Urban
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() Althea Guiboche, Winnipeg, Métis/Ojibwe/Salteaux“I had three babies under three years old and I was homeless.” From: How We Go Home |
Althea Guiboche, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is of Métis/Ojibwe/Salteaux descent. She is a respected community advocate for homeless in the North End of Winnipeg, an experience she understands … | Sara Sinclair | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
![]() In Their Own VoicesBuilding Urban Aboriginal Communities |
In Their Own Voices is an examination of the urban Aboriginal experience, based on the voices of Aboriginal people. It is set in Winnipeg’s inner city, but has implications for urban Aboriginal … | 189 | 2006 | View | |
From ![]() Decolonizing the NorthFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Arlene Haché describes her personal journey from homelessness to leadership. She characterizes the disproportional representation of homeless Indigenous women requiring the services of the … | 22 | $2.20 Add | ||
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 |
From ![]() I did not know who I wasFrom: Gang Life |
twenty-five-year-old Kim describes a life, both inside and outside her gang, in which “I did not know who I was.” Her childhood and early adolescence were wracked with rejection and … | Mark Totten | 21 | 2014 | $2.10 Add |
From ![]() If I told you I’d have to kill youFrom: Gang Life |
meet thirty-two-year-old Jeremy and thirty-year-old Dawn. Jeremy is a scrawny transporter of guns, drugs, and money for various gangs. Despite having Aboriginal blood, he passes as white, which … | Mark Totten | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
![]() “Indians Wear Red”Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs |
With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the “gang capital of Canada.” Yet beyond the … | Elizabeth Comack; Jim Silver; Larry Morrissette; Lawrence Deane | 176 | 2013 | View |
![]() NEW! Indigenous TorontoStories That Carry This Place |
Rich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present Beneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, … | Brian Wright-McLeod; Denise Bolduc; Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere; Rebeka Tabobondung | 304 | 2021 | View |
From ![]() Building a Path to a Better FutureUrban Aboriginal People From: In Their Own Voices |
Jim Silver | 29 | 2006 | $3.77 Add | |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: “Indians Wear Red” |
Elizabeth Comack; Jim Silver; Larry Morrissette; Lawrence Deane | 4 | 2013 | $0.44 Add | |
From ![]() “It’s Like a Business, Man”Aboriginal Street Gangs and the Illegal Drug Trade From: “Indians Wear Red” |
Elizabeth Comack; Jim Silver; Larry Morrissette; Lawrence Deane | 36 | 2013 | $3.96 Add | |
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 |
From ![]() “The Tools You Need To Discover Who Your Are”Aboriginal Learners in Selected Adult Learning Centre in Winnipeg From: In Their Own Voices |
Darlene Klyne; Jim Silver | 26 | 2006 | $3.38 Add | |
From ![]() My shoulder was a bit sore from that rocket thingFrom: Gang Life |
Gilbert, a Métis man aged thirty-four years, and Maureen, thirty-five years, live on a small reserve. Their lives are described in Chapter Seven. Both are hard-core addicts and have two boys … | Mark Totten | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
From ![]() Poverty, Street Gangs, and ColonialismFrom: “Indians Wear Red” |
Elizabeth Comack; Jim Silver; Larry Morrissette; Lawrence Deane | 30 | 2013 | $3.30 Add | |
From ![]() Preface to the Second Edition, Acknowledgements, Foreword by Randy Fred, IntroductionFrom: The Imaginary Indian |
Randy Fred debunks the concept of “Indians” and claims that Native people live within a world of imagery that isn’t their own. Daniel Frances further explores the myth that is … | Daniel Francis | 43 | 1992 | $4.30 Add |