Memoir
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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 … | Sara Sinclair | 344 | 2020 | View |
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From  NEW! I can’t find my body in this cold nightSettler colonial disembodiment From: On Wholeness |
In this chapter, Christie-Peters examines settler colonial disembodiment as a mechanism of control and a strategy of Indigenous survival. | Quill Christie-Peters | 24 | 2025 | $2.40 Add |
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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 |
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From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Book of Hope |
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 |
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From NEW! IntroductionShe is full like the moon, rupturing like a galaxy and dancing with her ancestors like smoke rising to the sky From: On Wholeness |
In this chapter, Christie-Peters introduces Anishinaabe embodiment as a living cosmic reality set within Turtle Island’s settler colonial context. | Quill Christie-Peters | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From James Favel, Winnipeg, Peguis First Nation“You’re a stakeholder because you’ve got to walk these streets every day.” From: How We Go Home |
James Favel, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is of the Peguis First Nation. He describes his childhood in Winnipeg and his reaching out to his father as teenager, and reconnecting with his culture. He … | Sara Sinclair | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
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From Jasilyn Charger, Cheyenne River Sioux“My son’s buried by the river. . . . I vowed to him that he’s going to be safe, that no oil was going to touch him.” From: How We Go Home |
Jasilyn Charger of the Cheyenne River Sioux, shares her story of her childhood with her family and moving in and out of foster homes and mental health facilities. She then became involved in the … | Sara Sinclair | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
 Laughing with the TricksterOn Sex, Death, and Accordions |
Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap lunatic. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have one blast of a time and to laugh ourselves to death. … | Tomson Highway | 102 | 2022 | View |
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From Marian Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo“Indigenous peoples’ reason for being is to be the caretakers of the air, the water, the land, and each other.” From: How We Go Home |
Marian Naranjo, of Santa Clara Pueblo, is the founder of Honor Our Pueblo Existence. She shares about the challenges the Pueblo people have had in working to steward their land in the face of … | Sara Sinclair | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Mary Effie Snowshoe, Fort McPhersonFrom: Book of Hope |
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 |
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From NEW! Melinda Laboucan, Fort Good HopeFrom: Book of Hope |
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 |
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From On Humour |
In this chapter, Highway examines the Trickster figure in Cree and broader Indigenous storytelling, revealing how humour threads through language, creation narratives, and cultural survival. | Tomson Highway | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
