On Active Grounds

Edited by Robert Boschman and Mario Trono
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, Film & Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

On Active Grounds considers the themes of agency and time through the burgeoning, interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. Fourteen essays and a photo album cover topics such as environmental ...

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, Social Science, Anthropology, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

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 ...

This Is Not A Hoax

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

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 ...

Activating the Heart

Edited by Julia Christensen, Christopher Cox and Lisa Szabo-Jones
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Creative Writing, 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
Subjects: Poetry, Social Science, Women’s Studies, 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
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Indigenous Studies
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 ...

The Homing Place

By Rachel Bryant
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, History, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Indigenous Studies

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state ...

Violence Against Indigenous Women

By Allison Hargreaves
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Indigenous Studies

Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous ...

Argimou

By S. Douglass S. Huyghue
Afterword by Gwendolyn Davies
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies
Series: Early Canadian Literature

Both an adventure-laced captivity tale and an impassioned denunciation of the marginalization of Indigenous culture in the face of European colonial expansion, Douglass Smith Huyghue’s Argimou (1847) ...

Read, Listen, Tell

Edited by Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, David Gaertner and Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Language Arts & Disciplines, Creative Writing
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 together ...