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Series: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Paperback Katherine Graham 9780887558689 $31.95 HISTORY May 14, 2021

"Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future" looks to both the past and the future as it examines the foundational work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the legacy of its 1996 report. It assesses the Commission’s influence on subsequent milestones in Indigenous-Canada relations and considers our prospects for a constructive future. RCAP’s five-year examination of the relationships of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples to Canada and to non-Indigenous Canadians resulted in a new vision for Canada and provided 440 specific re... + Read More
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Series: Writers on Writing Gather Richard Van Camp on Storytelling Paperback Richard Van Camp 9780889777002 $19.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES May 14, 2021

Stories are medicine. During a time of heightened isolation, bestselling author Richard Van Camp shares what he knows about the power of storytelling—and offers some of his own favourite stories from Elders, friends, and family. Gathering around a campfire, or the dinner table, we humans have always told stories. Through them, we define our identities and shape our understanding of the world. Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp writes of the power of storytelling and its potential to transform speakers and audiences ali... + Read More
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Series: My Indian Paperback Chief Mi'sel Joe 9781550818789 $16.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 15 - 18 Apr 30, 2021

In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who could lead him across Newfoundland in search of the last remaining Beothuk camps on the island. In his journals, Cormack refers to his guide only as “My Indian.” Now, almost two hundred years later, Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Neill reclaim the story of Sylvester Joe, the Mi’kmaq guide engaged by Cormack. In a remarkable feat of historical fiction, My Indian follows Sylvester Joe from his birth (in what is now known as Miawpukek First Nation) and early life in his community to his... + Read More
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Series: Plants of Haida Gwaii Third Edition 3rd edition Paperback Nancy Turner 9781550179149 $29.95 NATURE Apr 30, 2021

For many thousands of years the lands and waters of Haida Gwaii have been home to the Haida. Plants of Haida Gwaii, written with the cooperation and collaboration of Haida knowledge holders and botanical experts, is a detailed and insightful record of the traditional uses of over 150 species of native plants. Moreover, it explains the systems of knowledge and understanding that enabled the Haida to use the resources of their islands sustainably from one generation to the next over millennia. The Haida names of these plants indicate their import... + Read More
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Series: The Power of Style How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures Hardcover Christian Allaire 9781773214900 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 27, 2021

Style is not just the clothes on our backs—it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he sought out for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that—because clothes are never just clothes. Men’s heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination, while ribbon shirts honor Indigenous ancestors and keep culture alive. Allaire takes the reader through boldly... + Read More
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Series: Carrying the Burden of Peace Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities Through Story Paperback Sam McKegney 9780889777934 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 24, 2021

Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honour song—one that celebrates rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic? Carrying the Burden of Peace answers affirmatively. Countering the perception that “masculinity” has been so contaminated as to be irredeemable, the book explores Indigenous literary art for understandings of masculinity tha... + Read More
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Series: Luschiim’s Plants A Hul'q'umi'num' (Cowichan) Ethnobotany Paperback Luschiim Arvid Charlie 9781550179453 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 24, 2021

Respected Cowichan Tribe Elder and botanical expert Luschiim, Arvid Charlie, began his education in early childhood, learning from his great grandparents and others of their generation. Luschiim’s Plants represents his dedication to the survival of the Hul'q'umi'num' language and traditional knowledge of plants for future generations. From the healing properties of qaanlhp (arbutus) to the many practical applications of q’am (bull kelp), the information presented in this remarkable guide shares knowledge of plants that Luschiim is familiar with... + Read More
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Series: I Sang You Down from the Stars Hardcover Tasha Spillett-Sumner 9781771474085 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5 Apr 15, 2021

A love letter from an Indigenous mother to her new baby Drawing from Indigenous creation stories and traditional teachings and illustrated in dazzling watercolors, I Sang You Down from the Stars is a tribute to the bond between mother and child. The narrator gathers gifts for a medicine bundle in anticipation of her baby’s birth; a fluffy white eagle plume, bunches of cedar and sage, a quilted star blanket, and a small stone from the river. When the baby arrives, the mother shares the bundle with her child and reveals the importance of each... + Read More
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Series: Four Faces of the Moon Hardcover Amanda Strong 9781773214542 $24.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Jun 08, 2021

On a journey to uncover her family’s story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land in this essential graphic novel. In the dreamworld, she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls, a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the buffalo—a key tactic to starve and contain the Indigenous People onto reservations. Spotted Fawn must travel through her own family history to confront the harsh realities of the past and reignite her connection to her people and the land. Her darkroom be... + Read More
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Series: First Nations Book for Young Readers Indigenous Filmmakers & Actors Paperback Gary Robinson 9781772601725 $10.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 14 Apr 13, 2021

In these entertaining profiles, twelve Indigenous actors and filmmakers tell stories of the hard work and struggle that went into their careers. Overcoming prejudice and stereotypes in the film industry, fighting to make and promote films that demonstrate an honest portrayal of Indigenous life and heritage. Their stories show how there’s more to filmmaking than acting and directing, including writing, producing, editing, designing, and special effects. Their accomplishments include acting in major blockbuster films and TV shows, directing prize... + Read More
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Series: Daniels v. Canada In and Beyond the Courts Paperback Nathalie Kermoal 9780887559273 $27.95 LAW Apr 09, 2021

In Daniels v. Canada the Supreme Court determined that Métis and non-status Indians were “Indians” under section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, one of a number of court victories that has powerfully shaped Métis relationships with the federal government. However, the decision (and the case) continues to reverberate far beyond its immediate policy implications. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide array of professional contexts, this volume demonstrates the power of Supreme Court of Canada cases to directly and indire... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Celebrity Entanglements with Fame Paperback Jennifer Adese 9780887559068 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 09, 2021

Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people’s entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people. It questions and critiques the whitestream concept of celebrity and the very juxtaposition of “Indigenous” and “celebrity” and casts a critical lens on celebrity culture’s ... + Read More
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Series: Tireless Runners A Family History of Indigenous Canada Paperback Robert Jago 9781487006419 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 06, 2021

For readers of Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian and Chelsea Vowel’s Indigenous Writes, Tireless Runners tells the history of colonization from pre-contact to the present day through the multi-generational story of one Indigenous family.Tireless Runners is the multi-generational story of the Sacquilty family, part of the Kwantlen First Nation in southwestern British Columbia. Prior to first contact in the 1800s, the Sacquilty were a wealthy family living in a region rich from fishing and trade. With the arrival of the Hudson’s Bay Company, ... + Read More
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Series: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery The Case of the Burgled Bundle: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery: Book 3 Paperback Michael Hutchinson 9781772601664 $10.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 06, 2021

The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered together in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats—cousins Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day-long ceremony, is taken, the four mystery-solving cousins set out to catch those responsible and help protect Windy Lake’s reputation! What’s worse, prime suspect and long-time bully Pearl takes off to the city with her older brother and known troublemaker, Eddie. If they have the burgled bundle with them, the Mighty Muskrats fear i... + Read More
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Series: Creeland Paperback Dallas Hunt 9780889713925 $18.95 POETRY Mar 31, 2021

Creeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions, even across great distances. Even in an area such as Treaty Eight (northern Alberta), a geography decimated by resource extraction and development, people are creating, living, laughing, surviving and flourishing—or at least attempting to. The poems in this collection are preoccupied with the role of Indigenous aesthetics in the creation and nurturing of complex Indigenous lifeworlds. They aim to honour the encounters that ever... + Read More
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Series: Peyakow Reclaiming Cree Dignity, A Memoir Hardcover Darrel J. McLeod 9781771622318 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 31, 2021

Mamaskatch, Darrel J. McLeod’s 2018 memoir of growing up Cree in Northern Alberta, was a publishing sensation—winning the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for many other major prizes and translated into French and German editions. In Peyakow, McLeod continues the poignant story of his impoverished youth, beset by constant fears of being dragged down by the self-destruction and deaths of those closest to him as he battles the bullying of white classmates, copes with the trauma of physical and sexual abuse, and endur... + Read More
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Series: Richard Wagamese Selected Hardcover Richard Wagamese 9781771622752 $24.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Mar 27, 2021

Richard Wagamese, one of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same. Following the success of Embers, which has sold over fifty thousand copies since its release in 2016, this new collection of Wagamese’s non-fiction works, curated by editor Drew Hayden Taylor, brings together more of the prolific author’s short writings, many for the first time i... + Read More
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Series: Unravelling Canada Paperback Sylvia Olsen 9781771622868 $24.95 TRAVEL Mar 27, 2021

Toques, mittens and scarves are all associated with northern climates, but the quintessential garment of Canadian knitting is surely the bulky and distinctly patterned West Coast cardigan. In the early twentieth century, Indigenous woolworkers on southern Vancouver Island began knitting what are now called Cowichan sweaters, named for the largest of the Coast Salish tribes in the region. Drawing on their talents as blanket weavers and basket makers, and adapting techniques from European settlers, Coast Salish women created sweaters that fuelled... + Read More
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Series: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation Did You See Us? Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School Paperback Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School 9780887559075 $24.95 HISTORY Mar 12, 2021

The Assiniboia school is unique within Canada’s Indian Residential School system. It was the first residential high school in Manitoba and one of the only residential schools in Canada to be located in a large urban setting. Operating between 1958 and 1973 in a period when the residential school system was in decline, it produced several future leaders, artists, educators, knowledge keepers, and other notable figures. It was in many ways an experiment within the broader destructive framework of Canadian residential schools. Stitching together ... + Read More
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Series: Algonquian Text Society mitoni niya nêhiyaw / Cree is Who I Truly Am nêhiyaw-iskwêw mitoni niya / Me, I am Truly a Cree Woman Paperback Sarah Whitecalf 9780887559426 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 05, 2021

Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing events they witnessed range from the ravages of the influenza epidemic of 1918–20, to murder committed in a jealous rage, to the abduction of a young woman by underground spirits who grant her healing powers upon her release. A highly personal document, these memoirs are altogether exceptional in recounting the thoughts and feelings of a Cree woman as she copes with the impacts of colonialism but also,... + Read More
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Series: Treaty Words For As Long As the Rivers Flow Hardcover Aimée Craft 9781773214962 $16.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 10 Mar 09, 2021

The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis’s home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen—to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about treaties—the bonds of reciprocity and renewal that endure for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Accompanied by beautiful illustr... + Read More
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Series: nedi nezu (Good Medicine) Paperback Tenille K. Campbell 9781551528465 $17.95 POETRY Mar 02, 2021

A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country. nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates - not only as a partner, a fantasy, a heartbreak waiting to happen but also as an auntie, a role model, a voice that connects to others walking the same path. From the online hookup world of DMs, double taps, and secret texts to earth-shakingly erotic encounters under the northern stars to the ever-complicated relationship Indigenous women have with mainstrea... + Read More
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Series: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series A Short History of the Blockade Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin Paperback Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 9781772125382 $12.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 15, 2021

In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaver—or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life-giving possibilities of dams and the world-building possibilities of blockades, deepening our understanding of Indigenous resistance, as both a negation and an affirmation. Widely ... + Read More
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Series: Cree: Language of the Plains nehiyawewin: paskwawi-pikiskwewin Second Edition, second edition Paperback Jean L. Okimasis 9780889777675 $34.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Jan 09, 2021

A new edition of a seminal textbook to support Cree language study.Cree: Language of the Plains is a comprehensive educational resource, offering a broad range of learning materials that is easily accessible to Cree language learners. This new edition provides an updated and redesigned language textbook, and is linked to Cree language audio labs and a Cree language workbook available online. Language labs are also available as podcasts, available at uregina.ca/open-access or by searching “Cree Language of the Plains” on your favourite podcast... + Read More
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Series: Maci-Anihinapemowin / Beginning Saulteaux Spiral bound Margaret Cote 9780889777514 $34.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Dec 30, 2020

Maci-Anihinapemowin / Beginning Saulteaux is an introductory look at one of the most widely spoken of all North American Indigenous languages, regionally known as Saulteaux, Ojibway, Ottawa (Odawa), Chippewa, and Algonquian. In an easy-to-use and easy-to-read series of lessons, both designed for self-study or for use in the classroom, Beginning Saulteaux will guide beginners through the language’s grammatical structures and spelling systems, as well as everyday terms and phrases. The book grounds the language in both traditional and contemporar... + Read More
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Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Doodem and Council Fire Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance Hardcover Heidi Bohaker 9781442647312 $65.00 LAW Dec 30, 2020

Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe on treaties and other legal documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. These doodems reflected fundamental principles behind Anishinaabe governance that were often ignored by Europeans, who referred to Indigenous polities in terms of tribe, nation, band, or village – classifications that failed to fully encompass longstanding cultural traditions of political authority within Anis... + Read More
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Series: Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidanda`i’ Tthak Ejuk Go`onlih Stories from the People of the Land Hardcover Leslie McCartney 9781772124828 $99.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 14, 2020

Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidanda`i’ Tthak Ejuk Go`onlih is an invaluable compilation of historical and cultural information based on a project originally conceived by the Gwich’in Social and Cultural Institute to document the biographies of the oldest Gwich’in Elders in the Gwich’in Settlement Region. Through their own stories, twenty-three Gwich’in Elders from the Northwest Territories communities of Fort McPherson, Tsiigehtshik, Inuvik, and Aklavik share their joy of living and travelling on the land. Thei... + Read More
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Series: Seen but Not Seen Influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to Today Paperback Donald B. Smith 9781442627703 $32.95 HISTORY Jan 08, 2021

Throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, the majority of Canadians argued that European "civilization" must replace Indigenous culture. The ultimate objective was assimilation into the dominant society. Seen but Not Seen explores the history of Indigenous marginalization and why non-Indigenous Canadians failed to recognize Indigenous societies and cultures as worthy of respect. Approaching the issue biographically, Donald B. Smith presents the commentaries of sixteen influential Canadians – including John A. Macdonald, Georg... + Read More
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Series: At Table Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness Paperback Devon A. Mihesuah 9780803245259 $37.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2020

2020 Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner of the Gourmand International World Cookbook Award, Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens is back! Featuring an expanded array of tempting recipes of indigenous ingredients and practical advice about health, fitness, and becoming involved in the burgeoning indigenous food sovereignty movement, the acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon A. Mihesuah draws on the rich indigenous heritages of this continent to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life.Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens features pointed discu... + Read More
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Series: An Inuksuk Means Welcome Paperback Mary Wallace 9781771474351 $11.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 15, 2020

An inuksuk is a stone landmark that different peoples of the Arctic region build to leave a symbolic message. Inuksuit (the plural of inuksuk) can point the way, express joy, or simply say: welcome. A central image in Inuit culture, the inuksuk frames this picture book as an acrostic: readers will learn seven words from the Inuktitut language whose first letters together spell INUKSUK. Each word is presented in English and in Inuktitut characters, with phonetic pronunciation guides provided. The words and their definitions give a sense of th... + Read More
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Series: Critical Studies in Native History Dammed The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory Paperback Brittany Luby 9780887558740 $27.95 HISTORY Oct 09, 2020

"Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory" explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. "Dammed" makes clear that hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg from planning and operations and failed to consider how power production might influence the healt... + Read More
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Series: The Last Sovereigns Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas Hardcover Robert M. Utley 9781496220226 $33.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2020

The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man’s ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains—a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the Sioux’s historical territories that were sacred to him and his people. Robert M. Utley explores the final four years of Sitting Bull’s life of freedom, from 1877 to 1881. To escape American vengeance for his assumed role in the annihilation of Gen. George Armstrong Custer’s command at the Litt... + Read More
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Series: Rez Metal Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene Paperback Ashkan Soltani Stone 9781496205094 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2020

Rez Metal captures the creative energy of Indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of Indian Country and across generations, heavy metal has touched a collective nerve on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona in particular. Many cultural leaders—including former Navajo president Russell Begaye—have begun to recognize heavy metal’s ability to inspire Navajo communities facing chronic challenges such as poverty, depression, and addiction. Heavy metal music speaks to the frustrations, fears, tri... + Read More
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Series: Midwest Archaeological Perspectives Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes War, Climate, and Culture 1st edition Paperback Richard W. Edwards 9780268108182 $47.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 30, 2020

Enormous changes affected the inhabitants of the Eastern Woodlands area during the eleventh through fifteenth centuries AD. At this time many groups across this area (known collectively to archaeologists as Oneota) were aggregating and adopting new forms of material culture and food technology. This same period also witnessed an increase in intergroup violence, as well as a rise in climatic volatility with the onset of the Little Ice Age. In Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes, Richard W. Edwards explores how the inhabitants of the western G... + Read More
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Series: Contemporary Studies on the North Words of the Inuit A Semantic Stroll through a Northern Culture Paperback Louis-Jacques Dorais 9780887558627 $31.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 18, 2020

Words of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable, leisurely stroll through words and meanings. Inuit words are often more complex than English words and frequently contain small units of meaning that add up to convey a larger sensibility. Dorais’ lexical and semantic analyses and reconstructions are not overly technical, yet they reliably evince connections ... + Read More
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Series: Genocidal Love A Life after Residential School Paperback Bevann Fox 9780889777415 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 12, 2020

“Fox tears beauty from the jaws of genocide, daring to claim love beyond settler imaginings—love that nurtures decolonial futures and makes possible a more just world.”—Sam McKegney, author of Magic Weapons and Masculindians How can we heal in the face of trauma? How can we transform intergenerational pain into a passion for community and healing? Presenting herself as “Myrtle,” residential school survivor and Indigenous television personality Bevann Fox explores essential questions by recounting her life through fiction. She shares memories... + Read More
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Series: Knowing Native Arts Hardcover Nancy Marie Mithlo 9781496202123 $47.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2020

Knowing Native Arts brings Nancy Marie Mithlo’s Native insider perspective to understanding the significance of Indigenous arts in national and global milieus. These musings, written from the perspective of a senior academic and curator traversing a dynamic and at turns fraught era of Native self-determination, are a critical appraisal of a system that is often broken for Native peoples seeking equity in the arts. Mithlo addresses crucial issues, such as the professionalization of Native arts scholarship, disparities in philanthropy and trainin... + Read More
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Series: Love after the End An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction Paperback Joshua Whitehead 9781551528113 $21.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction collection showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories. Here, readers will discover bioengineer... + Read More
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Series: Our Hearts Are as One Fire An Ojibway-Anishinabe Vision for the Future Paperback Jerry Fontaine 9780774862882 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2020

A vision shared. A manifesto. This remarkable work argues that Anishinabeg need to reconnect with non-colonized modes of thinking, social organization, and decision making in order to achieve genuine sovereignty. In Our Hearts Are as One Fire, Jerry Fontaine recounts the stories of three Ota’wa, Shawnee, and Ojibway-Anishinabe leaders who challenged aggressive colonial expansion – Obwandiac, Tecumtha, and Shingwauk. He weaves Ojibwaymowin language and knowledge with conversations with elders and descendants of the three leaders. The result is a... + Read More
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Series: Caring for Eeyou Istchee Protected Area Creation on Wemindji Cree Territory Paperback Monica E. Mulrennan 9780774838597 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2020

How do Indigenous communities in Canada balance the development needs of a growing population with cultural commitments and responsibilities as stewards of their lands and waters? Caring for Eeyou Istchee recounts the extraordinary experience of the James Bay Cree community of Wemindji, Quebec, who partnered with a multi-disciplinary research team to protect a territory of great cultural significance in ways that respect community values and circumstances. By addressing fundamental questions such as what should be protected and how, Indigenous ... + Read More
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Series: Iron Peggy Paperback Marie Clements 9781772012538 $16.95 DRAMA Jun 25, 2020

Peg is struggling for survival at her boarding school. Three über-cool “it” girls take aim at Peg and make her life utterly miserable. When her beloved Grandmother dies she just wants to disappear. Then an unexpected gift arrives; inside it, Peg finds three cast-iron Canadian soldiers. In despair, she throws them against the floor. How can they help her? They are so small, and the girls’ shadow is so big. But, miraculously, the toys come to life as Indigenous snipers from World War I, just in time to wage an epic battle against the girls. A pow... + Read More
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Series: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation Pathways of Reconciliation Indigenous and Settler Approaches to Implementing the TRC's Calls to Action Paperback Aimée Craft 9780887558542 $27.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 29, 2020

Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to Action in June 2015, governments, churches, non-profit, professional and community organizations, corporations, schools and universities, clubs and individuals have asked: “How can I/we participate in reconciliation?” Recognizing that reconciliation is not only an ultimate goal, but a decolonizing process of journeying in ways that embody everyday acts of resistance, resurgence, and solidarity, coupled with renewed commitments to justice, dialogue, and relationship-building,... + Read More
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Series: First West Coast Books Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak Board book Roy Henry Vickers 9781550179040 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (months) from 1 - 20 May 08, 2020

With bright and bold illustrations by celebrated Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers, this sturdy board book introduces iconic sounds of the West Coast and supports the language development of babies and toddlers. From the the crackle of a beach campfire to the swoosh of canoe paddles, the rustle and creak of cedars in the wind, the roar of sea lions and the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean, the rhythmic text, vibrant illustrations and glossy tactile finish of Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak will delight the very youngest readers.
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Series: In Good Relation History, Gender, and Kinship in Indigenous Feminisms Paperback Sarah Nickel 9780887558511 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 01, 2020

Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Indigenous women have long recognized that their intersectional realities were not represented in mainstream feminism, which was principally white, middle-class, and often ignored realities of colonialism. As Indigenous feminist ideals grew, Indigenous women became increasingly multi-vocal, with multiple and oppositional understandings of what constituted Indigenous femin... + Read More
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Series: Un/inhabited 2nd edition Paperback Jordan Abel 9781772012682 $24.95 POETRY Apr 06, 2020

This is the second edition of award-winning Nisga’a poet Jordan Abel’s second collection of poetry, Un/inhabited, which maps the terrain of the public domain to create a layered investigation of the interconnections between language and land. Abel constructed the book’s source text by compiling ninety-one complete western novels found on Project Gutenberg, an online archive of public domain works. Using his word processor’s Ctrl+F function, he searched the document in its totality for words that relate to the political and social aspects of la... + Read More
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Series: Pathfinders Autumn's Dawn Paperback Kim Sigafus 9781939053251 $12.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) from 12 - 16 Apr 01, 2020

After a school year of dealing with personal issues, Autumn Dawn is happy that summer is finally here. Autumn plans on visiting her aunt Jessie in Minneapolis before heading back home for the class she needs to attend in order to pass to the next grade. On the first day of class, Autumn finds herself face-to-face with Sydney, the bully who thinks it is fun to pick on her. What could be worse than that? They are paired together and will be tutoring each other! Between dealing with Sydney and trying not to notice the new guy in school, who has de... + Read More
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Series: The Train Hardcover Jodie Callaghan 9781772601299 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Mar 24, 2020

Ashley meets her great-uncle by the old train tracks near their community in Nova Scotia. Ashley sees his sadness, and Uncle tells her of the day years ago when he and the other children from their community were told to board the train before being taken to residential school where their lives were changed forever. They weren't allowed to speak Mi'gmaq and were punished if they did. There was no one to give them love and hugs and comfort. Uncle also tells Ashley how happy she and her sister make him. They are what give him hope. Ashley promise... + Read More
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Series: The Regina Collection In My Own Moccasins A Memoir of Resilience Paperback Helen Knott 9780889777316 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 21, 2020

An unflinching memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds of sexual assault from a resilient, emerging Indigenous voice. Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption. With gripping moments of withdrawa... + Read More
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Series: We Are Water Protectors Hardcover Carole Lindstrom 9781250203557 $24.50 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Mar 17, 2020

Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America,We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption—a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade.Water is the first medicine.It affects and connects us all . . .When a black snake threatens to destroy the EarthAnd poison her people’s water, one young water protectorTakes a stand to defend Earth’s most sacred resource.
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Series: Fatty Legs (10th anniversary edition) Paperback Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton 9781773213507 $13.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 11 Mar 10, 2020

The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton’s powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir’s 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book’s impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A Stranger at Home. New content includes a foreword from Dr. Debbie Reese, noted Indigenous scholar and founder of American Indians in Children’s Literature, w... + Read More
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Series: Pathfinders Found Paperback Joseph Bruchac 9781939053237 $12.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Grade (US) from 12 - 16 Mar 01, 2020

A teenage survival expert finds all of his skills tested as he's pursued through the Canadian wilderness by men determined to silence him. On his way to teach at Camp Seven Generations, a Native outdoor school, Nick witnesses a murder and then is thrown off a train. Remembering and using the teachings of his Abenaki elders will prove to be the difference between life and death for him. Although his pursuers have modern technology to help them, Nick has something even more useful. In addition to the skills he's learned, he has an ally in the nat... + Read More
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Series: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors Origins of the Iroquois League Narratives, Symbols, and Archaeology Paperback Anthony Wonderley 9780815636670 $40.95 HISTORY Dec 04, 2019

The League of the Iroquois, the most famous native government in North America, dominated intertribal diplomacy in the Northeast and influenced the course of American colonial history for nearly two centuries. The age and early development of the League, however, have long been in dispute. In this highly original book, two anthropological archaeologists with differing approaches and distinct regional interests synthesize their research to explore the underpinnings of the confederacy. Wonderley and Sempowski endeavor to address such issues as wh... + Read More
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Series: The Girl in the Photograph The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America Hardcover Byron L. Dorgan 9781250173645 $37.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 26, 2019

Through the story of Tamara, an abused Native American child, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan describes the plight of many children living on reservations—and offers hope for the future.On a winter morning in 1990, U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up theBismarck Tribune. On the front page, a small Native American girl gazed into the distance, shedding a tear. The headline: "Foster home children beaten—and nobody's helping." Dorgan, who had been working with American Indian tribes to secure resources, was upset. He flew to the ... + Read More
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Series: Kamloopa An Indigenous Matriarch Story Paperback Kim Senklip Harvey 9781772012422 $16.95 DRAMA Oct 27, 2019

TIME: All.SPACE: The Multiverse.Come along for the ride to Kamloopa, the largest Powwow on the West Coast. This high-energy Indigenous matriarchal story follows two urban Indigenous sisters and a lawless Trickster who face our postcolonial world head-on as they come to terms with what it means to honour who they are and where they come from. But how to go about discovering yourself when Christopher Columbus allegedly already did that? Bear witness to the courage of these women as they turn to their Ancestors for help in reclaiming their power i... + Read More