Relating to Native American people

Switchbacks

By (author) Jennifer Kramer
Categories: Ethnic studies

Switchbacks explores how the Nuxalk of Bella Coola, British Columbia, negotiate such complex questions as: Who owns culture? How should culture be transmitted to future generations? Where does selling ...

The New Buffalo

By (author) Blair Stonechild
Categories: Ethnic studies

Post-secondary education, often referred to as “the new buffalo,” is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. While First Nations maintain ...

Good Intentions Gone Awry

By (author) Jan Hare & Jean Barman
Categories: Ethnic studies

Emma Crosby’s letters to family and friends in Ontario shed light on a critical era and bear witness to the contribution of missionary wives. They mirror the hardships and isolation she faced as well ...

Unsettling Encounters

By (author) Gerta Moray
Categories: Ethnic studies

Unsettling Encounters radically re-examines Emily Carr’s achievement in representing Native life on the Northwest Coast in her painting and writing. By reconstructing a neglected body of Carr’s work ...

Travelling Knowledges

In the context of de/colonization, the boundary between an Aboriginal text and the analysis by a non-Aboriginal outsider poses particular challenges often constructed as unbridgeable. Eigenbrod argues ...

Orphans in the Sky

For many days, there had been no food in the Inuit camp where Brother and Little Sister lived . . . . They had set out early that morning, hoping to find some food they could bring back to share with ...

The Truth About Stories

By (author) Thomas King
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award

"Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous. "

Beginning with a ...

Shifting Boundaries

By (author) Tim Schouls
Categories: Ethnic studies

Canada is often called a pluralist state, but few commentators view Aboriginal self-government from the perspective of political pluralism. Instead, Aboriginal identity is framed in terms of cultural ...

Great Chiefs

By (author) Tony Hollihan
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: Legends

This classic volume is a tribute to the legendary chiefs and warriors who guided their people through the most turbulent chapter in their history. Tony Hollihan reveals how these visionary leaders grappled ...

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 ...