Indigenous Resources > Professional/Educator
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One Native Life
In One Native Life, Wagamese looks back down the road he has travelled in reclaiming his identity and talks about the things he has learned as a human being, a man and an Ojibway. Whether he's writing about playing baseball, running away with the circus, attending a sacred bundle ceremony or meeting Pierre Trudeau, he tells these stories in a healing spirit. Through them, Wagamese celebrates the learning journey his life has been.
$19.95
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ohpikinawasowin/Growing a Child: Implementing Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Indigenous Families
Contributors to this collection invert the long-held, colonial relationship between Indigenous peoples and systems of child welfare in Canada. Child welfare for Indigenous peoples that is informed and guided by Indigenous practices and understandings leads to reinvigorating traditional knowledges, practices, and ceremonies related to children and families that have existed for centuries. This book describes wisdom-seeking journeys and service-provision changes that occurred in Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8 territory on Turtle Island. Including nehiyaw (Cree) and Blackfoot teachings, this collection forms a whole related to the Turtle Lodge Teachings, which expresses nehiyaw stages of development, and works to undo the colonial trappings of Canada's current child welfare system.
$33.00
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Medicine Walk
By the celebrated author of Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese has crafted a stunning novel that has all the timeless qualities of a classic. It recounts the universal story of a father/son struggle in a fresh, utterly memorable way, set in dramatic landscape of the BC Interior. This is a novel about love, friendship, courage, and the idea that the land has within it powers of healing, Medicine Walk reveals the ultimate goodness of its characters and offers a deeply moving and redemptive conclusion.
$21.00
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Joyce Green Making Space for Indigenous Feminism
The first edition of Making Space for Indigenous Feminism proposed that Indigenous feminism was a valid and indeed essential theoretical and activist position, and introduced a roster of important Indigenous feminist contributors. This new edition builds on the success and research of the first and provides updated and new chapters that cover a wide range of some of the most important issues facing Indigenous peoples today: violence against women, recovery of Indigenous self-determination, racism, misogyny, and decolonization. Specifically, new chapters deal with Indigenous resurgence, feminism amongst the Sami and in Aboriginal Australia, neo-liberal restructuring in Oaxaca, Canada's settler racism and sexism, and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Written by Indigenous feminists and allies, this book provides a powerful and original intellectual and political contribution demonstrating that feminism has much to offer Indigenous women, and all Indigenous peoples, in their struggles against oppression.
$35.00
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Leanne Simpson Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations
This collection of essays by leading Indigenous scholars focuses on the themes of freedom, liberation and Indigenous resurgence as they relate to the land. They analyze treaties, political culture, governance, environmental issues, economy, and radical social movements from an anti-colonial Indigenous perspective in a Canadian context. Editor Leanne Simpson (Nishnaabekwe) has solicited Indigenous writers that place Indigenous freedom as their highest political goal, while turning to the knowledge, traditions, and culture of specific Indigenous nations to achieve that goal.
$21.95
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Suzanne Methot Killing the Wittigo
Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action and Doing the Work of Healing Written specifically for young adults, reluctant readers, and literacy learners, this book explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how trauma alters an individual's brain, body, and behavior. It explores how learned patterns of behavior. ways people adapt to trauma to survive are passed down within family systems, affecting the functioning of entire communities. The book details the transformative work being done in urban and on-reserve communities through community-led projects and Indigenous-run institutions and community agencies. These stories offer concrete examples of the ways in which Indigenous peoples and communities are capable of healing in small and big ways - and they challenge readers to consider what the dominant society must do to create systemic change. Full of bold graphics and illustration, it is a much-needed resource for Indigenous kids and the people who love them and work with them.
$29.95
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Journey to Healing: Aboriginal People with Addiction and Mental Health Issues
Journey to Healing is a comprehensive and practical evidence-based resource. It was written to help prepare students and professionals to provide counselling and social services to Aboriginal people with mental health and addiction issues in urban, rural and isolated settings. Many of the authors are Aboriginal and all are respected experts in their fields. Each author shares his or her scholarly learning, insight, wisdom and experience of addressing addiction and mental health issues in Aboriginal populations. The guide is intended to serve as a course text for health, social service and justice programs in universities and community colleges. It will also be of interest to social workers, addiction and mental health service providers, and prison, probation, parole and police officers working with Aboriginal communities.
$99.95
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Yatta Kanu Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives into the School Curriculum
Purposes, Possibilities, and Challenges. From improved critical thinking to increased self-esteem and school retention, teachers and students have noted many benefits to bringing Aboriginal viewpoints into public school classrooms. In Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives Into the School Curriculum, Yatta Kanu provides the first comprehensive study of how these frameworks can be effectively implemented to maximize Indigenous students' engagement, learning, and academic achievement. Based on six years of empirical research, Kanu offers insights from youths, instructors, and school administrators, highlighting specific elements that make a difference in achieving positive educational outcomes
$39.95
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Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit
Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Coast Salish Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous Storywork is the result of this research and it demonstrates how stories have the power to educate and heal the heart, mind, body, and spirit. It builds on the seven principles of respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, and synergy that form a framework for understanding the characteristics of stories, appreciating the process of storytelling, establishing a receptive learning context, and engaging in holistic meaning-making.
$39.95
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Robert Alexander Innes, Kim Anderson Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. "Indigenous Men and Masculinities" highlights voices of Indigenous male writers, traditional knowledge keepers, ex-gang members, war veterans, fathers, youth, two-spirited people, and Indigenous men working to end violence against women. It offers a refreshing vision toward equitable societies that celebrate healthy and diverse masculinities.
$27.95
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Jackie Traverse Ikwe: Honouring Women Colouring Book
Ikwe is a new colouring book by Anishinaabe artist Jackie Traverse. Featuring brand new works, the stunning images in IKWE celebrate the spiritual and ceremonial aspects of women and their important role as water protectors. "I had the privilege of going to Standing Rock twice. The strength and power that came from the women there inspired this book. To be a woman is to be a life giver and water protector. Even if you never have children, you have that sense, and the duty to honour and protect the water is within you," writes Traverse.
$24.00
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Healing Wounded Hearts
Stories, poems, and artwork that illustrate the struggles and strengths that this Aboriginal author exhibits, living everyday in intersecting, parallel, and sometimes colliding sociocultural realities are brought together in this personal memoir. The author shares her personal, painful, and spiritual discoveries of how life and worlds work through stories that have made her who she is-stories dealing with sexism, racism, and classism. Through a blend of original research, reflective journals, and creative use of dialogue, people, places, times, events, and beings come alive with the goal to enlighten, inspire, move, and surprise readers into new ways of seeing, believing, and being.
$31.00
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Eduardo Duran Healing the Soul Wound: Trauma-Informed Counseling for Indigenous Communities
Duran draws on his own clinical experience to provide guidance to counselors working with Native Peoples and other vulnerable populations. This second edition includes a new chapter devoted to working with veterans. Duran also updates his thinking on research, including suggestions on how to invent a new liberation research methodology through applied story science. Translating theory into day-to-day practice, the text presents case materials that illustrate effective intervention strategies for prevalent problems, including substance abuse, intergenerational trauma, and internalized oppression. This unique resource explores theoretical Indigenous understanding of cosmology and how understanding natural law can lead us to new ways of understanding and healing the psyche.
$54.95
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Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
This is author/illustrator Paul Goble's Caldecott-winning masterpiece. For most people, being swept away in a horse stampede during a raging thunderstorm would be a terrifying disaster. A young woman follows her heart, and the family that respects and accepts her uniqueness. This book is about friendships between people of different cultures.
$11.95
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Michelle Good Five Little Indians: A Novel
Winner of the 2018 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction Michelle Good's 'Five Little Indians', tells a story from the alternating points of view of five former residential school students as they struggle to survive in 1960s Vancouver-one finding her way into the dangerous world of the American Indian movement; one finding unexpected strength in motherhood; and one unable to escape his demons - and the bonds of friendship that sustain them, inspired by the author's experiences.
$22.99
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First Voices: An Aboriginal Women's Reader
A collection of articles that examine many of the struggles that Aboriginal women have faced, and continue to face, in Canada. Sections include: Profiles of Aboriginal Women; Identity; Territory; Activism; Confronting Colonialism; the Canadian Legal System; and Indigenous Knowledges. Photographs and poetry are also included. This anthology provides a valuable addition to the literature and fills a critical gap in the fields of Native Studies, Cultural Studies and Women's Studies.
$39.95
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Agnes Grant Finding My Talk: How Fourteen Canadian Native Women Reclaimed their Lives after Residential School
In this book, fourteen aboriginal women who attend residential schools, or were affected by them, reflect on their experiences. Dr. Agnes Grant worked with the Native Teacher Training programs at Brandon University, Manitoba, for thirty years. She travelled extensively in remote and isolated communities, both as an administrator and as a professor. As she listened to the students and community members, she learned of the tremendous effect residential schools have had on members of First Nations and Canadian society in general.
$19.95
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Facing the Mountain
Indigenous Healing in the Shadow of Colonialism Nowhere in the texts on counselling, recovery, or lifespan development does it make links between well-being and not having your land stolen. When an entire people are generally portrayed as mentally ill, because that is, of course, what it means to have a diagnosis of clinical depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress disorder, it is easy for the State to view these people as unfit to manage their lives. Then, all sorts of functions are performed on Indigenous families that are tantamount to victim-blaming formulations that, in the end, deny opportunities associated with full citizenship. The author goes beyond offering social analysis, and possible pathways toward healing, and shares her own experience as an Indigenous woman with Metis, Cree and Gwichin heritage.
$33.00
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Decolonizing Trauma Work
Indigenous Stories and Strategies In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous worldviews, notions of wellness and holistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through trauma, depression and experiences of parallel and multiple realities. Linklater offers purposeful and practical methods to help individuals and communities that have experienced trauma, through stories and strategies that are grounded in Indigenous worldviews and embedded with cultural knowledge.
$29.00
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Decolonizing Mental Health
Embracing Indigenous Multi-Dimensional Balance Through the understanding that Indigenous Peoples are in the process of rising from the "colonial container", with the goal of individual and collective wellbeing, this edited book explores decolonizing mental health in order to advance various possibilities for living a quality life within the present-day conceptualizations of Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being. Part I builds the foundation, our knowledge base, upon which we can talk about decolonization mental health. Part II explores the concept of identity/self. Part III examines empowerment. Part IV discusses culturally specific mental health and wellbeing practices. Finally, Part V looks at political action.
$49.00
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Marie Battiste Decolonizing Education
Nourishing the Learning Spirit Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Chronicling the negative consequences of forced assimilation, racism inherent to colonial systems of education, and the failure of current educational policies for Aboriginal populations, Battiste proposes a new model of education, arguing the preservation of Aboriginal knowledge is an Aboriginal right. Central to this process is the repositioning of Indigenous humanities, sciences, and languages as vital fields of knowledge, revitalizing a knowledge system which incorporates both Indigenous and Eurocentric thinking.
$35.00
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Sheila Cote-Meek Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education
In this book, the author discusses how Aboriginal students confront narratives of colonial violence in the postsecondary classroom, while they are, at the same time, living and experiencing colonial violence on a daily basis. Basing her analysis on interviews with Aboriginal students, teachers and Elders, Cote-Meek deftly illustrates how colonization and its violence are not a distant experience, but one that is being negotiated every day in universities and colleges across Canada.
$29.00
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Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take 'us on a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise' (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.
$30.95
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Melaney Gleeson-Lyall Animals of the Salish Sea
Explore the Salish Sea through the First Nations and Native An art of 13 Coast Salish artists and Musqueam, Coast Salish author Melaney Gleeson-Lyall. This beautiful and colourful 32-page book offers teachings about the Animals of the Salish Sea! Perfect for all ages!
$18.00
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