In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's worst residential schools. St. Anne's, in northern Ontario, is an institution now notorious...
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Auteur: Metatawabin, Edmund, Shimo-Barry, Alex, Boyden, JosephSommaire:
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Auteur: Boyden, JosephSommaire:
Louis Riel, a controversial Métis mystic and visionary, fought for his people’s rights against an encroaching tide of white settlers. Hunter and Métis leader Gabriel Dumont, a man tested by...
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Auteur: Boyden, JosephSommaire:
In Joseph Boyden's novella, an Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School.
He realizes too late just how far away he is from home. Along the way he's followed by Manitous,...
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Auteur: Botsford Fraser, Marian, Pillay, Sukanya, Roach, Kent, Boyden, JosephSommaire:
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with this overview of its activities--sometimes quiet and sometimes strident--as a watchdog and safeguard for Canadians...
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Auteur: Boyden, JosephSommaire:
"Wabusk Outside the Wire / Nanook Looking In" is Joseph Boyden's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world's most extreme...
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Auteur: Boyden, Joseph, Leavitt, Sarah, Maharaj, Rabindranath, Richler, Noah, York, Alissa, Rogers, ShelaghSommaire:
Northwords is a collection of stories written by acclaimed Canadian authors Joseph Boyden, Sarah Leavitt, Rabindranath Maharaj, Noah Richler, and Alissa York as they experienced one of Canada’s...
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Auteur: McKegney, Sam, Boyden, Joseph, Highway, Tomson, Maracle, Lee, Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James, Johnston, Basil H., Claxton, Dana, Moses, Daniel David, Halfe, Louise Bernice (Sky Dancer), Alfred, Taiaiake, Hill, Janice C., Anderson, Kim, Thrasher, Thomas Kimeksun, Hokowhitu, Brendan, Tengan, Ty P. Kawika, Cariou, Warren, Calder, Alison, Justice, Daniel Heath, Stimson, Adrian, Houle, Terrance, Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri, van Camp, Richard, Arnott, Joanne, McLeod, Neal, Scofield, GregorySommaire:
What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject...
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Auteur: Boyden, JosephSommaire:
Cree bush pilot Will Bird lies comatose in a hospital, while his wayward niece Annie arrives to sit in silent vigil by his side. Slowly their stories reveal two people previously separated by...
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Auteur: Boyden, JosephSommaire:
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is...
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Auteur: Boyden, JosephSommaire:
An epic story of first contact between radically different worlds, steeped in the natural beauty and brutality of our country's formative years.