Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott
$33.60 CAD
Category: Indigenous
NATIONAL BESTSELLER When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space. Helen Knott's debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award juries, and readers alike with its profoundly honest and moving account of addiction ...Show more
One of the Family - Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan by Brenda Macdougall
$38.79 CAD
Category: Indigenous
In recent years there has been growing interest in identifying the social and cultural attributes that define the Metis as a distinct people. In this groundbreaking study, Brenda Macdougall employs the concept of wahkootowin - the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values interconnecte ...Show more
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
$24.14 CAD
Category: Indigenous
Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Finalist, 2017 Speaker's Book Award Finalist, 2018 B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was call ...Show more
Stories of Métis Women - Tales My Kookum Told Me by Mary SkyBlue Morin (Translator); Krista Leddy (Artist); Bailey Oster (Editor); Marilyn Lizee (Editor); Audrey Poitras (Foreword by)
$34.13 CAD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Indigenous Spirit of Nature Ser.
This book, and accompanying Vimeo documentary link (DVD available on request), is a collection of stories about culture, history, and nationhood as told by Métis women. The Métis are known by many names -- Otipemisiwak, "the people who own ourselves;" Bois Brules, "Burnt Wood;" Apeetogosan, "half brothe ...Show more
The Education of Augie Merasty - A Residential School Memoir - New Edition by Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty; David Carpenter (Contribution by)
$23.05 CAD
Category: Indigenous | Series: The\Regina Collection
A national bestseller, now available in paperback.Named the fourth most important Book of the Year by the National Post in 2015 and recipient of the One Book, One Province in Saskatchewan for 2017, The Education of Augie Merasty launched on the front page of the Globe and Mail and became a national be ...Show more
Together We Drum, Our Hearts Beat As One by Willie Poll; Chief Lady Chief Lady Bird (Illustrator)
$20.95 CAD
Category: Picture Storybooks
In this beautifully illustrated book, a determined young Anishnaabe girl in search of adventure goes on a transformative journey into a forest on her traditional territory. She is joined by a chorus of women and girls in red dresses, ancestors who tell her they remember what it was like to be carefree a ...Show more
21 Things You May Not Know about the Indian Act - Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
$20.95 CAD
Category: Indigenous
#1 National BestsellerBased on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer.Since its creation in 1876, the Indian A ...Show more
A Grandmother Begins the Story - A Novel by Michelle Porter
$36.74 CAD
Category: Indigenous
Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel.Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what t ...Show more
A Journey of Love and Hope - The Inspirational Words of a Mi'kmaw Elder by Elder Sister Dorothy Moore; Gerald Gloade (Illustrator)
$26.19 CAD
Category: Indigenous
The long-awaited collection of talks, presentations, prayers, and ceremonies of renowned Mi'kmaw Elder, human rights activist, and language and culture warrior, Sister Dorothy Moore. Mi'kmaw Elder Sister Dorothy Moore has spent a lifetime advocating for the rights of her people. As a well-known educato ...Show more
Cheated - The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land by Bill Waiser; Jennie Hansen
$31.45 CAD
Category: Indigenous
"Canadians and politicians have a common responsibility: to learn from the mistakes inherited from a colonialist legacy; and to not repeat the wrongs, corruption, and injustices our people suffered in the hands of government officials, politicians, and their oppressive laws. Reading and learning from Ch ...Show more
Five Little Indians - A Novel by Michelle Good
$24.14 CAD
Category: Indigenous
Finalist Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist National Bestseller A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year A CBC Best Book of the Year An Apple Best Book of the Year A Kobo Best Book of the Year An Indigo Best Book of the Year Taken from their families when they are ver ...Show more