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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: The Qaggiq Model Toward a Theory of Inuktut Knowledge Renewal Paperback Janet Tamalik Mcgrath 9781897568583 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 18, 2019

A qaggiq, or large communal iglu, is a place of community renewal and celebration. In The Qaggiq Model, Janet Tamalik McGrath considers how the structure and symbolism of the Qaggiq can be used to understand Inuit—centred methodologies toward enhanced wellbeing in Inuit communities. Drawing on interviews with the late philosopher and Inuit elder Mariano Aupilarjuk, along with her own life—long experiences, McGrath bridges Inuktut and Western academic ways of knowing. She addresses the question of how Inuktut knowledge renewal can be supported o... + Read More
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Series: Settler City Limits Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West Paperback Heather Dorries 9780887558436 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 04, 2019

While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler colonialism. Although such cities have been denigrated as “ordinary” or banal in the broader urban literature, they are exceptional sites to study Indigenous resurgence. T?he urban centres of the continental plains have featured Indigenous housing and food co-operatives, social service agencies, an... + Read More
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Series: Hunter with Harpoon Paperback Markoosie Patsauq 9780228004028 $19.95 FICTION Nov 18, 2020

Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance.In collaboration with the author, Valerie Henitiuk and Marc-Antoine Mah... + Read More
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Series: The Hands' Measure Essays Honouring Leah Aksaajuq Otak's Contribution to Arctic Science Paperback John MacDonald 9781897568415 $27.95 HISTORY Nov 28, 2018

This is an eclectic collection of essays written and compiled in recognition of Leah Aksaajuq Otak. The essays explore a wide variety of topics broadly related to cultural renewal and representation, oral history, heritage, and social change among the Inuit of Igloolik, in Nunavut's northern Qikiqtani Region. Leah was a skilled oral historian and linguist from Igloolik, whose essential contribution to scientific research in Nunavut inspired those who knew and worked with her. During the last two decades of her life, Leah Otak worked at the Iglo... + 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: Indigenous Studies I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi? Paperback An Antane Kapesh 9781771124089 $22.99 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

Quebec author An Antane Kapesh's two books, Je suis une maudite sauvagesse (1976) and Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays? (1979), are among the foregrounding works by Indigenous women in Canada. This English translation of these works, each page presented facing the revised Innu text, makes them available for the first time to a broader readership. In I Am a Damn Savage, Antane Kapesh wrote to preserve and share her culture, experience, and knowledge, all of which, she felt, were disappearing at an alarming rate because many Elders – like herself – we... + Read More
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Series: The Regina Collection In My Own Moccasins A Memoir of Resilience Paperback Helen Knott 9780889777316 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 21, 2020

An unflinching memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds of sexual assault from a resilient, emerging Indigenous voice. Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption. With gripping moments of withdrawa... + Read More
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Series: The Way Home Paperback David A. Neel 9780774890410 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2019

David Neel was an infant when his father, a traditional Kwakiutl artist, returned to the ancestors, triggering a series of events that would separate David from his homeland and its rich cultural traditions for twenty-five years. When the aspiring photographer saw a mask carved by an ancestor in a Texas museum, the encounter inspired him to return home and follow in his father’s footsteps. Drawing on memory, legend, and his own art, Neel recounts his struggle to reconnect with his culture and become an accomplished Kwakwa_ka_’wakw artist. His m... + Read More
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Series: Otter’s Journey through Indigenous Language and Law Paperback Lindsay Keegitah Borrows 9780774836586 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2018

Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Borrows makes use of the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how the work in Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. She follows Otter, a dodem (clan) relation from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, on a journey across Anishinaabe, Inuit, Maori, Coast Salish, and Abenaki territories, through a narrative of Indigenous ... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Studies Literatures, Communities, and Learning Conversations with Indigenous Writers Hardcover Aubrey Jean Hanson 9781771124492 $65.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 22, 2020

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: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies Plants, People, and Places The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights in Canada and Beyond Hardcover Nancy J. Turner 9780228001836 $49.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 20, 2020

For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples - as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials - and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs, narratives, and language. While the First Peoples of Canada and other parts of the world have developed deep cultural understandings of plants and their environments, this knowledge is often underrecognized in debates about land rights and title, reconciliation, treaty negotiations, and traditional territories. Plant... + Read More
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Series: Canada at a Crossroads Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations Paperback Jeffrey Denis 9781442614475 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 13, 2020

Drawing on group position theory, settler colonial studies, critical race theory, and Indigenous theorizing, Canada at a Crossroads emphasizes the social psychological barriers to transforming white settler ideologies and practices and working towards decolonization. After tracing settlers’ sense of group superiority and entitlement to historical and ongoing colonial processes, Denis illustrates how contemporary Indigenous and settler residents think about and relate to one another. He highlights how, despite often having close cross-group rela... + Read More
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Series: Loss of Indigenous Eden and the Fall of Spirituality Paperback Blair A. Stonechild 9780889776999 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 11, 2020

The follow-up to his award-winning book The Knowledge Seeker, Blair Stonechild’s Loss of Indigenous Eden and the Fall of Spirituality continues to explore the Indigenous spiritual teachings passed down to the author by Elders, examining their relevance in today’s world. Exploring how the rise of civilization has been antithetical to the relational philosophy of Indigenous thinking—whereby all things are interrelated and in need of care and respect—Stonechild demonstrates how the current global ideology of human dominance, economic growth, and t... + Read More
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Series: Too Many People Contact, Disorder, Change in an Inuit Society, 1822-2015 Paperback Willem Rasing 9781897568408 $32.95 HISTORY Mar 24, 2017

Too Many People examines the history of contact with the outside world and a group of Inuit, the Iglulingmiut living in Canada?s Eastern Arctic. The nature of these encounters and their impact is described and analysed from 1822 to 2015. Seeking to understand how order was brought about and maintained during this period of nearly two centuries, the ongoing historical narrative that evolves displays a pattern of interconnected social, economic, political, cognitive, and volitional changes in Iglulingmiut society.Starting with a detailed descript... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Education New Directions in Theory and Practice Paperback Huia Tomlins-Jahnke 9781772124149 $45.99 EDUCATION Jun 03, 2019

For Indigenous students and teachers alike, formal teaching and learning occurs in contested places. In Indigenous Education, leading scholars in contemporary Indigenous education from North America, New Zealand, and Hawaii disentangle aspects of colonialism from education to advance alternative philosophies of instruction. From multiple disciplines, contributors explore Indigenous education from theoretical and applied perspectives and invite readers to embrace new, informed ways of schooling. Part of a growing body of research, this is an exc... + 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: Spirit of the Grassroots People Seeking Justice for Indigenous Survivors of Canada's Colonial Education System Hardcover Raymond Mason 9780228003519 $24.95 HISTORY Oct 22, 2020

Raymond Mason is an Ojibway activist who campaigns for the rights of residential school survivors and a founder of Spirit Wind, an organization that played a key role in the development of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. This memoir offers a firsthand account of the personal and political challenges Mason confronted on this journey. A riveting and at times harrowing read, Spirit of the Grassroots People describes the author's experiences in Indian day and residential schools in Manitoba and his struggles to find meaning in l... + Read More
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Series: From Turtle Island to Gaza Paperback David A. Groulx 9781771992619 $19.99 POETRY Apr 30, 2019

With a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabee writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared understanding of colonial pasts and presents.
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Series: The Black Prairie Archives An Anthology Paperback Karina Vernon 9781771123747 $44.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 19, 2020

The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published here for the first time, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century. This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks and sounds like. It collects varied and unique work by writers who were both conscious and unconscious of them... + Read More
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Series: Ubuntu Relational Love Decolonizing Black Masculinities Paperback Devi Dee Mucina 9780887558429 $27.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 18, 2019

Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. Devi Dee Mucina is a Black Indigenous Ubuntu man. In Ubuntu Relational Love, he uses Ubuntu oratures as tools to address the impacts of Euro-colonialism while regenerating relational Ubuntu governance structures. Called “millet granaries” to reflect the nourishing and sustaining nature of Indigenous knowledges, and written as letters addressed to his mothe... + Read More
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Series: Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University Paperback rosalind hampton 9781487524869 $32.95 EDUCATION May 18, 2020

The presence and experiences of Black people at elite universities have been largely underrepresented and erased from institutional histories. This book engages with a collection of these experiences that span half a century and reflect differences in class, gender, and national identifications among Black scholars. By mapping Black people’s experiences of studying and teaching at McGill University, this book reveals how the "whiteness" of the university both includes and exceeds the racial identities of students and professors. It highlights t... + Read More
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Series: Finding Refuge in Canada Narratives of Dislocation Paperback George Melnyk 9781771993012 $27.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 28, 2021

Millions of people are displaced each year by war, persecution, and famine and the global refugee population continues to grow. Canada has often been regarded as a benevolent country, welcoming refugees from around the globe. However, refugees have encountered varying kinds of reception in Canada. Finding Refuge in Canada: Narratives of Dislocation is a collection of personal narratives about the refugee experience in Canada. It includes critical perspectives from authors from diverse backgrounds, including refugees, advocates, front-line worke... + Read More
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Series: ethnoGRAPHIC Light in Dark Times The Human Search for Meaning Paperback Alisse Waterston 9781487526405 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 17, 2020

What will become of us in these trying times? How will we pass the time that we have on earth? In gorgeously rendered graphic form, Light in Dark Times invites readers to consider these questions by exploring the political catastrophes and moral disasters of the past and present, revealing issues that beg to be studied, understood, confronted, and resisted. A profound work of anthropology and art, this book is for anyone yearning to understand the darkness and hoping to hold onto the light. It is a powerful story of encounters with writers, phi... + Read More
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Series: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading Paperback Dionne Brand 9781772125085 $12.99 LITERARY CRITICISM Jan 08, 2020

The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this…coloniality constructs outsides and insides—worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated—in order to live something like a real self. Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters with colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes; the ways that practices of reading and writing are shaped by those narrative structures; and the challenges of writin... + Read More
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Series: The Law is (Not) for Kids A Legal Rights Guide for Canadian Children and Teens Paperback Ned Lecic 9781771992374 $22.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Mar 30, 2019

In this practical guide to the law for the young people of Canada, Ned Lecic and Marvin Zuker provide an all-encompassing, accurate manual meant to empower and educate youth and those that serve them. As advocates for the rights of children, the authors provide examples of how young people can get their legal rights enforced while also encouraging them to consider whether the rights of youth are sufficient or should be expanded. The Law is (Not) for Kids is the first book to deal with Canadian law and the rights of children and teens that is me... + Read More
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Series: Dissonant Methods Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom Paperback Ada S. Jaarsma 9781772124897 $29.99 EDUCATION Jun 18, 2020

Dissonant Methods is an innovative collection that probes how, by approaching teaching creatively, postsecondary instructors can resist the constrictions of neoliberalism. Based on the foundations of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, whereby educators are asked to explore teaching as scholarship, these essays offer concrete and practical meditations on resistant and sustainable teaching. The contributors seek to undermine forms of oppression frequently found in higher education, and instead advance a vision of the university that upholds id... + Read More