Recollections of a Forest Life

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

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 ...

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

By An Antane Kapesh
Translated by Sarah Henzi
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, 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 ...

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 ...

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: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies, Art

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 ...

On Active Grounds

Edited by Robert Boschman & Mario Trono
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Film & Media
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, History, Indigenous Studies
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 ...