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Indigenous Studies eBook Series

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  • Indigenous Poetics in Canada

    Edited by Neal McLeod ...
    Series Book 13 - Indigenous Studies
    Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place.Featuring work by academics and poets, the book examines four elements of Indigenous ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • The Break

    by katherena vermette ...
    Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Is Stephen Harper Reading?

    Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister and Book Lovers of All Stripes

    by Yann Martel ...
    “I know you’re very busy, Mr. Harper. We’re all busy. But every person has a space next to where they sleep, whether a patch of pavement or a fine bedside table. In that space, at night, a book can glow. And in those moments of docile wakefulness, when we begin to let go of the day, then is the perfect time to pick up a book and be someone else, somewhere else, for a few minutes, a few pages, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Mui'n

    by Nancy Branch ...
    Series series FPQ
    In the rugged Nepisiguit River region of northern New Brunswick, two hunters face off. One is local sports lodge employee Danny Knockwood, a Mi’gmaw guide with a withered hand. The other is Mui’n, a one-eared black bear battling his inexorable hunger. When Danny is charged by the lodge owner to hunt down the bear that is frightening guests at the salmon pools, his personal values come into sharp ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Beyond Blood

    Rethinking Indigenous Identity

    by Dr. Pamela D. Palmater ...
    The current Status criteria of theIndian Act contains descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants, which author Pamela Palmater argues will lead to the extinguishment of First Nations as legal and constitutional entities. Beginning with an historic overview of legislative enactments defining Indian status and their impact on ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Decolonizing Education

    Nourishing the Learning Spirit

    by Marie Battiste ...
    Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Chronicling the negative consequences of forced assimilation, racism inherent to colonial systems of education, and the failure of current educational ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Other Selves

    Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination

    Edited by Janice Fiamengo ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian imagination. Unlike the longer-settled countries of Europe or the more densely-populated United States, in Canada animals have always been the loved and feared co ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • BAD

    by Peter Ferguson ...
    BAD is all around us, influencing and guiding everything we do. We are constrained by it, hurt by it and delighted by it. Even if you think you're doing good, you're just raising bulwarks against the bad. Bad comes in many subtle forms. Peter Ferguson shows how to be aware of them, how they can affect us and how to work with them. But this is no earnest treatise. It's also a meditation. And a bit ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Methods of Ethics : Book I - Book II (Illustrated)

    by Henry Sidgwick ...
    In offering to the public a new book upon a subject so trite as Ethics, it seems desirable to indicate clearly at the outset its plan and purpose. Its distinctive characteristics may be first given negatively. It is not, in the main, metaphysical or psychological: at the same time it is not dogmatic or directly practical: it does not deal, except by way of illustration, with the history of ethical ... Read more

    $2.81 CAD

  • Violence Against Indigenous Women

    Literature, Activism, Resistance

    by Allison Hargreaves ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature contribute where dominant anti-violence initiatives have failed?Centring the voices of contemporary ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Scandalous Bodies

    Diasporic Literature in English Canada

    by Smaro Kamboureli ...
    Series series TransCanada
    Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship between realist fiction and history to postmodern constructions of ethnicity, from the multicultural ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Polynesian Research: Hawaii

    by William Ellis ...
    Polynesian Researches:Hawaii is the famous record of the author's visit to the Hawaiian Islands in the early nineteenth century. It includes an account of Hawaiian history, government, religion , warfare, and traditions- a general survey of Hawaiian life. More than this, it is the author's personal observations of Hawaiian manners and customs and is invaluable to anyone interested in old Hawaii ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD