-nitotamahk k sik is a poetry collection in Cree that describes deep personal experiences and post-generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal residential school confinements in the 1960's when thousands of First Nations, M tis...
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Author:Deerchild, RosannaSummary: - Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things about her grandmother that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long braided hair and wear beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she...
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Author:Simpson, Leanne BetasamosakeSummary:In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg...
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Author:McFarlane, Sheryl, Redhead, Leslie, Gould, HeatherSummary:This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. This gorgeously illustrated picture book is a celebration of summer vacation and West Coast island life. Every day is different on Gran's island in the Salish Sea as...
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In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, John Langan, starts from the bottom in life, losing his father to suicide and step-dad to drugs. John overcomes blatant racism, poverty, violence, alcohol, and a drug environment by...
- Author:Fiddler, Teri Redsky, Hay, TravisSummary:
Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty...
- Author:Porter, MichelleSummary:
In poems that risk the comingling of anger and elegy, poetry and documentation, humour and the dark spectre of poverty, Michelle Porter’s Inquiries oscillates at its edges, and amplifies the presence of human strength as it keeps...
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A collection of perspectives by and about Indigenous Toronto, past, present, and future. Beneath every major city in North America lies a deep and rich Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, and ignored. Few of its...
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Author:Archibald, Jo-AnnSummary:Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Coast Salish Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous...
- Author:Innes, Robert Alexander, Anderson, Kim, Cariou, Warren, Tengan, Ty P. Kāwika, Hokowhitu, Brendan, Justice, Daniel Heath, Scofield, Gregory, Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James, McKegney, Sam, Antone, Bob, Borell, Phillip, Minor, Kimberly, Van Camp, Richard, Morgensen, Scott L., Henry, Robert, Piché, Allison, Sky, Sasha, Sneider, Leah, Sutherland, Erin, Swift, John, Tatonetti, Lisa, Lee, Lloyd L., Richards Jr., William Kahalepuna, Kaulukukui Jr., Thomas Ka’auwaiSummary:
What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking...
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Indigenous Justice is Book 10 in the Durvile True Cases series. In the spirit of truth and reconciliation and respectful of Indigenous cultural integrity, judges, lawyers, and law enforcement officers write about working with First...
- Author:Voyageur, Cora Jane, Barnes, Barbara G.Summary:
This book presents a study conducted between 2005 and 2010 of 60 self-declared Indigenous university students from western Canada. The study explored Indigenous identity formation among these students through these central research...
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Author:Ross, RupertSummary:Imagine a world in which people see themselves as embedded in the natural order, with ethical responsibilities not only toward each other, but also toward rocks, trees, water and all nature. Imagine seeing yourself not as a master of...
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For Indigenous students and teachers alike, formal teaching and learning occurs in contested places. In Indigenous Education, leading scholars in contemporary Indigenous education from North America and the Pacific Islands disentangle...
- Author:Hilton, Carol AnneSummary:
Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship, and care for all. Includes voices of leading First Nations business leaders. Powerful reading for business...
- Author:Soliman, NikkiSummary:
Indig-enough is a self-awareness celebration of walking in two worlds. Whichever way you choose to present yourself to the world it is important to stand in your power and be true to yourself while holding onto your Traditional...
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Author:King, ThomasSummary:Meet Bird and Mimi. The brilliant new novel from one of Canada's foremost authors. Inspired by a handful of old postcards, sent by Uncle Lenny nearly a hundred years before, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace the steps of Mimi's long-lost...
- Author:Kenny, George, Eigenbrod, Renate, Ningewance, Patricia M.Summary:
George Kenny is an Anishinaabe poet and playwright who learned traditional ways from his parents before being sent to residential school in 1958. When Kenny published his first book, 1982’s Indians Don’t Cry, he joined the ranks of...
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Author:Louttit, ErnieSummary:When he began his career with the Saskatoon Police in 1987, Ernie Louttit was only the city’s third native police officer. “Indian Ernie”, as he came to be known on the streets, details an era of challenge, prejudice, and also...
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Author:Metcalfe-Chenail, DanielleSummary:What is real reconciliation? This collection of essays from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada welcomes readers into a timely, healing conversation—one we've longed for but, before now, have had a...
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