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  • Gifts from the Thunder Beings

    Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic, 1670-1870

    by Roland Bohr ...
    Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples’ use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples’ ways of adapting and using this technology in combination with Indigenous weaponry contributed greatly to the impact these weapons had on Aboriginal cultures. This gradual ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

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  • The Lakotas and the Black Hills

    The Struggle for Sacred Ground

    by Jeffrey Ostler ...
    The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain itThe Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills in South Dakota, where they found plentiful game and held religious ceremonies at charged locations like Devil ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Hopi Survival Kit

    The Prophecies, Instructions and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders

    by Thomas E. Mails ...
    Series series Compass
    Now made public for the first time—an ancient Hopi spiritual guide that may hold the key to our survival in the next millenniumFor nearly a century the Elders of Hotevilla—a tiny village on a remote Hopi reservation in Arizona—have been guarding the secrets and prophecies of a thousand-year-old covenant that was created to ensure the well-being of the earth and its creatures. But the elders are ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Firebrand

    William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada

    by William Kilbourn ...
    Series Book 10 - Voyageur Classics
    In The Firebrand, William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie. A skilled historian and an entertaining writer, Kilbourn reveals Mackenzie’s complex character: able political editor, shrewd recorder of his times, efficient first mayor of Toronto, and gadfly of the House of Assembly.Kilbourn vividly recreates the ill-fated Mackenzie-led march on Toronto during the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Masters of Empire

    Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America

    by Michael A. McDonnell ...
    "[A] magisterial tale of how the Anishinaabe Odawa lived through and shaped the history of North America and the early modern world." —Kathleen DuVal, professor of history, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillIn Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Stickhandling through the Margins

    First Nations Hockey in Canada

    by Michael A. Robidoux ...
    Some of hockey’s fiercest and most passionate players and fans can be found among Canada's First Nations populations, including NHL greats Jordin Tootoo, Jonathan Cheechoo, and Gino Odjick. At first glance the importance of hockey to the country's Aboriginal peoples may seem to indicate assimilation into mainstream society, but Michael A. Robidoux reveals that the game is played and understood ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Terror of the Coast

    Land Alienation and Colonial War on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1849-1863

    by Chris Arnett ...
    On April 20, 1863, the British naval gunboat Forward attacked a Native village on Kuper Island. The naval officers believed that the village harboured individuals involved in two recent assaults against European transients in the Gulf Islands. The gunboat fired on the village and was repulsed with casualties after a fierce battle with a handful of warriors. Following this defeat, the colonial ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Orders of the Dreamed

    George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823

    Edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown, Robert Brightman ...
    Series Book 3 - Manitoba Studies in Native History
    The introduction by Brown and Brightman describes Nelson's career in the fur trade and explains the influences affecting his perception and understanding of Native religions. They also provide a comparative summary of Subarctic Algonquian religion, with emphasis on the beliefs and practices described by Nelson. Stan Cuthand, a Cree Anglican minister, author, and language instructor, who lived in ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Survival Schools

    The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities

    by Julie L. Davis ...
    In the late 1960s, Indian families in Minneapolis and St. Paul were under siege. Clyde Bellecourt remembers, “We were losing our children during this time; juvenile courts were sweeping our children up, and they were fostering them out, and sometimes whole families were being broken up.” In 1972, motivated by prejudice in the child welfare system and hostility in the public schools, American ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy

    William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy

    by Robert M. Owens ...
    Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison’s career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors

    A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri

    by W. Raymond Wood, William J. Hunt Jr., Randy H. Williams ...
    A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in what is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. The written and visual legacies of these visitors—among them the German prince-explorer Maximilian of Wied, Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, and American ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Winning the West with Words

    Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes

    by James Joseph Buss, Ph.D ...
    Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans used language, rhetoric, and narrative to claim cultural ownership of the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD