Social life and customs
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Author:Scott, Jennifer L.Summary: -
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:Beaudry Loiselle, LucienneSummary:
Considéré comme la plus grande fête hivernale dans l'Ouest canadien, le Festival du Voyageur attire des dizaines de milliers de festivaliers qui viennent de partout dans le monde pour découvrir les coutumes de nos ancêtres-...
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Author:Nawaz, ZarqaSummary:Zarqa Nawaz has always straddled two cultures. She's just as likely to be agonizing over which sparkly earrings will 'pimp out' her hijab as to be flirting with the Walmart meat manager in a futile attempt to secure halal chicken the...
- Author:Kundera, MilanSummary:
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize...
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L’éditeur a procédé à un regroupement de thèmes et de styles pour donner la parole à des écrivains qui partagent les même espaces géographiques.
- Author:Charette, GuillaumeSummary:
À travers les souvenirs de Louis Goulet le lecteur se familiarise avec la vie des Métis. Découvrez la culture et le folklore de ce peuple, partagez la liberté des plaines avant le bouleversement de 1885.
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From all four parts of Kurdistan and across the diaspora, Kurdish women from different geographical, political, and educational backgrounds pick up a pen, reflect, and remember. Going beyond exoticising stereotypes and patriarchal...
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Author:Buckley, Susan Washburn, Leacock, ElspethSummary: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...
- 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...
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Author:Menchu, RigobertaSummary: - 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...
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