Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition

By Deanna Reder
Categories: Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous ...

(Re)Generation

By Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Edited by Dallas Hunt
Categories: Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm exploring a range of issues: from violence against Indigenous women and lands to Indigenous erotica and the joyous ...

Literatures, Communities, and Learning

By Aubrey Jean Hanson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Series: Indigenous Studies

Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers gathers nine conversations with Indigenous writers about the relationship between Indigenous literatures and learning, and ...

mahikan ka onot

By Duncan Mercredi
Edited by Warren Cariou
Categories: Literary Criticism
Series: Laurier Poetry

mahikan ka onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These are poems of life on the land as well as life in ...

I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi?

By An Antane Kapesh
Translated by Sarah Henzi
Categories: Life Writing
Series: Indigenous Studies

Quebec author An Antane Kapesh's two books, Je suis une maudite sauvagesse (1976) and Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays? (1979), are among the foregrounding works by Indigenous women in Canada. This English translation ...

Indianthusiasm

Edited by Hartmut Lutz, Florentine Strzelczyk, and Renae Watchman
Categories: Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Indianthusiasm refers to the European fascination with, and fantasies about, Indigenous peoples of North America, and has its roots in nineteenth-century German colonial imagination. Often manifested ...

Activating the Heart

Edited by Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox, and Lisa Szabo-Jones
Categories: Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. ...

Sôhkêyihta

By Louise Bernice Halfe
Edited by David Gaertner
Categories: Indigenous Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

“I build this story like my lair. One willow, / a rib at a time”
— “The Crooked Good”

Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe’s work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous ...

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

By Daniel Heath Justice
Categories: Literary Criticism
Series: Indigenous Studies

Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the ...

Read, Listen, Tell

Edited by Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, David Gaertner, and Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Series: Indigenous Studies

“Don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now. ” —Thomas King, in this volume

Read, Listen, Tell brings ...