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61.
Series:
You are Enough
love poems for the end of the world
Paperback
Smokii Sumac
9781928120162
$16.00
POETRY
Dec 31, 2018
Finalist for the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. In his debut poetry collection you are enough: love poems for the end of the world, Smokii Sumac has curated a selection of works from two years of a near daily poetry practice. What began as a sort of daily online poetry journal using the hashtag #haikuaday, has since transformed into a brilliant collection of storytelling drawing upon Indigenous literary practice, and inspired by works like Billy Ray Belcourt's This Wound is a World, and Tenille Campbell's #IndianL...
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Series:
Kynship
Paperback
Daniel Justice
9780973139662
$12.95
FICTION
Sep 15, 2005
The Everland, home of the Eld-Folk since time immemorial, a deep green world of ancient mystery and sacred shadow. A thousand years have passed since the world of Men and the world of the Folk collided in catastrophe. The wyr-powers of the Kyn and the other Folk have preserved their verdant homeland from the ravenous greed of Humanity since the Melding, but those powers are now under siege. As the hunger of Men turns once more to the Everland and its rich bounty, the leaders of the seven nations of the Folk gather in Sheynadwiin, the Kyn capita...
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Series:
Wyrwood
Paperback
Daniel Justice
9780973139679
$12.95
FICTION
Oct 07, 2006
The Sevenfold Council stands firm against Dreydmaster Vald's treaty terms--they will not surrender the Everland. Their will is strong, but there is a traitor in their midst, and Vald intends to win this struggle...by any means necessary. As the Everland is torn apart by invasion and the threat of civil war, the young warrior-Wielder, Tarsa'deshae, and the little Tetawa Leafspeaker, Tobhi Burrows, travel to Eromar City, the centre of Vald's influence, in hopes of rescuing the diplomats who have long languished in the shadows of Gorthac Hall. But...
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Series:
Dreyd
Paperback
Daniel Justice
9780973139655
$12.95
FICTION
Oct 27, 2007
The forces of Eromar ravage the Everland, and the skies are filled with the smoke and ashes of the burning woods. Those Folk who do not escape into the far mountains and hidden valleys are driven into the broken westlands of Humanity, where Dreydmaster Vald reveals the full vision of his mad crusade, one that will annihilate even the memory of the Kyn and their kind.One group of heroes walks the Darkening Road to rescue the exiles, and another travels to the capital city of Men to make a last, desperate appeal, but both know that these days wil...
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Series:
Lightfinder
Paperback
Aaron Paquette
9780986874079
$22.00
FICTION
Age (years) from 11 - 18
Jun 16, 2014
Lightfinder is a YA fantasy novel about Aisling, a young Cree woman who sets out into the wilderness with her Kokum (grandmother), Aunty and two young men she barely knows. They have to find and rescue her runaway younger brother, Eric. Along the way she learns that the legends of her people might be real and that she has a growing power of her own.The story follows the paths of Aisling and Eric, siblings unwittingly thrust into a millennia old struggle for the future of life on earth. It deals with growing up, love and loss, and the choices ...
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Series:
Emma's Gift
Paperback
Deborah Delaronde
9780986874093
$16.00
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 12
Nov 15, 2014
Emma wants to participate in her community's annual 'King's Day' celebration that is held every year on January 6th. She loves to see the gifts that are given and hear the stories people tell when they visit. Her mother, however, feels that Emma is too young. When Emma's grandmother hurts her ankle, Emma reluctantly agrees to help. But in helping her grandmother prepare and serve her King's Day meal, Emma discovers the meaning behind this special day. 'King's Day' is about celebrating Christ's birth and the Three Wise Kings who visited the baby...
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Series:
Wabigoon River Poems
Paperback
David Groulx
9781928120018
$16.00
POETRY
May 25, 2015
These are Indigenous poems in a global context, tackling philosophy, history, epistemology, and placing Indigenous struggles alongside other battles, other atrocities, other genocides. Wabigoon River Poems draws upon Indigenous knowledge and traditions while pushing at the boundaries of what readers might expect Indigenous poetry to be.
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Series:
Gentle Habit, A
Paperback
Cherie Dimaline
9781928120025
$24.00
FICTION
Dec 11, 2015
The inspiration for the collection comes from American Poet Charles Bukowski who wrote "In between the punctuating agonies, life is such a gentle habit." Following this theme of extraordinary ordinariness, A Gentle Habit is a collection of six new short stories focusing on the addictions of a diverse group of characters attempting normalcy in an unnatural world.
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Series:
Candies
A Humour Composite
Paperback
Basil H. Johnston
9781928120032
$18.00
HUMOR
Dec 30, 2015
Basil Johnston was one of the foremost Anishinaabe writers and storytellers, and his comedic stories about life in Residential School, Indian School Days, is a classic. Candies was Johnston's first collection of humorous works in decades.Excerpt from "Indian on Bicycle" found in Candies:Both cars raced off. Tires squealed. Rubber burned. 50 ... 60 ... 70 ... 80 miles an hour.Behind, the old Indian, his hair flying, his shirt flapping and snapping like a wind-blown flag, was desperately ringing his bell, "ding, ding, ding." ..."Better get re...
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Series:
Wrist
Paperback
Nathan Adler
9781928120056
$19.95
FICTION
May 31, 2016
In 1872, dinosaur hunters become embroiled in a battle over the discovery of fossils in Northern Ontario as their excavation crews are driven mad by a bizarre and terrifying illness. Over a hundred years later, Church and his family show signs of the same monstrous affliction. As he begins to unravel his family's dark history, Church must race to protect the secrets buried deep in bones and blood. A fascinating story embracing Anishinaabe legend, culture, and language, Wrist is set in the fictional town of Sterling and Ghost Lake Reserve, and i...
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Series:
Passage
Paperback
Gwen Benaway
9781928120087
$16.00
POETRY
Dec 15, 2016
In her second collection of poetry, Passage, Gwen Benaway examines what it means to experience violence and speaks to the burden of survival. Traveling to Northern Ontario and across the Great Lakes, Passage is a poetic voyage through divorce, family violence, legacy of colonization, and the affirmation of a new sexuality and gender. Previously published as a man, Passage is the poet's first collection written as a transwoman. Striking and raw in sparse lines, the collection showcases a vital Two Spirited identity that transects borders of race...
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Series:
Stone Gift, The
Paperback
Deborah Delaronde
9781928120070
$18.00
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Dec 15, 2016
D.J. awakens from a coma with no memory of what happened to him. The only thing that he knows for sure is that he was severely beaten and his face is disfigured. When his grandmother places a stone necklace around his neck, he begins to heal at a rapid pace. Then D.J. begins to experience a series of visions that take him through segments of a friendship between a boy named Jeff and a foster kid named Tim. It is through these visions that he learns about events that led up to a school gang blaming Jeff for preventing Tim's gang membership, Tim'...
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Series:
Neechie Hustle
Paperback
Neal McLeod
9781928120094
$22.00
FICTION
Sep 18, 2017
Neechie Hustle takes place largely on the fictitious Broken Elbow First Nation in Saskatchewan. The novel provides a satirical look at the Indian Act and also looks at the emergence of neechie swagger of the late 1960s and 1970s. The rise of Pinokineechie, a wooden Indian, sees the expansion of Chief's Fried Chicken, with Crees dancing at Studio 54. The Senator, who narrates the story, helps bring balance back to the bannock force and to the Broken Elbow reserve.
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75.
Series:
creole métisse of french canada, me
Paperback
Sharron Proulx-Turner
9781928120100
$16.00
POETRY
Dec 31, 2017
Sharron's poems and writings in creole métisse of french canada, me include insights into her experiences as a child, a student and beyond; inviting the reader to understand her life, Métis experience in Canada, the true stories from the inside out. "if I could believe that, then maybe I could believe my own childhood pictures and words all neatly drawn and gridded and hidden inside dust devils on clean white paper, like cartoons in a comic book. I learned a cartoon can be a stand-alone drawing on strong, large paper. so I changed up the form. ...
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Series:
Unearthing Secrets, Gathering Truths
Paperback
Jules Koostachin
9781928120148
$18.00
POETRY
Sep 01, 2018
Finalist for the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award in Published Poetry in English. To unearth our secrets means we must face our past, and in doing so, we will find our voice. Unearthing of Secrets: Gathering of Truths explores the heartfelt and evocative fragmented experiences through the eyes of an Indigenous woman. Through the honesty of her words, she embraces the spirit world, the resilience of her foremothers, the integral healing powers of disassociation as a survival mechanism, and the richness of her mitewin - dreams, which reconnects her t...
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Series:
Ceremonies for the Dead
Paperback
Gwen Benaway
9780986874055
$16.00
POETRY
Mar 31, 2013
Ceremonies for the Dead is an award-winning collection of poems that examine the haunting themes of inter-generational trauma, cyclical abuse, and inherited grief. Four generations of the dead take turns narrating these themes, navigating from the Great Lakes through the Appalachian Mountains, and examining the fur trade, an exile from Minnesota, the experiences of West Virginia coal miners, and the legacy of mission schools. Black humour and satire fill the collection, illuminating a fierce determination to survive and resist colonization and ...
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Series:
Long Dance, The
Paperback
David Groulx
9780969712053
$14.95
POETRY
Jun 16, 2000
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Series:
Spirit Horses
Paperback
Al Hunter
9780969712084
$15.95
POETRY
May 16, 2002
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80.
Series:
my heart is a stray bullet
2nd edition
Paperback
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
9780969712091
$14.95
POETRY
Oct 16, 2002
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81.
Series:
Honour Earth Mother
Paperback
Basil Johnston
9780973139617
$19.00
POETRY
Jul 16, 2003
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82.
Series:
Without Reservation
Indigenous Erotica
Paperback
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
9780973139624
$24.50
FICTION
Oct 15, 2003
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83.
Series:
steepy mountain love poetry
Paperback
Joanne Arnott
9780973139631
$15.00
POETRY
Mar 19, 2004
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84.
Series:
Angel Wing Splash Pattern, Second Edition
Paperback
Richard Van Camp
9780973139600
$17.95
FICTION
Oct 13, 2004
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85.
Series:
Glass Lodge, The
Paperback
John McDonald
9780973139648
$9.95
POETRY
Sep 01, 2006
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86.
Series:
That Tongued Belonging
Paperback
Marilyn Dumont
9780973139693
$15.00
POETRY
Feb 01, 2007
that tongued belonging, the newest book from award-winning M?tis poet Marilyn Dumont, is a collection of poems which search for acceptance in language, culture, love and geographical landscapes. These poems celebrate the humour and tenacity of Aboriginal women, lament the death of a mother, deride the political correctness of those ignorant of Aboriginal issues, recall the degradation of Aboriginal women, and chide the writer against the seduction of pop stardom, while challenging accepted ideas of love, age and femininity. Marilyn Dumont has p...
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Series:
Colour of Dried Bones, The
Paperback
Lesley Belleau
9780978499808
$15.00
FICTION
May 15, 2008
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88.
Series:
Recklessness of Love, The
Bawajiganan gaye Ni-maanedam (Dreams and Regrets)
Paperback
Al Hunter
9780978499815
$16.00
POETRY
Aug 31, 2008
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89.
Series:
Love Medicine and One Song
Paperback
Greg Scofield
9780978499822
$16.00
FICTION
Apr 15, 2009
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90.
Series:
Stone the Crow
Paperback
Chris Bose
9780978499839
$15.00
POETRY
Oct 31, 2009
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91.
Series:
Borderlands & Bloodlines
Paperback
GLORIA ALVERNAZ-MULCAHY
9780978499846
$15.00
POETRY
Nov 15, 2009
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Series:
W'daub Awae, Speaking True
A Kegedonce Press Anthology
Paperback
Warren Cariou
9780978499853
$28.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Jun 01, 2010
Additional contributors to this collection include: Richard Van Camp, Joanne Arnott, Marilyn Dumont, Greg Scofield, John McDonald, Rolland Nadjiwon, Lesley Belleau, Al Hunter, Joseph Dandurand (Tony), Basil Johnston, and David Groulx.
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Series:
Gift of the Stars, The
Paperback
Basil Johnston
9780978499860
$16.00
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 99
Aug 20, 2010
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94.
Series:
Under god's pale bones
Paperback
David Groulx
9780978499884
$15.00
POETRY
Jan 01, 2011
ÒThis is a reunion, ready to drink like a good Calvados from Northern France aged until the vintage is ready to be unveiled, shared. These poems are the impressions my world has left on me. The world beneath GodÕs pale bones.Ó ÑDavid A. Groulx, author
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Series:
Think Indian
languages are beyond price
Paperback
Basil H. Johnston
9780978499877
$22.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Age (years) from 16 - 99
Jul 10, 2011
Think Indian is a collection of essays and presentations that Mr. Johnston has delivered to numerous educational conferences and gatherings across Canada and the United States. Topics covered, while all relating to the critical need to protect and encourage our language include how we are One Generation Away From Extinction, Cowboys and Indians to You can't tell stories in the summertime and the title essay Think Indian. Think Indian bumper stickers pleaded and advocated in the 60's, Think Indian. And while the plea may have been intended for g...
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Series:
Dreamer's Legacy, The
Paperback
Celu Amberstone
9780978499891
$14.50
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 18
Jan 05, 2012
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Series:
Living in Harmony
Paperback
Basil H. Johnston
9780986874000
$16.00
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 12
Feb 01, 2012
"In late August the birds that migrate for the winter begin to gather in flocks. How soon or late they gather will reflect how soon or late winter will set in, but it will always take place in conjunction with the setting of autumn. It is the voice of Mother Earth pulsating through the plants to the insects, birds, and animals, letting them know that it is time to go. What insects, birds and animals do in answer to Mother Earth's beckoning is nothing more nor nothing less than it is time to do this because this is taking place."- Exerpt from In...
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Series:
the trees are still bending south
First
Paperback
Sharron Proulx-Turner
9780986874024
$15.00
POETRY
Mar 20, 2012
This book is one woman's examination of her role as an otepayemsuak, a Métis, in this 500-year era of resistance and change. We are in a time when many Indigenous prophecies are reaching into the present - those of the ancient Mayan, the Hopi, the Iroquois, the Cree, the Métis. As with the ancient Mayan, where December 12, 2012, marks the end of the long count calendar, according to the prophecy of the Mohawk's seventh generation, we have reached the time to restore Indigenous stewardship of the land. The words that follow the title of the fir...
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Series:
Jimmy Tames Horses
First
Paperback
Garry Gottfriedson
9780986874031
$15.00
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 10
Jun 15, 2012
Jimmy Tames Horses is a story about a little boy from the city who tries to fit in with his cousins who have always lived on the Kamloops Indian Reserve. Throughout the summer Jimmy works with a colt, overcoming initial fears and eventually becoming a famous horse breaker.
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100.
Series:
Beautiful Razor
love poems & other lies
Paperback
Al Hunter
9780986874017
$15.00
POETRY
Sep 30, 2012
In Beautiful Razor, Al Hunter explores the span between the sensual and the profane; the distance of which can sometimes be vast or on the razor’s edge. This much awaited collection is the third poetry book written by the former Rainy River First Nations Chief, along with Spirit Horses and The Recklessness of Love.
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101.
Series:
Walking in Balance
Paperback
Basil Johnston
9780986874048
$18.00
FICTION
Feb 15, 2014
We have, according to our beliefs, five essential parts: body, soul, spirit, heart, and mind, which all have to be satisfied equally. When you are in balance you are walking on the right road, following the right path of life - Basil Johnston. Eight traditional Anishinaabe stories are told in both Anishinaabe and English languages for adults.
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Series:
Halfling Spring
: an internet romance
Paperback
Joanne Arnott
9780986874062
$16.00
POETRY
Mar 07, 2014
In Halfling spring, a series of notes unfolds the dance of desire versus trust through a long season of actual and metaphorical springtime. Joanne Arnott is a M?tis/mixed blood mother of six, and in this collection she continues her explorations of love, intimacy, and family, with a focus on electronic connections (internet love). Transiting Canada from Victoria to Iqaluit, and transitioning from virtual to real (fantasy to reality), she inspects the realms of miscegenation and love in a class conscious and cross-cultural context, revealing en...
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Series:
150 Years Up North and More
Paperback
Laura Stradiotto
9780995823594
$20.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Mar 26, 2018
A collection of creative non-fiction stories about the colonization and immigration in northern Ontario.
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104.
Series:
Watermark
Paperback
Jennifer Farquhar
9780995823570
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 18, 2018
Returning to her childhood home on Mikinaak Island after a twenty year absence, Mina McInnis unravels the incidents that caused her family's disintegration. She is determined to uncover the truth about the tragedy from her past, and the presence that dwells in the cold, dark waters of Lake Huron.
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105.
Series:
Untold
Northeastern Ontario's Military Past, Volume 1, 1662-WWI
Paperback
Dieter Buse
9780995823501
$22.95
HISTORY
Oct 18, 2018
Brought together for the first time, the remarkable and mostly unacknowledged contributions, experiences, and remembrances of warfare by the people of Northeastern Ontario.
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106.
Series:
The Gravel Lot that was Montana
Paperback
D.A. Lockhart
9781771262002
$17.00
POETRY
Oct 01, 2018
The Gravel Lot that was Montana is a collection of poems that acts as a meditation on migration and place through the viewpoint of a contemporary Lenape speaker. It explores the physical and emotional spaces of contemporary southern Three Fires Territory and contemporary Montana. There is a strong Indigenous aspect to the collection as the narrator uses the movement of the Apsaaalooke from the southern shores of Lake Erie to their contemporary home of southern Montana as mirror to the narrator's movement from the Windsor-Detroit area to western...
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107.
Series: Writer as Critic
Memory Serves
Oratories
Paperback
Lee Maracle
9781926455440
$24.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Oct 15, 2015
Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality, feminism and the colonial condition of her people.Powerful and inspiring, Memory Serves is an extremely timely book, no...
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Series:
Seven Oaks Reader, The
Paperback
Myrna Kostash
9781926455532
$26.95
HISTORY
Apr 01, 2016
The long rivalry between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company for control of the fur trade in Canada's northwest came to an explosive climax on June 19th, 1816, at the so-called Battle of Seven Oaks. Armed buffalo hunters - Indigenous allies of the Nor-Westers - confronted armed colonists of the HBC's Selkirk settlement near the forks of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in today's Winnipeg. This "battle" would prove to be a formative event for Métis self-determination as well as laying down a legacy for settlers to come.The Seven O...
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Series:
Two-Spirit Acts
Queer Indigenous Performances
Paperback
Jean O'Hara
9781770911840
$22.95
DRAMA
Oct 30, 2013
With a refreshing spin, the plays touch on topics of desire, identity, and community as they humorously tackle the colonial misunderstandings of Indigenous people. From a female trickster story centred on erotic lesbian tales to the farcical story about a new nation of Indigenous people called the Nation of Mischief, this collection creates a space to explore what it means to be queer and Indigenous.
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Series:
Medicine Shows
Indigenous Performance Culture
Paperback
Yvette Nolan
9781770913455
$19.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
May 29, 2015
Contemporary Indigenous theatre in Canada is only thirty-three years old, if one begins counting from the premiere of Maria Campbell’s Jessica in Saskatoon and the establishment of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto. Since those contemporaneous events in 1982, the Canadian community of Indigenous theatre artists has grown and inspired one another.Medicine Shows: Indigenous Performance Culture traces the work of a host of these artists over the past three decades, illuminating the connections, the artistic genealogy, and the development of ...
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Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre
Performing Indigeneity
Paperback
Yvette Nolan
9781770915374
$25.00
LITERARY CRITICISM
May 23, 2016
This volume of newly commissioned essays about Indigenous performance is the first in which all of the contributors are Indigenous artists or academics. Scholars were invited to write essays on some aspect of Indigenous performance and artists were asked to contribute statements on whatever they felt was important to them as theatre creators. As with any good assembly of like-minded members, themes and observations emerged, dovetailing and echoing each other, touching on theatre training, cultural identity, Indigenous theatre history, and claim...
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112.
Series:
Indian Arm
Paperback
Hiro Kanagawa
9781770915725
$17.95
DRAMA
Dec 08, 2016
Rita and Alfred Allmers live in an isolated family cabin on native leasehold land overlooking Indian Arm, a still untamed glacial fjord just north of Vancouver, BC. With Alfred—a formerly promising novelist—now struggling with his latest work, Rita has been tasked with caring for their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations teen who has been designated as “special needs” for much of his life. Rita’s resentments and frustrations are further embittered by her younger half-sister, Asta, a constant reminder of the innocence, idealism, and se...
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113.
Series:
Huff & Stitch
Paperback
Cliff Cardinal
9781770917460
$18.95
DRAMA
Mar 27, 2017
In huff, brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and their mother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull destructive pranks. Preyed upon by Trickster and his own fragile psyche, Wind looks for a way out, one that might lead him into his mother’s shadow. In Stitch, Kylie Grandview is a single mom struggling to make a living as a porn star while dreaming of being on the big screen. She’s painfully aware that she is among the many nameless faces on the Int...
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Series:
Squawk
Paperback
Megan Gail Coles
9781770918184
$17.95
DRAMA
Age (years) from 15 - 20
Nov 13, 2017
Annie Runningbird doesn’t have time for the games boys want her to play. She’s aging out of foster care on her next birthday. The system has decided she is an adult, so Annie must make adult decisions. Where will she live? How will she make money? Demanding grown-up choices preoccupy the young girl’s mind as she navigates relationships with boys and men in her company. Does she like Isaac, a cute yet naive boy she met at the mall food court? Can she trust Louis, her older and increasingly overbearing foster care worker? Who can Annie depend on ...
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Series:
Indian Act
Residential School Plays
Paperback
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
9781770919143
$29.95
DRAMA
Jun 04, 2018
Indian Act is a tribute and thank you to those who survived the Indian Residential School system so that future generations could be free to pursue their lives unhindered by educationally enforced lowered expectations and institutionalized abuse. Seven plays by contemporary First Nations and Metis playwrights cover the broad scope of residential school experiences, all kinds of characters, and no stereotypes, giving voice to those who could not be heard.
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Series:
Mistatim / Instant
Paperback
Erin Shields
9781770919297
$18.95
DRAMA
Age (years) from 6 - 18
Nov 28, 2018
In these two plays for young audiences, award-winning playwright Erin Shields presents the challenges of friendship and communication. In Mistatim, which is based on a concept from Sandra Laronde of Red Sky Performance, two eleven-year-olds strike up an unlikely friendship at the fence between one’s reserve and the other’s ranch. On Speck’s side, she’s carved names of family members into the wooden posts as she tries to piece together her identity. On Calvin’s side, he’s trying to train a horse in order to prove himself to his father. When Spec...
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Series:
Nunavik
Paperback
Michel Hellman
9782924049358
$22.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Feb 15, 2017
Author Michel Hellman meets with his editor Luc Bossé and casually promises to write a sequel to his best-selling book Mile End. But the Montréal neighborhood, with its trendy cafés and gluten-free bakeries, doesn't seem half as inspiring as it used to be. Part memoir and part documentary, Nunavik follows Hellman on a trek through Northern Quebec as he travels to Kuujjuaq, Puvirnituk, Kangiqsujuaq and Kangirsurk, meeting members of the First Nations, activists, hunters and drug dealers along the way. An honest and often funny account of this tr...
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Series:
Rough Paradise
Paperback
Alec Butler
9781927443620
$18.00
FICTION
May 31, 2014
Born with an Intersex condition in a rough, working-class city, the harassment and hate Terry Tomey experiences for being bi-gendered and Two-Spirit drives them to the brink of suicide--yet they are saved by the love and acceptance of Darla. The two incur the wrath of their families and their community as they fall in love and graphically explore their queer sexuality. Forcefully separated, they spend the next twenty years trying to find each other and to uncover the real truth as to why they were kept apart.
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119.
Series:
Resumption of Play, The
Paperback
Gary Geddes
9781927443873
$18.00
POETRY
Mar 01, 2016
The gripping title poem of The Resumption of Play, which won the 2015 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, dramatizes the traumatic experience and enduring legacy of Canada's Indian residential schools. The book is also about coming to terms with grief and loss, including a special elegiac sequence about the poet's mother, dead at age 35, and another about Pound, Brodsky, Stravinsky and Diaghelev called "On Being Dead in Venice." This exciting new cornucopia from one of Canada's premier poets also includes two prison letters from Somalia and lyrics ...
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Series:
Blackbird Calling
Paperback
Laura Swart
9781927443859
$18.00
FICTION
Jun 01, 2016
Blackbird Calling depicts the beauty and complexity that unfold when dominant and indigenous cultures fuse horizons. It begins on Cape Breton Island, where the protagonist, unnamed, encounters the agonies and exploits of childhood--and the prejudices lodged against Aboriginal people. These prejudices form a solid line between pigments, and the protagonist understands this line, lives at its borders. But when her family moves to the Prairie Pothole Region in Alberta, she sees another reality in the people of the Blood: she sees a remnant of anci...
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