Recollections of a Forest Life

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

Land/Relations

By Smaro Kamboureli & Larissa Lai
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies
Series: TransCanada

Essential reading for those interested in questions of justice and cultural representation, Land/Relations speaks to and moves beyond the critical junctures in the study of Canadian literatures today. ...

E nâtamukw miyeyimuwin

By Ruth DyckFehderau
With James Bay Cree Storytellers
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Education, Indigenous Studies

In this quietly powerful and deeply human book, Ruth DyckFehderau and twenty-one James Bay Cree storytellers put a face to Canada’s Indian Residential School cultural genocide.

Through intimate personal ...

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition

By Deanna Reder
Subjects: Life Writing, Literary Criticism, 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 ...

Something Cold and Hard Like Winter

By (artist) Shelley Niro
Contributions by Alicia Elliott
Foreword by Suzanne Luke
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, Art

Something Cold and Hard like Winter showcases the movement of time through large scale photographs and video. The works speak to the narratives that surround the earth and the longevity of its existence, ...

(Re)Generation

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

On the Other Side(s) of 150

Edited by Linda M. Morra & Sarah Henzi
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories ...

Coalesce

By (artist) Barry Ace
Foreword by Suzanne Luke
Contributions by Armand Garnet Ruffo
Subjects: Art, Indigenous Studies

Featuring the art of Barry Ace, 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 ...

Literatures, Communities, and Learning

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