Exploring intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities--and strategies for healing--with provocative prose and an empathetic approach. Indigenous peoples have shockingly higher rates of addiction, depression, diabetes, and other...
Indigenous peoples
- Author:Methot, SuzanneSummary:
- Author:Davidson, Robert, Gibbons, Janine, Davidson, Sara FlorenceSummary:
In this book, a son (Robert Davidson) learns to carve argillite from his father and grandfather. While carving, the son thinks back on a trip with his father when they gathered argillite from Slatechuck Mountain on Haida Gwaii. He...
- Author:Althaus, Catherine, O'Faircheallaigh, CiaranSummary:
Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Today, there are thousands of Indigenous public servants in these countries, and hundreds in senior...
- Author:Gallant, CorinneSummary:
Album raconté en trois langues : français mi'kmaq et anglais. Parce qu'ils ne savaient pas se défendre contre le Roi de glace, les habitants d'un village mi'kmaq risquaient la mort chaque hiver. Jusqu'au jour où...
- Author:La Chance, MichaëlSummary:
Avant de rédiger son Discours de la méthode, véritable coup d’État dans la pensée philosophique du XVIIe siècle, le jeune Descartes avait fait trois songes dans une nuit de novembre 1619. Le cerveau en feu de M. De∫cartes revisite ces...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
Les Sept enseignements des Anishinaabeg (l’amour, la sagesse, l’humilité, le courage, le respect, l’honnêteté et la vérité) sont au cœur de ces sept histoires pour enfants. Se déroulant en milieu urbain et mettant en scène des...
- Author:LaDuke, WinonaSummary:
In this highly anticipated new edition of her debut novel, Winona LaDuke weaves a nonlinear narrative of struggle and triumph, resistance and resilience, spanning seven generations from the 1800s to the early 2000s.
- Author:Brave Bird, MarySummary:
Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for...
- Author:Farrell Holler, SueSummary:
Lacey Little Bird loves spending time with Kahasi, an elder on her reserve who is like a grandmother to her. From her Lacey is learning about their people, the Siksika Blackfoot tribe of Alberta, including the art of beadwork. Lacey...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
Les Sept enseignements des Anishinaabeg (l’amour, la sagesse, l’humilité, le courage, le respect, l’honnêteté et la vérité) sont au cœur de ces sept histoires pour enfants. Se déroulant en milieu urbain et mettant en scène des...
- Author:Carr-Stewart, SheilaSummary:
In 1867, Canada's federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools....
- 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...
- Author:Buck, WilfredSummary:
Kitcikisik / Great Sky: Stories That Fill the Night Sky, is a Cree perspective on stars and constellations. For millennia, humans have stared into the night sky and wondered. Every culture on the face of Nikawiy Aski, Mother Earth, have...
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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...
- Author:Harvey, Kim SenklipSummary:
"Come along for the ride to Kamloopa, the largest Powwow on the West Coast. This high-energy Indigenous matriarchal story follows two urban Indigenous sisters and a lawless Trickster who face our postcolonial world head-on as they come...
- Author:Whitehead, JoshuaSummary:
Off the rez and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Jonny's world is a series of...
- Author:Deerchild, RosannaSummary:
-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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...