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Series: Indigenous Methodologies Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts, Second Edition Paperback Margaret Kovach 9781487525644 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 13, 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: Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters Paperback Kim Anderson 9781772123678 $32.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 11, 2018

In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at controversial topics such as lateral violence, challenges in working with “tradition,” and problematic notions involved in “helping.” Through stories of re... + 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 Grade (US) 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: 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 Grade (US) 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: 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 Jul 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: 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: 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: Richard Wagamese Selected 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: 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality Paperback Bob Joseph 9780995266520 $19.95 HISTORY Apr 10, 2018

#1 National Bestseller Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer. Since its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has shaped, controlled, and constrained the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Peoples, and is at the root of many enduring stereotypes. Bob Joseph's book comes at a key time in the reconciliation process, when awareness from both Indig... + Read More
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Series: Oskana Poetry & Poetics The House of Charlemagne First Edition Paperback Tim Lilburn 9780889775305 $19.95 POETRY Mar 24, 2018

Louis Riel prophesied that a polyglot Métis nation would rise on the prairies five hundred years after his death, and that it would be called by the “joyous name” of the House of Charlemagne. This new polity would be built on the principles of Riel’s Massinahican, a radical philosophical system which now survives only in fragments. Its hallmarks would be justice, ontological accord, and the blurring of all separations dividing women and men, the earth and human beings. The House of Charlemagne tracks the birth of this ideal nation in the burnin... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Studies Why Indigenous Literatures Matter Paperback Daniel Heath Justice 9781771121767 $19.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Mar 08, 2018

Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. Selected as an Equity, Justice, and Inclusion Community Read by the Association of University Presses. In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the heart of Indigenous kinship traditions: How do w... + Read More
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Series: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future Paperback Truth and Reconcilation Commission of Canada 9781459410671 $27.95 HISTORY Jul 23, 2015

This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic ... + 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: 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: The Outside Circle A Graphic Novel Paperback Patti LaBoucane-Benson 9781770899377 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 02, 2015

Winner, CODE’s 2016 Burt Award for First Nation, Inuit and Métis Literature In this important graphic novel, two brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives.Pete, a young Indigenous man wrapped up in gang violence, lives with his younger brother, Joey, and his mother who is a heroin addict. One night, Pete and his mother’s boyfriend, Dennis, get into a big fight, which sends Dennis to the morgue and Pete to jail. ... + 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: 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: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies Travellers through Empire Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada Hardcover Cecilia Morgan 9780773551343 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 08, 2017

In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people – especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree – travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were they hoping to find? Travellers through Empire unearths the stories of Indigenous peoples including Mississauga Methodist missionary and Ojibwa chief Reverend Peter Jones, the Scots-Cherokee officer and interpreter John Norton, Catherine Sutton, a Missi... + 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: 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: 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: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws Yerí7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw Hardcover Marianne Ignace 9780773551305 $42.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 31, 2017

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this volume detail how a homeland has shaped Secwépemc existence while the Secwépemc have in turn shaped their homeland. Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace, with contributions from ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, archaeologist Mike Rousseau, and geographer Ken Favrholdt, compellingly weave together Secwépemc narratives about ancestors’ deeds. They demonstr... + 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: First Nations Wildfire Evacuations A Guide for Communities and External Agencies Paperback Tara K. McGee 9780774880664 $25.00 REFERENCE May 15, 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: 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: Children of the Broken Treaty Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream New Edition Paperback Charlie Angus 9780889774971 $27.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 21, 2017

Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country’s history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree woman whom George Stroumboulopoulos named as one of “five teenage girls who kicked ass in history.” All Shannen wanted was a decent education. She found an ally in Charlie Angus, who had no idea she was going to change his life and inspire others to change the country. Based on extensive documentation assembled from Freedom of ... + Read More
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Series: Shifting Grounds Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art Paperback Kate Morris 9780295749167 $52.50 ART Grade (US) 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: Critical Studies in Native History Life Stages and Native Women Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine Paperback Kim Anderson 9780887557262 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 02, 2011

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. In Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the teachings of fourteen elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Metis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century. These el... + Read More
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Series: Cataloguing Culture Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation Paperback Hannah Turner 9780774863933 $32.95 ART Dec 15, 2020

How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying, and cataloguing hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and tribal affiliations – much of it wrong. Cataloguing Culture examines how colonialism has operated through the technologies of museum bureaucracy: the ledger book, the card catalogue, and eventually the database. As Indigenous communities reclaim what is theirs, this timely ... + 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: Indigenous Studies The Homing Place Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic Hardcover Rachel Bryant 9781771122863 $44.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 07, 2017

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across epistemological divides in the twenty-first century? What might nation-to-nation literary relations look like? Through readings of a wide range of northeastern texts – including Puritan captivity narratives, Wabanaki wampum belts, and contemporary Innu poetry – ... + Read More
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Series: Cooking with the Wolfman Indigenous Fusion Paperback David Wolfman 9781771621632 $29.95 COOKING Oct 07, 2017

While there were major variations from region to region and from season to season, in general, the traditional diets of Indigenous peoples of North America were remarkably healthy--high in protein and nutrients, low in salt, sugar and nearly without refined carbohydrates, featuring large and small game, waterfowl, eggs, fish and seafood, tubers, berries, tree roots, grasses, seeds and cultivated food crops. As a classically trained chef of First Nations heritage, David Wolfman has a passion for bringing these traditional food sources togeth... + Read More
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Series: The Reconciliation Manifesto Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy Paperback Arthur Manuel 9781459409613 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 06, 2017

In this book Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson challenge virtually everything that non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous Peoples and the steps that are needed to place this relationship on a healthy and honourable footing. Manuel and Derrickson show how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous Peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate and distort the relationship. They review the current state of land claims. They tackle the persistence of racism among n... + 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
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Series: Seen but Not Seen Influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to Today Paperback Donald B. Smith 9781442627703 $32.95 HISTORY Dec 11, 2020

Throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, the majority of Canadians argued that European "civilization" must replace Indigenous culture. The ultimate objective was assimilation into the dominant society. Seen but Not Seen explores the history of Indigenous marginalization and why non-Indigenous Canadians failed to recognize Indigenous societies and cultures as worthy of respect. Approaching the issue biographically, Donald B. Smith presents the commentaries of sixteen influential Canadians – including John A. Macdonald, Georg... + Read More
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Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Doodem and Council Fire Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance Hardcover Heidi Bohaker 9781442647312 $65.00 LAW Dec 04, 2020

Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe on treaties and other legal documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. These doodems reflected fundamental principles behind Anishinaabe governance that were often ignored by Europeans, who referred to Indigenous polities in terms of tribe, nation, band, or village – classifications that failed to fully encompass longstanding cultural traditions of political authority within Anis... + Read More
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Series: Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidanda`i’ Tthak Ejuk Go`onlih Stories from the People of the Land Hardcover Leslie McCartney 9781772124828 $99.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 09, 2020

Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidanda`i’ Tthak Ejuk Go`onlih is an invaluable compilation of historical and cultural information based on a project originally conceived by the Gwich’in Social and Cultural Institute to document the biographies of the oldest Gwich’in Elders in the Gwich’in Settlement Region. Through their own stories, twenty-three Gwich’in Elders from the Northwest Territories communities of Fort McPherson, Tsiigehtshik, Inuvik, and Aklavik share their joy of living and travelling on the land. Thei... + Read More
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Series: At Table Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness Paperback Devon A. Mihesuah 9780803245259 $37.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2020

2020 Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner of the Gourmand International World Cookbook Award, Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens is back! Featuring an expanded array of tempting recipes of indigenous ingredients and practical advice about health, fitness, and becoming involved in the burgeoning indigenous food sovereignty movement, the acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon A. Mihesuah draws on the rich indigenous heritages of this continent to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life.Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens features pointed discu... + Read More
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Series: Critical Studies in Native History Dammed The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory Paperback Brittany Luby 9780887558740 $27.95 HISTORY Oct 09, 2020

"Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory" explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. "Dammed" makes clear that hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg from planning and operations and failed to consider how power production might influence the healt... + Read More
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Series: Rez Metal Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene Paperback Ashkan Soltani Stone 9781496205094 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2020

Rez Metal captures the creative energy of Indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of Indian Country and across generations, heavy metal has touched a collective nerve on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona in particular. Many cultural leaders—including former Navajo president Russell Begaye—have begun to recognize heavy metal’s ability to inspire Navajo communities facing chronic challenges such as poverty, depression, and addiction. Heavy metal music speaks to the frustrations, fears, tri... + Read More
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Series: The Last Sovereigns Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas Hardcover Robert M. Utley 9781496220226 $33.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2020

2021 Spur Award Winner for Best Historical Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America True West Magazine's 2020 Best Author and Historical Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man’s ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains—a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the Sioux’s historical territories that were sacred to him and his people. Robert M. Utley explores the final four years of Sitt... + Read More
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Series: Midwest Archaeological Perspectives Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes War, Climate, and Culture 1st edition Paperback Richard W. Edwards 9780268108182 $47.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 30, 2020

Enormous changes affected the inhabitants of the Eastern Woodlands area during the eleventh through fifteenth centuries AD. At this time many groups across this area (known collectively to archaeologists as Oneota) were aggregating and adopting new forms of material culture and food technology. This same period also witnessed an increase in intergroup violence, as well as a rise in climatic volatility with the onset of the Little Ice Age. In Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes, Richard W. Edwards explores how the inhabitants of the western G... + Read More
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Series: Our Hearts Are as One Fire An Ojibway-Anishinabe Vision for the Future Paperback Jerry Fontaine 9780774862882 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2020

A vision shared. A manifesto. This remarkable work argues that Anishinabeg need to reconnect with non-colonized modes of thinking, social organization, and decision making in order to achieve genuine sovereignty. In Our Hearts Are as One Fire, Jerry Fontaine recounts the stories of three Ota’wa, Shawnee, and Ojibway-Anishinabe leaders who challenged aggressive colonial expansion – Obwandiac, Tecumtha, and Shingwauk. He weaves Ojibwaymowin language and knowledge with conversations with elders and descendants of the three leaders. The result is a... + Read More
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Series: Contemporary Studies on the North Words of the Inuit A Semantic Stroll through a Northern Culture Paperback Louis-Jacques Dorais 9780887558627 $31.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 18, 2020

Words of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable, leisurely stroll through words and meanings. Inuit words are often more complex than English words and frequently contain small units of meaning that add up to convey a larger sensibility. Dorais’ lexical and semantic analyses and reconstructions are not overly technical, yet they reliably evince connections ... + Read More
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Series: Residential Schools and Reconciliation Canada Confronts Its History Hardcover J.R. Miller 9781487502188 $45.95 HISTORY Sep 27, 2017

Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling, including 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 explains these institutional responses to Canada’s residential school legacy. Analysing archival m... + Read More
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Series: Early Canadian Literature Argimou A Legend of the Micmac Paperback S. Douglass S. Huyghue 9781771122474 $24.99 FICTION Aug 24, 2017

Both an adventure-laced captivity tale and an impassioned denunciation of the marginalization of Indigenous culture in the face of European colonial expansion, Douglass Smith Huyghue’s Argimou (1847) is the first Canadian novel to describe the fall of eighteenth-century Fort Beauséjour and the expulsion of the Acadians. Its integration of the untamed New Brunswick landscape into the narrative, including a dramatic finale that takes place over the reversing falls in Saint John, intensifies a sense of the heroic proportions of the novel's protago... + Read More
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Series: My Life, by Louis Kenoyer Reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation Childhood Paperback Henry Zenk 9780870718830 $43.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2017

Louis Kenoyer, born in 1868 at Grand Ronde reservation, Oregon, was the last known native speaker of Tualatin Northern Kalapuya. His autobiographical narrative was recorded in 1928 and 1936 and is archived in the Special Collections of the University of Washington Library. Kenoyer’s autobiography is a rare, first-person narrative by a Native American discussing life on an Oregon reservation. To bring his compelling story to contemporary readers, Henry Zenk and Jedd Schrock have completed a translation of the original Tualatin narrative and prep... + Read More
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Series: Genocidal Love A Life after Residential School Paperback Bevann Fox 9780889777415 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 12, 2020

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

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

Lambda Literary Award finalist A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction collection showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories. Here, r... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Studies Read, Listen, Tell Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island Paperback Sophie McCall 9781771123006 $38.99 FICTION May 26, 2017

“Don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now.” —Thomas King, in this volume Read, Listen, Tell brings together an extraordinary range of Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island (North America). From short fiction to as-told-to narratives, from illustrated stories to personal essays, these stories celebrate the strength of heritage and the liveliness of innovation. Ranging in tone from humorous to defiant to triumphant, the stories explore core concepts... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Confluences Unlikely Alliances Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands Paperback Zoltán Grossman 9780295741529 $45.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Jun 20, 2017

Often when Native nations assert their treaty rights and sovereignty, they are confronted with a backlash from their neighbors, who are fearful of losing control of the natural resources. Yet, when both groups are faced with an outside threat to their common environment?such as mines, dams, or an oil pipeline?these communities have unexpectedly joined together to protect the resources. Some regions of the United States with the most intense conflicts were transformed into areas with the deepest cooperation between tribes and local farmers, ranc... + Read More
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Series: Rekindling the Sacred Fire Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality Paperback Chantal Fiola 9780887557705 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 17, 2015

Why don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Métis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical impacts of colonization upon Métis relationships with spirituality on the Canadian prairies. Using a methodology rooted in an Indigenous world view, Fiola interviews eighteen people with Métis ancestry, or an historic familial connection to the Red... + Read More
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Series: Glass Beads Paperback Dawn Dumont 9781771871266 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2017

These short stories interconnect the friendships of four First Nations people — Everett Kaiswatim, Nellie Gordon, Julie Papequash, and Nathan (Taz) Mosquito — as the collection evolves over two decades against the cultural, political, and historical backdrop of the 90s and early 2000s. These young people are among the first of their families to live off the reserve for most of their adult lives, and must adapt and evolve. In stories like “Stranger Danger”, we watch how shy Julie, though supported by her roomies, is filled with apprehension as s... + Read More