Histories, Territories and Laws of the Kitwancool

By (author) Constance Cox
Edited by Wilson Duff
Translated by Constance Cox
Categories: Jurisprudence and general issues

A new edition of the groundbreaking 1959 publication created in collaboration with the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs.

This beautiful new edition of the histories and laws of the Gitanyow (literally "people ...

To My Panik: To My Daughter

By (author) Nadia Sammurtok
Illustrated by Pelin Turgut
Categories: Picture storybooks: bedtime stories and dreams

“Panik, do you know how much I love you? When I look at the horizon, past the vast tundra, I see no end. That is how much I love you.”

In this lovingly told book, a mother recounts for her daughter ...

Atiqput

Edited by Carol Payne, Beth Greenhorn, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster & Christina Williamson
Foreword by Jimmy Manning
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

"Our names – Atiqput – are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what’s in the water ... the land, body parts. Every ...

Junie

By (author) Chelene Knight
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award
Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2024

A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships ...

My Name Is Seepeetza

By (author) Shirley Sterling
Afterword by Tomson Highway
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

An honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it — 30th anniversary edition.

Seepeetza loves living on Joyaska Ranch with her family. ...

The Boy's Marble

By (author) Nataša Nuhanović
Categories: Fiction: general and literary
Series: Essential Prose Series

The Boy's Marble tells the story of experiencing a war through the eyes of a child. Separated as children during the Sarajevo Siege, the narrator meeets someone who reminds her of the boy even twenty ...

The Basketball Game

By (author) Hart Snider
Illustrated by Sean Covernton
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past
Series: National Film Board of Canada

Warning: This book, which is based on a true story, has depictions of anti-Semitism and contains racial stereotypes and hateful language. It is intended for an audience of 12 years and older.

Healing ...

Call Me Bill

By (artist) Lynette Rchards
Introduction by Emily Burton
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

A gorgeously illustrated historical graphic novel based on a real person who, defying gender expectations, left home in search of adventure and a more authentic life.
It was April 1, 1873. In the middle ...

Our Voice of Fire

By (author) Brandi Morin
Categories: Biography: general

Winner, 2024 Writers' Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award
Winner, 2023 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction
Finalist, 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally ...

On Inuit Cinema | Inuit TakugatsaliuKatiget

By (author) Mark David Turner
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: Social and Economic Studies

Since the invention of moving pictures, countless Inuit have worked in front of and behind the camera. The diversity and complexity of this body of work makes capturing and conveying its full scale a ...