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Indigenous Books From BC

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Books by or about Indigenous peoples in BC.
Price Paid

Price Paid

The Fight for First Nations Survival
by Bev Sellars
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : native american studies, native american

Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival untangles truth from some of the myths about First Nations at the same time that it addresses misconceptions still widely believed today.
The second book by award-winning author Bev Sellars, Price Paid is based on a popular presentation Sellars created for treaty-makers, politicians, policymakers, and educators when she discovered they did not know the historic reasons they were at the table negotiating First Nations rights.
The book begins with g …

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The Amazing Mazie Baker

The Amazing Mazie Baker

The Story of a Squamish Nation's Warrior Elder
by Kay Johnston
edition:Paperback
tagged : native americans

When author Kay Johnston first met Mazie Baker, she came to know her as the reigning queen of bannock, selling out batch after batch of fluffy, light frybread at local powwows. She soon learned that Mazie, a matriarch and an activist, had been nurturing and fiercely protecting her community for a lifetime.

In 1931, Mazie Antone was born into the Squamish Nation, a community caught between its traditional values of respect-for the land, the family and the band-and the secular, capitalistic legisla …

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Not My Fate

Not My Fate

Story of a Nisga'a Survivor
by Janet Romain
edition:Paperback
tagged : native americans

Josephine Caplin (Jo) was born into a world marred by maternal abandonment, alcoholism and traumatic epileptic seizures. In grade three, she was apprehended by child services and separated from her protective brother and her early caregivers, her father and uncle, who were kind men with drinking problems. Placed into many alienating and lonely foster homes, Jo would not see her family again until she was fourteen. Throughout her life Jo fought symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome, abuse by sadisti …

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The Riverton Rifle

The Riverton Rifle

My Story: Straight Shooting on Hockey and on Life
by Reggie Leach, foreword by Bobby Clarke
edition:Paperback
tagged : sports, native americans, hockey

“It all comes down to making the right life choices,” says the NHL’s legendary Reggie Leach, and this intimate biography lays bare the decisions that led him to become one of the best snipers in hockey history. Nicknamed the Riverton Rifle for his thrilling speed and deadly shooting skills, Leach overcame a childhood marked by poverty and racism to rise through the NHL, playing for the Stanley Cup-winning 1975 Philadelphia Flyers. Through Leach’s own recollections, The Riverton Rifle trac …

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We Sang You Home

We Sang You Home

by Richard Van Camp, illustrated by Julie Flett
edition:Hardcover
also available: eBook Hardcover
tagged : new baby, poetry (see also stories in verse), non-classifiable

A celebration of the bond between parent and child, this is the perfect song to share with your little ones.

In this sweet and lyrical picture book from the creators of the bestselling Little You, gentle rhythmic text captures the wonder new parents feel as they welcome baby into the world.

Internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp teams up with award-winning illustrator Julie Flett for a second time to create a stunning book for young readers.

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We Sang You Home

We Sang You Home

by Richard Van Camp, illustrated by Julie Flett
edition:eBook
also available: Hardcover
tagged : new baby, poetry (see also stories in verse), non-classifiable

A celebration of the bond between parent and child, this is the perfect song to share with your little ones.

In this sweet and lyrical picture book from the creators of the bestselling Little You, gentle rhythmic text captures the wonder new parents feel as they welcome baby into the world.

Internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp teams up with award-winning illustrator Julie Flett for a second time to create a stunning book for young readers.

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The Native Voice

The Native Voice

The Story of How Maisie Hurley and Canada's First Aboriginal Newspaper Changed a Nation
by Eric Jamieson
edition:Paperback
tagged : native american

In 1945, Alfred Adams, a respected Haida elder and founding president of the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia (NBBC), was dying of cancer. After decades of fighting to increase the rights and recognition of First Nations people, he implored Maisie Hurley to help his people by telling others about their struggle. Hurley took his request to both heart and mind, and with $150 of her own money, started a small newspaper that would become a powerful catalyst for change: The Native Voice.

At that …

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Medicine Unbundled

Medicine Unbundled

A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care
by Gary Geddes
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : indigenous studies, public health, discrimination & race relations

"We can no longer pretend we don't know about residential schools, murdered and missing Aboriginal women and 'Indian hospitals.' The only outstanding question is how we respond."—Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun

A shocking exposé of the dark history and legacy of segregated Indigenous health care in Canada.

After the publication of his critically acclaimed 2011 book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer's Search for Justice and Healing in Africa, author Gary Geddes turned the investigative lens on his own …

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