Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend...
Indians of North America
- Author:Jordan-Fenton, ChristySummary:
- Author:Churchill, WardSummary:
"In this volume of incisive assays, Ward Churchill looks at representations of American Indians in literature and film, delineating a history of cultural progaganda that has served to support the continued colonization of Native...
- Author:Touchie, Rodger D.Summary:
Edward S. Curtis Above the Medicine Line is both an introduction to the Seattle-based photographer and a tribute to a true visionary. While Curtis’s photographs will long be his legacy, his own story is likewise compelling. Curtis built...
- Author:Challenger, Robert JamesSummary:
This collection of short stories is based on traditional values important to us all—respect, cooperation and kindness. Robert James Challenger's illustrations and tales reveal a world of magical birds, fish and other wildlife, who teach...
- Author:GOWER, IrisSummary:
The wedding of Llinos Savage, the young saviour of the Savage Pottery, and the fascinating Joe Mainwaring sets the small seafront town of Swansea ablaze with gossip.
- Author:Doty, ThomasSummary:
A collection of traditional and original Native American stories from the American West told by master storyteller Thomas Doty. His adventures with Coyote find them journeying into the rich native culture and traditions of Doty's...
- Author:Freeman, VictoriaSummary:
In this fair-minded and highly readable book, Victoria Freeman traces her European ancestors’ involvement in settling lands occupied by indigenous peoples in what would become New England and Ontario. It is a story of land fraud, broken...
- Author:Smallman, ShawnSummary:
In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North America—from Virginia in the south to Labrador in the...
- Author:Deloria, VineSummary:
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
McMurtry turns his attention to George A. Custer, a complex man who has captivated historians for over a century. From graduating last in his class at West Point to leading the ill-fated 7th Cavalry in the attack at Little Bighorn,...
- Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue....
- Author:Daschuk, James W.Summary:
This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a forward by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, and explanations of the book's influence by leading Canadian historians. Called "one of the most important books of the...
- Author:Marshall, LindsaySummary:
Poetry is Lindsay Marshall's way of telling stories, of speaking with others about what things that matter to him. His heritage. His people. His life as a Mi'kmaw. For the reader, Clay Pots and Bones is a colourful journey from early...
- Author:Wheeler, Jordan, Jackson, DennisSummary:
Three city kids increase their survival skills and their understanding of the North when they go to their Mushum's cabin for Christmas
At Christmas time in Northern Saskatchewan, three Cree kids - Talon, Raven and T-Bear - visit...
- Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:
Eleven-year-old Ohkwa'ri and his twin sister must make peace with a hostile gang of older boys in their Mohawk village during the late 1400s.
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
- Author:Maracle, LeeSummary:
Celia's vision of the past during a weather disturbance becomes a reality when her great-niece is horribly abused.
- Author:Dickason, Olive PatriciaSummary:
Canada's First Nations is a comprehensive history of Canada's original inhabitants. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines techniques from history, anthropology, archaeology, biology, sociology, and political science, the...
- Author:McCaig, DonaldSummary:
This sequel to Donald McCaig's Civil War novel "Jacob's ladder" delivers a saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows...
- Author:Valiquette, FranceSummary:
Mercedes, après avoir accompli la dernière promesse qu’elle avait faite à Ekis, décide d’aller s’installer en Californie, pensant pouvoir réaliser son rêve de pratiquer de la thérapie avec les chevaux. Mais le vieux chef navajo, Takoya...