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Series: To Share, Not Surrender Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia Paperback Peter Cook 9780774863834 $37.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2022

To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach to assessing Indigenous-settler conflict over land, opening scholarship to the public and augmenting it with First Nations community expertise. Informed by cel’a?’en – “our culture, the way of our people” – this multivocal work of essays traces the transition from treaty-making in the colony of Vancouver Island to reserve formation in the colony of British Columbia. The collection also publishes translations/interpretations of the treaties into the SENCOTEN and Lekwungen languages. An all-... + Read More
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Series: The Fur Trader From Oslo to Oxford House Paperback Einar Odd Mortensen Sr. 9781772125986 $34.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 15, 2022

The Fur Trader is a critical edition of Einar Odd Mortensen Sr.’s personal narrative detailing the years (1925–28) he spent as a free trader at posts in Pine Bluff and Oxford Lake in Manitoba during the waning days of the fur trade. Mortensen’s original narrative has been translated from Norwegian to English, and supplemented with a scholarly introduction, thorough annotations, a bibliography, and a reading guide. This additional material presents the author as a product of Norwegian culture at the time, and is intended to guide the reader thro... + Read More
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Series: Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing Series Walking Together, Working Together Engaging Wisdom for Indigenous Well-Being Paperback Leslie Main Johnson 9781772125375 $34.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 14, 2022

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: Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education Critical Perspectives Paperback Sandra D. Styres 9781772126006 $46.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 02, 2022

Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education offers a series of critical perspectives concerning reconciliation and reconciliatory efforts between Canadian and Indigenous peoples. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars address both theoretical and practical aspects of troubling reconciliation in education across various contexts with significant diversity of thought, approach, and socio-political location. Throughout, the work challenges mainstream reconciliation discourses. This timely, unflinching analysis will be invaluable to sc... + Read More
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Series: Cut to Fortress Paperback Tawahum Bige 9780889714168 $19.95 POETRY Apr 30, 2022

A stunning debut poetry collection confronting colonialism, relationships, grief and intergenerational wounds. Cut to Fortress considers the possibility of decolonization through a personal lens, urging for a resistance that is tied using cord and old-growth tree roots; a resistance that tethers us all together in this contemporary existence. With an upbringing in Surrey, fraught familial conflicts, the passing of his older brother and its influence on his world view, Bige slices through the forts built overtop occupied Turtle Island to examine... + Read More
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Series: Buffalo Is the New Buffalo Paperback Chelsea Vowel 9781551528793 $21.95 FICTION Apr 26, 2022

Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. "Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples. The assumption is that many of the pre-Contact ways of living are forever gone, so adaptation is necessary. But Chelsea Vowel asks, "Instead of accepting that the buffalo, and our ancestral ways,... + Read More
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Series: Owóknage The Story of Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation Paperback Carry the Kettle First Nation 9780889778146 $39.95 HISTORY Apr 15, 2022

Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega? K´i?na Nakoda Oyáté (Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation), Owóknage is the first book to tell the definitive, comprehensive story of the Nakoda people (formerly known as the Assiniboine), in their own words. From pre-contact to current-day life, from thriving on the Great Plains to forced removal from their traditional, sacred lands in the Cypress Hills via a Canadian “Trail of Tears” starvation march to where they now currently reside sout... + Read More
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Series: So You Girls Remember That Memoir of a Haida Elder Paperback Gaadgaas Nora Bellis 9781550179774 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 09, 2022

Collected wisdoms, reflections and stories from Indigenous Elder Naanii Nora of the Haida Nation. So You Girls Remember That is an oral history of a Haida Elder, Naanii Nora, who lived from 1902 to 1997. A collaborative effort, this project was initiated and guided by Charlie Bellis and supported and encouraged by Maureen McNamara and other community volunteers. The resulting book, compiled by Jenny Nelson, is a window into Nora’s life and her family—from the young girl who “used to sing all the time” and was always bossing her brothers around,... + Read More
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Series: Contemporary Studies on the North I Will Live for Both of Us A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance Paperback Joan Scottie 9780887552656 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 04, 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: In Our Backyard Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric Development Paperback Aimée Craft 9780887552885 $31.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 04, 2022

Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric development has dramatically altered the social, political, and physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been cut up into segments and fractured by a string of dams, for which the Churchill River had to be diverted and new inflow points from Lake Winnipeg created to manage their capacity. Historic mighty rapids have shrivelled into dry river beds. Manitoba Hydro's Keeyask dam and generating station will expand the existing network of 15 dams and 13,800 km of tr... + Read More
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Series: Dibaajimowinensan; Stories Along the Way Paperback Ruth DyckFehderau 9781989796191 $4.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2022

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
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Series: Histoires en cours de route / Stories Along the Way Paperback Ruth DyckFehderau 9781989796207 $6.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2022

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: Robert Kroetsch Series You Might Be Sorry You Read This Paperback Michelle Poirier Brown 9781772126037 $19.99 POETRY Mar 01, 2022

You Might Be Sorry You Read This is a stunning debut, revealing how breaking silences and reconciling identity can refine anger into something both useful and beautiful. A poetic memoir that looks unflinchingly at childhood trauma (both incestuous rape and surviving exposure in extreme cold), it also tells the story of coming to terms with a hidden Indigenous identity when the poet discovered her Métis heritage at age 38. This collection is a journey of pain, belonging, hope, and resilience. The confessional poems are polished yet unpretentious... + Read More
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs Righting Canada's Wrongs: The Sixties Scoop and the Stolen Lives of Indigenous Children Hardcover Andrew Bomberry 9781459416697 $34.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Interest age, years from 13 - 18 Mar 01, 2022

This book for students examines a child welfare policy in Canada that began in 1951 in which Indigenous children were taken from their homes and put into the care of non-Indigenous families. These children grew up without their birth families, cultural roots and language. Many tried to run away and some died in the attempt. The taking of the children became known as the Sixties Scoop. The term “Sixties Scoop” makes explicit reference to the 1960s, but the policies and practices started before the 1960s and lasted long after. Today, Indigenous c... + Read More
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Inuit Relocations Resilience and Reconciliation Hardcover Frank Tester 9781459416673 $34.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Interest age, years from 13 - 18 Mar 01, 2022

In a highly visible and appealing format for young readers, this book explores the forced Inuit relocations in the Canadian Arctic between the 1950s and 1990s. Government decisions were often based on misinformation and racist attitudes, and their ill-considered decisions changed Inuit lives forever. This book includes Inuit responses, resilience and strength in the face of these government actions, as well as eventual government apologies for many of the relocations. The book begins with a look at the traditional life of Inuit of Canada’s Nor... + Read More
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Series: The Boy from Buzwah A Life in Indian Education Paperback Cecil King 9780889778504 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 26, 2022

Cecil King’s remarkable memoir, from humble beginnings on a reservation to his unparalleled legacy to ensure Indian Control of Indian Education in Canada.“Through my eyes, my community was creative, innovative and self-sufficient. In this remote northern traditional First Nation society, the skills, knowledge and abilities that the community needed to survive were all there. . . . The stories are not just of survival and hardship but of the power of the human spirit and the sheer natural genius of individuals.” —Cecil KingCecil King grew up in... + Read More
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Series: Miskwagoode Paperback Marie Annharte Baker 9781554201846 $17.00 POETRY Feb 02, 2022

Taken from the Anishinaabe word for "woman," Miskwagoode is a lyrical portrayal of unreconciled Indigenous experience under colonialism, past and present.Annharte is Miskwa, and so is Annharte's mother, who disappeared when the author was a girl. Miskwagoode is Annharte's book about her mother loss, her “mothermiss,” about all the women “buried in common enough/ cross-generational graves.”Laced with humour and resilience but also hard-earned wisdom (“ominous progress ahead”), Annharte's fifth collection encompasses the poet's experiences as an ... + Read More
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Series: Bead by Bead Constitutional Rights and Métis Community Paperback Yvonne Boyer 9780774865975 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 01, 2022

Bead by Bead examines the parameters that current Indigenous legal doctrines place around Métis rights discourse and moves beyond a one-size-fits-all approach. Contributors to this volume address the historical denial of Métis concerns with respect to land, resources, and governance. Tackling such themes as the invisibility of Métis women in court decisions, identity politics, and racist legal principles, they uncover the troubling issues that plague Métis aspirations for a just future. By revealing the diversity of Métis identities and lived r... + Read More
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Series: Colonization Through Design Paperback Gavin Renwick 9780929112787 $39.95 ARCHITECTURE Feb 01, 2022

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: Indigenous Confluences A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast Paperback Charlotte Coté 9780295749525 $44.90 SOCIAL SCIENCE US school grade range from 17 Jan 28, 2022

In the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c̓uumaʕas) brings sockeye salmon (miʕaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C̓uumaʕas and miʕaat are central to the sacred food practices that have been a crucial part of the Indigenous community's efforts to enact food sovereignty, decolonize their diet, and preserve their ancestral knowledge. In A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, Charlotte Coté shares contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth practices of traditional food revitalization in the context of ... + Read More
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Series: Standing in a River of Time 1st edition Paperback Jónína Kirton 9781772013795 $16.95 POETRY Jan 26, 2022

Standing in a River of Time merges poetry and lyrical memoir on a journey exposing the intergenerational effects of colonization on a Métis family. Kirton does not shy away from hard realities, meeting them head on, but always treating them with respect and the love stemming from a lifetime of spiritual healing and decades of sobriety. This collection unravels painful memories and a mixed-blood woman’s journey towards wholeness. The Ancestors whisper to Kirton throughout, asking her to heal, to bring them home, so that within these stories of r... + Read More
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Series: Continuing Languages âhkami-nêhiyawêtân Let's Keep Speaking Cree Spiral bound Solomon Ratt 9780889778467 $32.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Jan 22, 2022

An important language resource that helps intermediate nêhiyawêtan learners begin to understand more advanced grammar of the language.Building on mâci-nêhiyawêwin / Beginning Cree, Solomon Ratt’s first influential Cree language resource, âhkami-nêhiyawêtân / Let’s Keep Speaking Cree helps intermediate nêhiyawêtan learners begin to understand more advanced grammar of the language. The textbook is more than a language textbook though: it includes a series of the author’s original stories written in Cree, complete with comprehension questions, mak... + Read More
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Series: Métis Rising Living Our Present Through the Power of Our Past Hardcover Yvonne Boyer 9780774880749 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 15, 2022

Métis Rising presents a remarkable cross-section of perspectives to demonstrate that there is no single Métis experience – only a common sense of belonging and a commitment to justice. The contributors to this unique collection, most of whom are Métis themselves, offer accounts ranging from personal reflections on identity to tales of advocacy against poverty and poor housing, and for the recognition of Métis rights. This extraordinary work exemplifies how contemporary Métis identity has been forged into a force to be reckoned with.
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools The Devastating Impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Findings and Calls for Action second edition Hardcover Melanie Florence 9781459416758 $34.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Interest age, years from 13 - 18 Jan 04, 2022

Canada’s residential school system for Indigenous children is now recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. Through historical photographs, documents and first-person narratives from people who survived residential schools, this book offers an account of the injustice of this period in Canadian history. It documents how official racism was confronted and finally acknowledged. In 1857, the Gradual Civilization Act was passed in Canada with the aim of assimilating Indigenous people. In 1879... + Read More
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Series: The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being Paperback Nancy Van Styvendale 9780887559396 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 17, 2021

Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the “good life”, or mino-pimatisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. In this interdisciplinary collection, Indigenous knowledges inform an approach to health as a wider set of relations that are central to well-being, wherein artistic... + Read More
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs Righting Canada's Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War second edition Hardcover Pamela Hickman 9781459416628 $34.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Interest age, years from 13 - 18 Dec 07, 2021

Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of the internment of Italian-Canadians during the Second World War. This title makes use of photos and illustrations, firsthand accounts, and sections of easily digestible text to engage students with the material. The titles in this series are ideal for introductory-level university classes where students may not have encountered these subjects before.
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Series: Our Own Words kayas nohcin I Come from a Long Time Back Paperback Mary Louise Rockthunder 9780889778368 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 04, 2021

Mary Louise (née Bangs) Rockthunder, wêpanâkit, was an Elder of Cree, Saulteaux, and Nakoda descent. Born in 1913, raised and married at nehiyawipwatinahk / Piapot First Nation, Mary Louise, a much-loved storyteller, speaks of her memories, stories, and knowledge, revealing her personal humility and her deep love and respect for her family and her nêhiyawêwin language and culture. The recordings that are transcribed, edited, and translated for this book are presented in three forms: Cree syllabics, standard roman orthography (SRO) for Cree, ... + Read More
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Series: Beyond Rights The Nisg_a’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships Hardcover Carole Blackburn 9780774866453 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2021

In 2000, the Nisg_a’a treaty marked the culmination of over one hundred years of Nisg_a’a people protesting, petitioning, litigating, and negotiating for recognition of their rights. Beyond Rights explores this ground-breaking achievement and its impact. The Nisg_a’a were trailblazers in gaining Supreme Court recognition of unextinguished Aboriginal title, and the treaty marked a turning point in the relationship between First Nations and provincial and federal governments. Using this treaty as a pivotal case study, Carole Blackburn analyzes tr... + Read More
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Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Ancestors Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada in Historic Photographs Paperback Sarah Carter 9781551954547 $39.99 PHOTOGRAPHY Nov 23, 2021

This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Special Collections. The publication focuses on the ancestors represented in the collection and how their images continue to generate stories and meanings in the present. The selected photographs contribute to a richer, deeper understanding of the past. There is strength, character, persistence, determination, humour, artwork, dance, celebration, and so much more in the photographs.... + Read More
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Series: To Share, Not Surrender Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia Hardcover Peter Cook 9780774863827 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 15, 2021

To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach to assessing Indigenous-settler conflict over land, opening scholarship to the public and augmenting it with First Nations community expertise. Informed by cel’a?’en – “our culture, the way of our people” – this multivocal work of essays traces the transition from treaty-making in the colony of Vancouver Island to reserve formation in the colony of British Columbia. The collection also publishes translations/interpretations of the treaties into the SENCOTEN and Lekwungen languages. An all-... + Read More
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Series: Jesintel Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders Paperback Children of the Setting Sun Productions 9780295748641 $52.40 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY US school grade range from 17 Nov 07, 2021

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
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Series: A People and a Nation New Directions in Contemporary Métis Studies Paperback Jennifer Adese 9780774865074 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2021

In A People and a Nation, the authors, most of whom are Métis, offer readers a set of lenses through which to consider the complexity of historical and contemporary Métis nationhood and peoplehood. The field of Métis Studies has been afflicted by a longstanding tendency to situate Métis within deeply racialized contexts, and/or by an overwhelming focus on the nineteenth century. This volume challenges the pervasive racialization of Métis studies with multidisciplinary chapters on identity, history, politics, literature, spirituality, religion, ... + Read More
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Series: Standoff Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It Paperback Bruce McIvor 9780889714205 $21.95 LAW Nov 01, 2021

Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada’s “reconciliation project” has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it. Widely known as a passionate advocate for Indigenous rights, McIvor reports from the front lines of legal and political disputes that have gripped the nation. From Wet’suwet’en opposition to a pipeline in northern British... + Read More
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Series: Honouring the Declaration Church Commitments to Reconciliation and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Paperback Don Schweitzer 9780889778320 $24.95 RELIGION Oct 16, 2021

Honouring the Declaration provides academic resources to help The United Church of Canada and other Canadian denominations enact their commitment to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and offers a framework for reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Featuring essays from scholars working from a range of disciplines, including religious studies, Indigenous legal studies, Christian theology and ethics, Biblical studies, Indigenous educational leadership within the United Church, and social ac... + Read More
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Series: Mischief Making Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play Paperback Nicola Levell 9780774867368 $29.95 ART Oct 15, 2021

In a gorgeously illustrated exploration of the art of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Mischief Making disproves any notion that play is frivolous. Deploying playful and punning tactics, Yahgulanaas shines a spotlight on serious topics. Expressive and exuberant, comic and imaginative: these characteristics suffuse the work of the internationally recognized creator of Haida manga. His distinctive style stretches, twists, and flips the formlines of classic Haida art to create imagery that resonates with the graphic vitality of Asian manga. Mischief Ma... + Read More
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Series: The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded Paperback Gord Hill 9781551528526 $19.95 HISTORY Oct 12, 2021

A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas. When it was first published in 2010, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas over the previous 500 years, from contact to present day. Eleven years later, author and artist Gord Hill has revised and expanded the book, which is now available in colour for the first time. The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book powerfully... + Read More
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Series: First Nation Language Readers Châhkâpâs A Naskapi Legend Paperback John Peastitute 9780889778290 $24.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Oct 09, 2021

Châhkâpâs: A Naskapi Legend shares the story of Châhkâpâs, a heroic figure in First Nations storytelling, who performs feats of strength and skill in spite of his diminutive size. The book shares this traditional legend as originally recorded in the Naskapi community in northern Quebec in 1967 when it was narrated by John Peastitute, a Naskapi Elder and accomplished storyteller. Transcribed in the Naskapi language and syllabic orthography, the book offers a literary resource for the Naskapi language community, and the English translation enab... + Read More
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Series: Me Tomorrow Indigenous Views on the Future Paperback Drew Hayden Taylor 9781771622943 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 09, 2021

First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists, activists, educators and writers, youth and elders come together to envision Indigenous futures in Canada and around the world. Discussing everything from language renewal to sci-fi, this collection is a powerful and important expression of imagination rooted in social critique, cultural experience, traditional knowledge, activism and the multifaceted experiences of Indigenous people on Turtle Island. In Me Tomorrow… Darrel J. McLeod, Cree author from Treaty-8 territory in Northern Alberta, blends the f... + Read More
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Series: Returning to Ceremony Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities Paperback Chantal Fiola 9780887559624 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 08, 2021

Returning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola’s award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of Métis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as “all Métis people are Catholic,” and “Métis people do not go to ceremonies.” Fiola finds that, among the Métis, spirituality exists on a continuum of Indigenous and Christian traditions, and that Métis spirituality includes ceremonies. For some Métis, it is a historical continuation of the relationships their ancestral communities have had with cerem... + Read More
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Series: The Björkan Sagas Hardcover Harold R. Johnson 9781487009809 $24.99 FICTION Oct 05, 2021

Drawing upon his Cree and Scandinavian roots, Harold R. Johnson merges myth, fantasy, and history in this epic saga of exploration and adventure. While sorting through the possessions of his recently deceased neighbour, Harold Johnson discovers an old, handwritten manuscript containing epic stories composed in an obscure Swedish dialect. Together, they form The Björkan Sagas. The first saga tells of three Björkans, led by Juha the storyteller, who set out from their valley to discover what lies beyond its borders. Their quest brings them into ... + Read More
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Series: So Much More Than Art Indigenous Miniatures of the Pacific Northwest Hardcover Jack Davy 9780774866552 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2021

Miniatures – canoes, houses and totems, and human figurines – have been produced on the Northwest Coast since at least the sixteenth century. What has motivated Indigenous artists to produce these tiny artworks? Through case studies and conversations with artists themselves, So Much More Than Art convincingly dismisses the persistent understanding that miniatures are simply children’s toys or tourist trinkets. Jack Davy’s highly original exploration of this intricate pursuit demonstrates the importance of miniaturization as a technique for comm... + Read More
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Series: Critical Studies in Native History Dadibaajim Returning Home through Narrative Paperback Helen Olsen Agger 9780887559549 $27.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2021

Dadibaajim narratives are of and from the land, born from experience and observation. Invoking this critical Anishinaabe methodology for teaching and learning, Helen Olsen Agger documents and reclaims the history, identity, and inherent entitlement of the Namegosibii Anishinaabeg to the care, use, and occupation of their Trout Lake homelands. When Agger’s mother, Dedibaayaanimanook, was born in 1922, the community had limited contact with Euro-Canadian settlers and still lived throughout their territory according to seasonal migrations along... + Read More
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Series: Manikanetish Paperback Naomi Fontaine 9781487008147 $22.99 FICTION Sep 28, 2021

In Naomi Fontaine’s Governor General’s Literary Award finalist, a young teacher’s return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students, reminding us of the importance of hope in the face of despair. After fifteen years of exile, Yammie, a young Innu woman, has come back to her home in Uashat, on Quebec’s North Shore. She has returned to teach at the local school but finds a community stalked by despair. Yammie will do anything to help her students. When she accepts a position directing the end-of-year play, she sees an oppor... + Read More
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Series: Richard Wagamese Selected What Comes from Spirit Hardcover Richard Wagamese 9781771622752 $24.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Sep 18, 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 almost seventy thousand copies since its release in 2016, this new collection of Wagamese’s non-fiction works, with an introduction by editor Drew Hayden Taylor, brings together more of the prolific author’s short writings, many for... + Read More
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Series: Gehl v Canada Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act Paperback Lynn Gehl 9780889778252 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 18, 2021

A follow-up to Claiming Anishinaabe, Gehl v Canada is the story of Lynn Gehl’s lifelong journey of survival against the nation-state’s constant genocidal assault against her existence. While Canada set up its colonial powers—including the Supreme Court, House of Commons, Senate Chamber, and the Residences of the Prime Minister and Governor General—on her traditional Algonquin territory, usurping the riches and resources of the land, she was pushed to the margins, exiled to a life of poverty in Toronto’s inner-city. With only beads in her pocket... + Read More
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Series: Luschiim’s Plants Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines Paperback Luschiim Arvid Charlie 9781550179453 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 18, 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: Girl running Paperback Diana Hope Tegenkamp 9781771872140 $24.95 POETRY Sep 15, 2021

This stellar debut collection by Métis poet Diana Hope Tegenkamp takes us through many worlds and wonders. In Girl running, find solace and outrage, grief and tenderness, bewilderment and beauty, all “entangled in hope and dreaming.” The poet’s love of the natural world is both earthy and adamantine, and her passion for literature and art is just as rich a source for her questioning eye.On the edge of Saskatoon, a woman opens a car door and flees. A child runs away from residential school after a beating. A Métis man’s ghost gallops on a ghost... + Read More
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Series: Law and Society The Laws and the Land The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada Hardcover Daniel Rück 9780774867436 $39.95 LAW Sep 15, 2021

As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, two traditions clashed in a bruising series of asymmetrical encounters over land use and ownership. One site of conflict was Kahnawà:ke. The Laws and the Land delineates the establishment of a settler colonial relationship from early contact ways of sharing land; land practices under Kahnawà:ke law; and ultimately the Canadian invasion in the guise of the Indian Act, private property, and coercive pressure to assimilate. This meticulously researched book is connected to larger issue... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies Aki-wayn-zih A Person as Worthy as the Earth Hardcover Eli Baxter 9780228008071 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 15, 2021

Members of Eli Baxter’s generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin.Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life on Miss-koh-tay-sih Minis (Turtle Island) to the present day. Baxter writes about Anishinaabay life before European contact, his childhood memories of trapping, hunting, and fishing with his family on tradition... + Read More
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Series: Making and Breaking Settler Space Five Centuries of Colonization in North America Hardcover Adam J. Barker 9780774865401 $89.95 HISTORY Sep 15, 2021

Five hundred years. A vast geography. Making and Breaking Settler Space explores how settler spaces have developed and diversified from contact to the present. Adam Barker traces the trajectory of settler colonialism, drawing out details of its operation that are embedded not only in imperialism but also in contemporary contexts that include problematic activist practices by would-be settler allies. Unflinchingly engaging with the systemic weaknesses of this process, he proposes an innovative, unified spatial theory of settler colonization in C... + Read More
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Series: Inventing the Thrifty Gene The Science of Settler Colonialism Paperback Travis Hay 9780887559341 $27.95 HISTORY Sep 10, 2021

Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty Gene examines the relationship between science and settler colonialism through the lens of “Aboriginal diabetes” and the thrifty gene hypothesis, which posits that Indigenous peoples are genetically predisposed to type 2 diabetes and obesity due to their alleged hunter-gatherer genes. Hay’s study begins with Char... + Read More
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Series: Law and Society Truth and Conviction Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice Paperback L. Jane McMillan 9780774837491 $29.95 LAW Aug 15, 2021

The name “Donald Marshall Jr.” is synonymous with “wrongful conviction” and the fight for Indigenous rights in Canada. In Truth and Conviction, Jane McMillan – Marshall’s former partner, an acclaimed anthropologist, and an original defendant in the Supreme Court’s Marshall decision – tells the story of how Marshall’s life-long battle against injustice permeated Canadian legal consciousness and revitalized Indigenous law. Marshall died in 2009, but his legacy lives on. Mi’kmaq continue to assert their rights and build justice programs grounded i... + Read More
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Series: Art of the Northwest Coast Second Edition 2nd edition Paperback Aldona Jonaitis 9781771623063 $38.95 ART Aug 07, 2021

A new edition of the seminal overview of the magnificent art of the Northwest Coast, with text from a distinguished authority augmented by full-colour images throughout. Art Of The Northwest Coast is a superbly illustrated and informed overview of the Indigenous art of the Northwest Coast, covering the region from Puget Sound to Haida Gwaii to Alaska, and proceeding from prehistoric times to the present. Created in the spirit of the bestselling Thames & Hudson World of Art series, this groundbreaking volume provides an overview of the developm... + Read More
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Series: Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series Painful Beauty Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience Hardcover Megan A. Smetzer 9780295748948 $59.90 ART US school grade range from 17 Jul 27, 2021

For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time when Indigenous cultural practices were actively being repressed, beading supported cultural continuity, demonstrating Tlingit women?s resilience, strength, and power. Beadwork served many uses, from the ceremonial to the economic, as women created beaded pieces for community use and to sell to tourists. Like other Tlingit art, beadwork reflects rich a... + Read More
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Series: Writing the Hamat'sa Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance Hardcover Aaron Glass 9780774863773 $95.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 15, 2021

Long known as the Cannibal Dance, the Hamat'sa is among the most important hereditary prerogatives of the Kwakwa̱ka̱ꞌwakw of British Columbia. Drawing on published texts, extensive archival research, and fieldwork, Writing the Hamat'sa offers a critical survey of attempts to record, interpret, and prohibit the ceremony. Such textual mediation and Indigenous response over four centuries helped transform the Hamat'sa from a set of specific practices. into a generalized cultural icon. This meticulous work illuminates how Indigenous people con... + Read More