Relating to Native American people

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 ...

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 ...

Resumption of Play, The

By (author) Gary Geddes
Categories: Poetry

The gripping title poem of The Resumption of Play, which won the 2015 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, dramatizes the traumatic experience and enduring legacy of Canada’s Indian residential schools. ...

#IdleNoMore

By (author) Ken Coates
Categories: Ethnic studies

Idle No More bewildered many Canadians. Launched in reaction to a federal omnibus budget bill, the protest became the most powerful demonstration of Aboriginal identity in Canadian history. Thousands ...

Reverse Shots

From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, ...

Coded Territories

This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic ...

Peace Pipe Dreams

By (author) Darrell Dennis
Categories: Ethnic studies

Darrell Dennis is a stereotype-busting, politically incorrect Native American/Aboriginal/Shuswap (Only he’s allowed to call himself an “Indian. ” Maybe. Under some circumstances). With a large dose ...