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“jamie mckay”

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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

    $3.99 USD

  • The Vimy Trap

    or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

    by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...
    The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    The Vimy Trap

    or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

    by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...
    Narrated by John Lane ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 17 min

    The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”—today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Warrior Nation

    Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety

    by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...
    Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles—-the New Warriors-—are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada’s central myth-symbols. Peaceable kingdom. Just society. Multicultural tolerance. Reasoned public debate. Their replacements? A warrior nation. Authoritarian leadership. Permanent political polarization.The ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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    Last Men Out

    The True Story of America's Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam

    by Bob Drury, Tom Clavin ...
    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth of recently declassified documents and in-depth interviews, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin tell the remarkable drama that unfolded over the final, heroic hours of the Vietnam War. This closing chapter of the war would become the largest-scale evacuation ever carried out, as improvised by a small unit of Marines, a vast fleet of helicopter ... Read more

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    A Country of Vast Designs

    James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

    by Robert W. Merry ...
    Narrated by Michael Prichard ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 59 min

    When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, not yet part of the Union, was threatened by a more powerful Mexico. And the territories north and west of Texas—what would become California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Worth Fighting For

    Canada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror

    Edited by Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney ...
    Historians, veterans, museums, and public education campaigns have all documented and commemorated the experience of Canadians in times of war. But Canada also has a long, rich, and important historical tradition of resistance to both war and militarization. This collection brings together the work of sixteen scholars on the history of war resistance. Together they explore resistance to specific ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • 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

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • 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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