1.
Series:
Tireless Runners
A Family History of Indigenous Canada
Paperback
Robert Jago
9781487006419
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 04, 2022
For readers of Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian and Chelsea Vowel’s Indigenous Writes, Tireless Runners tells the history of colonization from pre-contact to the present day through the multi-generational story of one Indigenous family.Tireless Runners is the multi-generational story of the Sacquilty family, part of the Kwantlen First Nation in southwestern British Columbia. Prior to first contact in the 1800s, the Sacquilty were a wealthy family living in a region rich from fishing and trade. With the arrival of the Hudson’s Bay Company, ...
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3.
Series: Arvaaq Books
If You're Happy and You Know It
Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition
Board book
Monica Ittusardjuat
9781774502440
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 0 - 3
Aug 24, 2021
Tuktu and his friends are singing “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” Join in and sing along!In this interactive book, children can sing along and do the actions with the characters in the book. With interactive books, children are encouraged to actively participate in the stories they are listening to. Through directions or instructional text, children are encouraged to play, move, or make sounds along with the characters in the book.
4.
Series: Nunavummi
Let's Eat Bannock!
English Edition
Paperback
Masiana Kelly
9781774502815
$8.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 8
Aug 24, 2021
Learn all about this delicious treat! Bannock is enjoyed by people across Nunavut. Many families have their own recipes that have been passed down for generations. This book provides information about bannock, its history, and how it is made.
5.
Series: Arvaaq Books
Meeka Loves Nature: Insects
Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition
Board book
Danny Christopher
9781774502723
$14.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 5
Aug 24, 2021
There are so many insects to discover in the North! Join the little entomologist as she explores the tundra to find all sorts of bugs, from polaris bees to Arctic blue butterflies and everything in between. What flying, buzzing, crawling creatures will she discover next?
6.
Series: Arvaaq Books
Peekaboo! Nanuq and Nuka Look for Colours
Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition
Board book
Rachel Rupke
9781774502686
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 0 - 3
Aug 24, 2021
Can you help Nanuq and Nuka look for colours?In this interactive book, Nanuq and Nuka explore the world around them and look for different colours. Children can pull up the flap and find the hidden colours!
7.
Series: Arvaaq Books
This Is What I See
Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition
Board book
Looee Arreak
9781774502747
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 0 - 3
Aug 24, 2021
Let's count what we see as we walk on the tundra! Based on a song by award-winning Inuktitut singer and songwriter Looee Arreak, this book invites children to sing along as they count the animals they see on the tundra.
8.
Series: Arvaaq Books
Tuktu Says
Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition
Board book
Nadia Sammurtok
9781774502457
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 0 - 3
Aug 24, 2021
Tuktu and his friends are playing Tuktu Says. Join in and play with them!In this interactive book, children can play along by doing the actions with the characters in the book. With interactive books, children are encouraged to actively participate in the stories they are listening to. Through directions or instructional text, children are encouraged to play, move, or make sounds along with the characters in the book.
9.
Series:
Indigenous Methodologies
Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts, Second Edition
Paperback
Margaret Kovach
9781487525644
$29.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Aug 21, 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...
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10.
Series:
Jesintel
Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders
Paperback
Children of the Setting Sun Productions
9780295748641
$52.40
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Grade (US) from 17
Jul 31, 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...
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11.
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...
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12.
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...
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13.
Series: Arvaaq Books
Mia and the Monsters Search for Shapes
Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition
Board book
Neil Christopher
9781774502433
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 5
Jul 13, 2021
Let’s look for shapes! In this interactive book, children can join Mia and her monster friends as they look for different shapes on the tundra.
14.
Series: Arvaaq Books
Nanuq's Baby Brother
Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition
Paperback
Nadia Sammurtok
9781774502679
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 5
Jul 13, 2021
Nanuq is so excited when she finds out she is going to be a big sister! She thinks about all the fun things she will do with her new sibling. But when her baby brother is born, he cries all the time. Her parents are so busy with the baby, they don’t have time for her anymore. Nanuq feels lonely. Is this really what being a big sister is like? See how Nanuq’s friends help her understand that there are good things about being a big sister, too.
15.
Series:
Spencer the Siksik Makes a New Friend
English Edition
Paperback
Nadia Sammurtok
9781774502907
$10.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 8
Jul 13, 2021
Spencer the siksik is excited for the first day of school! When he gets to class, the teacher introduces a new student: Gary the snow goose. Spencer doesn't want to let Gary play with him and his friends. He thinks Gary will just confuse things because he is new. But when Spencer sees that Gary is upset, he remembers what his grandmother taught him about being welcoming.This book is the first in a series that teaches children about Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit principles, or "IQ" principles, which are a set of communal laws that focus on the ways on...
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16.
Series: First West Coast Books
A Is for Anemone
A First West Coast Alphabet
Board book
Roy Henry Vickers
9781550179477
$14.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 1 - 3
Jun 19, 2021
With crisp, luminous illustrations by celebrated Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers, and a simple rythmic text, this sturdy board book introduces the alphabet using iconic imagery of the West Coast, creating a book that will be cherished by young readers and their families. Starting with colourful sea anemones waving in the ocean current, and closing with a snoozing grizzly bear (Zzz), this board book supports both early literacy and children's awareness of the natural world. Publishers Weekly described Vicker’s previous collaboration with Rob...
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17.
Series:
Four Faces of the Moon
Hardcover
Amanda Strong
9781773214542
$24.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12
Jun 08, 2021
On a journey to uncover her family’s story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land in this essential graphic novel. In the dreamworld, she bears witness to a mountain of buffalo skulls, a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the buffalo—a key tactic to starve and contain the Indigenous People onto reservations. Spotted Fawn must travel through her own family history to confront the harsh realities of the past and reignite her connection to her people and the land. Her darkroom be...
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18.
Series:
Richard Wagamese Selected
Hardcover
Richard Wagamese
9781771622752
$24.95
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
May 29, 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 over fifty thousand copies since its release in 2016, this new collection of Wagamese’s non-fiction works, curated by editor Drew Hayden Taylor, brings together more of the prolific author’s short writings, many for the first time i...
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19.
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...
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20.
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
May 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-...
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21.
Series: Writers on Writing
Gather
Richard Van Camp on the Joy of Storytelling
Paperback
Richard Van Camp
9780889777002
$19.95
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
May 14, 2021
Stories are medicine. During a time of heightened isolation, bestselling author Richard Van Camp shares what he knows about the power of storytelling—and offers some of his own favourite stories from Elders, friends, and family. Gathering around a campfire, or the dinner table, we humans have always told stories. Through them, we define our identities and shape our understanding of the world. Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp writes of the power of storytelling and its potential to transform speakers and audiences ali...
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22.
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
HISTORY
May 14, 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...
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23.
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...
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24.
Series:
My Indian
Paperback
Chief Mi'sel Joe
9781550818789
$16.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 15 - 18
Apr 30, 2021
In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who could lead him across Newfoundland in search of the last remaining Beothuk camps on the island. In his journals, Cormack refers to his guide only as “My Indian.” Now, almost two hundred years later, Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Neill reclaim the story of Sylvester Joe, the Mi’kmaq guide engaged by Cormack. In a remarkable feat of historical fiction, My Indian follows Sylvester Joe from his birth (in what is now known as Miawpukek First Nation) and early life in his community to his...
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25.
Series:
The Power of Style
How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures
Hardcover
Christian Allaire
9781773214900
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 12
Apr 27, 2021
Style is not just the clothes on our backs—it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he sought out for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that—because clothes are never just clothes. Men’s heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination, while ribbon shirts honor Indigenous ancestors and keep culture alive. Allaire takes the reader through boldly...
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26.
Series:
Carrying the Burden of Peace
Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities Through Story
Paperback
Sam McKegney
9780889777934
$34.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 24, 2021
Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honour song—one that celebrates rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic? Carrying the Burden of Peace answers affirmatively. Countering the perception that “masculinity” has been so contaminated as to be irredeemable, the book explores Indigenous literary art for understandings of masculinity tha...
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27.
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...
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28.
Series:
Plants of Haida Gwaii
Third Edition
3rd edition
Paperback
Nancy Turner
9781550179149
$29.95
NATURE
Apr 24, 2021
For many thousands of years the lands and waters of Haida Gwaii have been home to the Haida. Plants of Haida Gwaii, written with the cooperation and collaboration of Haida knowledge holders and botanical experts, is a detailed and insightful record of the traditional uses of over 150 species of native plants. Moreover, it explains the systems of knowledge and understanding that enabled the Haida to use the resources of their islands sustainably from one generation to the next over millennia. The Haida names of these plants indicate their import...
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29.
Series:
Daniels v. Canada
In and Beyond the Courts
Paperback
Nathalie Kermoal
9780887559273
$27.95
LAW
Apr 23, 2021
In Daniels v. Canada the Supreme Court determined that Métis and non-status Indians were “Indians” under section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, one of a number of court victories that has powerfully shaped Métis relationships with the federal government. However, the decision (and the case) continues to reverberate far beyond its immediate policy implications. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide array of professional contexts, this volume demonstrates the power of Supreme Court of Canada cases to directly and indire...
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32.
Series:
Unravelling Canada
A Knitting Odyssey
Paperback
Sylvia Olsen
9781771622868
$24.95
TRAVEL
Apr 17, 2021
Author and knitter Sylvia Olsen explore Canada's history, landscape, economy and social issues on a cross-country knitting-themed road trip. In 2015, Sylvia Olsen and her partner, Tex, embarked on a cross-Canada journey from the Salish Sea to the Atlantic Ocean to conduct workshops, exchange experiences with other knitters and, Olsen hoped, discover a fresh appreciation for Canada. Along the way, with stops in over forty destinations, including urban centres as well as smaller communities like Sioux Lookout, ON, and Shelburne, NS, Olsen obser...
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33.
Series: First Nations Book for Young Readers
Indigenous Filmmakers & Actors
Paperback
Gary Robinson
9781772601725
$10.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 14
Apr 13, 2021
In these entertaining profiles, twelve Indigenous actors and filmmakers tell stories of the hard work and struggle that went into their careers. Overcoming prejudice and stereotypes in the film industry, fighting to make and promote films that demonstrate an honest portrayal of Indigenous life and heritage. Their stories show how there’s more to filmmaking than acting and directing, including writing, producing, editing, designing, and special effects. Their accomplishments include acting in major blockbuster films and TV shows, directing prize...
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34.
Series:
Framing Borders
Principle and Practicality in the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory
Paperback
Ian Kalman
9781487526535
$26.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 11, 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 ...
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35.
Series:
Indigenous Celebrity
Entanglements with Fame
Paperback
Jennifer Adese
9780887559068
$27.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 09, 2021
Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people’s entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people. It questions and critiques the whitestream concept of celebrity and the very juxtaposition of “Indigenous” and “celebrity” and casts a critical lens on celebrity culture’s ...
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37.
Series: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery
The Case of the Burgled Bundle: A Mighty Muskrats Mystery: Book 3
Paperback
Michael Hutchinson
9781772601664
$10.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Apr 06, 2021
The National Assembly of Cree Peoples has gathered together in the Windy Lake First Nation, home to the Mighty Muskrats—cousins Chickadee, Atim, Otter, and Sam. But when the treaty bundle, the center of a four-day-long ceremony, is taken, the four mystery-solving cousins set out to catch those responsible and help protect Windy Lake’s reputation! What’s worse, prime suspect Pearl takes off to the city with her older brother and known troublemaker, Eddie. If they have the burgled bundle with them, the Mighty Muskrats fear it may be lost for go...
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38.
Series:
I Sang You Down from the Stars
Hardcover
Tasha Spillett-Sumner
9781771474085
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 2 - 5
Apr 05, 2021
An #OwnVoices love letter from an Indigenous mother to her new baby, new from celebrated author Tasha Spillett-Sumner and 2021 Caldecott winning illustrator Michaela Goade, that honors the beauty of a little one's arrival Drawing from Indigenous creation stories and traditional teachings and illustrated in dazzling watercolors, I Sang You Down from the Stars is a tribute to the bond between mother and child. The narrator gathers gifts for a medicine bundle in anticipation of her baby’s birth; a fluffy white eagle plume, bunches of cedar and sag...
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39.
Series: Algonquian Text Society
mitoni niya nêhiyaw / Cree is Who I Truly Am
nêhiyaw-iskwêw mitoni niya / Me, I am Truly a Cree Woman
Paperback
Sarah Whitecalf
9780887559426
$29.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 02, 2021
Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing events they witnessed range from the ravages of the influenza epidemic of 1918–20 and murder committed in a jealous rage to the abduction of a young woman by underground spirits who on her release grant her healing powers. A highly personal document, these memoirs are altogether exceptional in recounting the thoughts and feelings of a Cree woman as she copes with the challenges of reserve life but also...
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40.
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...
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41.
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...
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43.
Series: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation
Did You See Us?
Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School
Paperback
Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School
9780887559075
$24.95
HISTORY
Mar 12, 2021
The Assiniboia school is unique within Canada’s Indian Residential School system. It was the first residential high school in Manitoba and one of the only residential schools in Canada to be located in a large urban setting. Operating between 1958 and 1973 in a period when the residential school system was in decline, it produced several future leaders, artists, educators, knowledge keepers, and other notable figures. It was in many ways an experiment within the broader destructive framework of Canadian residential schools. Stitching together ...
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44.
Series:
Treaty Words
For As Long As the Rivers Flow
Hardcover
Aimée Craft
9781773214962
$16.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 10
Mar 09, 2021
The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis’s home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen—to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about treaties—the bonds of reciprocity and renewal that endure for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Accompanied by beautiful illustr...
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45.
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...
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46.
Series:
nedi nezu (Good Medicine)
Paperback
Tenille K. Campbell
9781551528465
$17.95
POETRY
Feb 18, 2021
A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country. nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates - not only as a partner, a fantasy, a heartbreak waiting to happen but also as an auntie, a role model, a voice that connects to others walking the same path. From the online hookup world of DMs, double taps, and secret texts to earth-shakingly erotic encounters under the northern stars to the ever-complicated relationship Indigenous women have with mainstrea...
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47.
Series:
First Nations Wildfire Evacuations
A Guide for Communities and External Agencies
Paperback
Tara K. McGee
9780774880664
$25.00
REFERENCE
Apr 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...
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48.
Series:
Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know
Niibing, dgwaagig, bboong, mnookmig dbaadjigaade maanpii mzin’igning / A Book about the Seasons
Hardcover
Brittany Luby
9781773063263
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Mar 01, 2021
An Anishinaabe child and her grandmother explore the natural wonders of each season in this lyrical, bilingual story-poem. In this lyrical story-poem, written in Anishinaabemowin and English, a child and grandmother explore their surroundings, taking pleasure in the familiar sights that each new season brings. We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers, bees and blueberries, then fall, when bears feast before hibernation and forest mushrooms are ripe for harvest. Winter mornings begin in darkness as deer, mice and other anim...
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49.
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...
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50.
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, ...
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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...
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53.
Series: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
A Short History of the Blockade
Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin
Paperback
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
9781772125382
$12.99
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 08, 2021
In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaver—or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life-giving possibilities of dams and the world-building possibilities of blockades, deepening our understanding of Indigenous resistance as both a negation and an affirmation. Widely r...
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54.
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...
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55.
Series:
Cree: Language of the Plains
nehiyawewin: paskwawi-pikiskwewin
Second Edition, second edition
Paperback
Jean L. Okimasis
9780889777675
$34.95
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
Jan 09, 2021
A new edition of a seminal textbook to support Cree language study.Cree: Language of the Plains is a comprehensive educational resource, offering a broad range of learning materials that is easily accessible to Cree language learners. This new edition provides an updated and redesigned language textbook, and is linked to Cree language audio labs and a Cree language workbook available online. Language labs are also available as podcasts, found at uregina.ca/open-access or by searching “Cree Language of the Plains” on your favourite podcast app.
56.
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...
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57.
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...
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58.
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 ...
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59.
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...
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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...
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