Feel what it is like to participate in history as you follow in the footsteps of the young men and women who lived it. You will survive a harsh James Towne winter and battle the Redcoats in a Long Island cornfield; you will carry...
Social life and customs
- Author:Buckley, Susan Washburn, Leacock, ElspethSummary:
- Author:Ratt, SolomonSummary:
A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family's traditional stories. When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling...
- Author:Bennett, JoeSummary:
Short articles and observations from Bennett's newspaper columns. He turns his wit on a range of subjects from house-hunting to body-piercing
- Juneteenth : The history and legacy of the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the southAuthor:Editors, Charles RiverSummary:
Inevitably, for many across the South, the news of the Emancipation Proclamation arrived slowly, and in other locales, the new was withheld entirely, sometimes by years. Slaveowners were not simply going to give up slaves, and in the...
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Inuit qaujimajatuqangit--which means a complete body of knowledge and experience passed from generation to generation--is a collection of contributions by Inuit Elders. It not only helps preserve important knowledge and tradition, but...
- Author:Johnston, Thomas AngutiSummary:
Inuit games have been played as long as anyone can remember! Learn all about Inuit games and why they are important for staying healthy and strong for life in the Arctic.
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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...
- 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...
- Author:Jasilyn ChargerSummary:
How We Go Home shares contemporary first-person stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land, rights, and life. Each of the twelve narrators' lives has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle...
- Author:Loewen, RoydenSummary:
In the 1870s, approximately 18,000 Mennonites migrated from the southern steppes of Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine) to the North American grasslands. They brought with them an array of cultural and institutional features that...
- Author:Kwan, CheukSummary:
From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brought delicious Chinese food across the globe. Unravelling a complex history of cultural migration and world politics, Cheuk Kwan narrates a...
- Author:Mutala, MarionSummary:
A poignant conversation between parent and child across the years.
- Author:Issaluk, JohnnySummary:
Traditionally Inuit played games in order to be physically and mentally prepared for freezing weather, strenuous hunts and other grueling conditions.
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Historian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time. By skillfully comparing and contrasting a wide cross-section of...
- Author:Lowell, ElizabethSummary:
Fleeing the remarkable love that was prophesied at her birth, Amber the Untouched does not suspect that the wounded warrior with no memory who has come to her in the darkness is that same foretold lover.
- Author:Leavitt, DavidSummary:
This account of expatriate life in the 'city of the lily' begins by asking why Florence has always proven to be such a popular destination for suicides, then moves into an analysis of what makes the city, in Henry James's...
- Author:Gray, LyndaSummary:
Overview of the diverse and complex lives of First Nations people with subjects including veterans, youth, urbanization, child welfare, appropriate questions to ask a First Nations person, feminism, the medicine wheel, Two-spirit (LGBTQ...
- Author:Beaudry Loiselle, LucienneSummary:
Every February, tens of thousands from all over the globe flock to St. Boniface, Manitoba, to attend the largest winter celebration in Western Canada--Festival du Voyageur. For its duration, these visitors can experience the customs and...
- Author:Treuer, AntonSummary:
Treuer, an Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist, answers the most commonly asked questions about American Indians, both historical and modern. He gives a frank, funny, and personal tour of what's up with Indians, anyway.
- Author:De Crescenzo, LucianoSummary:
A collection of well-written and very humorous short stories about the Italian city of Naples, and the Neopolitan lifestyle. - Per il professore don Gennaro Bellavista le banalit ̉che si dicono e si scrivono su Napoli e i suoi abitanti...
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