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Ancient Trees and Ancestral Warnings
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Ancient Trees and Ancestral Warnings

From: The Story is in Our Bones

This chapter describes the connection between deforestation and the loss of Indigenous land rights. Using the resilience and interconnectivity of trees as a metaphor, Lake outlines how various … 22 $2.20 Add
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Reserves as Holding Pens

Reserves as Holding Pens

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines the policies and pracices used by the Canadian government to keep Indigenous people on reserve land and simultaneously seeks to prevent them from … 4 $0.40 Add
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Author's Note and Foreward
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Author’s Note and Foreward

From: The Story is in Our Bones

In the author’s note and foreward, Lake and Camp-Horinek discuss the ecological impact of human systems and ways our collective worldview must change in order to address the issue. ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Brown Girl Farming

Brown Girl Farming

From: The Color of Food

In the introduction, the author discusses her introduction to organic farming, and how the food and farm movement has excluded people of colour. 6 $0.60 Add
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Building a Relationship with the Storied Land
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Building a Relationship with the Storied Land

From: The Story is in Our Bones

This chapter discusses how modern mapping practices perpetuate colonial views of the world and contribute to the erasure of Indigenous Peoples and their territories. 12 $1.20 Add
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Chapter 10: The Inuit Confront Capitalism and Colonialism in the 1920s
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Chapter 10: The Inuit Confront Capitalism and Colonialism in the 1920s

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter looks at how Inuit life was transformed by the fur trade, the church, state policing, and resource exploitation. 8 $0.80 Add
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Chapter 12: Indigenous Waged Work and First Nations Organizing, 1890-1930
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Chapter 12: Indigenous Waged Work and First Nations Organizing, 1890-1930

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter shows how in the early decades of the twentieth century Indigenous Peoples, with diminished roles in traditional work, endured economic hardship and were excluded from steady wage jobs. 15 $1.50 Add
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Chapter 21: Crisis, Politics, Colonized Peoples
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Chapter 21: Crisis, Politics, Colonized Peoples

Quebec in the 1930s

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter relates the double colonization of Québec in the 1930s, as francophone workers were subjected to the repressive policies of the Anglo economic and political order while First … 12 $1.20 Add
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Chapter 31: Conclusion
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Chapter 31: Conclusion

Canada at Mid-Century

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter outlines how at mid-century the state had achieved labour calm and a certain amount of economic and political stability while it had removed thousands of First Nations and Inuit from … 7 $0.70 Add
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Chapter 9: Colonizing the North
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Chapter 9: Colonizing the North

Meat Schemes and Mineral Extraction, 1914-29

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter outlines how needs of wartime contributed to making the Arctic a capitalist frontier in the 1910s–30s and led to the lasting dispossession of Inuit, Dene, Métis, and First … 13 $1.30 Add
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Conclusion
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Conclusion

From: North America's Arctic Borders

In this chapter, conclusions are drawn about the way in which Arctic borders in Canada, the US, and Greenland have been transformed by contemporary political, environmental, economic, and … ; 3 $0.30 Add
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The Legal Billy Club

The Legal Billy Club

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines how court injunctions are used by government and industry when Indigenous people take a stand for their land rights. He uses his personal experience as … 5 $0.50 Add
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Culture of the Arctic Borderlands
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Culture of the Arctic Borderlands

From: North America's Arctic Borders

Chapter 4 continues the theme of subnational actors and Indigenous governance, examining the implications of border delineation for Indigenous Peoples and cultures within the Canadian and … ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Diversity and the Dish
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Diversity and the Dish

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

This chapter outlines the many variations within Indigenous societies affected by factors such as geographic location, war and access to resources and, trade and the differences in land use, … 12 $1.20 Add
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"Enclosure," Land Policy, Social Differentiation, and Early Class Formation, 1795-1850
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“Enclosure,” Land Policy, Social Differentiation, and Early Class Formation, 1795-1850

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

This chapter discusses land enclosure in Canada I the first part of the nineteenth century as settlement and development continued in relation to Indigenous populations and early class formation. 16 $1.60 Add
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Excesses of Exploitation
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Excesses of Exploitation

Indigenous Resentment and Resistance on the Changing Fur Trade Frontier, 1820-70

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

This chapter discusses the expansion of the fur trade in Canada in the nineteenth century to British Columbia and the Pacific coast under the Hudson Bay’s Company James Douglas, and … 12 $1.20 Add