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Acoustic Guitars For Seven Generations Education Institute Guitar Lessons.
Date Published:

Indian from the Inside : A Study in Ethno-Metaphysics.

Dennis McPherson



Date Published:2008

Talking Gookom's Language : Learning Ojibwe.

Ningewance, Patricia



Date Published:2010

Dancing On Our Turtle's Back : Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence.

Simpson, Leanne



Date Published:2014

The Reason You Walk

Kinew, Wab


When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. The Reason You Walk spans the year 2012, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father's traumatic childhood at residential school. An intriguing doubleness marks The Reason You Walk, a reference to an Anishinaabe ceremonial song. Born to an Anishinaabe father and a non-native mother, he has a foot in both cultures. He is a Sundancer, an academic, a former rapper, a hereditary chief, and an urban activist. His father, Tobasonakwut, was both a beloved traditional chief and a respected elected leader who engaged directly with Ottawa. Internally divided, his father embraced both traditional native religion and Catholicism, the religion that was inculcated into him at the residential school where he was physically and sexually abused. In a grand gesture of reconciliation, Kinew's father invited the Roman Catholic bishop of Winnipeg to a Sundance ceremony in which he adopted him as his brother. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his 20s to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to passionately pursue music and martial arts. From his unique vantage point, he offers an inside view of what it means to be an educated aboriginal living in a country that is just beginning to wake up to its aboriginal history and living presence. Invoking hope, healing and forgiveness, The Reason You Walk is a poignant story of a towering but damaged father and his son as they embark on a journey to repair their family bond. By turns lighthearted and solemn, Kinew gives us an inspiring vision for family and cross-cultural reconciliation, and a wider conversation about the future of aboriginal peoples.
Date Published:2015

When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. The Reason You Walk spans the year 2012, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father's traumatic childhood at residential school. An intriguing doubleness marks The Reason You Walk, a reference to an Anishinaabe ceremonial song. Born to an Anishinaabe father and a non-native mother, he has a foot in both cultures. He is a Sundancer, an academic, a former rapper, a hereditary chief, and an urban activist. His father, Tobasonakwut, was both a beloved traditional chief and a respected elected leader who engaged directly with Ottawa. Internally divided, his father embraced both traditional native religion and Catholicism, the religion that was inculcated into him at the residential school where he was physically and sexually abused. In a grand gesture of reconciliation, Kinew's father invited the Roman Catholic bishop of Winnipeg to a Sundance ceremony in which he adopted him as his brother. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his 20s to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to passionately pursue music and martial arts. From his unique vantage point, he offers an inside view of what it means to be an educated aboriginal living in a country that is just beginning to wake up to its aboriginal history and living presence. Invoking hope, healing and forgiveness, The Reason You Walk is a poignant story of a towering but damaged father and his son as they embark on a journey to repair their family bond. By turns lighthearted and solemn, Kinew gives us an inspiring vision for family and cross-cultural reconciliation, and a wider conversation about the future of aboriginal peoples.

Date Published:2015

The Songlines

Chatwin, Bruce, 1940-1989.


Bruce Chatwin-author of In Patagonia-ventures into the desolate land of Outback Australia to learn the meaning of the Aboriginal's' ancient "Dreaming-tracks." Along these timeless paths, amongst the fortune hunters and redneck Australians, racist policemen and mysterious Aboriginal holy men, he discovers a wondrous vision of man's place in the world.
Date Published:1987

The Cultural Toolbox : Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World

Treuer, Anton,


"In this book, Anton Treuer tells stories of one Ojibwe family's hunting, gathering, harvesting, and cultural ways and beliefs--without violating protected secrets. Following the four seasons of the year and the four seasons of life, this intimate view of the Ojibwe world reflects a relatable, modern, richly experienced connection to the rest of the planet. It also opens up a new way of understanding these living traditions, which carry thousands of years of cultural knowledge still in the making"--
Date Published:2021

"In this book, Anton Treuer tells stories of one Ojibwe family's hunting, gathering, harvesting, and cultural ways and beliefs--without violating protected secrets. Following the four seasons of the year and the four seasons of life, this intimate view of the Ojibwe world reflects a relatable, modern, richly experienced connection to the rest of the planet. It also opens up a new way of understanding these living traditions, which carry thousands of years of cultural knowledge still in the making"--

Date Published:2021

Trapping is my Life

Tetso, John


Trapping Is My Life is a remarkable book that found a permanent place in the literature of Canada's North. John Tetso was a Slavey Indian trapper who lived and worked near Fort Simpson, where the Laird meets the Mackenzie. Conscientious , industrious and perceptive, John Tetso cherished his independence. He regretted that many of his people drifted into the settlements. For him, the harsh but rewarding life of the wilderness was better.
Date Published:1995

Trapping Is My Life is a remarkable book that found a permanent place in the literature of Canada's North. John Tetso was a Slavey Indian trapper who lived and worked near Fort Simpson, where the Laird meets the Mackenzie. Conscientious , industrious and perceptive, John Tetso cherished his independence. He regretted that many of his people drifted into the settlements. For him, the harsh but rewarding life of the wilderness was better.

Date Published:1995

Clothed In Fur And Other Tales - : An Introduction To An Ojibwa World View.

OVERHOLT, THOMAS W.



Date Published:1982

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous World Services



Date Published:1899

Circle Game (The) - Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School experience in Canada

Chrisjohn, Roland



Date Published:1899

Indians of North America

Driver, Harold E.


The art of reconstructing civilizations from the artifacts of daily life demands integrity and imagination. Indians of North America displays both in its description of the enormous variation of culture patterns among Indians from the Arctic to Panama at the high points of their histories—a variation which was greater than that among the nations of Europe. For this second edition, Harold Driver made extensive revisions in chapter content and organization, incorporating many new discoveries and interpretations in archeology and related fields. He also revised several of the maps and added more than 100 bibliographical items. Since the publication of the first edition, there has been an increased interest in the activities of Indians in the twentieth century; accordingly, the author placed much more emphasis on this period.
Date Published:1969

The art of reconstructing civilizations from the artifacts of daily life demands integrity and imagination. Indians of North America displays both in its description of the enormous variation of culture patterns among Indians from the Arctic to Panama at the high points of their histories—a variation which was greater than that among the nations of Europe. For this second edition, Harold Driver made extensive revisions in chapter content and organization, incorporating many new discoveries and interpretations in archeology and related fields. He also revised several of the maps and added more than 100 bibliographical items. Since the publication of the first edition, there has been an increased interest in the activities of Indians in the twentieth century; accordingly, the author placed much more emphasis on this period.

Date Published:1969

The First Days of School : How To Be An Effective Teacher

Wong, Harry K.



Date Published:2005

Nation to Nation : Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada.

Bird, John


Building on the first edition and reflecting changes in the last decade, Nation to Nation chronicles Aboriginal-Canadian relations past, present and future. Through Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal voices, it encourages a relationship of equality and justice between these two sovereignties. Featuring 18 new articles and updates to 10 first-edition articles, this volume provides a stirring portrait of the Aboriginal experience including historical background, major developments, setbacks and recommendations for the future.
Date Published:2002

Building on the first edition and reflecting changes in the last decade, Nation to Nation chronicles Aboriginal-Canadian relations past, present and future. Through Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal voices, it encourages a relationship of equality and justice between these two sovereignties. Featuring 18 new articles and updates to 10 first-edition articles, this volume provides a stirring portrait of the Aboriginal experience including historical background, major developments, setbacks and recommendations for the future.

Date Published:2002

Settler Colonialism : A Theoretical Overview.

Veracini, Lorenzo


Settler colonialism is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much a thing of the present as a thing of the past. In this book, Lorenzo Veracini explores the settler colonial 'situation' and explains how there is no such thing as neo-settler colonialism or post-settler colonialism because settler colonialism is a resilient formation that rarely ends. Not all migrants are settlers: settlers come to stay, and are founders of political orders who carry with them a distinct sovereign capacity. And settler colonialism is not colonialism: settlers want Indigenous people to vanish (but can make use of their labour before they are made to disappear). Sometimes settler colonial forms operate within colonial ones, sometimes they subvert them, sometimes they replace them. But even if colonialism and settler colonialism interpenetrate and overlap, they remain separate as they co-define each other.
Date Published:2010

Settler colonialism is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much a thing of the present as a thing of the past. In this book, Lorenzo Veracini explores the settler colonial 'situation' and explains how there is no such thing as neo-settler colonialism or post-settler colonialism because settler colonialism is a resilient formation that rarely ends. Not all migrants are settlers: settlers come to stay, and are founders of political orders who carry with them a distinct sovereign capacity. And settler colonialism is not colonialism: settlers want Indigenous people to vanish (but can make use of their labour before they are made to disappear). Sometimes settler colonial forms operate within colonial ones, sometimes they subvert them, sometimes they replace them. But even if colonialism and settler colonialism interpenetrate and overlap, they remain separate as they co-define each other.

Date Published:2010

Rainy River Lives : Stories Told by Maggie Wilson

Cole, Sally



Date Published:2013

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

American Psychiatric Association



Date Published:2007

History of the Ojibway People

Warren, William W.



Date Published:1984

They Called Me Number One : Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

Sellars, Bev, 1955-


foreword / Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla (Chief Bill Wilson) -- What pain have you suffered? -- My grandmother and others before me -- Sardis hospital = loneliness -- St. Joseph's Mission = prison [Williams Lake Indian Residential School, B.C. (Williams Lake Industrial School) (Cariboo, British Columbia) -- I got religion but what did it mean? -- The body was no temple -- A few good memories -- Pain, bullying, but also pleasure -- Chapter 8. Home sweet home -- Summer of '67 -- Life on the reserve -- One day I realized I had survived -- Becoming a leader -- Going to university -- Final thoughts -- Afterword / Wendy Wickwire. Like Native children forced by law to attend schools across Canada and the United States, Sellars and other students of St. Joseph's Mission were allowed home only for two months in the summer and for two weeks at Christmas. The rest of the year they lived, worked, and studied at the school. St. Joseph's mission is the site of the controversial and well-publicized sex-related offences of Bishop Hubert O'Connor, which took place during Sellars's student days, between 1962 and 1967, when O'Connor was the school principal. After the school's closure, those who had been forced to attend came from surrounding reserves and smashed windows, tore doors and cabinets from the wall, and broke anything that could be broken. Overnight their anger turned a site of shameful memory into a pile of rubble. In this frank and poignant memoir, Sellars breaks her silence about the institution's lasting effects, and eloquently articulates her own path to healing."--from publisher's website.
Date Published:2013

foreword / Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla (Chief Bill Wilson) -- What pain have you suffered? -- My grandmother and others before me -- Sardis hospital = loneliness -- St. Joseph's Mission = prison [Williams Lake Indian Residential School, B.C. (Williams Lake Industrial School) (Cariboo, British Columbia) -- I got religion but what did it mean? -- The body was no temple -- A few good memories -- Pain, bullying, but also pleasure -- Chapter 8. Home sweet home -- Summer of '67 -- Life on the reserve -- One day I realized I had survived -- Becoming a leader -- Going to university -- Final thoughts -- Afterword / Wendy Wickwire. Like Native children forced by law to attend schools across Canada and the United States, Sellars and other students of St. Joseph's Mission were allowed home only for two months in the summer and for two weeks at Christmas. The rest of the year they lived, worked, and studied at the school. St. Joseph's mission is the site of the controversial and well-publicized sex-related offences of Bishop Hubert O'Connor, which took place during Sellars's student days, between 1962 and 1967, when O'Connor was the school principal. After the school's closure, those who had been forced to attend came from surrounding reserves and smashed windows, tore doors and cabinets from the wall, and broke anything that could be broken. Overnight their anger turned a site of shameful memory into a pile of rubble. In this frank and poignant memoir, Sellars breaks her silence about the institution's lasting effects, and eloquently articulates her own path to healing."--from publisher's website.

Date Published:2013

The Inconvenient Indian : A Curious Account of Native People in North America

King, Thomas


Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and articulates a deep and revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. This is a book both timeless and timely, burnished with anger but tempered by wit, and ultimately a hard-won offering of hope--a sometimes inconvenient but nonetheless indispensable account for all of us, Indian and non-Indian alike, seeking to understand how we might tell a new story for the future.
Date Published:2013

Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and articulates a deep and revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. This is a book both timeless and timely, burnished with anger but tempered by wit, and ultimately a hard-won offering of hope--a sometimes inconvenient but nonetheless indispensable account for all of us, Indian and non-Indian alike, seeking to understand how we might tell a new story for the future.

Date Published:2013