Urban
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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 |
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From  Sharing, Community and DecolonizationUrban Aboriginal Community Development From: In Their Own Voices |
- | Jim Silver; Parvin Ghorayshi | 41 | 2006 | $5.33 Add |
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From What Can Be Done?Decolonizing People and Spaces From: “Indians Wear Red” |
- | Elizabeth Comack; Jim Silver; Larry Morrissette; Lawrence Deane | 14 | 2013 | $1.54 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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  The Community HubFrom: Beyond Shelters |
Cora Gajari, Executive Director of Carmichael Outreach Inc. in Regina, Saskatchewan, draws on her own experience as an Indigenous woman who has faced violence and marginalization, discusses the … | 16 | $1.60 Add | ||
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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 |
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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 |
