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Series: Jesintel Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders Paperback Children of the Setting Sun Productions 9780295748641 $44.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Grade (US) from 17 Dec 20, 2022

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: Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation Paperback Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark 9781487544607 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 28, 2023

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: The Civilization of the American Indian Series Lakhota An Indigenous History Hardcover Rani-Henrik Andersson 9780806190754 $47.95 HISTORY 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
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Series: Opimotewina wina kapagamawat Witigowa / Journeys of The One to Strike the Wetigo Paperback Ken Carriere 9780889779044 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 12, 2022

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: 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 Nov 01, 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: Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans 2nd edition Paperback Lawrence A. Dwyer 9781496232465 $26.95 SOCIAL 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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Series: Kinauvit? What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother Hardcover Dr. Norma Dunning 9781771623391 $26.95 HISTORY Oct 29, 2022

From the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the process, she was faced with a question she could not answer, tied to a colonial institution retired decades ago: “What was your disc number?” Still haunted by this question years later, Dunning took it upon... + Read More
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Series: Aboriginal TM The Cultural and Economic Politics of Recognition Paperback Jennifer Adese 9781772840056 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 28, 2022

In Aboriginal™, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term “Aboriginal” and its displacement by the word “Indigenous.” In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term’s express purpose was to speak to specific “aboriginal rights”. Yet in the wake of the Constitution’s passage, Aboriginal, in its capitalized form, became increasingly used to describe and categorize people. More than simple legal and political vernacular, the term Aboriginal (capitalized or not) has had real-world consequences for the people it defined. Aborigi... + Read More
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Series: Histories, Territories and Laws of the Kitwancool Second Edition, with a New Foreword by the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs 2nd edition Paperback Wilson Duff 9780772680327 $19.95 HISTORY Oct 28, 2022

A new edition of the groundbreaking 1959 publication created in collaboration with the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs.This beautiful new edition of the histories and laws of the Gitanyow (literally "people of the small/narrow place," once called the Kitwancool in settler accounts), as recounted to museum curator Wilson Duff in 1958, includes a new foreword by the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs while preserving the original text.Until the mid-twentieth century, the village of Gitanyow (once Kitwancool) was only accessible to outsiders by trail. This ina... + Read More
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Series: nehiyawetan kikinahk / Speaking Cree in the Home A Beginner's Guide for Families Paperback Andrea Custer 9780889779006 $19.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Oct 22, 2022

A hands-on guide for parents and caregivers to develop best practices in revitalizing and teaching Cree to young children.In nēhiyawētān kīkināhk / Speaking Cree in the Home, Belinda Daniels and Andrea Custer provide an introductory text to help families immerse themselves, their children, and their homes in nēhiyawēwin—the Cree language. Despite the colonial attacks on Cree culture, language, and peoples, Custer and Daniels remind readers that the traditional ways of knowing and transferring knowledge to younger generations have not been los... + Read More
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Series: Tsqelmucwilc The Kamloops Indian Residential School - Resistance and a Reckoning Paperback Celia Haig-Brown 9781551529059 $22.95 HISTORY Sep 27, 2022

In May 2021, the world was shocked by news of the detection of 215 unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in British Columbia, Canada. Ground-penetrating radar confirmed the vestiges of children as young as three on this site of the infamous residential school system, which systematically removed children from their families and brought them to the schools. At these Christian-run, government-supported institutions, they were subjected to physical, mental, and sexual abuse while their Indigenous la... + Read More
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Series: Our Long Struggle for Home The Ipperwash Story Paperback Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig 9780774890571 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 15, 2022

In 1995, police shot and killed Dudley George on the site of the former Stoney Point Reserve, near Ipperwash provincial park. But this was just the climax of a long story, told here, for the first time, by George’s sister, cousins, and others from the Stoney Point Reserve. They tell of broken promises and thwarted hopes in the decades-long battle to reclaim their ancestral homeland. We hear of the devastation wrought by forcible eviction when the government re-purposed Nishnaabeg ancestral territory as an army training camp in 1942, p... + Read More
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Series: Dibaajimowinensan; Stories Along the Way Paperback Ruth DyckFehderau 9781989796191 $4.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 11, 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 Oct 11, 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: Echoes of the Supernatural The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson Hardcover Gary Wyatt 9781773271903 $60.00 ART Oct 18, 2022

Over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation.Since leaving Haida Gwaii to study art in Vancouver - where he carved argillite with Bill Reid in a department store and hand-sold prints on the UBC campus - Guud sans glans, Robert Davidson has moved between two worlds. As a host of Potlaches, carver of masks and totem poles, and performer and teacher of traditional Haida songs and dances, he has been one of the driving forces in the resurgence of Haida culture in the aftermath o... + Read More
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Series: Magodiz Paperback Gabe Calderon 9781551528991 $22.95 FICTION Oct 04, 2022

Magodiz (Anishinabe language): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack the tools or knowledge to rebuild. The only ones with any power are the mindless Enforcers, controlled by the Madjideye, a faceless, formless spiritual entity that has infiltrated the world to subjugate the human pop... + Read More
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Series: We Were Not The Savages, First Nations History, 4th ed. Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations 4th edition Paperback Daniel N. Paul 9781773635637 $32.00 HISTORY Sep 30, 2022

The title of this book We Were Not the Savages speaks to the truth of what happened when Europeans invaded Mi’kmaw lands in the 17th century. Prior to the European invasion the Mi’kmaq lived healthy lives and for thousands of years had lived in harmony with nature in the land they called Mi’kma’ki. This book sets the record straight. When the Europeans arrived they were welcomed and sustained by the Mi’kmaq. Over the next three centuries their language, their culture, their way of life were systematically ravaged by the newcomers to whom th... + Read More
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Series: The Power of Story On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era Paperback Harold R. Johnson 9781771964876 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 11, 2022

Award-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the promise and potential of storytelling. Approached by an ecumenical society representing many faiths, from Judeo-Christians to fellow members of First Nations, Harold R. Johnson agreed to host a group who wanted to hear him speak about the power of storytelling. This book is the outcome of that gathering. In The Power of Story, Johnson explains the role of storytelling in every aspect of human life, from personal identity to history and the social contracts that structure our societ... + Read More
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Series: Voices from the Prairies Walking Together The Future of Indigenous Child Welfare on the Prairies Paperback Jason Albert 9780889778900 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 17, 2022

Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars forward child welfare issues currently impacting Indigenous children in Canada.Walking Together is the seventh title in the Voices of the Prairies series. Developed by the Prairie Child Welfare Consortium, this edited collection brings together accomplished Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from the prairie provinces to forward critical research about a range of contemporary child welfare issues currently impacting Indigenous children in Canada. Centering Indigenous knowledge and working to decolonize... + 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 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: Bent Back Tongue Paperback Garry Gottfriedson 9781773860961 $20.00 POETRY Sep 16, 2022

In his latest collection, Secwépemc rancher and renowned poet Garry Gottfriedson explores the fraught mechanics of contemporary masculinity, politics and love.Bent Back Tongue is a raw examination of love, identity, politics, masculinity, and vulnerability. Through sharp honesty and revealing satire, Gottfriedson delves into Canadian colonialism and the religious political paradigms shaping experiences of a Secwépemc First Nations man. This is a book that tears through deceptions that both Canada and the church impose on their citizens. G... + Read More
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Series: Dance of the Returned Paperback Devon A. Mihesuah 9780816546404 $20.95 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

The disappearance of a young Choctaw leads Detective Monique Blue Hawk to investigate a little-known ceremonial dance. As she traces the steps of the missing man, she discovers that the seemingly innocuous Renewal Dance is not what it seems to be. After Monique embarks on a journey that she never thought possible, she learns that the past and future can converge to offer endless possibilities for the present. She must also accept her own destiny of violence and peacekeeping.
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Inuit Relocations Resilience and Reconciliation Hardcover Frank James Tester 9781459416673 $34.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Mar 01, 2023

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: 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 Age (years) from 13 - 18 Mar 01, 2023

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: Fresh, Local and Delicious Dishes from Mi’kma’ki and around the world from Kiju’s Restaurant in Membertou Paperback Shaun Zwarun 9781459507029 $29.95 COOKING Oct 04, 2022

Kiju’s Restaurant in Membertou, Cape Breton, has been recognized as a dining destination for many years. In this collection of more than 50 recipes, traditional Indigenous ingredients and local artisanal products and suppliers are given pride of place. The result is delicious recipes for the home cook that focus on fresh, local ingredients. Among the recipes which spotlight local fare are Aspy Bay Mussels, Sweetgrass Lacquered Rainbow Trout, Pan-Seared Halibut with Clam Paella and Three Sisters Succotash, Roast Rack of Venison, Spiced Rum Lac... + Read More
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Series: This House Is Not a Home Paperback Katłıà 9781773635620 $24.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2022

After a hunting trip one fall, a family in the far reaches of so-called Canada’s north return to nothing but an empty space where their home once stood. Finding themselves suddenly homeless, they have no choice but to assimilate into settler-colonial society in a mining town that has encroached on their freedom. An intergenerational coming-of-age novel, This House Is Not a Home follows Kǫ̀, a Dene man who grew up entirely on the land before being taken to residential school. When he finally returns home, he struggles to connect with his ... + Read More
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Series: Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge Volume II Excerpts from Chapter III - Miawpukek Hardcover Pam Hall 9781550819335 $79.95 ART Aug 31, 2022

Presented in English and Mi’kmaq, the latest chapter in this ambitious series presents a remarkable and respectful collaboration between an Indigenous and non-Indigenous artist, deepening and diversifying our understanding of the intergenerational knowledge of a Mi’kmaw community in Newfoundland. Miawpukek—The Middle River is Chapter III of Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge, the art-and-knowledge project of artist-scholar Pam Hall. This volume presents local, place-based knowledge gathered by Hall and artist Jerry Evans. From canoe-bui... + Read More
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Series: Resilience Honouring the Children of Residential Schools Paperback Jackie Traverse 9781773635590 $24.00 ART Aug 31, 2022

Resilience is the third colouring book made up of works by Anishnaabe artist Jackie Traverse. As with her previous highly successful colouring books, Sacred Feminine and IKWE , this new book contains both drawings and paintings by Jackie. Resilience honours the Indigenous Peoples who were colonized by and endured the violence of Canada’s child stealing systems — residential schools, the Sixties Scoop and child “welfare.” Some Indigenous people survived those systems; tragically, some did not. Jackie and her art pay tribute to... + Read More
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Series: nehiyawewin: paskwawi-pikiskwewin / Cree Language of the Plains Language Lab Workbook Paperback Jean L. Okimasis 9780889778856 $24.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Aug 27, 2022

The newly updated lab manual for the latest edition of Cree: Language of the Plains.This language lab workbook is a comprehensive companion resource to renowned Cree language scholar Jean L. Okimāsis’s Cree: Language of the Plains textbook. Updated and redesigned, this educational resource offers a broad range of learning materials and exercises that are easily accessible to Cree language learners. The complete collection includes the new edition of the Cree language textbook, this language lab workbook, and the Cree language audio labs, which ... + Read More
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Series: The Regina Collection The Education of Augie Merasty A Residential School Memoir - New Edition Paperback Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty 9780889778825 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 27, 2022

Now available in paperback!Named the fourth most important "Book of the Year" by the National Post in 2015 and voted "One Book/One Province" in Saskatchewan for 2017, The Education of Augie Merasty launched on the front page of The Globe and Mail to become a national bestseller and an instant classic. A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie Merasty is the story of a child who faced the dark heart of humanity, let loose by the cruel policies of a bigoted nation. A retired fisherman and trapper who sometimes lived rough on the st... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies Atiqput Inuit Oral History and Project Naming Hardcover Carol Payne 9780228011057 $45.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2022

"Our names – Atiqput – are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what’s in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inu... + 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 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’aṉ’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 SENĆOŦEN and Lekwungen languages. An all-... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies Odagahodhes Reflecting on Our Journeys Hardcover Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs 9780228011972 $37.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 17, 2022

In the words of Cayuga Elder Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs: “We have forgotten about that sacred meeting space between the Settler ship and the Indigenous canoe, odagahodhes, where we originally agreed on the Two Row, and where today we need to return to talk about the impacts of its violation.”Odagahodhes highlights the Indigenous values that brought us to the sacred meeting place in the original treaties of Turtle Island, particularly the Two Row Wampum, and the sharing process that was meant to foster good relations from the beginning of the col... + Read More
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Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada Heirs of an Ambivalent Empire French-Indigenous Relations and the Rise of the Métis in the Hudson Bay Watershed Paperback Scott Berthelette 9780228010593 $39.95 HISTORY Jul 19, 2022

The fur trade was the heart of the French empire in early North America. The French-Canadian (Canadien) men who traversed the vast hinterlands of the Hudson Bay watershed, trading for furs from Indigenous trappers and hunters, were its cornerstone.Though the Canadiens worked for French colonial authorities, they were not unwavering agents of imperial power. Increasingly they found themselves between two worlds as they built relationships with Indigenous communities, sometimes joining them through adoption or marriage, raising families of their ... + 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 Aug 12, 2022

The Fur Trader is a critical edition of Einar Odd Mortensen Sr.’s personal narrative detailing the years (1925–1928) 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 guides the reader through a close ... + Read More
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Series: Colonization Through Design Paperback Gavin Renwick 9780929112787 $39.95 ARCHITECTURE May 01, 2023

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: Residential Schools and Reconciliation Canada Confronts Its History Paperback J.R. Miller 9781487521844 $32.95 HISTORY May 31, 2022

Residential Schools and Reconciliation sheds light on one of the darkest periods in Canadian history.Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling through official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award-winning author J.R. Miller tackles and exp... + 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 25, 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: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Wendat Women's Arts Hardcover Annette W. de Stecher 9780228010678 $49.95 ART May 15, 2022

For centuries, women artists of the Wendat First Nation of Wendake in Quebec have created artworks of intricate design and complex meaning in moosehair and quill embroidery. Their work records and transmits ancestral knowledge across generations of artists and remains a vibrant and important practice today.Breaking new ground in Indigenous art histories, Wendat Women’s Arts is the first book to bring together a full history of the Wendat embroidery art form. Annette de Stecher challenges the historical anonymity of Indigenous women artists by a... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Studies Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition Cree and Métis âcimisowina Paperback Deanna Reder 9781771125543 $34.99 LITERARY CRITICISM May 03, 2022

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing. Since the 1970s non-Indigenous scholars have perpetrated the notion that Indigenous people were disinclined to talk about their lives and underscored the assumption that autobiography is a European invention. Deanna Reder challenges such long held assumptions by calling attention... + Read More
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Series: Cut to Fortress Poems 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: So You Girls Remember That Memories of a Haida Elder Paperback Gaadgas Nora Bellis 9781550179774 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 30, 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 Maureen McNamara and was years in the making. The resulting book, compiled by Jenny Nelson, is a window into Nora’s life and her family—from the young girl singing all day in the canoe, bossing her brothers around or crossing Hecate Strait on her dad’s schooner,... + Read More
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Series: Continuing Languages âhkami-nêhiyawêtân Spiral bound Solomon Ratt 9780889778467 $32.95 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY Apr 30, 2022

An important language resource that helps intermediate nêhiyawêwin 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 nêhiyawêwin 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 Apr 30, 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: In Our Backyard Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric Development Paperback Aimée Craft 9780887552885 $31.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 29, 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: Something Cold and Hard Like Winter Paperback Shelley Niro 9780994036148 $19.99 ART Apr 26, 2022

Something Cold and Hard like Winter showcases the movement of time through large scale photographs and video. The works speak to the narratives that surround the earth and the longevity of its existence, the influence of capital gain on the environment and time immemorial. Niro thoughtfully reflects on the historical and explores how post-colonial mediums have had an impact on Indigenous people and the land. By looking at the surface of the earth we understand our interconnection and the importance of not taking what is there for granted. We ar... + 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 16, 2022

Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega̔ K´iɳna 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: All That We Say is Ours Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation Now in paperback! Paperback Ian Gill 9781771623278 $28.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2022

Haida Gwaii, the ancient territory of the Haida people, is a West Coast archipelago famous for its wild beauty and rich species diversity. But that natural bounty, since European contact, has also been a magnet for industry. In the mid-1970s, the Haida rallied with environmentalists to end the rapacious logging of their monumental old-growth forests—and to reassert their title and rights to their homeland. Ian Gill traces the struggle from its early days. The battle became epic, stretching from the backwoods of British Columbia to the front ben... + Read More
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Series: Miskwagoode Paperback Marie Annharte Baker 9781554201846 $16.00 POETRY Mar 17, 2022

Taken from the Anishinaabe for “woman wearing red,” Miskwagoode is an unsettling portrayal of unreconciled Indigenous experience under colonialism, past and present. Miskwagoode, the woman in the red dress, is Annharte, and she is Annharte’s mother, who disappeared when the poet was a girl. Miskwagoode is Annharte’s new book about her mother loss, her “mothermiss”, about all the women “buried in common enough / cross-generational graves”. Marked with her characteristic sharp eye and humour, and hard earned wisdom about the “ominous progress ahe... + 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 16, 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: Standing in a River of Time 1st edition Paperback Jónína Kirton 9781772013795 $19.95 POETRY Mar 09, 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: 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