Memoir
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From  Contextual EssaysFrom: How We Go Home |
These contextual essays provide a framework for understanding treaties in the US and Canada with First Nations, on Indigenous perspectives on historical and intergenerational trauma in an … | Sara Sinclair | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Elizabeth (Sabet) Biscage, YellowknifeFrom: Book of Hope |
In this chapter, Elizabeth (Sabet) Biscaye, a Chipewyan Dene woman from Yellowknife, recounts her colon cancer diagnosis, surgery, and recovery. | Agnes R. Pascal | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Elizabeth Vittrekwa, Fort McPhersonFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter presents Elizabeth Vittrekwa’s account of a breast cancer diagnosis in February 2020, set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Agnes R. Pascal | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Ernest Vittrekwa, Fort McPhersonFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter presents the testimony of Ernest Vittrekwa, a Gwich’in elder from Fort Mc-Person, Northwest Territories, who recounts his childhood in Aklavik, his life lived on the land, and … | Agnes R. Pascal | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From Ervin Chartrand, Selkirk, Métis/Salteaux“They said I fit the description because I looked like six other kids with leather vests and long hair who looked Indian.” From: How We Go Home |
Ervin Chartrand, of Selkirk, Manitoba is of Métis/Salteaux descent. He describes his childhood characterized by a lack of belonging, and joining a street gang at the age of fourteen. He … | Sara Sinclair | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
 Fight or SubmitStanding Tall in Two Worlds |
In the opening to his memoir, Grand Chief Ron Derrickson says his “story is not a litany of complaints but a list of battles” that he has fought. And he promises he will not be overly … | Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 285 | 2020 | View |
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From ForewordFrom: Fight or Submit |
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add | |
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From  Foreword: What It Means to (Re)Centre CareFrom: Hot Mess |
This foreword explains how the text weaves the nuučaańuł teaching of hišukʔiš c̓awaak with a political argument for rethinking care. | Sarah Marie Wiebe | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From Geraldine Manson, Snuneymuxw First Nation“The nurse was trying to get me to sign a paper to put our baby, Derrick, up for adoption.” From: How We Go Home |
Geraldine Manson, of Snuneymuxw First Nation, shares her story about being an Elder in Residence at the Nanaimo campus of Vancouver Island University. She was in a residential school as a child … | Sara Sinclair | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From Gladys Radek, Terrace, Gitxsan / Wet’suwet’en First Nations“When Tamara went missing, it took the breath out of me.” From: How We Go Home |
Gladys Radek of Gitxsan/Wet’suwet’en First Nations shares about life journey with sexual abuse and violence around her during childhood, and how her experiences led to her involvement … | Sara Sinclair | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From GlossaryFrom: How We Go Home |
The glossary defines the key terms appearing throughout the book. | Sara Sinclair | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Grace Martin, Fort McPhersonFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter recounts Grace Martin from Fort McPherson’s childhood at a residential hostel in the early 1970s, her colon cancer diagnosis and surgery in Yellowknife, and her resolve to … | Agnes R. Pascal | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From Historical Timeline of Indigenous North AmericaFrom: How We Go Home |
This historical timeline maps out key dates and events in Indigenous North America, tracing the impact of colonialism, and ends in 2020. | Sara Sinclair | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
Hot MessMothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency |
No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our wellbeing: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal. The summer after giving birth, Sarah Marie Wiebe and her … | Sarah Marie Wiebe | 198 | 2024 | View |
How We Go HomeVoices from Indigenous North America |
In myriad ways, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take … | 344 | View | ||
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From IntroductionFrom: How We Go Home |
Sinclair states her intentions for the project How We Go Home to offer oral histories of living Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States and how her personal experiences have shaped her … | Sara Sinclair | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
