Recollections of a Forest Life

By George Copway
Afterword by Deanna Reder
Subjects: 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 ...

Land/Relations

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

(Re)Generation

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

On the Other Side(s) of 150

Edited by Linda M. Morra & Sarah Henzi
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Cultural 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
By Armand Garnet Ruffo
Subjects: Art, Indigenous Studies

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 ...

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onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems.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

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