Indigenous Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools The Devastating Impact on Canada’s Indigenous People and the Reconciliation Commission’s Findings and Calls for Action James Lorimer and Company	Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of the history and effects of the Residential School system in Canada. This title makes …	Melanie Florence	130	2016	View
Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin An Aboriginal Approach to Helping Fernwood Publishing	Historically, social work and psychology professions have pressured and coerced Aboriginal peoples to follow the euro-centric ways of society. The needs of Aboriginal peoples have not been …	Michael Anthony Hart	128	2002	View
Seven Fallen Feathers Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City House of Anansi Press	The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga. …	Tanya Talaga	387	2017	View
Songs Upon the Rivers The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific Baraka Books	“A major undertaking … a valuable contribution,” Canada’s History Long before the Davy Crocketts, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade …	Michel Bouchard; Robert Foxcurran; Sébastien Malette	448	2016	View
The Beothuk Breakwater Books	A history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. This title …	Ingeborg Marshall	88	2009	View
The Color of Food Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming New Society Publishers	Imagine the typical American farmer. Many people visualize sun-roughened skin, faded overalls, and calloused hands-hands that are usually white. While there’s no doubt the growing trend of …	Natasha Bowens	242	2015	View
NEW! The End of This World Climate Justice in So-Called Canada Between The Lines	The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. In this compelling roadmap to a …	Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest	228	2023	View
The Fourth World An Indigenous Perspective on Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Activism Fernwood Publishing	This book is not about feminism. Rather, feminism is the basis of the discussion, an example of how understanding oppression must consider a number of barriers. Euro-Canadian feminists rarely …	Grace J.M.W. Ouellette	103	2002	View
The Franz Boas Enigma Inuit, Arctic, and Sciences Baraka Books	“… Franz Boas has remained an enigma, so misunderstood as a person and so often misrepresented as an anthropologist.” William S. Willis, Jr. How did Franz Boas become the …	Ludger Müller-Wille	188	2014	View
The Imaginary Indian The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture Arsenal Pulp Press	First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to …	Daniel Francis	284	1992	View
The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture Arsenal Pulp Press	First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the “Indian” image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to …	Daniel Francis	284	1992	View
The Reconciliation Manifesto Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy James Lorimer and Company	In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non- Indigenous Canadians believe about their …	Arthur Manuel	312	2017	View
The Truth About Stories A Native Narrative House of Anansi Press	"Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional …	Thomas King	184	2003	View
There’s Something in the Water Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities Fernwood Publishing	In “There’s Something In The Water”, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using …	Ingrid R.G. Waldron	183	2018	View
NEW! To Be A Water Protector The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers Fernwood Publishing	Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. Her new book, To Be a Water Protector: Rise of …	Winona LaDuke	320	2020	View
NEW! Tracking the Caribou Queen Memoir of a Settler Girlhood NeWest Press	In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the ’60s and ’70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined …	Margaret Macpherson	296	2022	View