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Author:Slade, Michael
Summary:Genre: Canadian fiction- Author:
Johnson, Harold
Summary:Ben Robe is a retired political science professor who has returned to his reserve at Moccasin Lake, Saskatchewan, to live out his life in relative peace and solitude.
Genre: Canadian fiction - Author:
Buckley, Christopher
Summary:Starting a rumor about an assassination plot targeting the Dalai Lama as part of an effort to gain support for a secret weapons system, Bird McIntyre and Angel Templeton provoke Washington crises t
Genre: Humorous fiction, Political fiction - Author:
Pearson, Kit
Summary:Thirteen-year old Polly is following in her sister's footsteps to a boarding school in Victoria. Will her sister's new secret tear her family apart again?
Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction - Author:
Nelson, J. G.
Summary:"Fascinating and impressive." Thomas Gunton, Director of Resource and Environmental Planning, Simon Fraser University and former Deputy Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks, Government of Briti
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Merasty, Joseph Auguste
Summary:This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school.
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Indigenous materials, History and geography - Author:Summary:
Like all First Nations languages, Lillooet (Lil'wat) is a repository for an abundantly rich oral literature.
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Mitchell, Barbara
Summary:As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada.
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Ratt, Solomon
Summary:Tanisi! With the help of this book, you can learn to speak Cree!
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Indigenous materials, Language learning, Instructional and educational works - Author:Summary:
The goal of community-based research is to develop a deeper understanding of communities and to discover new opportunities for improving quality of life.
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Wilson, Garrett
Summary:"Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched." -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning.
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Daschuk, James W.
Summary:This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a forward by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, and explanations of the book's influence by leading Canadian historians.
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Gehl, Lynn
Summary:Denied her Indigenous status, Lynn Gehl has been fighting her entire life to reclaim mino-pimadiziwin-the good life.
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"From diversity comes strength and wisdom": this was the guiding principle for selecting the articles in this collection.
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Milloy, John Sheridan
Summary:The first economic, military, and diplomatic history of the Plains Cree from contact with the Europeans in the 1670s to the disappearance of the buffalo from Cree lands by the 1870s, focussing on m