Health

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Introduction From: Book of Hope View Fernwood Publishing	In this introduction, Pascal explains how Treaty 8 and Treaty 11 promised health services that were never fully honoured, leaving gaps in care that persist among Indigenous peoples.	Agnes R. Pascal	15	2025	$1.50 Add
From Introduction: Aboriginal Canada Revisited From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited View University of Ottawa Press	Introduction	Kerstin Knopf	26	2008	$2.60 Add
From NEW! Isolation, Disconnection, Reconnection From: Killing the Wittigo View ECW Press	In this chapter, Methot describes the extinct to isolate and dissociate after experiencing trauma, and what this behaviour can look like. She provides advice for how to reconnect with yourself, …	Suzanne Methot	26	2023	$2.60 Add
From NEW! Joe Hester: Anishnawbe Health Toronto HOW WE CARRY THIS PLACE From: Indigenous Toronto View Coach House Books	The story of Joe Hester and his work for Anishnawbe Health, where he is the current Executive Director.	Brian Wright-McLeod	3	2021	$0.30 Add
From NEW! Lateral Violence From: Killing the Wittigo View ECW Press	In this chapter, Methot explains how the violence of colonialism caused intergenerational trauma that results in violence within indigenous families and communities. Methot describes this cycle …	Suzanne Methot	28	2023	$2.80 Add
From NEW! Living My Family Through Colonialism From: White Benevolence View Fernwood Publishing	In chapter 2, Verna St. Denis examines the impact of colonial structures on BIPOC communities and families through recounting her own experiences. This chapter focuses on the colonial structures …	Verna St. Denis	14	2022	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Mary Effie Snowshoe, Fort McPherson From: Book of Hope View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter presents the testimony of Mary Effie Snowshoe, a Gwich’in Elder from Fort McPherson, whose life is shaped by the loss of siblings to residential schools in Hay River and …	Agnes R. Pascal	5	2025	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Melinda Laboucan, Fort Good Hope From: Book of Hope View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter follows Melinda Laboucan, a K’asho Got’ine woman from Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories, as she recounts her mother Janet’s 2011 cancer diagnosis and the …	Agnes R. Pascal	6	2025	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Pandemics Past How Infections Have Defined Humanity From: Country of Poxes View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 1 explores the history of infectious diseases in Canada and human coexistence with infection. Topics discussed include malaria, gene mutations, cystic fibrosis, cholera, antibiotics, …	Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Permission to Escape From: White Benevolence View Fernwood Publishing	In chapter 15, Heather Carter unpacks the whiteness of her skin which has led to her unfailingly being perceived as a white settler, despite her own identity as a Métis woman. The chapter …	Heather Carter	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Policing Indigenous Students: The School/Prison Nexus on the Canadian Prairies From: White Benevolence View Fernwood Publishing	In chapter 7, Amanda Gebhard sheds light on the subtle — and not-so-subtle — operations of racism, colonialism and whiteness in schools, and the real and material consequences these …	Amanda Gebhard	14	2022	$1.40 Add
From Racism Kills From: Warrior Life View Fernwood Publishing	Section two, Racism Kills, responds to headlines about the high costs of racism in terms of Indigenous lives through collected articles and blog posts by Palmater. She covers topics related to …	Pamela Palmater	50	2020	$5.00 Add
From Robert Ornelas, New York City, Lipan Apache / Ysleta del Sur Pueblo “A part of the soul sickness for me was being ashamed. . . . What we were being taught about Indians was so minimal and so negative.” From: How We Go Home View Fernwood Publishing	Robert Ornelas, who lives in New York City, and is of the Lipan Apache / Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, is a retired substance abuse counselor. He shares how he understood and felt about being native as …	Sara Sinclair	17	2020	$1.70 Add
From NEW! Ruth Wright, Inuvik From: Book of Hope View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter follows Ruth Wright of Inuvik, Northwest Territories, as she reflects on decades of family loss to cancer, beginning with her sister Ruby Ann in the 1970s and continuing through her …	Agnes R. Pascal	6	2025	$0.60 Add
From Sexualized Genocide From: Warrior Life View Fernwood Publishing	Section three, Sexualized Genocide, contains Palmater’s articles and blog posts in response to headlines about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, including how resource …	Pamela Palmater	54	2020	$5.40 Add
From NEW! Smallpox From: Country of Poxes View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 3 examines the history of smallpox. Discussing topics includingsmallpox origins, early accounts of smallpox outbreaks across North America, the emergence of new mutations, …	Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay	66	2022	$6.60 Add