Relating to indigenous peoples

The Orphan and the Polar Bear

In the world of Inuit traditional stories, animals and humans are not such different creatures, and animals often have much to teach humans about the world.
In The Orphan and the Polar Bear, a little ...

Owls See Clearly at Night/Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer

This picture book is a small glimpse, from A to Z, of some of the sights and sounds of the Michif language and its speakers. The language of the Métis, Michif is a combination of French and Cree with ...

The Little Hummingbird

This inspiring children’s book—a revised edition of the award-winning Flight of the Hummingbird—is based on a South American indigenous story about a courageous hummingbird who defies fear and expectations ...

People of the Lakes

Many people have a mental picture of the Canadian north that juxtaposes beauty with harshness. For the Van Tat Gwich'in, the northern Yukon is home, with a living history passed on from elders to youth. ...

Magic Weapons

By (author) Sam McKegney
Foreword by Basil Johnston
Categories: Ethnic studies

The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many ...

Indigenous Legal Traditions

The essays in this book present important perspectives on the role of Indigenous legal traditions in reclaiming and preserving the autonomy of Aboriginal communities and in reconciling the relationship ...

Nokum Is My Teacher

Will you walk with me, Grandmother?

Will you talk with me a while?

I’m finding life confusing

And I’m looking for some answers

To questions all around me

At that school and on the street.

You have always ...

The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab

Edited by Hartmut Lutz
Categories: Biography: general

In August 1880, businessman Adrian Jakobsen convinced eight Inuit men, women, and children from Hebron and Nakvak, Labrador to accompany him to Europe to be "exhibited" in zoos and Völkerschauen (ethnographic ...

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 ...