Colonialism

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The Truth About Stories

The Truth About Stories

A Native Narrative

"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 … 184 View
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The Vanishing Canadian

The Vanishing Canadian

From: The Imaginary Indian

This chapter calls out the 18th and 19th artists like Paul Kane, Edward Curtis, and others for taking the Indian image and manipulating and displaying in any way they wanted. The image-makers … 50 $5.00 Add
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The Vanishing Canadian

From: The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition

This chapter calls out the 18th and 19th artists like Paul Kane, Edward Curtis, and others for taking the Indian image and manipulating and displaying in any way they wanted. The image-makers … 50 $2.50 Add
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Attempted Genocide

Attempted Genocide

Political Battles with Pierre Trudeau

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines Pierre Trudeau’s dealings with Indigenous people in Canada and the former prime minister’s policies of assimilation. He examines the 1969 … 6 $0.60 Add
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Tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis

From: Country of Poxes

Chapter 4 focuses on tuberculosis. Discussing topics including the present persistence of tuberculosis into the twenty first century across the globe including in Canada, the long history of … 61 $6.10 Add
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Twentieth-Century Racism and Centralization

Twentieth-Century Racism and Centralization

From: We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition

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Twentieth-Century Racism and Centralization

Twentieth-Century Racism and Centralization

From: We Were Not The Savages

Chapter 13 focuses on the institutionalisation of racism within the modern Canadian state, explores the role of centralized education, the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School and Indian Day … 53 $5.30 Add
We Were Not The Savages
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We Were Not The Savages

Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations

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 … 416 View
We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition

We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition

Collison between European and Native American Civilizations

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 … 416 View
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What Can Be Done?

What Can Be Done?

Decolonizing People and Spaces

From: “Indians Wear Red”

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What Is It About Us That You Don't Like

What Is It About Us That You Don’t Like

From: The Truth About Stories

In this reading, Indigenous author and scholar Thomas King explores the idea that stories, both those we tell ourselves and those that are told to us by others, are foundational in establishing … 32 $3.84 Add
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William Eppes Cormack and the Boeothick Institution

William Eppes Cormack and the Boeothick Institution

From: The Beothuk

This chapter recounts the firsthand experiences of William Eppes Cormack in the early 19th century 3 $0.30 Add
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"With Its Branches You Now Lash Us"
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“With Its Branches You Now Lash Us”

The Accelerating Dispossession of Indigenous Peoples, 1780-1820

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

This chapter examines the increasing dispossession of the Indigenous populations between 1780 and the 1820s as settlement continued westward. 7 $0.70 Add
Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids

Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids

Quebec Inuit Fight for Their Homeland

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 … 132 View
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Writing Off the Indian

Writing Off the Indian

From: The Imaginary Indian

In this chapter, the author dispassionately examines the early “image makers”—the writers who travelled through Native nations to give first-hand account of the Native Peoples. … 39 $3.90 Add
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Writing Off the Indian

From: The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition

In this chapter, the author dispassionately examines the early “image makers”—the writers who travelled through Native nations to give first-hand account of the Native Peoples. … 39 $1.17 Add