Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one of seven Inuit families relocated...
Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
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Author:Audlaluk, LarrySummary: - Author:Jean-Yves, SoucySummary:
It is 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and looking for a summer job. He dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But to his dismay he is sent to an equipment depot somewhere between Val-d'Or and...
- Author:Merasty, Joseph AugusteSummary:
Named the fourth most important 'Book of the Year' by the National Post in 2015 and voted 'One Book/One Province' in Saskatchewan for 2017, The Education of Augie Merasty launched on the front page of The Globe and...
- Author:Campbell, Nicola I.Summary:
If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. In the Nłeʔkepmxcín language, spíləx̣m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in the quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British...
- Author:Little Thunder, BeverlySummary:
One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and...
- Author:Fraser, Greg N.Summary:
An intriguing look at the accomplishments and contradictions of Joseph William McKay, best known as the founder of Nanaimo, BC, and one of the most successful Métis men to rise through the ranks of the Hudson's Bay Company in the...
- Author:Jordan-Fenton, Christy, Pokiak-Fenton, Margaret-OlemaunSummary:
The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, now available as an audiobook for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the...
- Author:Fung, AmySummary:
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer examination at Canada's mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity through the lens of a...
