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...
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- Author:Bussidor, IlaSummary:
- Author:Miller, Robert J.Summary:
- Author:Hogue, MichelSummary:
Metis and the Medicine Line tells the remarkable story of the Plains Metis and the violent birth of the Canada/U.S. border.
- 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:Harris, Douglas C.Summary:
Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other....
- Author:Antane Kapesh, An, Fontaine, Naomi, Mailhot, JoséSummary:
Je suis une maudite sauvagesse chronique d'An Antane Kapesh Édition bilingue innu-aïmun / français Édité et préfacé par Naomi Fontaine Traduit en français par José Mailhot Résumé Un classique. Dans Je suis une maudite...
- Author:Palmater, Pamela D.Summary:
This book is a collection of the best blogs from Indigenous Nationhood produced by well-known lawyer, activist and academic Pamela Palmater. Her blogs offer critical legal and political commentary and analysis on legislation, Aboriginal...
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"Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric development has dramatically altered the social, political, and physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been cut up into segments and fractured by a...
- Author:Woo, Grace Li XiuSummary:
Some assume that Canada earned a place among postcolonial states in 1982 when it took charge of its Constitution. Yet despite the formal recognition accorded to Aboriginal and treaty rights at that time, Indigenous peoples continue to...
- Author:Gehl, LynnSummary:
A follow-up to Claiming Anishinaabe, Gehl v Canada is the story of Lynn Gehl's lifelong journey of survival against the nation-state's constant genocidal assault against her existence. While Canada set up its colonial powers-including...
- Author:Winegard, Timothy C.Summary:
An analysis of the role of Canada's Aboriginal soldiers in the First World War.
- Author:Flanagan, TomSummary:
Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that...
- Author:Flanagan, ThomasSummary:
Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that include the...
- Author:Wolf Collar, LeroySummary:
Indigenous Peoples in Canada are continuing to assert their right to self-determination in this era of reconciliation. While dozens of Indigenous communities have signed varying forms of self-government agreements with the federal...
- Author:Truth and Reconciliation Commission of CanadaSummary:
This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume,...
- Author:Antane Kapesh, AnSummary:
"The book contains two works in English translation (the original Innu appears en face throughout), and these deal with topics such as loss of hunting territory, the residential school system, and police brutality."--
- Author:McCaig, DonaldSummary:
This sequel to Donald McCaig's Civil War novel "Jacob's ladder" delivers a saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows the changing fortunes of a...
- Author:Brown, DeeSummary:
Dee Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
- Author:Reyes, Lawney L.Summary:
The childhood memories of the author portray the building of the Grand Coulee Dam during the Depression, and the stories of the men who came to build it. B Street was the street of shops, restaurants, bars, and brothels where the...
- Author:Frideres, James S.Summary:
Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, eighth edition, provides a current, comprehensive introduction to Native Studies. Using both the majority and minority perspectives, it chronicles the changes that have taken place over the past century and...