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ka onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems.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 ...

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: 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 Florentine Strzelczyk, Hartmut Lutz, 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 ...

Zaagi'idiwin

By (artist) Leanna Marshall
Contributions by Susan Neylan & Vera Wabegijig
Foreword by Suzanne Luke
Subjects: Art, Indigenous Studies

Zaagi'idiwin: Silent, Unquestionable Act of Love, creates an intersection where viewers meet to understand and explore the essence of relationships, the meaning of connection/disconnection, and the pain ...

A Casual Reconstruction

By (artist) Nadia Myre
Contributions by Louise Bernice Halfe & Sara Matthews
Foreword by Suzanne Luke
Subjects: Art, Indigenous Studies

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

Activating the Heart

Edited by Christopher Cox, Julia Christensen, 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: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Indigenous Studies, Poetry
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 ...