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Highlighting how important it is to preserve and maintain Indigenous languages, A Dictionary of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) with Connections to the Past provides a comprehensive linguistic record of this important Iroquoian language from the 1600s onwards.This dictionary provides a record of the Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) language as spoken by fluent first- and second-language speakers at the Kanien’kéha Mohawk Territory outside of Montreal, Canada. The Kanien’kéha language has been written since the 1600s, and these dictionary entries include citations fro... + Read More
This collection highlights the urgency of reimagining federalism and the potential for federalism to support Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, leading to a truly democratic Canada.As a settler state, Canada’s claims to sovereign control over territory are contested by Indigenous claims to land and to self-determination. Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism presents legal analyses that explore forms of federalism and their potential to include multiple and divided sovereignties. This collection aims to advance reconciliat... + Read More
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Series: INSTEADIndigenous Stewardship of Environment and AlternativePaperback
Colin Scott9781487542689
$36.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 16, 2024
Bringing together Indigenous voices, this collection examines strategies for protecting and recuperating Indigenous environmental and cultural heritage.The Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative Development (INSTEAD) research program is a knowledge co-creation partnership of Indigenous communities, representative organizations, university researchers, and activist civil society organizations. The collective aims to tackle conceptual and practical challenges faced by Indigenous peoples and communities in the stewardship of their e... + Read More
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Series: The Spaces In BetweenIndigenous Sovereignty within the Canadian StatePaperback
Tim Schouls9781487587406
$74.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Feb 15, 2024
The Spaces In Between illuminates how Indigenous peoples are carving out political space within the Canadian state to exercise political sovereignty over their own citizens, lands, and resources.The Spaces In Between examines prospects for the enhanced practice of Indigenous political sovereignty within the Canadian state. As Indigenous rights include the right to self-determination, the book contends that restored practices of Indigenous sovereignty constitute important steps forward in securing better relationships between Indigenous peoples ... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline ViscositiesColonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en ResistancePaperback
Tyler McCreary9781772127041
$36.99POLITICAL SCIENCE
Jan 23, 2024
Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities examines the relationship between the Wet’suwet’en nation and pipeline development, showing how colonial governments and corporations seek to control Indigenous claims, and how the Wet'suwet'en resist. Tyler McCreary offers historical context for the unfolding relationship between Indigenous peoples and colonialism and explores pipeline regulatory review processes, attempts to reconcile Indigeneity with development, as well as fundamental questions about territory and jurisdiction. Throughout, McCrear... + Read More
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Series: Sharing Our KnowledgeThe Tlingit and Their Coastal NeighborsPaperback
Sergei Kan9781496236883
$60.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 01, 2023
Sharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history, and language of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and their coastal neighbors. These interdisciplinary, collaborative essays present Tlingit culture, as well as the culture of their coastal neighbors, not as an object of study but rather as a living heritage that continues to inspire and guide the lives of communities and individuals througho... + Read More
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Series: Being in BeingThe Collected Works of a Master Haida MythtellerPaperback
Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay9781771623759
$29.95HISTORY
Nov 25, 2023
Being in Being contains three masterpieces by legendary Haida mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay. The shortest recounts the high points of the legend of his family. The second, Raven Travelling, is the longest and most complex version of the story of the Raven ever recorded on the Northwest Coast. The third is The Qquuna Cycle, a narrative poem of nearly 5,500 lines, one of the true masterpieces of North American literature.Robert Bringhurst’s eloquent and vivid translations of these works are supplemented by explanatory notes that suppl... + Read More
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Series: Nine Visits to the MythworldTold by Ghandl of the Qayahl LlaanasPaperback
Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas9781771623773
$26.95HISTORY
Nov 25, 2023
In the Fall of 1900, a young American anthropologist named John Swanton arrived in the Haida country, on the Northwest Coast of North America, intending to learn everything he could about Haida mythology. He spent the next ten months phonetically transcribing several thousand pages of myths, stories, histories and songs in the Haida language. Swanton met a number of fine mythtellers during his year in the Haida country. Each had his own style and his own repertoire. Two of them—a blind man in his fifties by the name of Ghandl, and a septuagenar... + Read More
The 25th anniversary of a historically significant collection, presented in Cree and English.kôhkominawak otâcimowiniwâwa / Our Grandmothers’ Lives is a collection of reminiscences and personal stories from the daily lives of seven Cree women over the past century, presented here in Cree and English. Recorded in their own language, these women share their memories of their lives and the history of their peoples, describing activities such as household chores, snaring rabbits and picking berries, going to school, marriage, bearing and raising c... + Read More
Colonization Through Design explores the extent to which housing, and ideas of home and domesticity, were fundamental to the colonization of Indigenous people in Canada, tracing the historic conflict between agricultural Christian society and Indigenous ways of knowing, and the ongoing assimilative practices of the contemporary settler state. The design profiles within the book explore a new design plurality that links innovative technical solutions with Indigenous knowledge, and present various design solutions that generate cultural continuit... + Read More
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Series: 9781773272061
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Series: 9781250847676
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Series: A Family of DreamersPaperback
Samantha Nock9781772015478
$16.95POETRY
Nov 07, 2023
In this debut poetry collection, Samantha Nock redefines where and what “home is.” A Family of Dreamers delves into the complexities of growing up in rural northeast British Columbia and the love and grief that blooms there. Nock weaves together threads of fat liberation, desirability politics, and heartbreak, while working through her existence as a young Indigenous woman coming of age in the city. She explores the interweaving of trauma and healing, playing with language and connecting to the Lands that raised her in order to challenge coloni... + Read More
Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize. Spanning several lands — Turtle Island, the US, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Kenya — the authors demonstrate the two sharp edges of sport in the history of colonialism. Colonizers used sport, their own and Indigenous recreational activities they appropriated, as part of the process of dispossession of land and culture. Indigenous mascots and team names, hockey at residential schools, lacrosse and many oth... + Read More
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Series: Rise Up!Indigenous Music in North AmericaPaperback
Craig Harris9781496236159
$40.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 01, 2023
Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and wooden flutes, Indigenous music intersects with rock, blues, jazz, folk music, reggae, hip-hop, classical music, and more. Combining deep research with personal stories by nearly four dozen award-winning Indigenous musicians, Harris offers an eye-opening look at the growth of Indigenous music. Among a host of North America’s most vital Indigenous musi... + Read More
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Series: Witness to the Human Rights TribunalsHow the System Fails Indigenous PeoplesPaperback
Bruce Granville Miller9780774867764
$34.95LAW
Nov 01, 2023
What happens behind the scenes at a Canadian human rights tribunal? And why aren’t human rights tribunal processes working for Indigenous people?Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals opens the doors to the tribunal, revealing the interactions of lawyers, tribunal members, expert witnesses, and Indigenous litigants. Bruce Miller provides an in-depth look at the role of anthropological expertise in the courts, and draws on testimony, ethnographic data, and years of tribunal decisions to show how specific cases are fought and how expert testi... + Read More
The Chilcotin’s magnificent wild horses are under threat. British Columbia’s vast Chilcotin region is home to a magnificent population of what most people call wild horses, although technically they are “feral” horses since they descend from stock that was long ago tame. They are romantic and beautiful, but they are also controversial: they are seen as intruders competing for range land with native species and domestic cattle and, as a result, they have been subject to government culls and are not officially protected. In this compelling book... + Read More
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Series: The Days of AugustaPaperback
Mary Augusta Tappage Evans9781990776489
$24.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 28, 2023
Hailed as a contemporary classic of oral literature, The Days of Augusta is Shuswap elder Augusta Evans’ memories of a lifetime that spanned from 1888 to 1978. Accompanied by Robert Keziere’s intimate photographs, Augusta’s rhythmic prose reads like poetry. She depicts with strength and eloquence her own story—her days at the Mission School, making baskets and catching salmon, the pain of giving birth and the death of a son—as well as the legends and stories of events told to her—a stagecoach robbery, a woman who was the prisoner of a bear. F... + Read More
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Series: Uiesh / SomewherePaperback
Joséphine Bacon9781772015140
$14.95POETRY
Oct 16, 2023
Vital bilingual poetry by Innu Elder Joséphine BaconUiesh / Somewhere consists of short poems that speak directly to the reader, without artifice or pretension. They arise from Joséphine Bacon’s experience as an Innu woman, whose life has taken her from the nomadic ways of her Ancestors in the northern wilderness of Nitassinan, or Innu Territory, to the clamour and bustle of the city. Wherever she is, the poet and Elder is attentive to the smallest details of her environment … from the moon and the stars, the aurorae borealis, the falling snow,... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Atlantic Canada HistoryMuiwlanej kikamaqki - Honouring Our AncestorsMi'kmaq Who Left a Mark on the History of the Northeast, 1680 to 1980Hardcover
Janet E. Chute9781487546137
$150.00SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 14, 2023
This important book offers new insights into Indigenous lives and actions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an era of major change along the Atlantic seaboard.Drawing upon oral and documentary evidence, this volume explores the lives of noteworthy Mi’kmaw individuals whose thoughts, actions, and aspirations impacted the history of the Northeast but whose activities were too often relegated to the shadows of history. The book highlights Mi’kmaw leaders who played major roles in guiding the history of the region between 1680 and 198... + Read More
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Series: Crushed Wild MintPaperback
Jess Housty9780889714502
$19.95POETRY
Oct 14, 2023
Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet’s motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doing—held by mountains, by oceans, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with communing. Housty’s poems are textural—blossoms, feathers, stubborn blots of snow—and reading them is... + Read More
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Series: Stored in the BonesSafeguarding Indigenous Living HeritagesPaperback
Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville9781772840452
$27.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Oct 13, 2023
A new tool for preserving Indigenous cultural heritages Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) refers to community-based practices, knowledges, and customs that are inherited and passed down through generations. While ICH has always existed, a legal framework for its protection only emerged in 2003 with the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. In Stored in the Bones, Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville details her work with Anishinaabeg and Inninuwag harvesters, showcasing their cultural heritage and providing a new dis... + Read More
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Series: A Season in Chezgh'unA NovelPaperback
Darrel J. McLeod9781771623629
$24.95FICTION
Oct 07, 2023
A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien. James, a talented and conflicted Cree man from a tiny settlement in Northern Alberta, has settled into a comfortable middle-class life in Kitsilano, a trendy neighbourhood of Vancouver. He is living the life he had once dreamed of—travel, a charming circle of sophisticated friends, a promising career and a loving relationship with a caring man—but he chafes at being assimilat... + Read More
Mi’kmaw artists are creating a wide range of imaginative and beautiful work using the skills and traditions of basketry weaving given to them by their elders and ancestors. In this book, nine artists present their work and their stories in their own words. Their unique artistic practices reflect their relationships to the natural world around them and their abilities to create unique and beautiful objects using a mix of traditional and contemporary materials and forms. Each artist's account of their background and practice is introduced by edi... + Read More
Imbued with passion, creativity and insight, Brandon Reid’s debut novel is a wonderfully creative coming-of-age story exploring indigeneity, masculinity and cultural tradition. Twelve-year-old Derik Mormin travels with his father and a family friend to Bella Bella for his grandfather’s funeral. Along the way, he uncovers the traumatic history of his ancestors, considers his relationship to masculinity and explores the contrast between rural and urban lifestyles in hopes of reconciling the seemingly unreconcilable, the beauty of each the Indige... + Read More
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Series: 9781773272337
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Series: It's All about the LandCollected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous ResurgencePaperback
Taiaiake Alfred9781487552831
$29.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 12, 2023
Rooted in ancestral spirit, knowledge, and law, It’s All about the Land presents a passionate argument for Indigenous Resurgence as the pathway toward justice for Indigenous peoples.Illuminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian state, It’s All about the Land exposes how racism underpins and shapes Indigenous-settler relationships. Renowned Kahnawà:ke Mohawk activist and scholar Taiaiake Alfred explains how the Canadian government’s reconciliation agenda is a new form of colonization that is also guaranteed to fail. Bringing toge... + Read More
Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fiction.These are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be told 'round the campfire, each one-upping the next. Tales about a car that drives herself, ever loyal to her owner. Tales about an impossible moose hunt. Tales about the Real Santa(TM) mashed up with the book of Genesis, alongside SPAM stew and bedroom sets from IKEA.G.A. Grisenthwaite's writing is electric and in... + Read More
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Series: Life against States of EmergencyRevitalizing Treaty Relations from AttawapiskatPaperback
Sarah Marie Wiebe9780774867887
$35.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 01, 2023
For six weeks in the winter of 2012–13, Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence undertook a high-profile ceremonial fast to advocate for improved Canadian-Indigenous relations. Framed widely by the media as a hunger strike, her fast was both a call to action and a gesture of corporeal sovereignty.Life against States of Emergency responds to the central question that Spence asked the Canadian public to consider: What does it mean to be in a treaty relationship today? Arguing that treaties are matters of environmental justice, Sarah Marie Wiebe of... + Read More
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Series: “We Are in Charge Here”Inuit Self-Government and the Nunatsiavut AssemblyHardcover
Graham White9781487551582
$75.00POLITICAL SCIENCE
Jul 09, 2023
This book provides a detailed analysis of the Nunatsiavut Assembly, the legislature of Canada’s only Inuit self-government.Powerful, innovative Indigenous self-governance regimes are increasingly important players in Canadian politics, but little academic work has been done on their structure, operation, and effectiveness. "We Are in Charge Here" examines the central institution of the most populous Indigenous self-governance regime in Canada, the elected Assembly of the Nunatsiavut Government. Nunatsiavut – "our beautiful land" in Inuktitut – ... + Read More
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Series: The Collected Works of Edward AhenakewOld Keyam and Black HawkPaperback
Canon Edward Ahenakew9780889779334
$26.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 01, 2023
In a monumental moment in literary history, the Collected Works of Canon Edward Ahenakew (vol. 1) brings together two semi-autobiographical stories, Old Keyam and the never-before-published Black Hawk. Written during the early twentieth century, Old Keyam and Black Hawk are semi-autobiographical stories told in the charming, insightful voice of Canon Edward Ahenakew. Through the fictional character Old Keyam, Ahenakew protests against the colonial settler’s attempts to force the Cree peoples into “civilization.” Despite the pained and angry voi... + Read More
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Series: Many Mothers, Seven SkiesScenes for TomorrowPaperback
Joan Crate9781990601521
$16.95DRAMA
Jul 01, 2023
A diverse group of seven writers comes together to create seven tender scenes about their hopes for the future."The seven of us, a diverse group of elders, have endured, loved, lost and celebrated life in our own ways. Now, we decided, we would write a production for the stage, voicing our different experiences and what we came to realize are similar concerns about the future of our families, our planet, its peoples and its incredible network of flora and fauna."The Many Mothers Collective came together during the pandemic, hoping to make sense... + Read More
A collection of very short – often funny, often moving – stories and vignettes gathered during the writing of The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee that were not included in the main volume appear here in Ojibwe and English. Stories are a rich and timely accounting of contemporary life in Eeyou Istchee, the territory of the James Bay Cree of Northern Quebec. The stories are connected by diabetes, but they are not records of illness as much as they are deeply personal accounts of life in the North: the fine, swaying balances of living both in town a... + Read More
A collection of very short – often funny, often moving – stories and vignettes gathered during the writing of The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee that were not included in the main volume appear here in Northern East Cree, Southern East Cree, French, and English. Stories are a rich and timely accounting of contemporary life in Eeyou Istchee, the territory of the James Bay Cree of Northern Quebec. The stories are connected by diabetes, but they are not records of illness as much as they are deeply personal accounts of life in the North: the fine, ... + Read More
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Series: The Fire Still BurnsLife In and After Residential SchoolPaperback
Sam George9780774880855
$19.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 31, 2023
“My name is Sam George. In spite of everything that happened to me, by the grace of the Creator, I have lived to be an Elder.” Set in the Vancouver area in the late 1940s and through to the present day, this unflinching account follows Sam from his idyllic childhood on the Eslhá7an (Mission) reserve to the confines of St. Paul’s Indian Residential School, and then into a life of addiction and incarceration. But an ember of Sam’s spirit always burned within him, and so this is also a story of survival, recovery, and redemption, of facing past tr... + Read More
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Series: Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Deadᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpânPaperback
Wanda John-Kehewin9781772015126
$19.95POETRY Grade (CAN) from 9 - 17
May 31, 2023
A brilliant collection weaving history, personal experience, and Indigenous resilience Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead: ᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân is a wonder. With inspiring defiance, John-Kehewin plays with form, space, and language, demonstrating which magics cannot be suppressed. Here is an unflinching look at colonialism’s sickening trail: its ongoingdetriment to the safety and mental health of Indigenous people, its theft of language, and its intergenerational harms. But here also... + Read More
One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th Century—separated from his family, community, and language—finding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the northwestern coast of Hudson Bay. Between 1812 and 1834, his family sent him to Churchill, Manitoba, to live and work among strangers, where he could escape the harsh Arctic climate and earn a living in the burgeoning fur trade. He was perhaps the first Inuk man employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company as a labourer, and... + Read More
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Series: When the Spirit CallsThe Killings at Hannah BayPaperback
Edward J. Hedican9781487546687
$34.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 15, 2023
Drawing on archival records and Indigenous oral traditions, When the Spirit Calls reveals the tragic history of the Hannah Bay Massacre.In January 1832, in the most southern part of Ontario’s James Bay, an elderly Cree man by the name of Quapakay was told by the spirits of the shaking tent that in order to survive the winter, he was required to "spoil" the post at Hannah Bay, a Hudson's Bay Company goose hunting station. Following the directions of the spirits, Quapakay and his sons carried out this ill-fated task, resulting in the deaths of si... + Read More
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Series: This Place Is Who We AreStories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to HomelandsPaperback
Katherine Palmer Gordon9781990776137
$39.95NATURE
May 06, 2023
This Place Is Who We Are profiles Indigenous communities in central and northern coastal BC that are reconnecting to their lands and waters—and growing and thriving through this reconnection. Indigenous peoples and cultures are integrally connected to the land. Well-being in every sense—physical, social, environmental, economic, spiritual and cultural—depends on that relationship, which is based on a fundamental concept: when the land is well, so are the people. With increasing strength, Indigenous peoples in this vast region of BC—which spans... + Read More
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships explains settler colonialism through the lens of economic exploitation, using Indigenous methodologies and critical approaches. What is the relationship between economic progress in the land now called Canada and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples? And what gifts embedded within Indigenous world views speak to miyo‐pimâtisiwin ᒥᔪ ᐱᒫᑎᓯᐃᐧᐣ (the good life), and specifically to good economic relations?Shalene Wuttunee Jobin draws on the knowledge systems of the nehiyawak ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐊᐧᐠ (Cree people... + Read More
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Series: Old GodsPaperback
Conor Kerr9780889714465
$19.95POETRY
Apr 29, 2023
Métis Ukrainian writer Conor Kerr’s sharp and incisive poems move restlessly across landscapes and time. Conor Kerr’s poetry is in constant motion. 4Runners streak through the night, racing with coyotes and roving across the land. Buses travel from town to town, from one memory to another, from past to present. Friends and lovers search for each other on Instagram and find nothing. And always the natural world travels alongside: the watching magpies, woodpeckers and cedar waxwings, the coyotes and porcupines. Family is the crisp wings of mallar... + Read More
Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits. This volume is imbued with Whitehead’s energy and celebrates Indigenous writers and creators who defy expectations and transcend genres.
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Series: First Voices, First TextsLegends of the CapilanoPaperback
E. Pauline Johnson9781772840179
$27.95FICTION
Apr 14, 2023
Bringing the Legends homeLegends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends of Vancouver, restoring Johnson’s intended title for the first time. This new edition celebrates the storytelling abilities of Johnson’s Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) collaborators, Joe and Mary Capilano, and supplements the original fifteen legends with five additional stories narrated solely or in part by Mary Capilano, highlighting her previously overlooked contributions to the book.Alongside photographs and biographical entries for E. Pauline Johnson... + Read More
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Series: Reclaiming Anishinaabe LawKinamaadiwin Inaakonigewin and the Treaty Right to EducationPaperback
Leo Baskatawang9781772840254
$27.95LAW
Apr 14, 2023
A manifesto for the future of Indigenous Education in Canada In Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law Leo Baskatawang traces the history of the neglected treaty relationship between the Crown and the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3, and the Canadian government’s egregious failings to administer effective education policy for Indigenous youth—failures epitomized by, but not limited to, the horrors of the residential school system. Rooted in the belief that Indigenous education should be governed and administered by Indigenous peoples, Baskatawang envis... + Read More
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Series: JesintelLiving Wisdom from Coast Salish EldersPaperback
Children of the Setting Sun Productions9780295748641
$48.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Grade (US) from 17
Apr 11, 2023
Dynamic and diverse, Coast Salish culture is bound together by shared values and relations that generate a resilient worldview. Jesintel?"to learn and grow together"?characterizes the spirit of this book, which brings the cultural teachings of nineteen elders to new generations.Featuring interviews that share powerful experiences and stories, Jesintel illuminates the importance of ethical reciprocal relationships and the interconnectedness of places, land, water, and the spirit within all things. Elders offer their perspectives on language revi... + Read More
Indigenous and settler scholars and media artists discuss and analyze crucial questions of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance, and decolonizing creative practices.Humans are narrative creatures, and since the dawn of our existence we have shared stories. Storytelling is what connects us, what helps us give shape and understanding to the world and to each other. Who tells whose stories in which particular ways leads to questions of belonging, power, relationality, community and identity. This collection explores those ... + Read More
This book explores how Indigenous communities are enacting Indigenous resurgence in this era of reconciliation. What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks. The essays in this collection centre the work ... + Read More
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Series: StonefaceA Defiant DenePaperback
Stephen Kakfwi9781773861074
$28.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 24, 2023
Stephen Kakfwi was born in a bush camp on the edge of the Arctic Circle in 1950. In a family torn apart by tuberculosis, alcohol and the traumas endured by generations in residential school, he emerged as a respected Dene elder and eventually the Premier of the Northwest Territories.Stephen belongs to a cohort of young northerners who survived the childhood abuses of residential school only to find themselves as teenagers in another residential school where one Oblate father saw them as the next generation of leaders, and gave them the skills t... + Read More
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Series: E nâtamukw miyeyimuwinResidential School Recovery Stories of the James Bay Cree, Volume 1Paperback
Ruth DyckFehderau9781989796238
$29.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 14, 2023
In this quietly powerful and deeply human book, Ruth DyckFehderau and twenty-one James Bay Cree storytellers put a face to Canada’s Indian Residential School cultural genocide. Through intimate personal stories of trauma, loss, recovery, and joy, they tell of experiences in the residential schools themselves, in the homes when the children were taken, and on the territory after survivors returned and worked to recover from their experiences and to live with dignity. The prose is clear and accessible, the stories remarkably individual, the deta... + Read More
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Series: 9781250210692
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Series: The Iroquois and Their NeighborsOur Knowledge Is Not PrimitiveDecolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe TeachingsPaperback
Wendy Makoons Geniusz9780815638063
$26.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Mar 01, 2023
Traditional Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Chippewa) knowledge, like the knowledge systems of indigenous peoples around the world, has long been collected and presented by researchers who were not a part of the culture they observed. The result is a colonized version of the knowledge, one that is distorted and trivialized by an ill-suited Eurocentric paradigm of scientific investigation and classification. In Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive, Wendy Makoons Geniusz contrasts the way in which Anishinaabe botanical knowledge is presented in the academic rec... + Read More
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Series: Business SeriesCanadian Business Owner’s Guide to ReconciliationBest Practices for Indigenous Inclusion1st EditionPaperback
Alison Tedford Seaweed9781770403475
$29.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Feb 23, 2023
What Could Reconciliation Look Like In Your Business? OR Wonder How Your Business Can Be A Part of Reconciliation? Do you want to make a positive difference in the way you do business while supporting a culture shift in the country at large? If yes, The Canadian Business Owner’s Guide to Reconciliation is for you. This book covers why the state of settler-Indigenous relations in Canada is the way it is and how readers can make a difference in the way things are done, creating a better community for all. Author Alison Tedford Seaweed addresses... + Read More
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Series: We Are the StarsColonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary TraditionPaperback
Sarah Hernandez9780889779181
$39.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Feb 18, 2023
An emerging Lakota scholar’s critical interrogation of settler-colonial nations that re-centers Oceti Sakowin (Dakota) women as the tribe’s traditional culture keepers and bearers. We Are the Stars is a literary recovery project that seeks to reconstruct a genealogy of Oceti Sakowin (Dakota) literature, and study in-depth the linkages between settler colonialism, literature, nationalism, and gender via analysis of tribal and settler colonial narratives about women and land. Sarah Hernandez begins by exploring how settler colonizers used the pri... + Read More
A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family’s traditional stories.When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his family at the age of six, Ratt was placed into the residential school system—a harsh, institutional world, operated in a language he could not yet understand, far from the love and comfort of home and family. In kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân / The Way I Remember It, Ratt reflects on these memories and the l... + Read More
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Series: Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing SeriesWalking Together, Working TogetherEngaging Wisdom for Indigenous Well-BeingPaperback
Leslie Main Johnson9781772125375
$34.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jan 10, 2023
This collection takes a holistic view of well-being, seeking complementarities between Indigenous approaches to healing and Western biomedicine. Topics include traditional healers and approaches to treatment of disease and illness; traditional knowledge and intellectual property around medicinal plant knowledge; the role of diet and traditional foods in health promotion; culturally sensitive approaches to healing work with urban Indigenous populations; and integrating biomedicine, alternative therapies, and Indigenous healing in clinical practi... + Read More
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Series: The Civilization of the American Indian SeriesLakhotaAn Indigenous HistoryHardcover
Rani-Henrik Andersson9780806190754
$47.95HISTORY
Nov 17, 2022
The Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book tells the full story of Lakȟóta culture and society, from their origins to the twenty-first century, drawing on Lakȟóta voices and perspectives. In Lakȟóta culture, “listening” is a cardinal virtue, connoting respect, and here authors Rani-Henrik Andersson and David C. Posthumus listen to the Lakȟóta, both past and present. The history of Lakȟóta cu... + Read More
A first-hand account of a Swampy Cree boy’s experiences growing up in the Saskatchewan River Delta, one of the world’s largest inland deltas and one of North America’s most important ecosystems. Depicting an Indigenous lifestyle that existed in Northern Saskatchewan way past the Fur Trade era, Ken Carriere shares his first-hand account of experiences as a young boy helping his father trapping, fishing, and hunting in the Saskatchewan River Delta. Opimōtēwina wīna kapagamawāt Wītigōwa / Journeys of The One to Strike the Wetigo contains interview... + Read More
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Series: Contemporary Studies on the NorthI Will Live for Both of UsA History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit ResistancePaperback
Joan Scottie9780887552656
$24.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 11, 2022
Born at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting way of life, most famously with her long battle against the uranium mining industry. Twice, Scottie and her community of Baker Lake successfully stopped a proposed uranium mine. Working with geographer Warren Bernauer and social scientist Jack Hicks, Scottie here tells the history of her community’s decades-long fight against uranium mining. Scottie's I Will Live for Both of Us is a reflection on recent political and environment... + Read More
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Series: Standing Bear's Quest for FreedomThe First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans2nd editionPaperback
Lawrence A. Dwyer9781496232465
$26.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 01, 2022
Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation faced arrest for leaving the U.S. government’s reservation, without its permission, for the love of his son and his people. Standing Bear fought for his freedom not through armed resistance but with bold action, strong testimony, and heartfelt eloquence. He knew he and his people had suffered a great injustice. Standing Bear wanted the right to live and die with his family on the beloved land of his Ponca ancestors, located within the Great Plains of Nebraska. In telling his story, Standing Bear’s Quest f... + Read More
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INSTEAD Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative Paperback 9781487542689 $36.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 16, 2024
Series: Our Own Words kôkominawak otâcimowiniwâwa / Our Grandmothers' Lives Paperback 9780889779495 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 25, 2023
Life against States of Emergency Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat Paperback 9780774867887 $35.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2023
The Fire Still Burns Life In and After Residential School Paperback 9780774880855 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 31, 2023
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships Nehiyawak Narratives Paperback 9780774865203 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 01, 2023
Indigiqueerness A Conversation about Storytelling Paperback 9781771993913 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2023
Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation Paperback 9781487544607 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 27, 2023
Series: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings Paperback 9780815638063 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2023
Opimotewina wina kapagamawat Witigowa / Journeys of The One to Strike the Wetigo Paperback 9780889779044 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 12, 2022