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Plants, People, and Places
The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights in Canada and Beyond
Inbunden, 2020
643 kr
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For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples - as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials - and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs, narratives, and language. While the First Peoples of Canada and …
Uumajursiutik Unaatuinnamut / Hunter with Harpoon / Chasseur Au Harpon
Inbunden, 2020
1105 kr
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Fifty years ago, Markoosie Patsauq, then a bush pilot in his late twenties living in the tiny, isolated High Arctic community of Resolute, spent his spare time quietly writing a story that effectively emerged as the first Indigenous novel released in Canada. Published in English under the title …
Fighting for a Hand to Hold
Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada
Inbunden, 2020
415 kr
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Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency …
Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language
Häftad, 2020
545 kr
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In 1911-1912, French-Canadian anthropologist Marius Barbeau spent a year recording forty texts in the Wyandot language as spoken by native speakers in Oklahoma. Though he intended to return and complete his linguistic study, he never did. More than a century later Forty Narratives in the Wyandot …
Daughters of Aataentsic
Life Stories from Seven Generations
Inbunden, 2021
456 kr
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Daughters of Aataentsic highlights and connects the unique lives of seven Weⁿdat/Waⁿdat women whose legacies are still felt today. Spanning the continent and the colonial borders of New France, British North America, Canada, and the United States, this book shows how Wendat people and place came …
Language, Citizenship, and Sámi Education in the Nordic North, 1900-1940
Häftad, 2021
375 kr
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In the making of the modern Nordic states in the first half of the twentieth century, elementary education was paramount in creating a notion of citizenship that was universal and equal for all citizens. Yet these elementary education policies ignored, in most cases, the language, culture, wishes, …
Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods
Voices of the Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841, Revised Edition
Inbunden, 2024
469 kr
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Before contact with white people, the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast traded amongst themselves and with other Indigenous groups farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when Russian coasters had penetrated the Gulf of Alaska and British merchantmen were frequenting Nootka Sound, …
Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods
Voices of the Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841, Revised Edition
E-bok, 2024
541 kr
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Before contact with white people, the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast traded amongst themselves and with other Indigenous groups farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when Russian coasters had penetrated the Gulf of Alaska and British merchantmen were frequenting Nootka Sound, …
Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods
Voices of the Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841, Revised Edition
E-bok, 2024
558 kr
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Before contact with white people, the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast traded amongst themselves and with other Indigenous groups farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when Russian coasters had penetrated the Gulf of Alaska and British merchantmen were frequenting Nootka Sound, …
Aki-wayn-zih
A Person As Worthy As the Earth
Av Eli Baxter, Matthew Ryan Smith
Inbunden, 2021
335 kr
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Winner- 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language NonfictionMembers of Eli Baxter's generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as …
Atiqput
Inuit Oral History and Project Naming
Av Carol Payne, Beth Greenhorn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
542 kr
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"Our names – Atiqput – are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what's in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a …
Called Upstairs
Moravian Inuit Music in Labrador
Av Tom Gordon
Inbunden, 2023
1625 kr
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A silent clapboard church on a barren Arctic landscape is more than just a place of worship: it is a symbol that can evoke fraught reactions to the history of Christian colonization. In the Inuit homeland of Northern Labrador, however, that church is more likely to resonate with the voices of a …
Called Upstairs
Moravian Inuit Music in Labrador
Av Tom Gordon
Häftad, 2023
556 kr
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A silent clapboard church on a barren Arctic landscape is more than just a place of worship: it is a symbol that can evoke fraught reactions to the history of Christian colonization. In the Inuit homeland of Northern Labrador, however, that church is more likely to resonate with the voices of a …
Cultural Change among the Algonquin in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2024
1278 kr
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The nineteenth century was a time of upheaval for the Algonquin people. As they came into more sustained contact with fur traders, missionaries, settlers, and other outside agents, their ways of life were disrupted and forever changed. Yet the Algonquin were not entirely without control over the …
Cultural Change Among the Algonquin in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2024
556 kr
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The nineteenth century was a time of upheaval for the Algonquin people. As they came into more sustained contact with fur traders, missionaries, settlers, and other outside agents, their ways of life were disrupted and forever changed. Yet the Algonquin were not entirely without control over the …
Métis Music
Stories of Recognition and Resurgence
Inbunden, 2024
1278 kr
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What makes music Métis, and who gets to decide? Complex dynamics of recognition, non-recognition, and erasure have played out over a history of Métis music-making, from the Red River Resistance all the way to the present day.Monique Giroux argues that Métis music reflects broader social …
Métis Music
Stories of Recognition and Resurgence
Häftad, 2024
416 kr
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What makes music Métis, and who gets to decide? Complex dynamics of recognition, non-recognition, and erasure have played out over a history of Métis music-making, from the Red River Resistance all the way to the present day.Monique Giroux argues that Métis music reflects broader social …
Students by Day
Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School
Av Jackson Pind
Inbunden, 2025
354 kr
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The atrocities of the residential school system in Canada are amply documented. Less well-known is the history of day schools, which some two hundred thousand Indigenous youth attended.The Curve Lake Indian Day School operated for over ninety years, from 1899 to 1978. Implementing Indigenous …
Healing through Art
Ritualized Space and Cree Identity
Häftad, 2025
429 kr
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In Healing through Art Nadia Ferrara shows how art therapy has been used as a successful form of healing among Crees. The result of her work as an art therapist in communities in northern Quebec, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the nature of her patients' experiences. Ferrara examines …
Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws
Yerí7 Re Stsq'ey's-kucw
Av Marianne Ignace, Ronald Ignace
Häftad, 2025
455 kr
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Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this volume detail how a homeland has shaped Secwépemc existence while the Secwépemc have in turn …
Always a Part of the Land
The Federal Commemoration of Indigenous Histories
Av Cody Groat
Häftad, 2026
339 kr
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The commemoration of a nation’s past is a highly contested process, fraught with identity politics and competing interests. For over a century – even as the government of Canada denied them the rights to recognize or practise their cultures – Indigenous Peoples have challenged the often narrow and …
Talking in Context
Language and Identity in Kwakwaka'wakw Society
Häftad, 2026
430 kr
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Though linguists estimate that hundreds of languages are in danger of extinction, everyday use of Kwak’wala, an Indigenous language spoken in British Columbia, reveals that it has been strategically maintained even among young speakers as a marker of cultural identity. Anne Marie Goodfellow …
Land and Language
A Nehinuw Perspective
Av Keith Goulet
Inbunden, 2027
418 kr
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Challenging prevailing state-centric perspectives, Nehinuw scholar Keith Goulet advances a distinctive new theory of Indigenous land tenure. Reinterpreting Indigenous dispossession through a Cree linguistic and knowledge framework, he argues that meaningful decolonization of historical methods must …
Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq
A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
Häftad, 2027
457 kr
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The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, it is a highway, a hunting ground, and the platform on which life is lived. While the international community argues about sovereignty, security, and resource development at the top of the world, the Inuit remind us that they are the original inhabitants of …
In Business for Ourselves
Northern Entrepreneurs
Häftad, 1992
415 kr
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Wuttunee believes that the continued growth and development of a dynamic small business sector is vital to Canada's future economic structure. She has therefore directed her book not only to potential northern entrepreneurs and students interested in the concerns of small businesses in isolated …
From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare
Why Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Provinces
Häftad, 1993
456 kr
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From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare examines the reserve system imposed by the Canadian government in the 1870s - a system, rooted in theories of racial difference, that stifled initiative, opportunity, and self-esteem. The 1960s saw the collapse of the reserve economy, until then sustained by casual …
For an Amerindian Autohistory
An Essay on the Foundations of a Social Ethic
Av George E. Sioui, Sheila Fischmann
Häftad, 1995
297 kr
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Sioui has produced a work not only of metahistory but of moral reflections. He contrasts Euroamerican ethnocentrism and feelings of racial superiority with the Amerindian belief in the "Great Circle of Life" and shows that human beings must establish intellectual and emotional connections with the …
Strangers Among Us
Inbunden, 1995
1427 kr
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In 1868 American explorer Charles Francis Hall interviewed several Inuit hunters who spoke of strangers travelling through their land. Hall immediately jumped to the conclusion that the hunters were talking about survivors of the Franklin expedition and set off for the Melville Peninsula, the …
True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7
Häftad, 1996
485 kr
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The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7 is based on the testimony of over 80 elders from the five First Nations involved in Treaty 7 - the Bloods, Peigans, Siksika, Stoney, and Tsuu T'ina. Their recollections highlight the grave misconceptions and misrepresentations between the two sides, …
Capturing Women
The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada's Prairie West
Häftad, 1997
415 kr
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Consisting of a series of stories, events, and episodes, the book highlights shifting patterns, attitudes, and perspectives toward women in the Prairies. One of Carter's overarching themes is that women are seldom in a position to invent or project their own images, identities, or ideas of …
