Laura Peers
Playing Ourselves: Native Peoples and Public History Sites, The Public Historian 21 (4), 1999, pp. 39-59.

1998

Laura Peers
‘Fur Trade History, Native History, Public History: Communication and Miscommunication’, In Susan Sleeper Smith Jo-Anne Fiske New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Papers of the 7th North American Fur Trade Conference, 1998, pp. 101-120.

1996

Laura Peers
‘The Guardian of All: Jesuit Missionary and Salish Perceptions of the Virgin Mary’, In Elizabeth Vibert Jennifer S.H. Brown Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History, Broadview Press, 1996, pp. 284-303.
Blackfoot shirt with porcupine quill decoration and painted image of war deeds (Pitt Rivers Museum)