Unlike most books that chronicle the history of Native peoples beginning with the arrival of Europeans in 1492, this book goes back to the Ice Age to give young readers a glimpse of what life was like pre-contact. The title, Turtle...
Indigenous materials
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Author:Yellowhorn, EldonSummary: - Author:Summary:
A collection of humorous and short two-spirit plays about the desires, identity and community of homosexual Indigenous people.
- Author:Bacon, JoséphineSummary:
Avec Joséphine Bacon commence une nouvelle histoire de la poésie québécoise. Prix des libraires 2019 Finaliste au Indigenous Voices Award 2019 Uiesh - Quelque part est un recueil bilingue français-innu aimum. Quelque part, une...
- Author:Pelly, David F.Summary:
The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there. A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in...
- Author:Aglukark, SusanSummary:
Ukpik's mother is eager to teach Ukpik how to prepare caribou skin, dry it, and use it to sew a pair of simple, useful mitts. But Ukpik can't stop thinking about the beautiful new beads her mother traded the Captain for on his last...
- Author:Sterritt, AngelaSummary:
As a Gitxsan teenager navigating life on the streets, Angela Sterritt wrote in her journal to help her survive and find her place in the world. Now an acclaimed journalist, she writes for major news outlets to push for justice and to...
- Author:Panagos, DimitriosSummary:
In 1982, Canada formally recognized Aboriginal rights within its Constitution. The move reflected a consensus that states should and could use group rights to protect and accommodate subnational groups within their borders. Decades...
- Author:Sheinkin, SteveSummary:
When superstar athlete Jim Thorpe and football legend Pop Warner met in 1904 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called "the team that...
- Author:Qitsualik, Rachel A.Summary:
Food quickly grows scarce, during the long winter months for those who cannot hunt. In these difficult time, the grandmother of an orphaned boy wishes aloud for the qallupaluit, strange monsterous creatures that live under the sea ice,...
- Author:Boan, SelinaSummary:
Selina Boan's debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours, considers the various ways we undo, inherit, reclaim and (re)learn. Boan's poems emphasize sound and breath; they tell stories of meeting family, of experiencing love and heartbreak...
- Author:Lang, Paul, Opolahsomuwehs, de Varennes, HélèneSummary:
Joséphine regarde son grand-père et se demande s'il est sérieux. Lui qui aime tant rire ! Un poney n'a ni volant pour le conduire ni fauteuil pour s'y asseoir... Comment pourra-t-elle rester assise sur un poney et le...
- Author:Qamaniq, Uvinik, Widermann, Eva, Christopher, NeilSummary:
Experience the exciting world of arctic giants through traditional tales from around Nunavut. Based on elder interviews from more than one hundred years ago, these stories reveal the fearsome giants that once stalked the arctic. From...
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This is Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit traditional knowledge) in the flesh, co-editor and translator Jaypeetee Arnakak writes in his introduction to this volume of traditional Inuit stories. The underlying events of a story are perfect...
- Author:Wente, JesseSummary:
Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples. Jesse Wente...
- Author:Mackey, EvaSummary:
Unsettled Expectations is a critical multi-site ethnography that examines conflict over Indigenous land rights in Canada and the United States as a lens through which to understand historical and ongoing relationships between Indigenous...
- Author:Manuel, Arthur, Klein, Naomi, Derrickson, Ronald M.Summary:
Unsettling Canada is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson. Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C. interior and both have gone on to establish...
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The development of the Canadian criminal justice system has been central to the dispossession of Indigenous populations and the safeguarding of colonial relations of power. Through the mechanisms of surveillance, segregation, and...
- Author:Regan, Paulette, Alfred, TaiaiakeSummary:
In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada's notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues...
- Author:Saunt, ClaudioSummary:
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational,...
- Author:Sewell, Anna MarieSummary:
What wilderness seethes beneath the skin? Knowing your wild potential, is it possible to live a life both urban and urbane? 'Urbane' continues the stories of the people, human and otherwise, we met in 'Humane', Anna Marie Sewell's best-...
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