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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Aboriginal Canada Revisited University of Ottawa Press	Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film— Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and …	Kerstin Knopf	437	2008	View
Brotherhood to Nationhood George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement Between The Lines	Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present. …	Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane	342	2020	View
Colonized Classrooms Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education Fernwood Publishing	In Colonized Classrooms, Sheila Cote-Meek discusses how Aboriginal students confront narratives of colonial violence in the postsecondary classroom, while they are, at the same time, living and …	Sheila Cote-Meek	175	2014	View
Decolonizing Sport Fernwood Publishing	Decolonizing Sport tells the stories of sport colonizing Indigenous Peoples and of Indigenous Peoples using sport to decolonize. Spanning several lands — Turtle Island, the US, Australia, …		288	2023	View
North of Superior An Illustrated History of Northwestern Ontario James Lorimer and Company	Northwestern Ontario is a little-known region that has been central to Canada’s prosperity. For many Canadians, the majestic landscape north of Lake Superior conjures up images of tourism, …	Chris Southcott; Michel S. Beaulieu		2010	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
NEW! On Account of Darkness Shining Light on Race and Sport twp	For marginalized athletes past and present, achievement can bring celebrity without equality and recognition without opportunity In many ways, Ontario’s Chatham-Kent region is a microcosm …	Ian Kennedy	213	2022	View
Songs Upon the Rivers The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific Baraka Books	“A major undertaking … a valuable contribution,” Canada’s History Long before the Davy Crocketts, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade …	Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette	448	2016	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 Franz Boas Enigma Inuit, Arctic, and Sciences Baraka Books	“… Franz Boas has remained an enigma, so misunderstood as a person and so often misrepresented as an anthropologist.” William S. Willis, Jr. How did Franz Boas become the …	Ludger Müller-Wille	188	2014	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! Tracking the Caribou Queen Memoir of a Settler Girlhood NeWest Press	In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the ’60s and ’70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined …	Margaret Macpherson	296	2022	View
Unsettled Lord Selkirk's Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada's West, 1813-1816 ECW Press	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	2023	View
NEW! Unsettling Canada A National Wake-up Call Between The Lines	A Canadian bestseller and winner of the 2016 Canadian Historical Association Aboriginal History Book Prize, Unsettling Canada is a landmark text built on a unique collaboration between two First …	Arthur Manuel; Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson; Naomi Klein	320	2021	View
Warrior Life Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence Fernwood Publishing	In a moment where unlawful pipelines are built on Indigenous territories, the RCMP make illegal arrests of land defenders on unceded lands, and anti-Indigenous racism permeates on social media; …	Pamela Palmater	288	2020	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