1.
Series:
Old Keyam and Black Hawk
Paperback
Canon Edward Ahenakew
9780889779334
$26.95
FICTION
May 27, 2023
In a monumental moment in literary history, the Collected Works of Canon Edward Ahenakew (vol. 1) brings together two semi-autobiographical stories, Old Keyam and the never-before-published Black Hawk. Written during the early twentieth century, Old Keyam and Black Hawk are semi-autobiographical stories told in the charming, insightful voice of Canon Edward Ahenakew. Through the fictional character Old Keyam, Ahenakew protests against the colonial settler’s attempts to force the Cree peoples into “civilization.” Despite the pained and angry voi...
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2.
Series:
The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck
An Inuk Hero in Rupert's Land, 1800-1834
Paperback
Renee Fossett
9780889779266
$39.95
HISTORY
May 20, 2023
One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th Century—separated from his family, community, and language—finding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the northwestern coast of Hudson Bay. Between 1812 and 1834, his family sent him to Churchill, Manitoba, to live and work among strangers, where he could escape the harsh Arctic climate and earn a living in the burgeoning fur trade. He was perhaps the first Inuk man employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company as a labourer, and...
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3.
Series:
Colonization Through Design
Paperback
Gavin Renwick
9780929112787
$39.95
ARCHITECTURE
Nov 15, 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...
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4.
Series:
Indigiqueerness
A Conversation about Storytelling
Paperback
Joshua Whitehead
9781771993913
$19.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 25, 2023
Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits. This volume is imbued with Whitehead’s energy and celebrates Indigenous writers and creators who defy expectations and transcend genres.
5.
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 ...
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6.
Series:
Uiesh / Somewhere
Paperback
Joséphine Bacon
9781772015140
$14.95
POETRY
Apr 18, 2023
Vital bilingual poetry by Innu Elder Joséphine BaconUiesh / Somewhere consists of short poems that speak directly to the reader, without artifice or pretension. They arise from Joséphine Bacon’s experience as an Innu woman, whose life has taken her from the nomadic ways of her Ancestors in the northern wilderness of Nitassinan, or Innu Territory, to the clamour and bustle of the city. Wherever she is, the poet and Elder is attentive to the smallest details of her environment … from the moon and the stars, the aurorae borealis, the falling snow,...
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7.
Series: First Voices, First Texts
Legends of the Capilano
Paperback
E. Pauline Johnson
9781772840179
$27.95
FICTION
Apr 14, 2023
Bringing the Legends homeLegends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends of Vancouver, restoring Johnson’s intended title for the first time. This new edition celebrates the storytelling abilities of Johnson’s Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) collaborators, Joe and Mary Capilano, and supplements the original fifteen legends with five additional stories narrated solely or in part by Mary Capilano, highlighting her previously overlooked contributions to the book.Alongside photographs and biographical entries for E. Pauline Johnson...
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8.
Series:
Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead
ᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân
Paperback
Wanda John-Kehewin
9781772015126
$19.95
POETRY
Grade (CAN) from 9 - 17
Mar 14, 2023
A vital collection weaving history, personal experience, and Indigenous resilienceSpells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead: ᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân is a wonder. It plays with form, space, and language, comparing meanings in English and nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree). The reader’s attention is drawn to the restrictive and imposed constructs of English grammar, the way it boxes in interpretation and cadence.With inspiring defiance, Wanda John-Kehewin demonstrates which magics cannot be suppressed....
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9.
Series:
Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law
Kinamaadiwin Inaakonigewin and the Treaty Right to Education
Paperback
Leo Baskatawang
9781772840254
$27.95
LAW
Mar 31, 2023
A manifesto for the future of Indigenous Education in Canada In Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law Leo Baskatawang traces the history of the neglected treaty relationship between the Crown and the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3, and the Canadian government’s egregious failings to administer effective education policy for Indigenous youth—failures epitomized by, but not limited to, the horrors of the residential school system. Rooted in the belief that Indigenous education should be governed and administered by Indigenous peoples, Baskatawang envis...
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10.
Series:
Stoneface
A Defiant Dene
Paperback
Stephen Kakfwi
9781773861074
$28.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 24, 2023
Blending the poetic stylings of Richard Wagamese and the folksy narratives of Bob Dylan, former Premier of the Northwest Territories Stephen Kakfwi transforms politics into philosophy and sheds light on a history that too many Canadians have long ignored.Stephen Kakfwi was born in a bush camp on the edge of the Arctic Circle in 1950. In a family torn apart by tuberculosis, alcohol and the traumas endured by generations in residential school, he emerged as a respected Dene elder and eventually the Premier of the Northwest Territories. &nbs...
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11.
Series:
E nâtamukw miyeyimuwin
Residential School Recovery Stories of the James Bay Cree, Volume 1
Paperback
Ruth DyckFehderau
9781989796238
$29.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 14, 2023
In this quietly powerful and deeply human book, Ruth DyckFehderau and twenty-one James Bay Cree storytellers put a face to Canada’s Indian Residential School cultural genocide. Through intimate personal stories of trauma, loss, recovery, and joy, they tell of experiences in the residential schools themselves, in the homes when the children were taken, and on the territory after survivors returned and worked to recover from their experiences and to live with dignity. The prose is clear and accessible, the stories remarkably individual, the deta...
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13.
Series:
This Place Is Who We Are
Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands
Paperback
Katherine Palmer Gordon
9781990776137
$39.95
NATURE
May 06, 2023
This Place Is Who We Are profiles Indigenous communities in central and northern coastal BC that are reconnecting to their lands and waters—and growing and thriving through this reconnection. Indigenous peoples and cultures are integrally connected to the land. Well-being in every sense—physical, social, environmental, economic, spiritual and cultural—depends on that relationship, which is based on a fundamental concept: when the land is well, so are the people. With increasing strength, Indigenous peoples in this vast region of BC—which spans...
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14.
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...
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15.
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...
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16.
Series:
We Are the Stars
Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition
Paperback
Sarah Hernandez
9780889779181
$39.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Feb 18, 2023
An emerging Lakota scholar’s critical interrogation of settler-colonial nations that re-centers Oceti Sakowin (Dakota) women as the tribe’s traditional culture keepers and bearers. We Are the Stars is a literary recovery project that seeks to reconstruct a genealogy of Oceti Sakowin (Dakota) literature, and study in-depth the linkages between settler colonialism, literature, nationalism, and gender via analysis of tribal and settler colonial narratives about women and land. Sarah Hernandez begins by exploring how settler colonizers used the pri...
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17.
Series: Our Own Words
kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân / The Way I Remember
Paperback
Solomon Ratt
9780889779143
$25.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 28, 2023
A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family’s traditional stories.When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his family at the age of six, Ratt was placed into the residential school system—a harsh, institutional world, operated in a language he could not yet understand, far from the love and comfort of home and family. In kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân / The Way I Remember It, Ratt reflects on these memories and the l...
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18.
Series:
Dibaajimowinensan; Stories Along the Way
Paperback
Ruth DyckFehderau
9781989796191
$4.99
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jan 17, 2023
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...
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Series:
Histoires en cours de route / Stories Along the Way
Paperback
Ruth DyckFehderau
9781989796207
$6.99
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jan 17, 2023
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, ...
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20.
Series:
Jesintel
Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders
Paperback
Children of the Setting Sun Productions
9780295748641
$48.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Grade (US) from 17
Apr 11, 2023
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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21.
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...
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22.
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...
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23.
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...
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24.
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
Jan 10, 2023
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...
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26.
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...
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27.
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...
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28.
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...
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29.
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...
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30.
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...
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31.
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...
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32.
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 18, 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...
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33.
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...
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35.
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...
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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...
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37.
Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
Atiqput
Inuit Oral History and Project Naming
Hardcover
Carol Payne
9780228011057
$45.95
HISTORY
Sep 16, 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...
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38.
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...
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39.
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...
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41.
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...
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42.
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...
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44.
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.
45.
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 ...
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46.
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...
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47.
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...
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48.
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 ...
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49.
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...
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50.
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-...
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51.
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 ...
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52.
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 ...
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53.
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...
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54.
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...
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55.
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...
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56.
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...
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58.
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...
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59.
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...
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60.
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,...
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