Delores Churchill, Haida weaver, shares the stories of her life, her culture, and the importance of passing cultural knowledge from one generation to the next.
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Author:Churchill, Delores
Summary:Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Art and architecture, Indigenous materials, Biographies and autobiographiesAvailable Formats:
Author:Fritz, Andrea
Summary:Indigenous artist and storyteller Andrea Fritz tells a tale of a greedy raven and the little deer who makes sure they both have enough food for the winter.
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Author:Vickers, Roy Henry
Summary:In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light.
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Author:Hammond-Kaarremaa, Liz.
Summary:The pelt of a dog named "Mutton" languished in a drawer at the Smithsonian for 150 years until it was discovered, almost accidentally, by an amateur archivist.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Biographies and autobiographies, History and geography, Indigenous materialsAvailable Formats:
Author:Nation, Squamish
Summary:A story of the Skwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation): past, present, and future.
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Author:Talonbooks
Summary:A vital collection of writings about First Nations people and culture as it existed on the island coasts of the Depression-era Pacific Northwest and originally published in the pages of Victoria�
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Author:Birchwater, Sage
Summary:In Talking to the Story Keepers: Tales from the Chilcotin Plateau, writer and journalist Sage Birchwater gathers dozens of stories spanning decades in the Cariboo Chilcotin from those who hold onto
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Author:Stewart, Hilary
Summary:Bold, inventive Indigenous art of the Northwest Coast is distinguished by its sophistication and complexity.
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Author:Stewart, Hilary
Summary:Magnificent and haunting, the tall cedar sculptures called totem poles have become a distinctive symbol of the native people of the Northwest Coast.
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Author:Reid, Martine J.
Summary:Over his lifetime, Bill Reid created many historic pieces of art including the large bronze sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, nicknamed the Jade Canoe and displayed at the Vancouver Internationa
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Author:Budd, Robert
Summary:Cloudwalker, describing the creation of the rivers, is the second in a series of Northwest Coast legends by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd.
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Author:Browne, Colin
Summary:During the groundbreaking Charles Edenshaw exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2013, poet Colin Browne found himself returning often to study three large argillite platters carved by the Hai
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Author:Highway, Tomson
Summary:Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Tr
Genre: Canadian drama, Indigenous materialsAvailable Formats:
Author:Furniss, Elizabeth
Summary:A revealing study of two tragic events that took place at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which underline the profound impact the residential school system had on aboriginal commun
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Author:Rossiter, David A.
,Wood, Patricia K.
Summary:The so-called land question dominates political discourse in British Columbia.
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