Book Four of the Silas Seaweed mysteries.
Police officer Silas Seaweed is thrown in the middle of a labyrinth of blackmail and murder when he sets off to unmask the culprit behind the 10-foot-tall bear he encountered on the...
Indigenous materials
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Book One of the Silas Seaweed mysteries.
A billionaire's daughter with an unsavoury past has mysteriously disappeared. Silas Seaweed, a savvy, street-smart investigator based in Victoria, B.C., is put on the case. His search for...
- Author:Evans, StanleySummary:
I knew that if I dived deep enough, the bullets would lose their killing velocity. I heard, or sensed, another explosive blast. My left arm was useless. I kept diving, down and out into deeper, blacker water . . . Coast Salish...
- Author:Spalding, AndreaSummary:
In 1935, a boy witnesses a forbidden potlatch. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:Anderson, Mark CronlundSummary:
The authors (professors of history and art history at the U. of Regina, Canada) conduct a discourse analysis of how Canada's indigenous peoples have been portrayed in Canadian newspapers from the sale of Hudson's Bay Company lands to...
- Author:BomgiizhikSummary:
Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings is a collection of traditional Ojibwe/Anishinaabe stories transcribed directly from Murdoch's oral storytelling, preserving the style and rhythm of the storyteller's voice. These are stories of...
- Author:Natcher, David C., Felt, Lawrence, Procter, AndreaSummary:
On January 22, 2005, Inuit from communities throughout northern and central Labrador gathered in a school gymnasium to witness the signing of the Labrador Inuit Land Claim Agreement and to celebrate the long-awaited creation of their...
- Author:Barker, Adam J., Battell Lowman, EmmaSummary:
Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous nations, Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada explains what it means to be Settler and argues that accepting this...
- Author:Talaga, TanyaSummary:
In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations...
- Author:Pettipas, KatherineSummary:
Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing social, economic and political values. However, missionaries and government officials with ethnocentric attitudes of cultural superiority decreed...
- Author:Dandurand, Joseph A.Summary:
This powerful collection, all too relevant today, tells a story that needs to be told. The author writes, "This is the truth of what has happened to my people. The Kwantlen people used to number in the thousands but like all river...
- Author:Wilson, JanetSummary:
This is the true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat, a Cree community in Northern Ontario, who have been fighting for a new school since 1979, when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building. It is...
- Author:Weiss, JosephSummary:
Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society. This book asserts quite the opposite: Indigenous peoples are not in any sense “out of time” in...
- Author:Mays, Nancy K., Davids, ShariceSummary:
This inspiring picture book autobiography tells the remarkable story of Sharice Davids, one of the first Native American women elected to Congress and the first LGBTQ congressperson to represent Kansas.
- Author:Willett, Mindy, Beaver, Eileen, Beaver, HenrySummary:
Henry and Eileen Beaver live in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. They are both community leaders, parents, and grandparents. When their daughter, Joline, and grandchildren come for a visit, they teach them about their land and culture...
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Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future looks to both the past and the future as it examines the foundational work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the legacy of its 1996 report. It assesses the Commission's...
- Author:Fontaine, NaomiSummary:
Naomi Fontaine raconte à Shuni l'histoire du peuple innu avec amour, passion et dignité. Prix des collégiens 2020 Finaliste Prix Voix autochtones 2020 Finaliste Prix Une ville un livre (Ville de Québec) 2020 Résumé Naomi Fontaine écrit...
- Author:Bearhead, Wilson, Bearhead, CharleneSummary:
Siha Tooskin (Paul) is ill in the hospital and there he learns about the combination of Western medicine and Nakota remedies that will help him get better.
- Author:Bearhead, Wilson, Bearhead, CharleneSummary:
Siha Tooskin (Paul) learns from his grandmother about how a dream catcher is made, and how it will protect his baby sister from bad dreams when she is asleep.
- Author:Bearhead, Wilson, Bearhead, CharleneSummary:
Siha Tooskin (Paul) has a school assignment to talk about healthy foods from his (Nakota) culture. His father teaches him about the Indigenous origins of many foods that we enjoy today.
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