Indigenous Studies

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The Sleeping Giant Awakens

Confronting the truths of Canada’s Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In The Sleeping Giant Awakens, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool ...

Nitinikiau Innusi

Born into a traditional nomadic family, Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue came to international attention in the 1980s and 1990s when she led protests against NATO’s occupation of Innu land in Labrador. ...

Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth

Ujarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d’Anglure the narratives which make up the ...

The Creator’s Game

By (author) Allan Downey
Categories: Lacrosse

Lacrosse has been a central element of Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation – then reclamation – of Indigenous identities. ...

Elements of Indigenous Style

By (author) Gregory Younging
Categories: Indigenous peoples

Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples—the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. ...

Residential Schools and Reconciliation

By (author) J.R. Miller
Categories: Ethnic studies

In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award-winning author J. R. Miller tackles and explains the institutional responses to Canada’s residential school legacy. This timely and provocative work ...

My Conversations With Canadians

By (author) Lee Maracle
Categories: Indigenous peoples
Series: Essais Series

On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn’t possibly answer at that moment. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar ...

Surviving Canada

Edited by Myra J. Tait & Kiera L. Ladner
Categories: Ethnic studies

Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a thoughtful and powerful collection about Indigenous Peoples’ complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and ...

Yakuglas' Legacy

By (author) Ronald W. Hawker
Categories: Biography: general

“Ronald Hawker’s endeavour to explore the material objects—the pieces in the collections—and then make relevant, illuminating connections with broader social, political, and economic events is ...

Price Paid

By (author) Bev Sellars
Categories: History of the Americas

The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices that North America’s Indigenous peoples have contributed to the rest of the world. It documents the dark period of regulation ...