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: Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, History, Canadian History
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 ...

I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country?

By An Antane Kapesh
Translated by Sarah Henzi
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Life Writing, 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 ...

Indianthusiasm

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

On Active Grounds

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

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

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: Indigenous Studies, Poetry, Social Science, Women’s 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: Indigenous Studies, 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 ...

Argimou

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