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The Dispossessed : Life and Death in Native Canada.

York, Geoffrey


The Dispossessed is an examination of the modern day stirrings of rebellion in a people physically and culturally dislocated by North American settlers. Geoffrey York's acclaimed work spent 48 weeks on the Globe and Mail's best-sellers list as the country awoke to its astute observations and opinions. With a new chapter examining more recent events involving Canada's native population, The Dispossessed is still as relevant as ever. Renowned and respected Aboriginal Canadian Tomson Highway provides the foreword to this contemporary Canadian classic.
Date Published:2012

The Dispossessed is an examination of the modern day stirrings of rebellion in a people physically and culturally dislocated by North American settlers. Geoffrey York's acclaimed work spent 48 weeks on the Globe and Mail's best-sellers list as the country awoke to its astute observations and opinions. With a new chapter examining more recent events involving Canada's native population, The Dispossessed is still as relevant as ever. Renowned and respected Aboriginal Canadian Tomson Highway provides the foreword to this contemporary Canadian classic.

Date Published:2012

Black Skin, White Masks

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961.


The black man and language -- The woman of color and the white man -- The man of color and the white woman -- The so-called dependency complex of the colonized -- The lived experience of the black man -- The black man and the psychopathology -- The black man and recognition -- The black man and Adler -- The black man and Hegel. The black man and language -- The woman of color and the white man -- The man of color and the white woman -- The so-called dependency complex of the colonized -- The lived experience of the black man -- The black man and the psychopathology -- The black man and recognition -- The black man and Adler -- The black man and Hegel.
Date Published:2008

The black man and language -- The woman of color and the white man -- The man of color and the white woman -- The so-called dependency complex of the colonized -- The lived experience of the black man -- The black man and the psychopathology -- The black man and recognition -- The black man and Adler -- The black man and Hegel. The black man and language -- The woman of color and the white man -- The man of color and the white woman -- The so-called dependency complex of the colonized -- The lived experience of the black man -- The black man and the psychopathology -- The black man and recognition -- The black man and Adler -- The black man and Hegel.

Date Published:2008

7 Generations The Pact : Book 4 of 4 book series

Robertson, David



Date Published:2011

Rehearsals for living

Maynard, Robyn,


"A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists. When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, award-winning author of several books, including the recent novel Noopiming, began writing each other letters -- a gesture sparked by friendship and solidarity, and by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. Their letters soon grew into a powerful exchange on the subject of where we go from here. Rehearsals is a captivating book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit. In a genre-defying exchange, the authors collectively envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a historic year of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and global-Black-led rebellions against policing. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment in the first place, Maynard and Simpson create something new: a vital demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up new ways of ordering earthly life."--
Date Published:2022

"A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists. When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, award-winning author of several books, including the recent novel Noopiming, began writing each other letters -- a gesture sparked by friendship and solidarity, and by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. Their letters soon grew into a powerful exchange on the subject of where we go from here. Rehearsals is a captivating book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit. In a genre-defying exchange, the authors collectively envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a historic year of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and global-Black-led rebellions against policing. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment in the first place, Maynard and Simpson create something new: a vital demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up new ways of ordering earthly life."--

Date Published:2022

'You're So Fat!' - Exploring Ojibwe Discourse

Spielmann, Roger



Date Published:1899

Grandfather Drum

Plain, Ferguson



Date Published:1899

What Comes From Spirit

Wagamese, Richard,


Introduction by Drew Hayden Taylor. Introduction -- The land is a feeling -- The truth stays the same -- There are no strangers -- We are all story -- Sources -- About Richard Wagamese. "Richard Wagamese, one of Canada's most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same. Following the success of Embers, which has sold almost seventy thousand copies since its release in 2016, this new collection of Wagamese's non-fiction works, with an introduction by Drew Hayden Taylor, brings together more of the prolific author's short writings, many for the first time in print, and celebrates his ability to inspire. Drawing from Wagamese's essays and columns, along with preserved social media and blog posts, this beautifully designed volume is a tribute to Wagamese's literary legacy."--
Date Published:2021

Introduction by Drew Hayden Taylor. Introduction -- The land is a feeling -- The truth stays the same -- There are no strangers -- We are all story -- Sources -- About Richard Wagamese. "Richard Wagamese, one of Canada's most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same. Following the success of Embers, which has sold almost seventy thousand copies since its release in 2016, this new collection of Wagamese's non-fiction works, with an introduction by Drew Hayden Taylor, brings together more of the prolific author's short writings, many for the first time in print, and celebrates his ability to inspire. Drawing from Wagamese's essays and columns, along with preserved social media and blog posts, this beautifully designed volume is a tribute to Wagamese's literary legacy."--

Date Published:2021

Freedom Dreams : The Black Radical Imagination

Kelley, Robin D. G.,


"Revised and expanded"--Cover Foreword / by Aja Monet -- Introduction: Freedom dreams : from noun to verb, fall 2021 -- "When history sleeps" : a beginning -- Dreams of the new land -- "The Negro question" : red dreams of Black liberation -- "Roaring from the East" : Third World dreaming -- "A day of reckoning" : dreams of reparations -- "This battlefield called life" : Black feminist dreams -- Keeping it (sur)real : dreams of the marvelous -- "When history wakes" : a new beginning, fall 2021. "Freedom Dreams examines the radical utopian dreams held by 19th and 20th century Black political movements"--
Date Published:2022

"Revised and expanded"--Cover Foreword / by Aja Monet -- Introduction: Freedom dreams : from noun to verb, fall 2021 -- "When history sleeps" : a beginning -- Dreams of the new land -- "The Negro question" : red dreams of Black liberation -- "Roaring from the East" : Third World dreaming -- "A day of reckoning" : dreams of reparations -- "This battlefield called life" : Black feminist dreams -- Keeping it (sur)real : dreams of the marvelous -- "When history wakes" : a new beginning, fall 2021. "Freedom Dreams examines the radical utopian dreams held by 19th and 20th century Black political movements"--

Date Published:2022

A Man Called Raven

Van Camp, Richard



Date Published:1899

Jim Thorpe : World's Greatest Athlete

Wheeler, Robert W.


Born in 1888 in Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a Sac and Fox Indian. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. At Carlisle he led the football team to victories over some of the nation’s best college teams-Army, Navy, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska. In 1912 he participated in the Olympic Games in Stockholm, winning both the decathlon and pentathlon. It was then that King Gustav V of Sweden dubbed him "the world’s greatest athlete." Between 1913 and 1919, Thorpe played professional baseball for the New York Giants, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Boston Braves. In 1915 he began playing professional football with the Canton (Ohio) Bulldogs. When the top teams were organized into the American Professional Football Association in 1920, Thorpe was named the first president of the league, which was renamed the National Football League in 1922. Throughout his career he excelled in every sport he played, earning King Gustav’s accolade many times over.
Date Published:2012

Born in 1888 in Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a Sac and Fox Indian. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. At Carlisle he led the football team to victories over some of the nation’s best college teams-Army, Navy, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska. In 1912 he participated in the Olympic Games in Stockholm, winning both the decathlon and pentathlon. It was then that King Gustav V of Sweden dubbed him "the world’s greatest athlete." Between 1913 and 1919, Thorpe played professional baseball for the New York Giants, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Boston Braves. In 1915 he began playing professional football with the Canton (Ohio) Bulldogs. When the top teams were organized into the American Professional Football Association in 1920, Thorpe was named the first president of the league, which was renamed the National Football League in 1922. Throughout his career he excelled in every sport he played, earning King Gustav’s accolade many times over.

Date Published:2012

Son Of A Trickster

Robinson, Eden


Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the sixteen-year-old burnout in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared smokes and drinks too much, and his mom is a mess, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer, but now she's dead. He's also a kid with immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he tries his best to stabilize his family and keep everything afloat. But it's weird the way he sometimes blacks out. And he puzzles over why his maternal grandmother has never liked him, why she says he isn't human, that he's the son of a trickster. Also, ravens have begun to speak to him--even when he's not stoned. You think you know Jared, but you don't. .
Date Published:2017

Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the sixteen-year-old burnout in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared smokes and drinks too much, and his mom is a mess, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer, but now she's dead. He's also a kid with immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he tries his best to stabilize his family and keep everything afloat. But it's weird the way he sometimes blacks out. And he puzzles over why his maternal grandmother has never liked him, why she says he isn't human, that he's the son of a trickster. Also, ravens have begun to speak to him--even when he's not stoned. You think you know Jared, but you don't. .

Date Published:2017

Off The Reservation

Gunn Allen, Paula


In this captivating collection of unpublished and published essays, one of our most important scholars, Paula Gunn Allen, explores the symbiotic relationship between Native American culture and the larger Western world. Through her own history and that of other Native peoples, she searches for a connection that will link the eco-spiritual and implicitly multicultural heritage to the demands of an increasingly global and culturally unilateral community.
Date Published:1998

In this captivating collection of unpublished and published essays, one of our most important scholars, Paula Gunn Allen, explores the symbiotic relationship between Native American culture and the larger Western world. Through her own history and that of other Native peoples, she searches for a connection that will link the eco-spiritual and implicitly multicultural heritage to the demands of an increasingly global and culturally unilateral community.

Date Published:1998

The dark precursor : Deleuze and artistic research



Date Published:2017

Indian Treaties and Surrenders Volume 3 Treaties 281-483

Canada


Donated by Gord Bruyere $24.95
Date Published:1899

Take Us To Your Chief : and Other Stories

Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-,


"A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing inspiration from science fiction legends like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, Drew Hayden Taylor frames classic science-fiction tropes in an Aboriginal perspective. The nine stories in this collection span all traditional topics of science fiction--from peaceful aliens to hostile invaders; from space travel to time travel; from government conspiracies to connections across generations. Yet Taylor's First Nations perspective draws fresh parallels, likening the cultural implications of alien contact to those of the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, or highlighting the impossibility of remaining a "good Native" in such an unnatural situation as a space mission. Infused with Native stories and variously mysterious, magical and humorous, Take Us to Your Chief is the perfect mesh of nostalgically 1950s-esque science fiction with modern First Nations discourse."--
Date Published:2016

"A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing inspiration from science fiction legends like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, Drew Hayden Taylor frames classic science-fiction tropes in an Aboriginal perspective. The nine stories in this collection span all traditional topics of science fiction--from peaceful aliens to hostile invaders; from space travel to time travel; from government conspiracies to connections across generations. Yet Taylor's First Nations perspective draws fresh parallels, likening the cultural implications of alien contact to those of the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, or highlighting the impossibility of remaining a "good Native" in such an unnatural situation as a space mission. Infused with Native stories and variously mysterious, magical and humorous, Take Us to Your Chief is the perfect mesh of nostalgically 1950s-esque science fiction with modern First Nations discourse."--

Date Published:2016

The Wiley handbook of theoretical and philosophical psychology : methods, approaches, and new directions for social sciences



Date Published:2015

The Break

Vermette, Katherena


When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her window one evening and sees someone in trouble on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected with the violence - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Metis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Through their various perspectives a larger, more comprehensive story about the lives in this community and the after-effects of trauma emerges. Seeking understanding and strength, The Break shows the resiliency of Indigenous women, and the unwavering power of family love. It is a compelling intergenerational family saga that positions Katerena Vermette as an exciting new voice in literature.
Date Published:2016

When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her window one evening and sees someone in trouble on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected with the violence - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Metis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Through their various perspectives a larger, more comprehensive story about the lives in this community and the after-effects of trauma emerges. Seeking understanding and strength, The Break shows the resiliency of Indigenous women, and the unwavering power of family love. It is a compelling intergenerational family saga that positions Katerena Vermette as an exciting new voice in literature.

Date Published:2016

Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing : Third Edition

Neeb, Kathy



Date Published:2014

Keeper 'N Me

Wagamese, Richard


When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city. Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family. The sudden communication from his past spurs him to return to the reserve following his release from jail. Deciding to stay awhile, his life is changed completely as he comes to discover his sense of place, and of self. While on the reserve, Garnet is initiated into the ways of the Ojibway--both ancient and modern--by Keeper, a friend of his grandfather, and last fount of history about his people's ways. By turns funny, poignant and mystical, Keeper'n Me reflects a positive view of Native life and philosophy--as well as casting fresh light on the redemptive power of one's community and traditions.
Date Published:2009

When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city. Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family. The sudden communication from his past spurs him to return to the reserve following his release from jail. Deciding to stay awhile, his life is changed completely as he comes to discover his sense of place, and of self. While on the reserve, Garnet is initiated into the ways of the Ojibway--both ancient and modern--by Keeper, a friend of his grandfather, and last fount of history about his people's ways. By turns funny, poignant and mystical, Keeper'n Me reflects a positive view of Native life and philosophy--as well as casting fresh light on the redemptive power of one's community and traditions.

Date Published:2009

Code Talker

Bruchac, Joseph


The United States is at war, and sixteen-year-old Ned Begay wants to join the cause, especially when he hears that Navajos are being specifically recruited by the Marine Corps. So he claims he's old enough to enlist, breezes through boot camp, and suddenly finds himself involved in a top-secret task, one that's exclusively performed by Navajos. He has become a code talker. Now Ned must brave some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with his native Navajo language as a code, send crucial messages back and forth to aid in the conflict against Japan. His experiences in the Pacific-from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima and beyond - will leave him forever changed.
Date Published:2005

The United States is at war, and sixteen-year-old Ned Begay wants to join the cause, especially when he hears that Navajos are being specifically recruited by the Marine Corps. So he claims he's old enough to enlist, breezes through boot camp, and suddenly finds himself involved in a top-secret task, one that's exclusively performed by Navajos. He has become a code talker. Now Ned must brave some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with his native Navajo language as a code, send crucial messages back and forth to aid in the conflict against Japan. His experiences in the Pacific-from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima and beyond - will leave him forever changed.

Date Published:2005