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Siha Tooskin (Paul) has a school assignment to talk about healthy foods from his (Nakota) culture. His father teaches him about the Indigenous origins of many foods that we enjoy today.

Siha Tooskin (Paul) learns from his grandmother about how a dream catcher is made, and how it will protect his baby sister from bad dreams when she is asleep.

Indigenous Peoples in Canada are continuing to assert their right to self-determination in this era of reconciliation. While dozens of Indigenous communities have signed varying forms of self-government agreements with the federal government, Indigenous Nations still face many obstacles along the path to true self-determination. As a former Chief of Siksika Nation in southern Alberta, Leroy Wolf Collar dealt with many of the same problems other Indigenous Nations face across the country.

Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Indigenous women have long recognized that their intersectional realities were not represented in mainstream feminism, which was principally white, middle-class, and often ignored realities of colonialism.

Winner of the 2019-20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award. An unexpected journey can be powerful medicine. When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket list road trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow, she impulsively says yes.

Staci Lola Drouillard guides listeners through the story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village. The author gives an authentic voice to the history of the Minnesotan North Shore.

This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged as part of a conspiracy with the murder of a white man.

A mysterious pow-wow is to be held inside a colossal tipi which suddenly appears on the outskirts of a small town, and only full-blooded Native Americans are allowed to attend the grand event.

Avec Joséphine Bacon commence une nouvelle histoire de la poésie québécoise. Prix des libraires 2019 Finaliste au Indigenous Voices Award 2019 Uiesh - Quelque part est un recueil bilingue français-innu aimum. Quelque part, une aînée avance. Elle porte en elle Nutshimit, Terre des ancêtres. Une mémoire vive nomadise, épiant la ville, ce lieu indéfini. La parole agrandit le cercle de l'humanité. Joséphine Bacon fixe l'horizon, conte les silences et l'immensité du territoire.

Cette anthologie est une plongée dans la culture et dans l'imaginaire des Premières Nations, des Métis et des Inuits. C'est aussi l'esquisse d'une pensée autochtone par les Autochtones. Pour un vivre-ensemble, pour échanger et établir la relation, commençons par découvrir la profondeur de ces histoires et de ces univers.