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Indigenous Studies eBook Series

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  • Indian Country

    Essays on Contemporary Native Culture

    by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern “Indian wars” are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle among themselves over membership, money, and cultural meaning. In cultural and political arenas across North America, Natives enact and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Invisible North

    The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve

    by Alexandra Shimo ...
    A vivid first-person account of life on a troubled reserve that illuminates a difficult and oft-ignored history.Globe and Mail 100: Best Books of 2016 • The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016 • 2017 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted • 2017 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction — Shortlisted • 2016 Speaker's Book Award — ShortlistedWhen freelance journalist Alexandra Shimo arrives in Kashechewan, a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wild Frontier

    Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee

    by William M. Osborn ...
    The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like it had ever happened anywhere else in the world.In The Wild Frontier, William M. Osborn discusses ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

    Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

    by Michael F. Steltenkamp ...
    Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge

    by Vic Glover ...
    For a realistic look at Indian Country in the 21st century go no further than Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge. In this bold anthology of real-life stories Vic Glover lays bare the challenges history bonds and rich traditions that infuse the stark reality of life on "the rez." The author invites readers to cruise down the back roads of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation one of the poorest in North ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • White Lies About the Inuit

    by John Steckley ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    The Inuit are a familiar part of Canadian identity but also exotic residing in the remote Arctic. The mix of the familiar and the exotic has resulted in the creation and perpetuation of a number of "White Lies." These are stories that have been developed over long periods of time, reproduced in classrooms, anthropology and sociology textbooks, and other media, but have been rarely challenged, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Walking With Spirits Volume 4 Native American Myths, Legends, And Folklore

    by G.W. Mullins, C.L. Hause ...
    Series Book 4 - Walking With Spirits
    Walking With Spirits Volume Four is a huge collection of Native American history. Following on the heels of the highly successful first three volumes, this fourth set offers many more wonderful and entertaining stories. This volume will leave you ready and awaiting the fifth.Through storytelling, the rich history of the Native American tribes is alive and well today. It has been shared and ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • They Died With Custer

    Soldiers' Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn

    by Douglas D. Scott, P. Willey, Melissa A. Connor ...
    Dead men tell no tales, and the soldiers who rode and died with George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn have been silent statistics for more than a hundred years. By blending historical sources, archaeological evidence, and painstaking analysis of the skeletal remains, Douglas D. Scott, P. Willey, and Melissa A. Connor reconstruct biographies of many of the individual soldiers, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Hidden in Plain Sight

    Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture, Volume II

    Edited by Cora J. Voyageur, David Newhouse, Dan Beavon ...
    The acclaimed and accessible Hidden in Plain Sight series showcases the extraordinary contributions made by Aboriginal peoples to Canadian identity and culture. This collection features new accounts of Aboriginal peoples working hard to improve their lives and those of other Canadians, and serves as a powerful contrast to narratives that emphasize themes of victimhood, displacement, and cultural ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • We Share Our Matters

    Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River

    by Rick Monture ...
    The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to understand its enduring intellectual traditions.Rick Monture’s We Share Our Matters offers the first comprehensive portrait of how the Haudenosaunee ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Comanches

    Lords of the South Plains

    by Ernest Wallace, E. Adamson Hoebel ...
    Series Book 34 - The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the other direction, they were indeed the Lords of the South Plains.For more than a century and a half, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD