Enfin un ouvrage emballant qui met de côté les malheurs de l’Acadie pour mieux démontrer à quel point les pionnières et les pionniers du 17e siècle faisaient preuve de créativité, d’industrie ...

Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Couleeese were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. ...

Centred around a theoretical framework that combines concepts of dispossession, political economy, and important interventions from the field of settler colonial studies on the topic of colonial dispossession, ...

Stolen City reveals how settler colonialism, as a mode of racial capitalism, has made and remade Winnipeg over the past 150 years, tracing the emergence of a ruling alliance that has installed successive ...

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg: This is Our Territory uniquely retells pivotal historical events that have been conventionally unchallenged in dominant historical narratives while presenting a fascinating personal ...

In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as “The Monkey Girl” at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as ‘freaks’ in twentieth-century ...

In Metis Pioneers, MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s ...

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this ...

Celebrated Montréal writer Jacob Isaac Segal (1896–1954) paved the way for a major literary movement in the North American Jewish diaspora. In tracing the poet’s literary trajectory, this book reflects ...

Sarah Carter, FRSC, is professor and Henry Marshall Tory chair in the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

Despite legal and cultural obstacles ...