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Silm Da’axk / To Revive and Heal Again

Historical Ecology and Ethnobotany in Laxyuubm Gitselasu

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Drumming Our Way Home

Intergenerational Learning, Teaching, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

UBC Press

Drumming Our Way Home takes readers on an autobiographical journey to recover Indigenous identity, demonstrating how storytelling – aided by a hand drum – can open up a new world of pedagogy and culture-based learning.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage, New Edition

A Canadian Obligation

UBC Press, Purich Books

Against the backdrop of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage examines past and emerging issues in the recognition of Indigenous inherent human rights and knowledge within a Canadian legal context.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Morning Star: It Is Bright

Riverside Architectural Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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One Second at a Time

My Story of Pain and Reclamation

UBC Press, Purich Books

A deeply personal history of colonialism’s corrosive effects on an Ojibway-Anishinabe woman who survives a traumatic childhood, becomes a teen mother, and eventually escapes unrelenting domestic violence to find hope and healing, dedicating herself to helping women and children like her former self.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Signs of the Time

Nlaka'pamux Resistance through Rock Art

UBC Press

Drawing on a unique blend of Indigenous and Western sources, Signs of the Time explores Nlaka’pamux rock art making to reveal the historical and cultural meaning beneath its beguiling imagery.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Land and the Liberal Project

Canada’s Violent Expansion

UBC Press

Land and the Liberal Project explores the “improving” ideas that informed the expansion of Canada from coast to coast, exposing the justifications for state violence and appropriation of Indigenous territory, thus challenging our assumptions about Canadian sovereignty.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Canada and Colonialism

An Unfinished History

UBC Press, Purich Books

Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in our institutions and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The History of the Wolastoqiyik First Nation

The Maliseet Nation of the St. Lawrence

Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Laval University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Skidegate House Models

From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond

UBC Press

This fascinating exploration into the history a nineteenth-century model of a Haida village, carved by Haida artists, offers insights not only into Pacific Northwest history but also into how the Haida represented their culture during a time when that culture threatened by colonial activity.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi

Algonquin Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century

UBC Press

Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi illuminates the traditional values and cultural continuity underlying twentieth-century politics in the largest and oldest Algonquin reserve in Canada.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Meeting My Treaty Kin

A Journey toward Reconciliation

UBC Press, On Point Press

This intimate story of one settler’s journey toward reconciliation reveals the rich potential that comes from learning to listen and change – decolonization not as to-do list, but as a lived experience of taking one awkward step at a time.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Slow Rush of Colonization

Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790

UBC Press

This history analyzes over one hundred years of complex interactions between the Mi’kmaw, Wabanaki, Peskotomuhkati, Wolastoqiyik, French, and English to show the continuity of Indigenous independence from the European newcomers.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Fire Still Burns

Life In and After Residential School

UBC Press, Purich Books

The Fire Still Burns is a tale of survival and redemption through which Squamish Elder Sam George recounts his residential school experience and how it led to a life of addiction, violence, and imprisonment until he found the courage to face his past and begin healing.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Cherokee Earth Dwellers

Stories and Teachings of the Natural World

UBC Press

Cherokee Earth Dwellers offers a rich understanding of nature grounded in Cherokee creature names, oral traditional stories, and reflections of knowledge holders.

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Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals

How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples

UBC Press

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals offers a behind-the-scenes account of the difficulties facing Indigenous people in human rights tribunals, and the struggles of experts to keep their own testimony from being undermined.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Life against States of Emergency

Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat

UBC Press

Life against States of Emergency responds to the central question Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence asked in a high-profile ceremonial fast: What does it mean to be in a treaty relationship today?

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships

Nehiyawak Narratives

UBC Press

Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships investigates Indigenous economic theories and relationships through the lenses of settler colonial exploitation and Indigenous resurgence.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Memory and Landscape

Indigenous Responses to a Changing North

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Unstable Properties

Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia

UBC Press

Unstable Properties convincingly argues that the so-called land question in British Columbia cannot be resolved without understanding the fundamentally unstable ideological foundation of land and title arrangements on which the province rests.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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