Recollections of a Forest Life

By George Copway
Afterword by Deanna Reder
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Canadian History, Indigenous Studies
Series: Early Canadian Literature

The first book published by an Indigenous author in Canada is George Copway’s Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847), in which he offers an autobiographical account of his life and experiences, ...

The Chippewas of Georgina Island

Edited by John L. Steckley, Leah Atkinson, Albert Big Canoe, Andrew Big Canoe, Lauri Hoeg, Susan Hoeg, and Barbara McDonald
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Anthropology

The Chippewas of Georgina Island is a record of the history of an Indigenous community and the stories and photographs of the lives of community members over the years. A work of community storytelling ...

(Re)Generation

By Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Edited by Dallas Hunt
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry, Indigenous Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

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

mahikan ka onot

By Duncan Mercredi
Edited by Warren Cariou
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry, Indigenous Studies
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ka-onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems.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 ...

Coalesce

By (artist) Barry Ace
Introduction by Suzanne Luke
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Art

Coalesce is a fusion of distinct Anishinaabeg aesthetics of the Great Lakes region with refuse from Western society’s technological and digital age in order to intentionally shift an object’s materiality ...

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
Subjects: Life Writing, Indigenous Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation
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 ...

Literatures, Communities, and Learning

By Aubrey Jean Hanson
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
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 ...

Indianthusiasm

Edited by Hartmut Lutz, Florentine Strzelczyk, and Renae Watchman
Subjects: German Studies, 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 ...

This Is Not a Hoax

By Heather Jessup
Subjects: Ethnography, Art, Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art ...

A Casual Reconstruction

By (artist) Nadia Myre
Foreword by Suzanne Luke
Contributions by Louise Bernice Halfe & Sara Matthews
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Art

A Casual Reconstruction explores open conversation to examine the relationship between language, identity and human connection. Driven by the desire to have an honest discussion about Indigenous identity/mixed ...