Memoir
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From  Chapter TwelveFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John describes life on the Stoney Creek reserve during the 1930s Great Depression. | Bridget Moran | 8 | 1988 | $0.80 Add |
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From Chapter TwentyFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John discusses her experiences as an elder passing on Carrier culture. | Bridget Moran | 10 | 1988 | $1.00 Add |
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From Chapter TwoFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this chapter, Mary John describes the 1918 influenza pandemic’s devastating toll on the Stoney Creek reserve in central British Columbia. | Bridget Moran | 6 | 1988 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Charlie Furlong, AklavikFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter traces the life of Charlie Furlong, a Gwich’in elder in Aklavik, Northwest Territories. | Agnes R. Pascal | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Clara Bates, TuktoyaktukFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter presents Clara Bates’ account of her colon cancer diagnosis in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., and the three-year delay in treatment caused by systemic failures in rural health care. | Agnes R. Pascal | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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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 EpilogueFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this conclusion, Mary John closes by reflecting on the transformation of her community, and what she believes is still needed: adequate housing, education, and employment on reserve. | Bridget Moran | 5 | 1988 | $0.50 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 |
