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  • Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa

    Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation

    by Laura Peers, Alison Brown ...
    Series series Heritage
    In 1925, Beatrice Blackwood of the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum took thirty-three photographs of Kainai people on the Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta as part of an anthropological project. In 2001, staff from the museum took copies of these photographs back to the Kainai and worked with community members to try to gain a better understanding of Kainai perspectives on the images. ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • A National Crime

    The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

    by John S. Milloy ...
    Series Book 11 - Manitoba Studies in Native History
    “I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948)For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Other Slavery

    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history—the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Wisdom of the Native Americans

    Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle

    Edited by Kent Nerburn ...
    The teachings of the Native Americans provide a connection with the land, the environment, and the simple beauties of life. This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning. Taken from writings, orations, and recorded observations of life, this book selects the best of Native American wisdom and distills it to its essence in short ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canada's Indigenous Constitution

    by John Borrows ...
    Canada's Indigenous Constitution reflects on the nature and sources of law in Canada, beginning with the conviction that the Canadian legal system has helped to engender the high level of wealth and security enjoyed by people across the country. However, longstanding disputes about the origins, legitimacy, and applicability of certain aspects of the legal system have led John Borrows to argue that ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • We Are the Face of Oaxaca

    Testimony and Social Movements

    by Lynn Stephen ...
    A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • On Being Here to Stay

    Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada

    by Michael Asch ...
    What, other than numbers and power, justifies Canada’s assertion of sovereignty and jurisdiction over the country’s vast territory? Why should Canada’s original inhabitants have to ask for rights to what was their land when non-Aboriginal people first arrived? The question lurks behind every court judgment on Indigenous rights, every demand that treaty obligations be fulfilled, and every land ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Moose to Moccasins

    The Story of Ka Kita Wa Pa No Kwe

    by Madeline Katt Theriault ...
    Having been born in a tent on Bear Island, Lake Temagami, in 1908, Madeline Katt Theriault could recall an earlier independent and traditional First Nations lifestyle. In this book, the late author proudly tells of her youth and coming of age by sharing her vivid memories and drawing on exceptional old family photographs. In her own words, she writes of a time long ago – a time that was difficult, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Spirit Lives in the Mind

    by Louis Bird ...
    Louis Bird has spent the last three decades documenting Cree oral traditions and sharing his stories with audiences in Canada the United States and Europe. In The Spirit Lives in the Mind the renowned storyteller and historian of the Omushkego shares teachings and stories of the Swampy Cree people that have been passed down from generation to generation as part of a rich oral tradition. ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism

    by John Borrows ...
    Indigenous traditions can be uplifting, positive, and liberating forces when they are connected to living systems of thought and practice. Problems arise when they are treated as timeless models of unchanging truth that require unwavering deference and unquestioning obedience. Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism celebrates the emancipatory potential of Indigenous traditions, considers their ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Women, Work, and History

    1940-1980

    by Mary Jane Logan McCallum ...
    Series Book 16 - Critical Studies in Native History
    When dealing with Indigenous women’s history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures, circumscribed by the home, the reserve, and the community. Moreover, in many ways Indigenous men and women have been cast in static, pre-modern, and one-dimensional identities, and their twentieth century experiences reduced to a singular story of decline and loss.In Indigenous Women, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Chippewa Customs

    by Frances Densmore ...
    Chippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) Indians of the United States and Canada.Praise for Chippewa Customs"Densmore . . . has done a valuable piece of work for posterity by collecting this material."—Minnesota History ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD