A landmark publication bringing together more than seventy voices illuminating the rich array of Indigenous art held by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Under the editorial direction of Anishinaabe artist and scholar Bonnie Devine...
Indigenous materials
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Author:McMichael Canadian Art CollectionSummary: - Author:Sioui, GeorgesSummary:
Eatenonha is the Wendat word for love and respect for the Earth and Mother Nature. For many Native peoples and newcomers to North America, Canada is a motherland, an Eatenonha - a land in which all can and should feel included, valued,...
- Author:Schreyer, Christine, Southwick, Tosh, Castillo, Victoria ElenaSummary:
Today, First Nations peoples living in Yukon, Canada are reviving and practicing their cultural traditions in exciting ways. At the same time, there has been an influx of newcomers to the territory who want to learn more about Yukon's...
- Author:Touchie, Rodger D.Summary:
Edward S. Curtis Above the Medicine Line is both an introduction to the Seattle-based photographer and a tribute to a true visionary. While Curtis’s photographs will long be his legacy, his own story is likewise compelling. Curtis built...
- Author:Little Badger, DarcieSummary:
Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples,...
- Author:Innes, Robert AlexanderSummary:
Offers a detailed analysis of the role of Elder Brother stories in historical and contemporary kinship practices in Cowessess First Nation, located in southeastern Saskatchewan. Robert Innes reveals how these tradition-inspired...
- Author:Innes, Robert AlexanderSummary:
In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains were relatively small multicultural communities that actively maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship practices. These practices were governed...
- Author:Younging, GregorySummary:
Elements of Indigenous Style provides guidelines to help writers, editors, and publishers produce material that reflects Indigenous people in an appropriate and respectful manner. Gregory Younging, a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation...
- Author:Desjardins, MarieSummary:
L’île la plus au nord de l’Arctique. Le théâtre d’une tragédie humaine. Au cours des années 1950, le gouvernement canadien y a sauvagement déporté une centaine d’Inuits pour assurer la souveraineté territoriale du pays. Bien plus tard,...
- Author:Gentile, LeslieSummary:
It's the summer of 1978 and most people think Elvis Presley has been dead for a year. But eleven-year-old Truly knows Elvis is alive and well and living in her trailer park. It's a busy summer. Though Truly's mother is constantly...
- Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:
"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head on-and I have become...
- Author:Gwynne, S. C.Summary:
S.C. Gwynne's New York Times bestselling historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West is now available from Encore for the first time and at a great low price....
- Author:Dimaline, CherieSummary:
Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year--ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near...
- Author:Abel, JordanSummary:
Jordan Abel's extraordinary new book and debut work of fiction, Empty Spaces, grows out of his groundbreaking visual expression in NISHGA. That book integrated descriptions of the landscape from James Fenimore Cooper's settler classic...
- Author:Luby, BrittanySummary:
Two people navigate their differences with curiosity and openness in this stunning picture book that imagines the first meeting between an Indigenous fisher and a European sailor. Based on an actual journal entry by French explorer...
- Author:Brown, Bern WillSummary:
A history of the "End-of-Earth" Native people of Canada’s far-North Sahtu region. Bern Will Brown, noted northern author, artist, photographer, and respected community leader living in Colville Lake, Northwest Territories,...
- Author:Katz, JenniferSummary:
In an educational milieu in which standards and accountability hold sway, schools can become places of stress, marginalization, and isolation instead of learning communities that nurture a sense of meaning and purpose. In Ensouling Our...
- Author:Pellissier-Lush, JulieSummary:
The highly anticipated debut poetry collection of Mi'kmaq poems by Prince Edward Island's Poet Laureate, Julie Pellisier-Lush. This collection will enthral poetry lovers. Skilled at taking words from hearts and minds to paper, Julie's...
- Author:Dunning, NormaSummary:
“Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity” examines Dunning’s lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. Her writing takes into account the many assimilative practices that Inuit continue to face...
- Author:GoldenEagle, Carol RoseSummary:
Parenthood is a journey with no roadmap, and it is the children who most often steer the ship. There are times in a parent's life when they ask, "Why am I doing this? It's so hard..." That is, until the moment of magic happen-and they...
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