Indigenous communities have been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the...
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Author:Hargreaves, AllisonSummary: - Author:Summary:
A collection of humorous and short two-spirit plays about the desires, identity and community of homosexual Indigenous people.
- Author:Eigenbrod, RenateSummary:
In the context of de/colonization, the boundary between an Aboriginal text and the analysis by a non-Aboriginal outsider poses particular challenges often constructed as unbridgeable. Eigenbrod argues that politically correct silence is...
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Author:Belcourt, Billy-RaySummary:Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to 'cut a hole in the sky to world inside.' Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like...
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Author:King, ThomasSummary:Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King...
- Author:Dumont, DawnSummary:
The hilarious story of an unlikely group of Indigenous dancers who find themselves thrown together on a performance tour of Europe. The Tour is all prepared. The Prairie Chicken dance troupe is all set for a fifteen-day trek through...
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Strength and Struggle: Perspectives from First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples in Canada is part of McGraw-Hill Ryerson's iLit Collection of supplementary student resources for high school English courses. This title is a 149-page,...
- Author:Campbell, Nicola I.Summary:
In this exceptional memoir, bestselling author Nicola I. Campbell deftly weaves together rich poetry and vivid prose to illustrate what it means to be an intergenerational survivor of Residential Schools.
- Author:Campbell, Nicola I.Summary:
In this exceptional memoir, bestselling author Nicola I. Campbell deftly weaves together rich poetry and vivid prose to illustrate what it means to be an intergenerational survivor of Indian Residential Schools.
- 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...
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This collection of contemporary poetry, art, and narrative supports K-12 teachers in connecting with Indigenous voices and perspectives, bringing Indigenous works in their classrooms, and creating equitable teaching practices.
- Author:Highway, TomsonSummary:
Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the 11th of 12 children in a nomadic, caribou-...
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Author:Ray, Deborah KoganSummary:Documents the life and achievements of the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute leader, examining how her aptitude for languages and diplomacy enabled her to advocate on behalf of her tribe.
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Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:In One Story, One Song, Richard Wagamese explores the importance of stories: how they shape us, how they empower us, how they change our lives. Ancient and contemporary, cultural and spiritual, funny and sad, the tales are...
- Author:McGowan-Ross, TaraSummary:
Tara McGowan-Ross, an infamous Montreal party girl, discovers a lump in her breast, which sends her on a tumultuous journey of rigorous self-questioning. This coming-of-age memoir weaves together a hilarious and heartbreaking story...
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Author:Nolan, YvetteSummary:Contemporary Indigenous theatre in Canada is only thirty-three years old, if one begins counting from the premiere of Maria Campbell’s Jessica in Saskatoon and the establishment of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto. Since those...
- Author:McKegney, SamSummary:
The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities. Magic Weapons...
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Author:Hanson, Aubrey JeanSummary:"It's a book of conversations -- interviews with nine Indigenous writers who work in Canada. All have been influenced by colonization and are surrounded by discourses of Indigenization, reconciliation, appropriation, and...
- Author:McDonald, JohnSummary:
The Neyhiyawak (Plains Cree) word "Kitotam" translates into English as, "He Speaks to It." This is a collection of free-verse poetry by Indigenous poet and artist John McDonald. Written in two parts, these poems chronicle John's life...
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Author:Summary:A groundbreaking anthology from territory that is now known as Saskatchewan, Kisiskâciwan contains rich, oral narratives from Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, Dakota, Dene, Gros Ventres, and Métis cultures; speeches and letters by Treaty Chiefs...
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