A Long Journey
The previously untold history of residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland, recounted by former students and… Read More
By: Andrea Procter (CA)
The previously untold history of residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland, recounted by former students and… Read More
By: Daniel Paul (CA)
As a person of First Nation ancestry I cannot help but wonder if the failure of Caucasian Americans and Canadians to reveal and teach about the horrors their ancestors carried out against North American First… Read More
By: Doug Knockwood (CA)
Freeman Douglas Knockwood is a highly respected Elder in Mi’kmaw Territory and one of Canada’s premier addictions recovery counsellors. The story of his life is one of unimaginable colonial trauma,… Read More
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In myriad ways, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to… Read More
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How We Go Home shares contemporary Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Indigenous land and… Read More
By: Pamela Palmater (CA)
“Pamela Palmater is one of the strong voices of a new generation of Native activists and intellectuals. Her essays on Indigenous Nationhood are intelligent, thoughtful, and well informed. And they take no… Read More
By: Sarah MacKenzie (CA)
Closely analyzing dramatic texts by Monique Mojica, Marie Clements, and Yvette Nolan, MacKenzie explores representations of gendered colonialist violence in order to determine the varying ways in which these… Read More
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<em>Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit</em> — meaning all the extensive knowledge and experience passed from generation to generation — is a collection of contributions by well- known and respected… Read More
By: Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara (CA)
This book offers inspiration and guidance for non-Indigenous peoples who wish to live honourably in relationship with Indigenous Peoples, laws and lands. A much-needed book in our… Read More
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The first edition of Making Space for Indigenous Feminism proposed that Indigenous feminism was a valid and indeed essential theoretical and activist position, and introduced a roster of important Indigenous… Read More
By: Catherine Lafferty (CA)
Catherine Lafferty’s life story as a daughter and mother wanting more for her family and for herself is so completely inspiring. Northern Wildflower is a celebration of soul, grace and dignity. I am floored… Read More
By: Gespe’gewa’gi Mi’gmawei Mawiomi
Nta’tugwaqanminen provides evidence that the Mi’gmaq of the Gespe’gewa’gi (Northern New Brunswick and the Gaspé Peninsula) have occupied their territory since time immemorial. They were the sole… Read More
By: Le Mawiomi Mi'gmawei de Gesp'gewa'gi (CA)
Nta’tugwaqanminen, le fruit d’un partenariat de recherche entre les Mi’gmaqs du Nord du Gespe’gewa’gi (péninsule gaspésienne
et Nord du Nouveau-Brunswick), leurs aînés et un groupe… Read More
By: Isabelle Knockwood
In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these… Read More
By: David Milward (CA)
This book provides an account of the ongoing ties between the enduring traumas caused by the residential schools and Indigenous… Read More
By: Craig Fontaine
John C. Courchene was born in Sagkeeng First Nation in 1914, where he attended the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School. Courchene’s time in the residential school was short; his brothers,… Read More
By: James (Sekej) Youngblood Henderson
This important work, written primarily as a Native Studies text, fills a large gap in the history of Native peoples in the Americas. It is a fascinating multidisciplinary journey covering intellectual… Read More
By: Arthur Manuel (CA), Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson (CA)
A final, no-holds-barred message from Canada’s leading Indigenous… Read More
By: Winona LaDuke
Chronicles is a major work, a collection of current, pressing and inspirational stories of Indigenous communities from the Canadian subarctic to the heart of Dine Bii Kaya, Navajo… Read More
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