Indigenous materials

  • Dreams: Visions of the crow

    Creator

    John-Kehewin, Wanda

    Abstract

    Damon just wants to get through senior year. After he is seized by a waking dream in the middle of a busy street, he is forced to look within himself, mend the bond with his mother, and rely on new friends to find the answers he so desperately needs. Travelling through time and space, Damon will have to go back before he can move forward.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [Winnipeg, Manitoba]

    HighWater Press

    Non spécifié
  • Last standing woman

    Creator

    LaDuke, Winona

    Abstract

    In this highly anticipated new edition of her debut novel, Winona LaDuke weaves a nonlinear narrative of struggle and triumph, resistance and resilience, spanning seven generations from the 1800s to the early 2000s.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Winnipeg, Manitoba]

    HighWater Press

    Non spécifié
  • Hold your tongue

    Creator

    Tétreault, Matthew

    Abstract

    Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run-ins with local Mennonites, his job working a honey wagon, and struck by visions of Métis history and secrets of his family's past, Richard confronts his desires to leave town, even as he learns to embrace his heritage. Evoking an oral storytelling epic that weaves together one family's complex history, Hold Your Tongue asks what it means to be Métis and francophone.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    NeWest Press

    Non spécifié
  • I (Athena)

    Creator

    DyckFehderau, Ruth

    Abstract

    When Athena was a young girl in the 60s, she lost her hearing to a childhood fever but was misdiagnosed as "profoundly retarded" and institutionalized for thirty years. Now she's out of the institution, awkward and bookish, and learning to integrate with mainstream society where nothing works quite like she thinks it should. Athena researches her past, trying to understand why she was institutionalized in the first place and why the people looking after her made such a huge mistake.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    NeWest Press

    Non spécifié
  • Indigiqueerness : a conversation about storytelling

    Creator

    Whitehead, Joshua

    Abstract

    Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits. This volume is imbued with Whitehead's energy and celebrates Indigenous writers and creators who defy expectations and transcend genres.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    Athabasca University Press

    Non spécifié
  • Racism in southern Alberta and anti-racist activism for change

    Abstract

    Drawing on reflective personal narrative, experiential research, and critical theoretical engagement, this collection connects localized experiences with broader structural and systemic forms of intersectional racism. These detailed examinations of the various forms of racism faced by immigrants and Indigenous people living and working in Southern Alberta reveal how institutional racism continues to saturate modern Canadian culture and practice.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    Athabasca University Press

    Non spécifié
  • Urbane

    Creator

    Sewell, Anna Marie

    Abstract

    What wilderness seethes beneath the skin? Knowing your wild potential, is it possible to live a life both urban and urbane? 'Urbane' continues the stories of the people, human and otherwise, we met in 'Humane', Anna Marie Sewell's best-selling first novel (Stonehouse, 2020). Hazel LeSage and her lawyer friend Shanaya set out to find Hazel's ex-husband and renegotiate the terms of their divorce, in which Hazel unjustly lost her land. Exploring Hazel's former home, they stumble into a deadly conspiracy entangling the rural lands surrounding their home city of Amiskwaciy.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Edmonton, Alberta]

    Stonehouse Publishing

    Non spécifié
  • Indigenous territorial autonomy and self-governance in the diverse Americas

    Abstract

    Across the Americas, Indigenous and Afro-descendent peoples have demanded autonomy, self-determination, and self-governance. By exerting their collective rights, they have engaged with domestic and international standards on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, implemented full-fledged mechanisms for autonomous governance, and promoted political and constitutional reform aimed at expanding understandings of multicultural citizenship and the plurinational state.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Calgary, Alberta]

    University of Calgary Press

    Non spécifié
  • kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân / the way I remember

    Creator

    Ratt, Solomon

    Abstract

    A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family's traditional stories. When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his family at the age of six, Ratt was placed into the residential school system—a harsh, institutional world, operated in a language he could not yet understand, far from the love and comfort of home and family.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto

    University of Regina Press

    Non spécifié
  • True north rising : my fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's north

    Creator

    Fraser, Whit

    Abstract

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada—including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor general. "This is a huge embrace of a book, irresistible on every level. . . .

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Canada

    Non spécifié