A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today...
Indigenous materials
- Author:DuVal, KathleenSummary:
- Author:Smith, A. G., Livesey, RobertSummary:
The Discovering Canada series presents information, stories and activities to make Canadian history interesting to young people. Each of the eleven illustrated books focuses on a theme in Canadian history and includes primary source...
- Author:Stebbins, SusanSummary:
Native Peoples of North America is intended to be an introductory text about the Native peoples of North America (primarily the United States and Canada) presented from an anthropological perspective. As such, the text is organized...
- Author:Landry, BarbaraSummary:
In this charming story that includes words in Inuktitut, a ringed seal returns to his Arctic home after a long journey south. He tells his friends of his adventures -- including the discovery of strange, tall statues that sway in the...
- Author:Challenger, Robert JamesSummary:
This is Robert James Challenger's fifth collection of beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read short stories that impart practical, moral lessons about life in today's world. As in Aesop's fables and First Nations legends, animals, birds...
- Author:Belcourt, Billy-RaySummary:
In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection, This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt aims more of an anthropological eye at the contours of NDN and queer social worlds to spot the much that is left unsaid when we...
- Author:Smith, Odelia, Olsen, SylviaSummary:
Neekah's great grandma, Mumma, knit all her life. Her Grandma Dorothy knits, her mom knits and all her aunties knit. Even some of Neekah's uncles knit, too. Every year she asks her mom if she can learn, and every year she hears, "Be...
- Author:Armstrong, Jeannette C.Summary:
Neekna and Chemai are two little girls growing up in the Okanagan Valley before the coming of the white man. Through these two friends, we learn about the seasonal life patterns of the Okanagan Indian people.
- Author:Regular, W. KeithSummary:
Neighbours and Networks explores the economic relationship that existed between the Blood Indian reserve and the surrounding region of southern Alberta between 1884 and 1939. The Blood tribe, though living on a reserve, refused to...
- Author:Jones, CarwynSummary:
Legal traditions respond to social and economic environments. Māori author and legal scholar Carwyn Jones provides a timely examination of how the resolution of land claims in New Zealand has affected Māori law and the challenges faced...
- Author:Custer, Andrea, Daniels. BelindaSummary:
A hands-on guide for parents and caregivers to develop best practices in revitalizing and teaching Cree to young children. In nēhiyawētān kīkināhk / Speaking Cree in the Home, Belinda Daniels and Andrea Custer provide an...
- Author:Deiter, PatriciaSummary:
Following the themes of the Saskatchewan Curriculum Guide for Kindergarten to Grade 12 on Aboriginal Languages, the content focuses on terms familiar to the First Nations Cree people of Saskatchewan. The enhanced e-book edition,...
- Author:Robertson, JoanneSummary:
A board book about the importance of Nibi, which means water in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), and our role to thank, respect, love, and protect it. Written from an Anishinaabe water protector's perspective, the book is in dual language--...
- Author:Tenasco, SunshineSummary:
Nibi is an Indigenous girl on the search for clean water to drink. Though she is faced with repeated obstacles, Nibi's joyful and determined energy become a catalyst for change and action as her community, and in widening circles, the...
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
As a window into the magic and medicine of the Northwest Territories, Richard Van Camp's fourth short story collection is hilarious and heartbreaking. A teenaged boy confesses to a vicious assault on a cross-dressing classmate; Lance...
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
As a window into the magic and medicine of the Northwest Territories, Richard Van Camp's fourth short story collection is hilarious and heartbreaking. A teenaged boy confesses to a vicious assault on a cross-dressing classmate; Lance...
- Author:Bussidor, IlaSummary:
Night Spirits is the story of the Sayisi Dene of northern Manitoba. In their own words, they describe how the Canadian government abruptly relocated them from their ancestral homelands and left them to live in slums on the outskirts of...
- Author:Ratt, SolomonSummary:
"So often, it is through humour that the big lessons in life are learned"--about adult responsibilities, honour, and respect. Cree people love to make jokes and laugh, so the tales in Woods Cree Stories are filled with wit. The book...
- Author:McCallum, Mary Jane LoganSummary:
This book takes its title from the phrase for "I work" in Lunaape, the traditional language of Munsee Delaware people, and was inspired by the work of the Munsee Delaware Language and History Group. Written for the descendants and...
- Author:Kalluk, BabahSummary:
Niitu’s best friend is Chips. It doesn’t matter that Niitu is a kid and Chips is a seal, they spend every moment they can together. When Niitu and Chips head out for a day at the lake, being a seal ends up coming in very handy at the...