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Seven Fallen Feathers

By (author) Tanya Talaga
Categories: Biography: general

The shocking true story covered by The Guardian and The New York Times of the seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city. Winner of the RBC Taylor Prize and the Shaughnessy ...

Residential Schools and Reconciliation

By (author) J.R. Miller
Categories: Ethnic studies

In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award-winning author J. R. Miller tackles and explains the institutional responses to Canada’s residential school legacy. This timely and provocative work ...

The Rights of Nature

By (author) David R. Boyd
Categories: Animals and society

Around the world, more and more laws are being passed recognizing that ecosystems have legally enforceable rights. And if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities. In The Rights of Nature, ...

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit—meaning all the extensive knowledge and experience passed from generation to generation—is a collection of contributions by well-known and respected Inuit Elders.

My Conversations With Canadians

By (author) Lee Maracle
Categories: Indigenous peoples
Series: Essais Series

On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn’t possibly answer at that moment. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar ...

Curry

By (author) Naben Ruthnum
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: Exploded Views

Curry is a dish that doesn’t quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn’t properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. Following in the footsteps ...

What's in a Name?

What’s in a Name? brings together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery. By exploring the ways in which local individuals speak ...

Struggling With My Soul

By (author) George Rich
Categories: Biography: general

George Rich’s Struggling with My Soul is a story of growing up caught between two worlds. A Labrador Mushuau Innu, George’s family and people gave up their nomadic way of life to settle in Davis Inlet. ...

Surviving Canada

Edited by Myra J. Tait & Kiera L. Ladner
Categories: Ethnic studies

Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a thoughtful and powerful collection about Indigenous Peoples’ complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and ...

Eat the Beetles!

Eat the Beetles! is an evolutionary, ecological, and cultural exploration of our conflicted relationship with having insects on the dinner plate. Epidemiologist, veterinarian, and The Origin of Feces ...