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Series:
sakāw askiy ācimowina: niyānan pakosēhtimowina
Paperback
Priya Chaudhary
9781772311372
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 6
Oct 15, 2020
Randy the Racoon and Cindy the Squirrel are best friends. One day, while walking in Woodland Forest, they find their friend Bella the Butterfly. She is trapped in a spider's web! After Cindy and Randy help her out of the web, she grants them five wishes. Randy and Cindy are excited to make their own dreams come true. But, when each of their wishes hurts their friends, Randy and Cindy have to undo their wishes. With only one wish left, they then stumble upon their injured friend Doris the Crow. When deciding what to do, Randy and Cindy learn the...
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Series:
Bones
Paperback
Tyler Pennock
9781771315210
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 01, 2020
2020 Raymond Souster Award Longlist * 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Shortlist * 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards Shortlist Poems about a young two-spirit Indigenous man moving through shadow and trauma toward strength and awareness. Bones, Tyler Pennock's wise and arresting debut, is about the ways we process the traumas of our past, and about how often these experiences eliminate moments of softness and gentleness. Here, the poems journey inward, guided by the world of dreams, seeking memories of a loving sister lost beneath layers of traged...
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Series:
Moccasin Souls
Paperback
Jules Koostachin
9781928120223
$19.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Moccasin Souls, a haunting memoir follows AaSheeNii / Good Spirit, a hopeful Trickster with a burning desire for change and growth, as they set off on their path into the world of the InNiNeWak/human beings. Selected by a council of Sacred Beings, AaSheeNii makes their way into the world of the living on AsKi / Earth. AaSheeNii is birthed to an IsKwew / Cree woman in the early 70s in what is now called Northern Ontario, the ancestral lands of the MoshKeKoWok. AaSheeNii's human journey into adulthood is not an easy one, as they try to not only u...
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Series:
Krillian Key, The
Salamander Run
Paperback
Neal Shannacappo
9781928120216
$24.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Nov 20, 2020
"My million years of immortality have barely begun..." Pursued by warring human/alien hybrids, the immortal Kyrill, also known as Salamander, is the key to a prison forged by the seven gods of creation. While one of the warring factions moves to protect him, the other seeks to use him to open the prison. The Krillian Key, Salamander Run is a sassy, fast-paced Indigenous-themed graphic novel set in the post-apocalyptic future of Neo-New York circa 2242, with flashbacks to modern-day Canada.
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Series:
Coyote Takes a Walk
Paperback
Joseph Urie
9781928120230
$35.00
FICTION
Oct 01, 2021
A lot of time has passed but the Trickster has returned and the world that he left is in desperate need of some levity, the truth and most importantly, reconciliation.It is time to start again. In the spirit of treaty. But before that can happen some things need to be cleared up. Some eyes need to be opened but most importantly some hearts need to change. This is a story of change. For the better.
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Series:
Angel Wing Splash Pattern
20th Anniversary Edition
20th anniversary edition, with additional material including two illustrated stories, new introducti
Paperback
Richard Van Camp
9781928120117
$20.00
FICTION
Nov 30, 2020
With this special 20th Anniversary edition, Richard Van Camp re-releases his first bestselling collection of short stories. There is pain in these stories and there is loss. There is death, but there is also rebirth, and there is always the search from each of the narrators for personal truth. This collection of hilarious and profound stories is where beloved recurring characters Torchy, Sfen, Snowbird, Clarence and Brutus first appeared. Larry Sole from The Lesser Blessed>/i> also appears in this collection, alongside many other characters, al...
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Series:
Before the Usual Time
A Collection of Indigenous Stories and Poems.
Paperback
Darlene Naponse
9781988989150
$20.00
FICTION
Apr 23, 2020
A collection of words and imagery from diverse voices grounded in the land that explore community in relation to time. Filmmaker/writer, Darlene Naponse, curates a gathering of expression about time that has passed, time that is now and time that comes.
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Series: Stonehouse Originals
Humane
Paperback
Anna Marie Sewell
9781988754246
$19.95
FICTION
Nov 02, 2020
"In Humane, Anna Marie Sewell's brings an Indigenous and poetic sensibility to the crime novel, infusing it with imagery and dance as a Métis mother of two works as an unlicensed Private Investigator. Like its Métis characters, Humane straddles two worlds, following the contours of Western-based novel but infusing it with Indigenous storytelling and allegory. It's a wonderful read, a significant addition to the canon of authentic Indigenous crime novel." --Wayne Arthurson, award-winning writer of the Leo Desroches novels. Who steals a dog from ...
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Series:
Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin
Reclaiming, Reconnecting, and Demystifying Resiliency as Life Force Energy for Residential School Survivors
Paperback
Theresa Turmel
9781927886359
$24.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jun 30, 2020
Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin is a twenty-five year research and community based book. It brings forward Indigenous thought, history, and acts of resistance as viewed through the survivors of residential school who through certain aspects of their young lives were able to persevere with resiliency, and share their life experiences, teaching us about them, and their understanding of their own resiliency. Through their voices, we hear how they found strength within?their own life force energy, or mnidoo bemaasing bemaadiziwin?and survived and thr...
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Series:
day/break
Paperback
Gwen Benaway
9781771665735
$20.00
POETRY
Apr 02, 2020
day/break, Governor General's Literary Award winner Gwen Benaway's fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, day/break asks what it means to be a trans woman, both within the text and out in the physical world. Shifting between theory and poetry, Benaway questions how gender, sexuality, and love intersect with the violence and transmisogyny of the nation state and established literary institutions. In beautiful lyric verse, day/break re...
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Series: Literature in Translation Series
Spawn
Paperback
Marie-Andree Gill
9781771665971
$18.00
POETRY
Apr 09, 2020
Spawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Gill's poems ask: How can one reclaim a narrative that has been confiscated and distorted by colonizers? The poet's young avatar reaches new levels on Nintendo, stays up too late online, wakes to her period on class photo day, and carves her lovers' names into every surface imaginable. Encompassing twenty-first-century imperialism, coercive assimilation, and ...
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12.
Series: Modern Indigenous Voices
Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity
Paperback
Norma Dunning
9781772311136
$16.95
POETRY
Jun 15, 2020
Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity examines Dunning's lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. Her writing takes into account the many assimilative practices that Inuit continue to face and the expectations of mainstream as to what an Inuk person can and should be. Her words examine what it is like to feel the constant rejection of her work from non-Inuit people and how we must all in some way find the spirit to carry through with what we hold to be true demonstrating the importance of standing ta...
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Series: Modern Indigenous Voices series
Childhood Thoughts and Water
Paperback
John McDonald
9781772311198
$16.95
POETRY
Sep 01, 2020
Childhood Thoughts and Water is a collection of Beat Poetry, Spoken Word, Performance Art and Lyrical Verse. This is a work which journeys into the memories and events of an Urban Indigenous warrior's struggles to reconnect with a language and culture that is seemingly always almost out of reach. The common theme of reconnecting with nature and with water is interspersed with the imagery of childhood recollections and anecdotes about life and love, aspirations and defeats, and the desire to achieve greatness in spite of the obstacles and barrie...
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Series: Essential Prose Series
Cardinal Divide
Paperback
Nina Newington
9781771834421
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
A father comes out to his daughter as a woman. Or at least, he was once a woman. It's complicated. Funny. Painful. Eventually joyful. Meanwhile the daughter, who was adopted, has her own identity issues. At the Aboriginal addictions treatment centre where she works, everyone assumes she is Indigenous. But is she? How can she find out? Cardinal Divide explores the hunger for certainty and the mutability of identity, whether of gender, race or sexuality. Authenticity isn't simple. Acting as somebody else is simultaneously a way to deceive and to ...
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Series: Children's Books
The Enchanted People
Paperback
Jennifer Pool
9781771835398
$17.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Dec 01, 2021
The Enchanted People is a humanitarian fairytale about a young girl named Wawatay who lives away from her village as an outcast because she is different. All the people in her village have an enchanted power except for her, and so, she is not accepted by them. While living in solitude, Wawatay finds an injured baby sparrow and begins to care for her despite ridicule and discouragement from her people. When Baby Bird grows up and asks Wawatay to teach her to fly, Wawatay embarks on a journey across the Earth to seek help from her animal friends ...
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Series: Essential Poets Series
I Will Be Corrupted
Paperback
Joseph Dandurand
9781771835060
$20.00
POETRY
Oct 01, 2020
I Will Be Corrupted is a collection of poems about a man who suffers from serious depression but is able to appear normal and live somewhat of a normal life. And yet what he sees and experiences in his everyday become poems and an insight into the mind of a kind and gentle person who wants to understand why he is here.
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Series:
Home Waltz
Paperback
G.A. Grisenthwaite
9781989287644
$18.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
In 1973, fifteen-year old Q?óq?ésk?i?, or "Squito" Bob, is a mixed-blood N?e?kepmx boy trying to find his place in a small, mostly Native town. His closest friends are three n?e?kepmx boys and a white kid, an obnoxious runt who thinks himself superior to his friends. Accepted as neither Native nor white, Squito often feels like the stray dog of the group and envisions a short, disastrous life for himself. Home Waltz follows the boys over thirty-six hours on what should be one of the best weekends of their lives. With a senior girls volleyball t...
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Series:
Bears
Paperback
Matthew MacKenzie
9780369101068
$17.95
DRAMA
Jun 10, 2020
As the prime suspect in a workplace accident, Floyd has to get out of town fast. Pursued by the RCMP, he heads through the Rockies for Burnaby, BC, along the route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. By the time he reaches the Pacific, Floyd has experienced changes: his gait widening, muscles bulging, sense of smell heightening…
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Series:
Brotherhood to Nationhood
George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement
2nd edition
Paperback
Peter McFarlane
9781771135108
$32.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2020
Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present. George Manuel (1920–1989) was the strategist and visionary behind the modern Indigenous movement in Canada. A three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, he laid the groundwork for what would become the Assembly of First Nations and was the founding president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Authors Peter McFarlane and Doreen Manuel follow him o...
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Series:
Unsettling Canada
A National Wake-Up Call
Paperback
Arthur Manuel
9781771131766
$29.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 30, 2015
Unsettling Canada, a Canadian bestseller, 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 important national and international reputations. But the differences between them are in many ways even more interesting. Arthur Manuel is one of the most forceful advocates for Aboriginal title and rights in Canada and comes from the activist wing of the movement. Grand Chief Ron Derr...
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series
The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik)
Paperback
Carol Rose GoldenEagle
9781771337892
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 30, 2020
Finalist for the 2021 Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples' Writing AwardThe Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) weaves the stories of a group of women committed to helping one another. Despite abuse experienced by some, both in their own community and in residential schools, these women learn to celebrate their culture, its stories, its dancing, its drums, and its elders. Principal of these elders is Nina, the advisor at the women's shelter. With the help of Sandy and Charlene, Nina uses Indigenous practices to heal the traumatized Mary Ann. Thi...
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Series: Semaphore
Aqueduct
Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember
Paperback
Adele Perry
9781894037693
$14.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 25, 2016
1919 is often recalled as the year of the Winnipeg General Strike, but it was also the year that water from Shoal Lake first flowed in Winnipeg taps. For the Anishinaabe community of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, construction of the Winnipeg Aqueduct led to a chain of difficult circumstances that culminated in their isolation on an artificial island where, for almost two decades, they have lacked access to clean drinking water. In Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember, Adele Perry analyses the development of Winnipeg's ...
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Series:
Totem Poles and Railroads
Paperback
Janet Rogers
9781894037877
$18.95
POETRY
Nov 01, 2016
Totem Poles and Railroads succinctly defines the 500-year-old relationship between Indigenous nations and the corporation of Canada. In this, her fifth poetry collection, Janet Rogers' expands on that definition with a playful, culturally powerful and, at times, experimental voice. She pays honour to her poetic characters--real and imagined, historical and present day--from Sacajawea to Nina Simone. Placing poetry at the centre of our current post-residential school/present-day reconciliation reality, Rogers' poems are expansive and intimate, c...
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Series:
Lighting the Eighth Fire
The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations
Paperback
Leanne Simpson
9781894037334
$21.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Aug 15, 2008
This remarkable collection of essays by leading Indigenous scholars focuses on the themes of freedom, liberation and Indigenous resurgence as they relate to the land. They analyze treaties, political culture, governance, environmental issues, economy, and radical social movements from an anti-colonial Indigenous perspective in a Canadian context. Editor Leanne Simpson (Nishnaabekwe) has solicited Indigenous writers that place Indigenous freedom as their highest political goal, while turning to the knowledge, traditions, and culture of specific ...
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Series:
This is an Honour Song
Twenty Years Since the Blockades
Paperback
Leanne Simpson
9781894037419
$19.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 15, 2010
This is an Honour Song is a collection of narratives, poetry, and essays exploring the broad impact of the 1990 resistance at Kanehsatà:ke, otherwise known as the "Oka Crisis." The book is written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, scholars, activists and traditional people, and is sung as an Honour Song celebrating the commitment, sacrifices and achievements of the Kanien'kehaka individuals and communities involved.
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Series:
Imperialist Canada
Paperback
Todd Gordon
9781894037457
$24.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Nov 15, 2010
Imperialist Canada exposes Canada's imperialist past and present, at home and across the globe. Todd Gordon interweaves histories of aboriginal dispossession in Canada with the cold facts of Canadian capital's oppression of indigenous peoples in the global South. The book digs beneath the surface of Canada's image as global peacekeeper and promoter of human rights, revealing the links between the corporate pursuit of profit and Canadian foreign and domestic policy. Drawing on examples from Colombia, the Congo, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere, Imperi...
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Series:
Dancing On Our Turtle's Back
Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
Paperback
Leanne Simpson
9781894037501
$24.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 15, 2011
Many promote Reconciliation as a "new" way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence and must support the regeneration of Indigenous languages, oral cultures, and traditions of governance.Simpson explores philosophies and pathways of regeneration, resurgence, and a new emergence through the Nishnaabeg language, Creation Stories, walks w...
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Series: Semaphore
Aboriginal Rights Are Not Human Rights
In Defence of Indigenous Struggles
Paperback
Peter Kulchyski
9781894037761
$19.95
HISTORY
May 15, 2013
Aboriginal rights do not belong to the broader category of universal human rights because they are grounded in the particular practices of aboriginal people. So argues Peter Kulchyski in this provocative book from the front lines of indigenous people's struggles to defend their culture from the ongoing conquest of their traditional lands. Kulchyski shows that some differences are more different than others, and he draws a border between bush culture and mall culture, between indigenous people's mode of production and the totalizing push of stat...
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Series:
Quivering Land
Paperback
Roewan Crowe
9781894037907
$19.95
POETRY
Oct 15, 2013
Roewan Crowe's compelling and haunting literary debut, Quivering Land, is a rather queer Western, engaging with poetics and politics to reckon with the legacies of violence and colonization in the West.Written in a sparse style, this lonely, sometimes brutal book invites the reader on a powerful journey with Clem, Violet, and a dead girl in a red dress. Clem, a lone cowboy, caught in the inevitable violence of the Western, compulsively rides through ghost towns and Monument Valley. Violet is an artist who pulls dead bodies, guns, and memory int...
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Series:
Islands of Decolonial Love
Paperback
Leanne Simpson
9781894037884
$19.00
FICTION
Nov 15, 2013
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the hist...
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Series:
The Winter We Danced
Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement
Paperback
The Kino-nda-niimi Collective
9781894037518
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 26, 2014
The Winter We Danced is a vivid collection of writing, poetry, lyrics, art and images from the many diverse voices that make up the past, present, and future of the Idle No More movement. Calling for pathways into healthy, just, equitable and sustainable communities while drawing on a wide-ranging body of narratives, journalism, editorials and creative pieces, this collection consolidates some of the most powerful, creative and insightful moments from the winter we danced and gestures towards next steps in an on-going movement for justice and I...
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Series:
The Land We Are
Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation
Paperback
Gabrielle Hill
9781894037631
$24.95
ART
Jun 15, 2015
The Land We Are is a stunning collection of writing and art that interrogates the current era of reconciliation in Canada. Using visual, poetic, and theoretical language, the contributors approach reconciliation as a problematic narrative about Indigenous-settler relations, but also as a site where conversations about a just future must occur. The result of a four-year collaboration between artists and scholars engaged in resurgence and decolonization, The Land We Are is a moving dialogue that blurs the boundaries between activism, research, an...
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Series:
Surviving Canada
Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal
Paperback
Myra Tait
9781894037891
$35.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 27, 2017
Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples' complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how--even 150 years after Confederation--the fight for recognition of their treaty and Aboriginal rights continues.
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Series:
Indianland
Paperback
Lesley Belleau
9781894037921
$18.95
POETRY
Oct 15, 2017
Indianland is a rich and varied poetry collection. The poems are written from a female and Indigenous point of view and incorporate Anishinaabemowin throughout. Time is cyclical, moving from present day back to first contact and forward again. Themes of sexuality, birth, memory, and longing are explored, images of blood, plants (milkweed, yarrow, cattails), and petroglyphs reoccur, and touchstone issues in Indigenous politics are addressed = (Elijah Harper, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, forced sterilizations, Oka). Anishinaabemowin th...
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Series: Semaphore
Unsettling the Commons
Social Movements Against, Within, and Beyond Settler Colonialism
Paperback
Craig Fortier
9781894037976
$14.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Dec 31, 2017
Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for "the commons" within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons interrogates a very important debatethat took place within Occupy camps and is taking place in a multitude of movements in North America around what it means to claim "the commons" on stolen land. Travelling back in history to show the ways in which radical left movements have often either erased or come into clear conflict with Indigenous practices of sovereignty and s...
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Series:
Stolen City
Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg
Paperback
Owen Toews
9781894037938
$25.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 12, 2018
Through a combination of historical and contemporary analysis this book shows how settler colonialism, as a mode of racial capitalism, has made and remade Winnipeg and the Canadian Prairie West over the past one hundred and fifty years. It traces the emergence of a 'dominant bloc', or alliance, in Winnipeg that has imagined and installed successive regional development visions to guarantee its own wealth and power. The book gives particular attention to the ways that an ascendant post-industrial urban redevelopment vision for Winnipeg's city-ce...
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Series:
Becoming Our Future
Global Indigenous Curatorial Practice
Paperback
Julie Nagam
9781927886229
$40.00
ART
Apr 23, 2020
Becoming Our Future: Global Indigenous Curatorial Practice explores how Indigenous visual art and culture operate within and from a structural framework that is unique within the cultural milieu. Through a selection of contributions by Indigenous curators, artists, and scholars brings together perspectives that define curatorial practices, and at the same time postulates Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination within the three countries. These compelling essays begin to unearth the connections and historical moments that draw Indigenous c...
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Series: Overhead
Stars
Paperback
Lucy Haché
9781988168104
$19.95
FICTION
Mar 01, 2018
In this second installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Haché once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the sky and stars. Hache's prose is extraordinary in its combination of self awareness yet unselfconscious honesty and skillful restraint, creating a sense of connection under the vastness of the stars above. Masterfully illustrated by artist Michael Joyal, his evocative astronomic drawings contribute to the overall sensory and transcendent experience.
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Series:
No Rainbow and Other Poems
Paperback
Laura Kooji
9781988440217
$13.95
POETRY
Oct 21, 2018
Beautiful imagery infuses this collection of lyrical poetry from a rising Indigenous poet steeped in the rich culture of her ancestors.
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Series:
I Am a Body of Land
Paperback
Shannon Webb-Campbell
9781771664776
$18.00
POETRY
Jan 08, 2019
I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell explores poetic responsibility and accountability, and frames poetry as a form of revisioning. In these poems, Webb-Campbell returns to her own text Who Took My Sister?, to examine her self and to decolonize, unlearn, and undo harm. By reconsidering individual poems and letters, Webb-Campbell's confessional writing circles back upon itself to ask questions of her own settler-Indigenous identity and belonging to cry out for community, and call in with love.Edited and with an Introduction by multiple a...
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Series:
Hope Matters
Paperback
Columpa Bobb
9781771664974
$18.00
POETRY
Apr 24, 2019
Hope Matters, written by multiple award-winner Lee Maracle, in collaboration with her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, focuses on the journey of Indigenous people from colonial beginnings to reconciliation.Maracle states that the book, "is also about the journey of myself and my two daughters." During their youth, Bobb and Carter wrote poetry with their mother, and eventually they all decided that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream. Written collaboratively by all three women, the poems in Hop...
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Series:
Bi-gishkoziitwin Biidaanzhed Biidaabang (Ojibwe Edition)
Paperback
David Groulx
9781926956992
$16.95
POETRY
Apr 15, 2015
In this Ojibwa translation of "Rising with a Distant Dawn" by David Groulx, the author and the translator present a powerful and moving poetry collection which stretches across the boundaries of skin colour, language, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ordinary Aboriginal Canadians. The poems embrace anguish, pride, and hope. They come from the woodlands and the plains, they speak of love, of war, and of the known and the mysterious, they strike with wisdom, joy, and sadness, bringing us closer than ever before to the he...
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Series:
Hear and Foretell
Paperback
Joseph A. Dandurand
9781926956961
$15.95
POETRY
Apr 15, 2015
"Hear and Foretell" is a compelling poetry collection with spotlight on urban Aboriginal life in Canada. The poems illustrate deep spiritual transformation and understanding of the ever-present feeling of being hunted by not so distant historical past. This collection of poems emphasizes cultural struggles, articulates everyday rituals through decisive narrative, and appeals to human compassion. "Hear and Foretell" is an ambitious, lasting, and meaningful work of Canadian Aboriginal literature that will not soon fade away. It is an exceptional ...
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Series:
The Windigo Chronicles
Paperback
David Groulx
9781772310382
$16.95
POETRY
Nov 05, 2016
In this poetry book, David Groulx seamlessly weaves the spiritual with the ordinary and the present with the powerful voices of the past. He speaks for the spirit, determination, and courage of Aboriginal people, compelling readers to confront cruel reality with his sincere and inspiring vision. Author's poetic power renders an honest and painful perception of Aboriginal life with strong voice against prejudice and injustice.
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Series:
The Roads of Go Home Lake
Paperback
Christina Kilbourne
9780978083816
$25.95
FICTION
May 25, 2006
The Roads of Go Home Lake is the long-awaited sequel to Christina Kilbourne's award winning novel Where Lives Take Root. When Winnie finds herself suddenly widowed and an unemployed mother of six, she is forced to change her life in order to keep her family together. Illiterate, shy and inexperienced in the ways of the white man's world, Winnie relies on her eldest son and the strength of her Chippewan ancestors to give her the courage to find help.The Roads of Go Home Lake follows Winnie's journey as she faces her darkest secrets and recalls ...
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46.
Series:
Rising with a Distant Dawn
Paperback
David Groulx
9781926956053
$14.95
POETRY
Oct 15, 2011
Rising with a Distant Dawn is a powerful and moving poetry collection, which stretches across the boundaries of skin colour, language, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ordinary Aboriginal Canadians. The book captures timely personal and cultural challenges, and ultimately shares subtle insight and compassion. The poems embrace anguish, pride, and hope. They come from the woodlands and the plains, they speak of love, of war, and of the known and the mysterious, they strike with wisdom, joy, and sadness, bringing us clos...
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Series:
Thoughts And Other Human Tendencies
Paperback
Reneltta Arluk
9781926956145
$16.95
POETRY
Aug 15, 2012
"Thoughts and Other Human Tendencies" is a poetry collection where stories of Aboriginal experiences are distilled into feelings and thoughts that are universal. Reneltta Arluk weaves the traditional and the contemporary together through the eyes of a young Aboriginal woman. She draws from the Aboriginal tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of Aboriginal culture, and the concept of feminine individuality. Her poems, both sacred and secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and furio...
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Series:
Aboriginal Soccer Tribe, The
A history of Aboriginal involvement with the world game
Paperback
John Maynard
9781926956336
$22.95
HISTORY
Oct 25, 2012
A first in sporting literature, "The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe" is the largely untold story of Aboriginal involvement with the world game. The acceptance that Aboriginal players found within the post-World War II migrant communities had a profound impact on their lives. The multicultural environment of Australian soccer provided them with a haven from the prejudice and racism of wider Australian society. Interweaving personal stories and extensive research with links to the broader Indigenous world community, this book is a celebration of the ext...
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49.
Series:
Imagine Mercy
Canadian Aboriginal Voices
Paperback
David Groulx
9781926956374
$16.95
POETRY
Apr 01, 2013
"Imagine Mercy" is a vibrant poetry collection portraying the daily realities of living as an Aboriginal in Canada. David Groulx seamlessly weaves the spiritual with the ordinary and the present with the past. He speaks for the strength and courage of Aboriginal people, compelling readers to confront reality with his honest and inspiring vision. Remarkable in its candour and gracefully constructed, this collection of poems binds us to the present and, at the same time, connects us to the voices of the past.
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Series:
Wild Rice Dreams
Canadian Aboriginal Voices
Paperback
Vera Wabegijig
9781926956633
$15.95
POETRY
Oct 15, 2013
"Wild Rice Dreams" is a collection of Aboriginal poetry that delves into the human experience from an Anishinaabe perspective. The book captures sensible cultural and emotional challenges, and ultimately shares subtle insight and compassion. The poems explore how intricate relationships between people, dreams and memories play an integral role in the complex life of being an Anishinaabe.
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51.
Series:
Between the Moments
Canadian Aboriginal Voices
Paperback
Marie-Andrée Gill
9781926956800
$15.95
POETRY
Apr 15, 2014
The poems in "Between the Moments" immerse the reader deep into the reflection of humanity and tangible reality of life to explore the moments of perplexity and simplicity of life. Throughout the book, the author roams the crevices of her desire and invites us into the world filled with tides and stars, mirages and reflections, moments of confusion and enlightenment to resolve deep emotional issues and to find the light in the darkness. In "Between the Moments" the emotions are overlapping and the feelings are evolving until the end of the night.
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52.
Series:
mâmitoneyihtamowina ekwa kotakak ayisiniwak ot'swepinikewiniwâwa (Cree edition)
Canadian Aboriginal Voices
Paperback
Reneltta Arluk
9781926956770
$15.95
POETRY
Aug 15, 2014
In this Cree translation of "Thoughts and Other Human Tendencies" by Reneltta Arluk, the author and the translator draw from the Aboriginal traditions of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of Aboriginal culture, and the concept of feminine individuality. The poems, both sacred and secular, are written with the passions of anger, grief, and love, at once tender and furious. Here are the tales of love, betrayal, courage, defeat, acceptance, loss, grief, passion, delight, courting, coming of age, birth and death, youth and old age, hu...
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53.
Series: Canadian Aboriginal Voices Series
Calling Down the Sky
Paperback
Rosanna Deerchild
9781772310054
$16.95
POETRY
Oct 15, 2015
"Calling Down the Sky" is a poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal Residential School confinements in the 1950's when thousands of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were placed in these schools against their parents' wishes. Many were forbidden to speak their language and practice their own culture. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools problem has been felt throughout generations and has contributed to social problems that contin...
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54.
Series:
A Tea in the Tundra / Nipishapui Nete Mushuat
Paperback
Joséphine Bacon
9781772310351
$16.95
POETRY
Jan 15, 2017
In this poetry collection, Joséphine Bacon challenges our traditional notions of culture and perception, landscape and wilderness, the limits of experience, and the nature of human being. With a surreal blend of emotions and memories, "A Tea in the Tundra / Nipishapui Nete Mushuat" portrays a complex and ever-shifting landscape of possibilities. The author passionately reveals a finely wrought sensibility, which elevates the subtle scenery of life's everyday events. The French-language edition of this book was shortlisted for the 2014 Governor ...
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55.
Series:
pihta ēkwa wihta (Cree Edition)
Paperback
Joseph Dandurand
9781772310474
$16.95
POETRY
May 15, 2017
The poems in "pihta ēkwa wihta"reveal strong links to land, to family, and to the wisdom of elders. The author exposes the struggles that many Aboriginal people encounter while getting an education, dealing with family issues and abuse, learning to respect themselves and demanding respect from others, finding their place in the world, and recovering their rich history and culture. This book illustrates the resilience and strength of the Aboriginal people and the determination that they bring to their local communities across Canada.
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56.
Series:
î-nitotamahk kîsik (Cree Edition)
Paperback
Rosanna Deerchild
9781772310504
$16.95
POETRY
Jul 15, 2017
î-nitotamahk kîsik is a poetry collection in Cree that describes deep personal experiences and post-generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal residential school confinements in the 1960's when thousands of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were placed in these schools against their parents' wishes. Many were forbidden to speak their language and practice their own culture. Rosanna Deerchild exposes how the residential schools systematically undermined Aboriginal culture across Canada and disrupted families for generations, severin...
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57.
Series: Canadian Indigenous Voices series
waniskātota kā pē wāpahk
Cree Edition
Paperback
David Groulx
9781772310801
$16.95
POETRY
Jun 15, 2018
waniskātota kā pē wāpahk, a Cree translation of Rising with a Distant Dawn, is a powerful poetry collection which stretches across the boundaries to give a voice to the lives and experiences of ordinary Indigenous people. The poems embrace anguish, pride, and hope. They come from the woodlands and the plains, they speak of love, of war, and of the known and the mysterious, they strike with wisdom, joy, and sadness, bringing us closer than ever before to the heart of urban Indigenous life.
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58.
Series: Modern Indigenous Voices
As Long As the Sun Shines
Paperback
Janet Rogers
9781772310832
$16.95
POETRY
Sep 15, 2018
This poetry collection creatively reveals the beautiful and bitter essences of the world from a distinctive Indigenous female voice. Speaking from her unique Mohawk perspective, the poet unapologetically sings words of wisdom and cultural confidence. By using this creative foundation to unite distinctive communities, she expresses raw emotion throughout her journey toward inner peace from a uniquely Indigenous point of view. It is this strong expression that the poet hopes will become a global guide for her communities to follow and interpret w...
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59.
Series: Modern Indigenous Voices
Going Back Home
Paperback
Marie Hess
9781772310894
$19.95
FICTION
May 01, 2019
Written by a Mohawk Institute Residential School survivor, this is a fierce and candid story that reveals the heartbreaking trauma of that tragic time in our history. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools confinements has affected Indigenous communities over several generations and has contributed to many social problems that continue to exist today. By exploring that devastating history, the author finds and celebrates the resilient and hopeful spirit that many residential school survivors, like herself, have ma...
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60.
Series: Canadian Indigenous Voices series
The Rumour
Paperback
Joseph A. Dandurand
9781772310771
$16.95
POETRY
Dec 01, 2018
The Rumour is a collection of poetry that exposes many important issues of Indigenous discrimination, poverty, drug abuse, brutal violence, love, family, and complex human relationships. As a skilled painter, Joseph A. Dandurand portrays the essence of strong connections with rich Indigenous history, culture, traditions, and family values with broad but precise strokes. The poems come from author's lifetime experience living on the Kwantlen First Nation reserve and give a true picture of the resilience and the struggles Indigenous people experi...
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