An enthralling collection of traditional Blackfoot stories revealing the frailty of mankind and the enduring power of narrative. Napi, the Old Man of the Blackfoot Nation, appears prominently in mythology, sometimes as a quasi-Creator,...
Indians of North America
- Author:Dempsey, Hugh A., Koski, Alyssa, Dempsey, Pauline GladstoneSummary:
- Author:Sterling, ShirleySummary:
At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots....
- Author:Taussig, Michael T.Summary:
In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast....
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
- Author:Rice, Waubgeshig, Merasty, BillySummary:
A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While...
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- Author:Banville-Cormier, DorothéeSummary:
Les quatre récits de ce recueil nous transportent dans des villages du Nunavik où vie quotidienne et légendes s’entremêlent, dévoilant un monde déchiré entre la culture des ancêtres et l’attrait de la vie moderne. Depuis l’arrivée de l’...
- Author:Fitzpatrick Dorion, Betty, Farrell Racette,SherrySummary:
The spirited heroine of Betty Dorion's juvenile novel certainly makes the best of things. She forms a close friendship with Rachel, a fellow Cree, and refuses to be bugged by Tanya, a classmate who seems determined to make her life...
- Author:Philbrick, NathanielSummary:
When English Separatists flee to Holland, Dutch urban life corrupts their children and weakens their families. Convinced that God is leading them to the New World, these devout Pilgrims bravely cross the Atlantic. But after violent...
- Author:Leppard, Lois GladysSummary:
Mandy is bewildered by the unhappy reaction of some of her Cherokee friends to her discovery of gold inside a cave and her Christian values are tested by a troublesome Cherokee cousin.
- Author:Dubois, GillesSummary:
Souffle épique du Grand Nord… L’homme aux yeux de loup raconte une aventure énigmatique, tendre et impitoyable, vécue par des êtres simples, que les circonstances poussent à se dépasser : un Mexicain dont l’avion est abattu au-dessus du...
- Author:Slipperjack, RubySummary:
A young Ojibway girl, struggling over the fact that her father has died, spends summers in the bush with her grandmother and finds her own identity and voice.
Eleven-year-old Ray feels like a misfit at school and in her family....
- Author:Walker, NikiSummary:
Beautiful artwork helps illuminate the daily lives of the Anishinabe, or first people, also known as the Chippewa or Ojibwa. Living in the Western Great Lakes region, the Anishinabe adapted to each season by changing camp locations to...
- Author:Cenerini, RhéalSummary:
Après une longue absence, James Coutu rentre chez lui, une petite communauté de pêcheurs métis sur les bords du Grand lac. Il revient, dit-il, pour rdonni la vie à lis ceuses ki nont pas. En ce faisant, il se met à dos des puissances...
- Author:Bouchard, SergeSummary:
Connaissez-vous Massassoit, le vieux sage de la nation wampanoag, Jean-Baptiste Faribault et Jean Baptiste Eugène Laframboise, ces aventuriers canadiens-français qui ont bâti l’Ouest américain, ou l’oncle Yvan, revenu de la guerre alors...
- Author:Scott, MarcSummary:
Recueil de 44 histoires variées glanées à travers le Canada chez les peuples des premières nations et les inuits. Un portrait des autochtones du Canada à travers leurs histoires, leurs contes, leurs chansons et leurs légendes. Trente...
- Author:Mallet-Parent, JocelyneSummary:
«Les bernaches avec les oies blanches, ça finit toujours par porter malheur.» Le jour où il se met à fréquenter l’école des Blancs, Simon Vicaire prend vite conscience de sa «différence». Adolescent, il se voit interdire de fréquenter...
- Author:Glennon, Paul, Charron, Marc, Normandin, Julie StéphanieSummary:
Un jeune garçon avale les pages de cinq livres dans lesquels croit-il, se trouve le code qui pourrait permettre à un capitaine et à ses acolytes de retracer son père disparu. Afin de sauver sa vie, un explorateur se voit contraint de...
- Author:Harris, Douglas C.Summary:
Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other....
- Author:Hobbs, WillSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling in New Mexico, and through its power he learns about ancient Native American magic.