Antoine Mountain follows up his previous memoir From Bear Rock Mountain with the book Child of Morning Star: Embers of an Ancient Dawn. Child of Morning Star is a poetic collection of stories that draws on Antoine Mountain's travels and...
Northwest Territories Collection
In the Northwest Territories collection, you will find titles about, featuring, or written by an author from Northwest Territories. We have gathered these collections together in the hopes of making it easier to find content that highlights the stories unique to the provinces and territories across Canada. If you know of a book that should be included in this collection, let us know!
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Auteur:Mountain, AntoineSommaire: - Auteur:Frolick, VernonSommaire:
This amazing true life story of Charles Fipke, the mining exploration geologist who discovered the vast diamond fields in Canada's North, reads like spell-binding adventure fiction. Fire into Ice follows Fipke-an Indiana Jones of mining...
- Auteur:Wisdomkeeper, John, Waldron, JulietSommaire:
Yaotl and Sascho splashed along the shores of the behchà, spears hefted, watching for the flash of fin to rise to the surface and sparkle in the sunlight. Tender feelings, barely discovered, flushed their faces. Waving their spears...
- Auteur:Olesen, DaveSommaire:
"After a fifteen-year career as a sled dog racer, musher Dave Olesen turned his focus away from competition and set out to fulfill a lifelong dream. Over the course of four successive winters he steered his dogs and sled on long trips...
- Auteur:Hay, ElizabethSommaire:
It's 1975, and the town of Yellowknife in Canada's Northwest Territories is in the middle of a dispute over a pipeline through the area. The small local radio station who reports on the controversy is undergoing some changes of its own...
- Auteur:Mowat, FarleySommaire:
The book tells of boys in their late teens: one white boy who has recently lost his parents, and one Indian boy from the Cree tribe of the same age. The boys embark on a mission to relieve the starvation of a neighbouring Indian village...
- Auteur:Van Camp, RichardSommaire:
The characters of Moccasin Square Gardens inhabit Denendeh, the land of the people north of the sixtieth parallel. These stories are filled with in-laws, outlaws and common-laws. Get ready for illegal wrestling moves ("The Camel Clutch...
- Auteur:Van Camp, RichardSommaire:
As a window into the magic and medicine of the Northwest Territories, Richard Van Camp's fourth short story collection is hilarious and heartbreaking. A teenaged boy confesses to a vicious assault on a cross-dressing classmate; Lance...
- Auteur:Asnong, JoceySommaire:
With imaginative text and colourful artwork, Nuptse and Lhotse's latest adventure showcases the history, culture, and environment of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Welcome to the Land of the Midnight Sun! While waiting...
- Auteur:Hendry, RebeccaSommaire:
A novel set in Yellowknife's historic Old Town in the 70s that explores both abandonment and belonging in the life of a young woman. In the spring of 1977, Annie, a flighty artist, and her twelve-year-old daughter, Delilah, trade the...
- Auteur:McCartney, LeslieSommaire:
A project originally conceived to document the biographies of Elders by the Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute, Our Whole Gwich'in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich'in K'yuu Gwiidandài' Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih is an invaluable...
- Auteur:Enzoe, PeteSommaire:
Describes the life of Pete Enzoe, a Chipewyan Indian living in the Northwest Territories, focusing on how he maintains his tribe's culture and the importance of caribou to his people's survival.
- Auteur:Esrock, RobinSommaire:
On his personal quest to check off the best of his home country, travel writer and host Robin Esrock catalogues must-sees, including nature, food, culture, history, adrenaline rushes, and quirky Canadiana. After spending years crafting...
- Auteur:Nelson, J. G.Sommaire:
"Fascinating and impressive." Thomas Gunton, Director of Resource and Environmental Planning, Simon Fraser University and former Deputy Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks, Government of British Columbia. The Magnificent Nahanni...
- Auteur:Neyelle, JohnnySommaire:
The Man Who Lived with a Giant presents traditional and personal stories told by Johnny Neyelle, a respected Dene storyteller and Elder from Déline, Northwest Territories. Johnny Neyelle used storytelling to teach Dene youth and others...
- Auteur:Yakeleya, RaymondSommaire:
The Rainbow, the Midwife & the Birds contains seven Dene stories, as told by Raymond Yakeleya. "Flight Through the Rainbow" is about flying through a rainbow in a small plane and experiencing multi-sensations of colour. It also...
- Auteur:Macpherson, MargaretSommaire:
In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the '60s and '70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined microaggressions, and how her childhood was shaped by...
- Auteur:Simon, Sarah, Yakeleya, ElizabethSommaire:
A work in progress since the 1970s, We Remember the Coming of the White Man chronicles the history of the Sahtú (Mountain Dene) and Gwinch’in People in the extraordinary time of the early 20th century. Chapters are transcripts of oral...
