Three Feathers bilingual edition includes Slavey and English. Three young men-Flinch, Bryce, and Rupert-have vandalized their community and are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing process...
Indigenous materials
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Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary: - Author:Anahareo, McCall, SophieSummary:
Anahareo (1906-1985) was a Mohawk writer, environmentalist, and activist. She was also the wife of Grey Owl, aka Archie Belaney, the internationally celebrated writer and speaker who claimed to be of Scottish and Apache descent, but...
- Author:Lockhart, D. A.Summary:
D.A. Lockhart's stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, thoughts, and experiences of an Anishinaabe guy from Central Ontario and the manner in which he interacts with central aspects and icons of settler...
- Author:McCaskill, Don N., Fontaine, JerrySummary:
An Indigenized, de-colonized world view for Indigenous leaders and academics seeking a path to reconciliation. Indigenization within the academy and the idea of truth and reconciliation within Canada have been seen as the remedy to...
- Author:Krotz, LarrySummary:
Indigenous youngsters from two communities in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with with what looked like type 2 diabetes. Over the next few decades more children would confront what was turning into not...
- Diagnosing the legacy: the discovery, research, and treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous youthAuthor:Krotz, Larry, Desjarlais, Frances, Dean, Heather, McGavock, Jonathan, Moffatt, Michael, Sellers, ElizabethSummary:
In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters from two First Nations in northern...
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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....
- Author:Auger, NeepinSummary:
Colourful drawings illustrate the numbers through ten in English, French, and Cree.
- Author:Auger, NeepinSummary:
The fourth book in this colourful and unique series introduces twenty-two basic words in English, French, and Cree relating to familiar people at home and in the community. Neepin Auger's books for children contain original, brightly...
- Author:Auger, NeepinSummary:
This updated edition includes a few replacement words and new artwork, gently refreshing the content to help teach the basics of early language in English, French, and Cree. Neepin Auger's books for children contain original, brightly...
- Author:Freeman, VictoriaSummary:
In this fair-minded and highly readable book, Victoria Freeman traces her European ancestors’ involvement in settling lands occupied by indigenous peoples in what would become New England and Ontario. It is a story of land fraud, broken...
- Author:Leroux, DarrylSummary:
Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined "Indigenous" identity. This study is not about...
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
- Author:Rice, RobertaSummary:
Across North and South America, Indigenous people play a dual political role, building self-governing structures in their own nations and participating in the elections of settler states. Doing Democracy Differently asks how states are...
- Author:Doty, ThomasSummary:
A collection of traditional and original Native American stories from the American West told by master storyteller Thomas Doty. His adventures with Coyote find them journeying into the rich native culture and traditions of Doty's...
- Author:Knockwood, DougSummary:
Mi'kmaw elder Doug Knockwood recounts the story of his life.
- Author:Jamieson, Keith, Hamilton, Michelle A.Summary:
2016 Ontario Historical Society Joseph Brant Award — Winner • 2017 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted A man of two cultures in an era where his only choices were to be a trailblazer or get left by the wayside Dr. Oronhyatekha (“...
- Author:King, ThomasSummary:
Thumps DreadfulWater is a Cherokee ex-cop trying to make a living as a photographer in the small town of Chinook, somewhere in the northwestern United States. But he doesn't count on snapping shots of a dead body languishing in a newly...
- Author:Momaday, N. ScottSummary:
Influenced by his Native American heritage and its oral storytelling traditions, here are prose poems about nature, animals, warriors, and hunters, as well as meditations that explore themes of love, loss, time, and memory.
- Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:
Rodeo cowboy Joe Willie Wolfchild, riding an explosive bull called See Four and moments away from becoming World Champion, suffers a devastating accident. His parents and grandparents use all their native wisdom to ease him out of his...
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