Colonialism

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Canada in the World

Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination

An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confederation, this book charts a unique path by locating Canada’s colonial foundations at … 552 View
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Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890

A New History for the Twenty-First Century

Colonialism and Capitalism: A New History of Canada offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history are … 444 View

How We Go Home

Voices from Indigenous North America

In myriad ways, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take … 344 View

Legacy

Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing

Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other … 370 View

Unsettled

Lord Selkirk's Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada's West, 1813-1816

Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg. They are … 358 View
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Chapter 1

How Things Work and Why Stories Matter

From: Legacy

In this chapter, the author discusses the history of trauma experienced by indigenous communities as a result of colonialism. This chapter also includes a general overview of indigenous … 30 $3.00 Add
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Foreword

From: Ghosts in a Photograph

The forward reflects on the author’s connection to the past and connection to their family through old photographs, discussing emigration, immigration, the old country of Galicia, … 7 $0.70 Add
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Introduction

From: How We Go Home

Sinclair states her intentions for the project How We Go Home to offer oral histories of living Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States and how her personal experiences have shaped her … 9 $0.90 Add
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Introduction

From: Canada in the World

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Part I

The Earl

From: Unsettled

Part I recounts the Earl of Selkirk’s conception of the Red River Settlement in modern-day Manitoba, consisting of two hundred displaced Scottish colonists. Part I includes the following … 24 $2.40 Add
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Preface, Note on Language and Conceptualization and Introduction

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

In this chapter, the author explains his methodology for a book on Colonialism and Capitalism, as well as a note on considerations about terminology related to Indigenous peoples and the concepts … 32 $3.20 Add
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Chapter 2

What it Means to Be Colonized

From: Legacy

This chapter includes a discussion of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as it impacts indigenous people. The author also discusses the ways in which trauma affects how individuals and communities … 31 $3.10 Add
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Colonial Encounters

From: Canada in the World

New Worlds, East and West – Before Canada – Cartier’s Sauvages – Puritan Pathologies – On the Eve of Canada 23 $2.30 Add
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Gladys Radek, Terrace, Gitxsan / Wet’suwet’en First Nations

“When Tamara went missing, it took the breath out of me.”

From: How We Go Home

Gladys Radek of Gitxsan/Wet’suwet’en First Nations shares about life journey with sexual abuse and violence around her during childhood, and how her experiences led to her involvement … 17 $1.70 Add
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Part II

Miles McDonnell

From: Unsettled

Part II describes the ongoing establishment of the Red River Settlement, and the role played Miles McDonnell, who was appointed to head the colony by the Earl of Selkirk in 1813. Part II includes … 142 $14.20 Add
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Chapter 3

Becoming Human

From: Legacy

In this chapter, the author recalls her youth and relationship with her parents and how that shaped her identity as an indigenous person. The chapter concludes with a list of developmental trauma … 26 $2.60 Add