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“cheryl simmonds”

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  • Project Opikihiwawin and the Sixties Scoop

    How White Parents Helped Their Adopted Children Connect With Their Indigenous Heritage

    by Cheryl Simmonds, Jamie McKay ...
    For decades, Indigenous children in Canada were taken from their families and placed in foster care or adopted into non-Indigenous homes—a practice most well-known as the Sixties Scoop but one that began years before and continues long after. Many of these children grew up disconnected from their cultures, languages, and communities. In response, a group of adoptive parents in Manitoba founded ... Read more

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  • This Place

    150 Years Retold

    by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Jen Storm, Richard Van Camp, Katherena Vermette0, Chelsea Vowel1 ...
    A great read and an excellent teaching tool for National Indigenous History Month!Learn about the history of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples in Canada from Confederation to the Oka Crisis and beyond in this Indigenous graphic novel anthology for young adults.Explore 150 years of history through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully ... Read more

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  • Unbroken

    My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

    by Angela Sterritt ...
    "A remarkable life story. . . Angela Sterritt is a formidable storyteller and a passionate advocate."—Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves"Sterritt's story is living proof of how courageous Indigenous women are."—Tanya Talaga, author of Seven Fallen Feathers and All Our RelationsUnbroken is an extraordinary work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indig ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters

    Edited by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, Christi Belcourt ...
    In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Authority Gap

    Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

    by Mary Ann Sieghart ...
    An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s authority and power.Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her. These stories remain true even for women ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • White Kids

    Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America

    by Margaret A. Hagerman ...
    Series Book 1 - Critical Perspectives on Youth
    Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsRiveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about raceAmerican kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities

    Transformations and Continuities

    Edited by Heather A. Howard, Craig Proulx ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Aboriginal Canada Revisited

    Edited by Kerstin Knopf ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film—Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and cultural position of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. While lauding improvements made in the past decades, the contributors draw attention to the systemic problems that continue to marginalize Aboriginal people within Canadian ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Rethinking Who We Are

    Critical Reflections on Human Diversity in Canada

    by Paul U. Angelini ...
    Rethinking Who We Are takes a non-conventional approach to understanding human difference in Canada. Contributors to this volume critically re-examine Canadian identity by rethinking who we are and what we are becoming by scrutinizing the “totality” of difference. Included are analyses on the macro differences among Canadians, such as the disparities produced from unequal treatment under Canadian ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists

    The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada

    by Margo Goodhand ...
    In the supposedly enlightened ’60s and ’70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn’t talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened Canada’s first battered women’s shelters. Today, there are well over 600.In Runaway Wives and Rogue ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Tsqelmucwílc

    The Kamloops Indian Residential School―Resistance and a Reckoning

    by Celia Haig-Brown ...
    In May 2021, the world was shocked by the news of the detection of 215 unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in British Columbia, Canada. Ground-penetrating radar established the deaths of students as young as three in the infamous residential school system, where children were systematically removed from their families and brought to the schools. ... Read more

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  • Refuse

    CanLit in Ruins

    Edited by Erin Wunker, Julie Rak, Hannah McGregor ...
    Series Book 6 - Essais Series
    CanLit–the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry—has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful and thorough discussion and critique.Refuse ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus