Indigenous Studies

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Preserving Culture and Community

From: The Color of Food

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Portrait 1: Cherokee Seed Bank. Kevin Welch, Center for Cherokee Plants Portrait 2: Sustaining Community. Jenga Mwendo, Backyard Gardeners Network Portrait 3: Acequia Culture. Don Bustos, Santa … 40 $4.00 Add
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Q’anjob’al Canadian

From: A Beauty that Hurts

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In this chapter, Lovell explores the story of Genaro Castañeda as a Q’anjob’al Mayan and his journey from Guatemala to Canada. 14 $1.40 Add
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Racism Kills

From: Warrior Life

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Section two, Racism Kills, responds to headlines about the high costs of racism in terms of Indigenous lives through collected articles and blog posts by Palmater. She covers topics related to … 50 $5.00 Add
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Rethinking Waste

From: There's Something in the Water

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Mapping Racial Geographies of Violence on the Colonial Landscape 13 $1.30 Add
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Revitalizing a Traditional Worldview

From: Circle Works

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School

From: Tracking the Caribou Queen

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The chapter describes their father’s career in the northern school system, the paternalism of the school system, her fathers role in running the residential school, and the original … 8 $0.80 Add
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Smallpox

From: Country of Poxes

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Chapter 3 examines the history of smallpox. Discussing topics includingsmallpox origins, early accounts of smallpox outbreaks across North America, the emergence of new mutations, … 66 $6.60 Add
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Symbolic and Discursive Violence in Media Representations

Portrayals of Indigenous and Muslim Youth in the Canadian Press

From: Everyday Violence in the Lives of Youth

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Topics in this chapter include: Situating Muslim and Indigenous youth in the media landscape. This chapter includes stories from both Muslim and Indigenous young people regarding their portrayal … 32 $3.20 Add
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The Children are Taken

From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools

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This chapter discusses how thousands of children were forcibly removed from their homes and taken to residential schools. It illustrates this with photographs, illustrations, and documents as … 6 $0.60 Add
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The Early Years of the Mission School

Education and Discipline

From: Victims of Benevolence

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Native children learned the skills they needed to survive, and the beliefs, values, and codes of behaviour appropriate to their society, by a trial-and error process of observing and imitating … 28 $0.56 Add
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The Fourth World Is Emerging: A Zombie Mine Resurrection and the Refusal of the Tsilhqot’in

Part One: Dispossession at Home

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

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In Chapter 4, co-authors Dawn Hoogeveen (a non-Indigenous settler) and Russell Myers Ross (a member of the Tsilhqot’in Nation) examine the struggles to preserve Teztan Biny (Fish Lake), … ; 20 $2.00 Add
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The History

From: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: Summary

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Details the history of the residential school system. Puts the history in context of imperialism, colonization, and assimilation. Describes the experience children would have had at the schools. 140 $0.00 Add
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The Landscape of Indigenous Worldview

From: Indigenomics

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Topics discussed in this chapter include a series of principles outlining the indigenous worldview. These include: connectedness, story, animate life force, transformation and renewal. 26 $2.60 Add
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The Nisga’a Common Bowl in Tradition and Politics

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

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In the year 1887; a delegation of Nisga a travelled by canoe and steamboat to Victoria in order to discuss their land question with the governor of British Columbia. […] In 1913 they … 14 $1.40 Add
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The Sway From the Bay, 1821–1889

From: North of Superior

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Looks at the transformation of Northwestern Ontario during this time from a fur-trade hinterland to one whose primary purpose was to serve the industrial needs of the south. Analyzes how this … ; 24 $2.40 Add