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  • 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

    $48.59 USD

  • Hidden in Plain Sight

    Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture, Volume 1

    Edited by Cora J. Voyageur, David Newhouse, Dan Beavon ...
    The history of Aboriginal people in Canada taught in schools and depicted in the media tends to focus on Aboriginal displacement from native lands and the consequent social and cultural disruptions they have endured. Collectively, they are portrayed as passive victims of European colonization and government policy, and, even when well intentioned, these depictions are demeaning and do little to ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

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  • Reluctant Pioneer

    How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush

    by Thomas Osborne ...
    The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.For the next ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Geography of Blood

    Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape

    by Candace Savage ...
    •Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex ... Read more

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  • The Lakota Way

    Stories and Lessons for Living

    by Joseph M. Marshall III ...
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    Joseph M. Marshall’s thoughtful, illuminating account of how the spiritual beliefs of the Lakota people can help us all lead more meaningful, ethical lives.Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and reveals the path to a fulfilling and meaningful life. Joseph Marshall is a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux and has dedicated ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • They Called Me Number One

    by Bev Sellars ...
    BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist)Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school.These ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

    by James Daschuk, Ph.D ...
    In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream."It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Original Instructions

    Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future

    Edited by Melissa K. Nelson ...
    Indigenous leaders and other visionaries suggest solutions to today’s global crisis• Original Instructions are ancient ways of living from the heart of humanity within the heart of nature• Explores the convergence of indigenous and contemporary science and the re-indigenization of the world’s peoples• Includes authoritative indigenous voices, including John Mohawk and Winona LaDukeFor millennia ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

    The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement

    by Peter Matthiessen, Martin Garbus ...
    An “indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In ParadiseOn a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • 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

    $53.09 USD

  • Spirit Car

    Journey to a Dakota Past

    by Diane Wilson ...
    "One day I realize that my entire back seat is filled with relatives who wonder why I'm not paying more attention to their part of the family story. . . . Sooner or later they all come up to the front seat and whisper stories in my ear."Growing up in the 1950s in suburban Minneapolis, Diane Wilson had a family like everybody else's. Her Swedish American father was a salesman at Sears and her ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Reconciliation Manifesto

    Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

    by Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, Naomi Klein ...
    In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous peoples.The Reconciliation Manifesto documents how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate ... Read more

    $16.99 USD