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  • Behind the Bricks

    The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest-Running Residential School

    by Richard W. Hill Sr., Alison Norman, Thomas Peace, Jennifer Pettit ...
    From the outside, the Mohawk Institute looks like a large and welcoming school building. When one looks behind the bricks of the school, however, a much different story becomes apparent. Conceived and overseen by Six Nations community member Richard W. Hill Sr., Behind the Bricks is an important work that provides deep insight into the Mohawk Institute, Canada's first, and longest-running, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Promise of Canada

    People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country

    by Charlotte Gray ...
    What does it mean to be a Canadian? What great ideas have changed our country? An award-winning writer casts her eye over our nation’s history, highlighting some of our most important stories.From the acclaimed historian Charlotte Gray comes a richly rewarding book about what it means to be Canadian. Readers already know Gray as an award-winning biographer, a writer who has brilliantly captured ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Valley of the Birdtail

    An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

    by Andrew Stobo Sniderman, Douglas Sanderson ...
    THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner – 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeWinner – 2023 John W. Dafoe Book PrizeWinner – 2023 High Plains Book Award for Indigenous WriterWinner – 2022 Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Local HistoryWinner – 2023 Quebec Writers’ Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction and Concord... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

    Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

    by Richard J. Gwyn ...
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who made Confederation happen, who built this country over the next ... Read more

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  • The North-West Is Our Mother

    The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation

    by Jean Teillet ...
    There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Knowing

    How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today

    by Tanya Talaga ...
    *****Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book!******Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards!******Shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize!***“The Knowing is everything we’ve come to expect from a Tanya Talaga book – meticulous research, impassioned advocacy, searing prose."**—Duncan McCue, author of Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • A Knock on the Door

    The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged

    by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Aimée Craft ...
    Series Book 1 - Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation
    “It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015, the TRC provided ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work."Every Canadian should read [this] book." —Toronto StarSince its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 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

    $17.99 USD

  • A National Crime

    The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

    by John S. Milloy ...
    Series Book 11 - Critical Studies in Native History
    WINNER Literary Review of Canada’s 100 Most Important Canadian Books, 2005WINNER Margaret McWilliams Award, 1999“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 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Shingwauk's Vision

    A History of Native Residential Schools

    by J.R. Miller ...
    With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Canada’s Residential Schools: The History, Part 1, Origins to 1939

    The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 1

    by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada ...
    Series Book 80 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and their home communities.For children, life in these schools was lonely and alien. Discipline was harsh, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD