In this highly anticipated new edition of her debut novel, Winona LaDuke weaves a nonlinear narrative of struggle and triumph, resistance and resilience, spanning seven generations from the 1800s to the early 2000s.
Indigenous materials
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Author:LaDuke, WinonaSummary: - Author:Taylor, Drew HaydenSummary:
Rien ne se produit jamais dans la réserve anishinabe de Lac-aux-Loutres. Enfin, jusqu'à l'arrivée d'un séduisant étranger aux cheveux blonds porté par une rutilante moto Indian Chief 1953. Les intentions du...
- Author:Roy, RéjeanSummary:
Il y a longtemps, le grand Glooscap créa le peuple mi'kmaq dans le territoire actuel des provinces de l'Atlantique. Puis le Maître interrogea les animaux de la région, qui étaient alors gigantesques, afin de connaître leur intention...
- Author:Gallant, CorinneSummary:
Album raconté en trois langues : français mi'kmaq et anglais. Parce qu'ils ne savaient pas se défendre contre le Roi de glace, les habitants d'un village mi'kmaq risquaient la mort chaque hiver. Jusqu'au jour où...
- Author:Mallet-Parent, JocelyneSummary:
«Les bernaches avec les oies blanches, ça finit toujours par porter malheur.» Le jour où il se met à fréquenter l’école des Blancs, Simon Vicaire prend vite conscience de sa «différence». Adolescent, il se voit interdire de fréquenter...
- Author:Bigras, Maxime, Roche, YannickSummary:
Salut, c'est moi, Yung ! Hé, vous ne devinerez jamais ce qu'il nous arrive ! Les parents d'Ah-Whe-Eyu nous ont invitées pour un grand pow-wow à Kanesatake. Après le repas, notre amie indienne nous a raconté une...
- Author:Tanaka, Michele TDSummary:
Across Canada, teachers unfamiliar with Aboriginal approaches to learning are seeking ways to respectfully weave Aboriginal content into their lessons. This book introduces an indigenist approach to education. It recounts how pre-...
- Author:Bird, JosephSummary:
He had just turned seventeen, but Joey Bird had been serving time off and on since he was thirteen, arrested for assault, assault with a weapon, assault against a police officer, and breach of conditions. Living in Winnipeg, young Joey...
- Author:Davidson, Robert, Gibbons, Janine, Davidson, Sara FlorenceSummary:
In this book, a son (Robert Davidson) learns to carve argillite from his father and grandfather. While carving, the son thinks back on a trip with his father when they gathered argillite from Slatechuck Mountain on Haida Gwaii. He...
- Author:Methot, SuzanneSummary:
Exploring intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities--and strategies for healing--with provocative prose and an empathetic approach. Indigenous peoples have shockingly higher rates of addiction, depression, diabetes, and other...
- Author:Capilano, Mary Agnes, Su-á-pu-luck, Johnson, E. PaulineSummary:
Bringing the Legends home Legends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson's 1911 classic Legends of Vancouver, restoring Johnson's intended title for the first time. This new edition celebrates the storytelling abilities of...
- Author:Jones, SheillaSummary:
Over the past fifty years, Canada's Indigenous Affairs department (now two departments with more than 30 federal co-delivery partners) has mushroomed into a "super-province" delivering birth-to-death programs and services...
- Author:Howard, Liz.Summary:
The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent . Griffin Poetry Prize, Finalist. I have to believe my account will outpace its ending. The danger and necessity of...
- Author:Kluane First NationSummary:
With generosity, diligence and deep commitment to their community, Elders from Lhù'ààn Mân Keyi (Kluane First Nation) recorded oral histories about their lives in the southwest Yukon. They shared wisdom, stories and songs passed...
- Author:Cenerini, RhéalSummary:
Après une longue absence, James Coutu rentre chez lui, une petite communauté de pêcheurs métis sur les bords du Grand lac. Il revient, dit-il, pour rdonni la vie à lis ceuses ki nont pas. En ce faisant, il se met à dos des puissances...
- Author:Freeman, Mini Aodla, Martin, Keavy, Rak, Julie, Dunning, NormaSummary:
Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those...
- Author:Ittusardjuat, MonicaSummary:
This bilingual book (with text in Inuktitut syllabics, Inuktitut Roman orthography, and English) shares six Inuktitut terms for caribou throughout their life cycles.
- Author:Walker, NikiSummary:
Beautiful artwork helps illuminate the daily lives of the Anishinabe, or first people, also known as the Chippewa or Ojibwa. Living in the Western Great Lakes region, the Anishinabe adapted to each season by changing camp locations to...
- Author:Thomas-Müller, ClaytonSummary:
An electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally recognized activist and survivor. There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child...
- Author:Anderson, Kim, Campbell, MariaSummary:
A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful healing force in the...
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