Ujarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d’Anglure the narratives which make up the heart of Inuit Stories of Being and...
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Author: Saladin d'Anglure, Bernard ; Frost, Peter ; Lévi-Strauss, ClaudeSummary: - Author: Peters, Evelyn ; Stock, Matthew ; Werner, AdrianSummary:
Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Couleeese were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the...
- Author: Raska, JanSummary:
During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence of anti-...
- Diagnosing the legacy: the discovery, research, and treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous youthAuthor: Krotz, Larry ; Desjarlais, Frances ; Dean, Heather ; McGavock, Jonathan ; Moffatt, Michael ; Sellers, ElizabethSummary:
In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters from two First Nations in northern...
- Author: McCallum, Mary Jane Logan ; Perry, AdeleSummary:
Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that...
- Author: Martini, ClemSummary:
Titus Maccius Plautus' career is on the decline. Once renound for bringing Greek comedies to the Roman world, now he struggles to stage a single play. Unlucky with money and unlucky in love, Plautus faces the world with wry dignity...
- Author: St. Amand, Isabelle ; Stewart, S.E. ; David Cree, Katsitsén:hawe LindaSummary:
In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis—or the Kanehsatake Resistance—exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the wake of the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, the conflict made...
- Author: Carlson, Keith Thor ; Lutz, John Sutton ; Schaepe, David M. ; McHalsie, Naxaxalhts’i – Albert “Sonny”Summary:
"Towards a New Ethnohistory" engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This new ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of...
- Author: Morton, F.L. ; Snow, DaveSummary:
Since the first edition of this popular text was published in 1984, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed the role of the courts in Canadian politics. Newly revised and updated, Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in...
- Author: St-Denis, GuySummary:
Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812, and also for his noble death at the Battle of Queenston Heights. In the more than two centuries since...
- Author: Kading, Terry ; Cooke, Lisa ; Farough, Dawn ; Reid, Robin ; Besanger, Kendra ; Ratsoy, Conny ; Block, TinaSummary:
Small cities face intricate challenges. No Straight Lines provides the basis for a refined model of community engaged leadership and research designed to realize equality of quality of life. With particular attention to the small city...
- Author: Sheppy, NikkiSummary:
Sense and sensuality. Body and embodiment. Fail Safe links human senses to the fecund world, examining plant and human bodies on the inside and the outside. Linguistically flourishing, sonically dense, this language is tactile. Dynamic...
- Author: Lackenbauer, P. Whitney ; Lajeunesse, Adam ; Lasserre, Frederic ; Manicom, JamesSummary:
China’s Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada is an in-depth studies of China’s increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese motivations and the potential impacts of greater Chinese...
- Author: Webster, DavidSummary:
Truth and reconciliation is complex, complicated, and ongoing. Although the operational phases of truth commissions have been well examined, the efforts to establish these commissions and the struggle to put their recommendations into...
- Author: Sharman, LindseySummary:
The Writing on the Wall tells the story of artist, curator, writer and activist Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA. Although never claiming to be political and rejecting a feminist label, Cardinal-Schubert's work recognizes that the...
- Author: Herbert, RachelSummary:
Once dominated by large cattle operations covering thousands of acres, Alberta in the 1880s-1930s saw a shift as small, family-owned ranches began to dot the province's southern plains. While this era of agriculture might conjure...
- Author: Whigham, Thomas L.Summary:
In 1864 the capture of Brazilian steamer the Marquês de Olinda initiated South America's most significant war. Thousands of Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan soldiers engaged in a protracted siege of Paraguay, leaving the...
- Author: Diaz, Harry ; Warren, Jim ; Hurlbert, Margot ; Boninsegna, Jose Armando ; Bonsal, Barrie ; Corkal, Darrell ; Fletcher, Amber ; Hadarits, Monica ; Harrison, Tom ; Hurlbert, Margot ; Kerr, Samantha ; Knuttila, Erin ; Kulshreshta, Suren ; Marchildon, Gregory ; Montana, Elma ; Morito, Bruce ; Pittman, Jeremy ; Rojas, Alejandro ; Sauchyn, David ; Santibanez, Paula ; Unvoas, A. ; Wandel, Johanna ; Warren, James ; Whittrock, Virginia ; Wheaton, ElaineSummary:
Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The...
- Author: Ives, Jack D.Summary:
A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the “golden age” of federal research. In the 1960s,...
- Author: Melnyk, George ; Coates, DonnaSummary:
Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta...
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