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“john macfie”

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  • Hudson Bay Watershed

    A Photographic Memoir of the Ojibway, Cree, and Oji-Cree

    by John Macfie ...
    At the midpoint of the twentieth century, the First Nations people of Ontario’s underdeveloped hinterland lived primarily from the land. They congregated in summer in defined communities but in early autumn dispersed to winter camps to hunt, fish, and trap. Increasingly, however, they found they had to adapt to a different way of life, one closer to the Canadian mainstream. While lifestyles and ... Read more

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  • What She Left Behind

    A Haunting and Heartbreaking Story of 1920s Historical Fiction

    by Ellen Marie Wiseman ...
    Half a million copies sold!The breakout novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Collector, What She Left Behind weaves together riveting stories of past and present, exploring the strength of women in two different times as they face adversity in two very different ways. Go inside the horrifying walls of a 1920s New York asylum as a wrongly imprisoned woman fights for what ... Read more

    $12.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

    by Jonas Jonasson ...
    A larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical novel -- perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove.The international publishing sensation -- more than six million copies sold worldwide!A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert) decides it's not too late to start over . . .After a long and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary

    Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future

    by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada ...
    This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy.This ... Read more

    $16.99 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

  • The War That Made America

    A Short History of the French and Indian War

    by Fred Anderson ...
    **The globe's first true world war comes vividly to life in this "rich, cautionary tale" (The New York Times Book Review)The French and Indian War -the North American phase of a far larger conflagration, the Seven Years' War-remains one of the most important, and yet misunderstood, episodes in American history. Fred Anderson takes readers on a remarkable journey through the vast conflict that, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • Aboriginal Ontario

    Historical Perspectives on the First Nations

    Edited by Edward S. Rogers, Donald B. Smith ...
    Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on aspects of the history of the First Nations living within the present-day boundaries of Ontario. This volume reviews the experience of both the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples in Southern Ontario, as well as the Algonquians in Northern Ontario. The first section describes the climate and landforms of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900

    by Sarah Carter ...
    The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, focusing on the western interior, or what would later become Canada's prairie provinces.This wide-ranging survey draws on the wealth of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Dangerous Spirits

    The Windigo in Myth and History

    by Shawn Smallman ...
    In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North America—from Virginia in the south to Labrador in the north, from Nova Scotia in the east to Minnesota in the west—believed in the windigo, not only as a myth told in the darkness of winter, but also as a real danger ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Great Blackfoot Treaties

    by Hugh A. Dempsey ...
    The expansive ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Nation ranged from the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta to the Missouri River in Montana and from the Rocky Mountains east to the Cypress Hills. This buffalo-rich land sustained the Blackfoot for generations until the arrival of whiskey traders, unscrupulous wolfers, smallpox epidemics, and the encroachment of white settlers on traditional ... Read more

    $11.59 USD