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At Home with the Bella Coola Indians

Between 1922 and 1924, the young Canadian anthropologist T. F. McIlwraith spent eleven months in the isolated community of Bella Coola, British Columbia, living among the people of the Nuxalk First Nation. ...

Of Silk Saris & Mini-Skirts

By (author) Amita Handa
Categories: Ethnic studies

Dr. Handa explores issues surrounding the way identity is imagined and constructed by South Asian girls, women and South Asian community workers in Toronto. The author also examines ways in which young ...

Strong Hollow

In her bold debut novel, Linda Little has crafted a story where music, creativity, and sexuality merge, as a young Nova Scotian carver embarks on a profound discovery of his sense of self. Strong Hollow ...

A Very Remarkable Sickness

The area between the Great Lakes and Lake Winnipeg, bounded on the north by the Hudson Bay lowlands, is sometimes known as the "Petit Nord. " Providing a link between the cities of eastern Canada and ...

Tales of Ghosts

By (author) Ronald W. Hawker
Categories: History of art

The years between 1922 and 1961, often referred to as the “Dark Ages of Northwest Coast art,” have largely been ignored by art historians, and dismissed as a period of artistic decline. Tales of Ghosts ...

In Whom We Trust

Since the time of contact, the relationship between Aboriginal Peoples and the governments of Canada has found its expression across negotiation tables, around healing circles, in funding and service ...

Through the Eyes of the Eagle

Translated by David Rome
Edited by Pierre Anctil
Categories: Social and cultural history

The output of the Yiddish press published in Montreal, starting in 1907, sheds a bright light on the mass migration of East European Jews to the city at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the ...

Eating Fire

Eating Fire follows in the steps of Riordon’s popular 1996 book Out our way, on gay and lesbian life in the country (BTL, 1996). This new set of tales examines the range in living patterns and relationships ...

I'd Say Yes, God If I Knew What You Wanted

By (author) Nancy Reeves
Categories: Christian life and practice

"What do you want from me, God?" If you’ve ever struggled with this question, but haven’t found a way to answer it, then this book is for you. Real-life stories from 75 men and women open up a world ...

Native Poetry in Canada

Edited by Jeannette Armstrong & Lally Grauer
Categories: Poetry

Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology is the only collection of its kind. It brings together the poetry of many authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside ...