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Series: Dibaajimowinensan; Stories Along the Way Paperback Ruth DyckFehderau 9781989796191 $4.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 15, 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 Feb 15, 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 Jan 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: Beyond Rights The Nisga'a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships Hardcover Carole Blackburn 9780774866453 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2021

In 2000, the Nisga’a treaty marked the culmination of over one hundred years of Nisga’a people protesting, petitioning, litigating, and negotiating for recognition of their rights. Beyond Rights explores this ground-breaking achievement and its impact. The Nisga’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 treat... + 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 Oct 31, 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: First Nation Language Readers Châhkâpâs A Naskapi Legend Paperback John Peastitute 9780889778290 $24.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Oct 02, 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: Our Own Words kayas nohcin I Come from a Long Time Back Paperback Mary Louise Rockthunder 9780889778368 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 23, 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 through the redemptive power of art, reminding us of the importance of hope in the face of despair. After fifteen years of exile, Yammie, a young Innu woman, returns to her home in the Uashat nation on Quebec’s North Shore. She has come back to teach language and drama at the community’s school, but finds a community stalked by despair. Yammie will do anything to rescue her students. When she... + 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: 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: 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: Critical Studies in Native History Dadibaajim Returning Home through Narrative Paperback Helen 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 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 agric... + 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 Sep 01, 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: Making and Breaking Settler Space Five Centuries of Colonization in North America Hardcover Adam J. Barker 9780774865401 $89.95 HISTORY Sep 01, 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: 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: Luschiim’s Plants Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines Paperback Dr. 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: 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: Indigenous Methodologies Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts, Second Edition Paperback Margaret Kovach 9781487525644 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 12, 2021

An innovative and important contribution to Indigenous research approaches, this revised second edition provides a framework for conducting Indigenous methodologies, serving as an entry point to learn more broadly about Indigenous research.Indigenous Methodologies is a groundbreaking text in the field of Indigenous research. Since its original publication in 2009, it has become the most-trusted guide used in the study of Indigenous methodologies and has been adopted in university courses around the world. It provides a conceptual and methodolog... + 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 Dec 01, 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: 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 Kwakwa_ka_?wakw 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 centures helped transform the Hamat?sa from a set of specific practices. into a generalized cultural icon. This meticulous work illuminates how Indigenous people contribut... + Read More
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Series: First Nations Wildfire Evacuations A Guide for Communities and External Agencies Paperback Tara K. McGee 9780774880664 $25.00 REFERENCE Jul 01, 2021

Nearly one third of wildfire evacuations in Canada involve Indigenous communities. While evacuations are carried out to protect people from smoke and flames, deciding to leave brings its own challenges. This evacuation guide is based on interviews with over 200 wildfire evacuees from seven First Nations. By comparing the evacuees' experiences, both good and bad, it provides direction on how Indigenous communities and external agencies can best prepare for the different stages of an evacuation. Packed with real-life stories, checklists, and guid... + Read More
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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 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 11, 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: Bead by Bead Constitutional Rights and Métis Community Hardcover Yvonne Boyer 9780774865968 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 15, 2021

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: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's Paperback Tiffany Midge 9781496224934 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2021

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, standalone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she doesn’t like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege. Midge ponders Standing Rock... + Read More
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Series: Creeland Paperback Dallas Hunt 9780889713925 $18.95 POETRY Apr 24, 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: The Gatherings Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations Hardcover Shirley Hager 9781487508951 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 31, 2021

In a world that more than ever needs all of our knowledge and wisdom to address the developing crises around us, The Gatherings shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can come together to create mutually beneficial relationships.Thirty years ago, in Wabanaki territory – a region encompassing the state of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes – a group of Native and non-Native individuals came together to explore some of the most pressing questions at the heart of Truth and Healing efforts in the United States and Canada. What price do we pa... + Read More
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Series: Peyakow Reclaiming Cree Dignity, A Memoir Hardcover Darrel J. McLeod 9781771622318 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 20, 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: Framing Borders Principle and Practicality in the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory Paperback Ian Kalman 9781487526535 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 19, 2021

Framing Borders is the first book-length ethnography looking at interactions between border officers and Indigenous cross-border travellers in North America.Framing Borders addresses a fundamental disjuncture between scholastic portrayals of settler colonialism and what actually takes place in Akwesasne Territory, the largest Indigenous cross-border community in Canada. Whereas most existing portrayals of Indigenous nationalism emphasize border crossing as a site of conflict between officers and Indigenous nationalists, in this book Ian Kalman ... + Read More
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Series: Indigenomics Taking a Seat at the Economic Table Paperback Carol Anne Hilton 9780865719408 $19.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

It is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Indigenous economy and the people involved. This is the foundation for economic reconciliation. This is Indigenomics.Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship of resources, and care for all. Highlights include: The ongoing power shift and rise of the modern Indigenous economy Voices of leading Indigenous business leaders The unfolding story in the la... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Studies Literatures, Communities, and Learning Conversations with Indigenous Writers Paperback Aubrey Jean Hanson 9781771124508 $29.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 02, 2021

Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers gathers nine conversations with Indigenous writers about the relationship between Indigenous literatures and learning, and how their writing relates to communities. Relevant, reflexive, and critical, these conversations explore the pressing topic of Indigenous writings and its importance to the well-being of Indigenous Peoples and to Canadian education. It offers readers a chance to listen to authors’ perspectives in their own words. This book presents conversations... + Read More
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Series: A People and a Nation New Directions in Contemporary Métis Studies Hardcover Jennifer Adese 9780774865067 $75.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 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: Shifting Grounds Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art Paperback Kate Morris 9780295749167 $52.50 ART US school grade range from 17 Feb 28, 2021

A distinctly Indigenous form of landscape representation is emerging among contemporary Indigenous artists from North America. For centuries, landscape painting in European art typically used representational strategies such as single-point perspective to lure viewers?and settlers?into the territories of the old and new worlds. In the twentieth century, abstract expressionism transformed painting to encompass something beyond the visual world, and, later, minimalism and the Land Art movement broadened the genre of landscape art to include sculp... + Read More
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Series: Invested Indifference How Violence Persists in Settler Colonial Society Paperback Kara Granzow 9780774837446 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 15, 2021

In 2004, Amnesty International characterized Canadian society as “indifferent” to high rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls. When the Canadian government took another twelve years to launch a national inquiry, that indictment seemed true. Invested Indifference makes a startling counter-argument: that what we see as societal unresponsiveness doesn’t come from an absence of feeling but from an affective investment in framing specific lives as disposable. Kara Granzow demonstrates that mechanisms such as the law, medicine, and cont... + Read More
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Series: Maci-Anihinapemowin / Beginning Saulteaux Spiral bound Margaret Cote 9780889777514 $34.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Jan 29, 2021

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: Chief Thunderwater An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places Hardcover Gerald F. Reid 9780806167312 $47.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 07, 2021

On June 11, 1950, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an obituary under the bold headline “Chief Thunderwater, Famous in Cleveland 50 Years, Dies.” And there, it seems, the consensus on Thunderwater ends. Was he, as many say, a con artist and an imposter posing as an Indian who lead a political movement that was a cruel hoax? Or was he a Native activist who worked tirelessly and successfully to promote Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, sovereignty in Canada? The truth about this enigmatic figure, so long obscured by vying historical narratives, emer... + Read More
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Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series Padoskoks A Jacob Neptune Murder Mystery Paperback Joseph Bruchac 9780806168425 $29.95 FICTION Jan 07, 2021

With a bang—or rather, a barrage—Jacob Neptune finds his remote cabin in the Adirondacks besieged by a gun-toting gang of murderous bikers. With the help of his supersized sidekick Dennis, the hard-headed, wise-cracking Abenaki private detective traces the source of his troubles to a former adversary who is now running an Indian casino. In short order, the friends are drawn into a dangerous mystery that will call upon all of Jake’s skills as a martial arts expert, former special forces soldier, and—in the Abenaki tradition—a metoulin, one who c... + Read More