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The Oriental Question

By (author) Patricia E. Roy
Categories: Social Science

Patricia Roy’s latest book, The Oriental Question, continues her study into why British Columbians — and many Canadians from outside the province — were historically so opposed to Asian immigration. ...

Blackfoot Ways of Knowing

Blackfoot Ways of Knowing is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of "coming home" to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty Bastien offers us ...

Tsawalk

In Tsawalk, hereditary chief Umeek develops a theory of “Tsawalk,” meaning “one,” that views the nature of existence as an integrated and orderly whole, and thereby recognizes the intrinsic relationship ...

Uqalurait

John Bennett is a researcher, writer, and editor specializing in the North and a former editor of the Inuit cultural magazine Inuktitut.

Susan Rowley is associate professor of anthropology and sociology ...

Nature Power

By (author) Harry Robinson
Edited by Wendy Wickwire
Categories: Social Science

Many of the stories in Harry Robinson’s second collection feature the shoo-MISH, or ?nature helpers” that assist humans and sometimes provide them with special powers. Some tell of individuals who ...

Write It on Your Heart

By (author) Harry Robinson
Edited by Wendy Wickwire
Categories: Social Science

Write It on Your Heart is a celebration of the late Harry Robinson, one of the great storytellers of the Interior Salish people of North America.

Collected over a ten-year period, the stories selected ...

Strangers in the Mirror

Edited by Sanjay Talreja
Categories: Social Science

This collection of essays considers the representations of minorities in the cultural space of Canada: the national news media; advertising, school and university curricula; and museums, art and entertainment. ...

Healing Wounded Hearts

By (author) Fyre Jean Graveline
Categories: Social work

Stories, poems, and artwork that illustrate the struggles and strengths that this Aboriginal author exhibits, living everyday in intersecting, parallel, and sometimes colliding sociocultural realities ...