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In our own Aboriginal voice 2 : a collection of Indigenous authors and artists in Canada / by Calvert, Michael,1968-editor.; Metatawabin, Edmund,1947-writer of foreword.;
"A collection of Indigenous Authors and Artists in Canada. All pieces contain Aboriginal content with themes such as residential schools, personal experiences, Indigenous Identity, prayers, Aboriginal wisdom, hope, etc."--
Subjects: Canadian literature; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous authors;
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War at the margins : Indigenous experiences in World War II / by Poyer, Lin,1953-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-306) and index."War at the Margins offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on Indigenous societies. Using historical and ethnographic sources, Lin Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social forms and cultural ideas that laid the foundations for their twenty-first century emergence as players on the world's political stage. With a focus on Indigenous voices and agency, a global overview reveals the enormous range of wartime activities and impacts on these groups, connecting this work with comparative history, Indigenous studies, and anthropology. The distinctiveness of Indigenous peoples offers a valuable perspective on World War II, as those on the margins of Allied and Axis empires and nation-states were drawn in as soldiers, scouts, guides, laborers, and victims. Questions of loyalty and citizenship shaped Indigenous combat roles-from integration in national armies to service in separate ethnic units to unofficial use of their special skills, where local knowledge tilted the balance in military outcomes. Front lines crossed Indigenous territory most consequentially in northern Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands, but the impacts of war go well beyond combat. Like others around the world, Indigenous civilian men and women suffered bombing and invasion, displacement, forced labor, military occupation, and economic and social disruption. Infrastructure construction and demand for key resources affected even areas far from front lines. World War II dissolved empires and laid the foundation for the postcolonial world. Indigenous people in newly independent nations struggled for autonomy, while other veterans returned to home fronts still steeped in racism. National governments saw military service as evidence that Indigenous peoples wished to assimilate, but wartime experiences confirmed many communities' commitment to their home cultures and opened new avenues for activism. By century's end, Indigenous Rights became an international political force, offering alternative visions of how the global order might make room for greater local self-determination and cultural diversity. In examining this transformative era, War at the Margins adds an important contribution to both World War II history and to the development of global Indigenous identity"--
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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We had a little real estate problem : the unheralded story of Native Americans in comedy / by Nesteroff, Kliph,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From renowned comedy journalist and historian Kliph Nesteroff comes the underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy"--
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Indigenous comedians; Indigenous comedians;
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The wayfinders : why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world / by Davis, Wade.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Acculturation.; Endangered languages.; Indigenous peoples; Language and culture.;
© 2009., House of Anansi Press,
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By the fire we carry : the generations-long fight for justice on Native land / by Nagle, Rebecca,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A powerful work of reportage and American history in the vein of Caste and How the Word Is Passed that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century later"--
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples, Treatment of;
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Permanent astonishment / by Highway, Tomson,1951-author.;
In 1990 Rene Highway, a world-renowned dancer, died of an AIDS-related illness. 'Permanent Astonishment' is Tomson Highway's extravagant embrace of his younger brother's final words: "Dont mourn me, be joyful." Infused with joy and outrageous humour, this book offers insights into the Cree experience of culture, conquest and survival. Highway lives in northern Ontario and Gatineau, QC. A Dewey Diva Pick. Book Club.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Highway, Tomson, 1951-; Highway, Tomson, 1951-; Indigenous authors; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples;
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Empty spaces / by Abel, Jordan,1985-author.;
Re-imagining James Fenimore Coopers 19th-century text 'The Last of the Mohicans' from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisgaa person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence, Jordan Abel's 'Empty Spaces' explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popular understandings about Indigenous storytelling. Abel is a queer Nisgaa writer from Vancouver, BC.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Ethnicity; Identity (Psychology); Indigenous peoples; Nature;
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Me tomorrow : Indigenous views on the future / by Taylor, Drew Hayden,1962-editor.;
Includes bibliographical references."First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists, activists, educators and writers, youth and elders come together to envision Indigenous futures in Canada and around the world. Discussing everything from language renewal to sci-fi, this collection is a powerful and important expression of imagination rooted in social critique, cultural experience, traditional knowledge, activism and the multifaceted experiences of Indigenous people on Turtle Island. In Me Tomorrow ... Darrel J. McLeod, Cree author from Treaty-8 territory in Northern Alberta, blends the four elements of the Indigenous cosmovision with the four directions of the medicine wheel to create a prayer for the power, strength and resilience of Indigenous peoples. Autumn Peltier, Anishinaabe water-rights activist, tells the origin story of her present and future career in advocacy--and how the nine months she spent in her mother's womb formed her first water teaching. When the water breaks, like snow melting in the spring, new life comes. Lee Maracle, acclaimed Stó:lō Nation author and educator, reflects on cultural revival--imagining a future a century from now in which Indigenous people are more united than ever before. Other essayists include Cyndy and Makwa Baskin, Norma Dunning, Shalan Joudry, Shelley Knott-Fife, Tracie Léost, Stephanie Peltier, Romeo Saganash, Drew Hayden Taylor and Raymond Yakeleya. For readers who want to imagine the future, and to cultivate a better one, Me Tomorrow is a journey through the visions generously offered by a diverse group of Indigenous thinkers."--
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Future, The.;
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We belong to the drum / by Lamouche, Sandra.; Whitecalf, Azby.;
"In this illustrated picture book, a child who's away from his family for the first time at daycare finds belonging through the music of the powwow drum."--
Subjects: Picture books.; Social integration; Powwows; Indigenous peoples;
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My powerful hair / by Lindstrom, Carole,1964-; Littlebird, Steph.;
After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
Subjects: Picture Books.; Hair; Identity (Psychology); Indigenous peoples;
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