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Books by or about Indigenous peoples in BC.
Native Chiefs and Famous Métis

Native Chiefs and Famous Métis

Leadership and Bravery in the Canadian West
by Holly Quan
edition:Paperback
tagged : historical, native canadian

These inspiring true stories illuminate the courage and wisdom of five 19th-century Native leaders and famous Métis who fought against impossible odds to preserve the culture and rights of their people. The visionary Cree leader Big Bear sought peace and a better life, only to be hunted mercilessly and imprisoned unjustly. Jerry Potts, the legendary North West Mounted Police guide and interpreter, helped smash the whisky trade and negotiate treaties. Persevering through sorrow and defeat, brave …

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NESA Activities Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms, Volume 2

NESA Activities Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms, Volume 2

by Don Sawyer; Art Napoleon & Native Education Services Associates
edition:Paperback
tagged : native american studies

This is the second of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible.
The Native Education Services Associates are a group of teaching professionals with extensive experience in Native and multicultural education. Their materials provide educators with meani …

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Night for the Lady, A

Night for the Lady, A

by Joanne Arnott
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : native american, canadian

A Night for the Lady explores the terrain of poetry conversation. Each poem arises from conversations with poets, colleagues and intimate friends. They range from a 1998 conversation on healing programs and the fundamentals of world change to a sequence of recent indigenous literary events on the prairies. Within the context of these conversations, an exploration emerges of the roles of woman within local as well as historic literary and global situations. The poems draw together diverse figures …

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Oka

Oka

A Political Crisis and Its Legacy
by Harry Swain
edition:Hardcover
also available: eBook
tagged : native american studies, native american, civil rights

On July 11, 1990, tension between white and Mohawk people at Oka, just west of Montreal, took a violent turn. At issue was the town's plan to turn a piece of disputed land in the community of Kanesatake into a golf course. Media footage of rock-throwing white residents and armed, masked Mohawk Warriors facing police across barricades shocked Canadians and galvanized Aboriginal people from coast to coast. In August, Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa called for the Canadian army to step in.

 

Harry Swa …

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One Native Life

One Native Life

by Richard Wagamese
edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover eBook
tagged : native americans, native american studies, personal memoirs

In 2005, award-winning writer Richard Wagamese moved with his partner to a cabin outside Kamloops, B.C. In the crisp mountain air Wagamese felt a peace he’d seldom known before. Abused and abandoned as a kid, he’d grown up feeling there was nowhere he belonged. For years, only alcohol and moves from town to town seemed to ease the pain.

 

In One Native Life, Wagamese looks back down the road he has travelled in reclaiming his identity and talks about the things he has learned as a human being, …

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One Story, One Song

One Story, One Song

by Richard Wagamese
edition:Hardcover
also available: Paperback eBook Paperback
tagged : personal memoirs, native american studies

WINNER OF THE 2011 GEORGE RYGA AWARD FOR SOCIAL AWARENESS.

 

A new collection of warm, wise and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native Life.

 

Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese's One Native Life. "In quiet tones and luminous language," wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, "Wagamese shares his hurts and joys, inviting readers to find the ways in which they are joined to him and to consider how they might be joined to others."

 

In thi …

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A People on the Move

A People on the Move

The Métis of the Western Plains
by Irene Ternier Gordon
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : historical, native canadian

The blossoming of Métis society and culture in the 19th century marked a fascinating and colourful era in western Canadian history. Drawing from journals and contemporary sources, Irene Ternier Gordon presents a vivid account of Métis life in the area that is now Saskatchewan and Alberta. Here are the stories of the masters of the plains—Métis buffalo hunters, traders and entrepreneurs like Louis Goulet, Norbert Welsh and the legendary Gabriel Dumont. Many enjoyed lives of freedom and adven …

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Resistance and Renewal

Resistance and Renewal

Surviving the Indian Residential School
by Celia Haig-Brown
edition:Paperback
tagged : native american studies

One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School(KIRS) in the British Columbia interior. Interviews with thirteen Natives, all former residents of KIRS, form the nucleus of the book, a frank depiction of school life, and a telling account of the system's oppressive environment which sought to stifle Native culture.
Winner of the Roderi …

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