Colonialism

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
“Indians Wear Red” Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs Fernwood Publishing	With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the “gang capital of Canada.” Yet beyond the …	Elizabeth Comack; Jim Silver; Larry Morrissette; Lawrence Deane	176	2013	View
Changing Tides An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene New Society Publishers	Change the story and change the future – merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene. As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and …	Alejandro Frid	220	2019	View
NEW! Cobalt Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower House of Anansi Press	The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this “demon metal” has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern …	Charlie Angus	336	2022	View
NEW! Country of Poxes Three Germs and the Taking of Territory Fernwood Publishing	Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a …	Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay	208	2022	View
Legacy Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing ECW Press	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 …	Suzanne Methot	370	2019	View
Northern Wildflower A Memoir Fernwood Publishing	Northern Wildflower is the beautifully written and powerful memoir of Catherine Lafferty. With startling honesty and a distinct voice, Lafferty tells her story of being a Dene woman growing up in …	Catherine Lafferty	155	2018	View
Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised Somewhere Else) A 60s Scoop Adoptee's Story of Coming Home Fernwood Publishing	During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised …	Colleen Cardinal	213	2018	View
Reconciliation in Practice A Cross-Cultural Perspective Fernwood Publishing	In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report designed to facilitate reconciliation between the Canadian state and Indigenous Peoples. Its call to honour treaty relationships …	Ranjan Datta	200	2019	View
The Beothuk Breakwater Books	A history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. This title …	Ingeborg Marshall	88	2009	View
The Fall of New France How the French lost a North American empire 1754-1763 James Lorimer and Company	Two great empires collided in North America in the 1750s when France and Great Britain (with the eager support of Britain’s American colonies) contested control of the Ohio Valley and Nova …	Ronald J. Dale	96	2004	View
The Imaginary Indian The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture Arsenal Pulp Press	First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to …	Daniel Francis	284	1992	View
The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture Arsenal Pulp Press	First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the “Indian” image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to …	Daniel Francis	284	1992	View
The Truth About Stories A Native Narrative House of Anansi Press	"Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional …	Thomas King	184	2003	View
NEW! We Were Not The Savages Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations Fernwood Publishing	The title of this book We Were Not the Savages speaks to the truth of what happened when Europeans invaded Mi’kmaw lands in the 17th century. Prior to the European invasion the Mi’kmaq lived …	Daniel N. Paul; Pamela Palmater	416	2022	View
We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition Collison between European and Native American Civilizations Fernwood Publishing	As a person of First Nation ancestry I cannot help but wonder if the failure of Caucasian Americans and Canadians to reveal and teach about the horrors their ancestors carried out against North …	Daniel Paul	416	2006	View
Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids Quebec Inuit Fight for Their Homeland Véhicule Press	For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to …	Zebedee Nungak	132	2017	View