Resilient ideological assumptions, shifting economic priorities, and government policy in the postwar era influenced how northern culture was represented in popular Canadian imagery. In an enlightening exposure of Canada’s cultural...
Indigenous materials
- Author:Sangster, JoanSummary:
- Author:Francis, DanielSummary:
Images of First Nations people have always been fundamental to Canadian culture. From the paintings and photographs of the 19th century to the Mounted Police sagas and the spectacle of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; from the...
- Author:Harrington, M. R.Summary:
Here is a story of the Lenape Indians who lived in what is now New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. It describes their culture, crafts, and language as no other book has done. Hunters, fishers, artisans of flint and skins and basketry,...
- Author:Lomberg, MichelleSummary:
Hundreds of years ago, five American Indian nations came together to create one of the worlds first democracies. This was known as the Iroquois Confederacy. Learn more in The Iroquois, one of the titles in the American Indian Art and...
- Author:Shannon, Timothy J.Summary:
Shannon paints a vivid picture of the American frontier's most successful Indian confederacy.
- Author:Van Camp, Richard, Gray Smith, Monique, Gear, AlisonSummary:
From award-winning authors Richard Van Camp and Monique Gray Smith come two honest and memorable middle-grade novellas on residential schools and reconciliation. The novellas will be bound together in a 'flip-book' format, which offers...
- Author:Marshall, JosephSummary:
Presents a biography of the peerless warrior who defeated the U.S. Army at the Battle of Little Bighorn. To his fellow Lakota Indians, Crazy Horse was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who, with valor, spirit, respect, and...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
Migizi loves his Gookem. Can he find the perfect gift to show her how much? The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth -- are revealed in these seven stories for children. Set...
- Author:Stonechild, BlairSummary:
In The Knowledge Seeker, Blair Stonechild shares his own sixty-year journey of learning--from residential school to PhD and beyond--looking all the while to find a place for Indigenous spirituality in the classroom. Encouraged by an...
- Author:Robertson, David A.Summary:
Hockey fans will love this action-packed middle grade novel about teamwork, overcoming adversity, and being proud of who you are and where you come from. Join Alex as he navigates a new school, deals with new friends and bullies alike,...
- Author:Marshall, JosephSummary:
A gifted storyteller and historian and a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux, Joseph M. Marshall III, has dedicated his entire life to spiritual fulfillment and to teaching others the essence of Lakota wisdom. In The Lakota Way ,...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
When Richard's class from Big Spirit School takes a canoe trip, he and his classmates chance upon an ederly woman. She tells them the story of her grandfather, John Ramsay, of the Sandy Bar community on Lake Winnipeg. Ramsay's land was...
- Author:Collins, GarySummary:
Inspired by True Events
Long after Demasduit’s skull has been stolen from her grave, and years after Shanawdithit has died, one Beothuk and his family survive.
Bursting out of the pages of Newfoundland history appears Kop...
- Author:Judd, Steven Paul, That Native ThomasSummary:
A mysterious pow-wow is to be held inside a colossal tipi which suddenly appears on the outskirts of a small town, and only full-blooded Native Americans are allowed to attend the grand event.
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
As a priest nears the end of his life, he is asked to prove or disprove the sainthood of a woman he knows well and struggles to guard his own secret identity in the process.
- Author:Clark, Doug BockSummary:
Journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the stunning inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live on a volcanic island so remote it is known by other Indonesians as "The Land Left Behind." They...
- Author:McCue, HarveySummary:
The Learning Circle is designed to help meet Canadian educators' growing need for elementary-level learning exercises on First Nations. It is the third in a series of four classroom guides on First Nations in Canada.
Because...
- Author:Ikuutaq Rumbolt, PaulaSummary:
In The Legend of Lightning and Thunder, a traditional legend that has been told in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut for centuries, two siblings resort to stealing from their fellow villagers, and inadvertently introduce lightning and...
- Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:
Molly's father grew up on the Mohawk Reserve of Akwesasne, where he learned the best scary stories. One of her favorites was the legend of Skeleton Man, a tale about a man with a deadly hunger. But ever since her parents...
- Author:Sprung, Dawn, Bullshields, CharlesSummary:
The Legend of the Buffalo Stone is based on the history of the Blackfoot people—specifically their dependence on the buffalo and how they hunted the great animals on foot before horses were brought to North America—and is retold with...