Indigenous Resources
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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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Bob Joseph, Cynthia F. Joseph Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality
A timely sequel to the bestselling 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act - and an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to work more effectively with Indigenous Peoples. We are all treaty people. But what are the everyday impacts of treaties, and how can we effectively work toward reconciliation if we're worried our words and actions will unintentionally cause harm? Hereditary chief and leading Indigenous relations trainer Bob Joseph is your guide to respecting cultural differences and improving your personal relationships and business interactions with Indigenous Peoples. Practical and inclusive, Indigenous Relations interprets the difference between hereditary and elected leadership, and why it matters; explains the intricacies of Aboriginal Rights and Title, and the treaty process; and demonstrates the lasting impact of the Indian Act, including the barriers that Indigenous communities face and the truth behind common myths and stereotypes perpetuated since Confederation.
$19.95
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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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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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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Peter Menzies, Lynn F. Lavallee Journey to Healing: Aboriginal People with Addiction and Mental Health Issues: What Health, Social Service and Justice Workers Need to Know
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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Journeying Forward
Dreaming First Nation's Independence Activist and scholar Patricia Monture-Angus examines her own intellectual and personal colonization as a way to share ideas about what she, as a Mohawk woman, sees as the next steps on the path to finding a solution to the continued oppression of First Nations people. She is dissatisfied with the circuitous progress with which Aboriginal claims and issues are being dealt with in both Canadian courts and Canadian politics. As well, because many current day First Nations political institutions are framed within and defined by the Indian Act, the author also questions the ability of these organizations to assist in fully eradicating the oppression their citizens.
$26.95
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Joy the Hummingbird Puppet
Joy the Hummingbird is one of the storytellers. Joy is so tiny and quick. Joy loves to drink nectar and bring joy and good luck to all. The hummingbird's habitat is close to beautiful flowers. It's teachings are to take a minute to be inspired. This high-quality hand puppet is approximately 10" - 14". Made of all new materials. Joy was designed by Haida artist Roger Smith from Haida Gwaii, BC, in Canada.
$28.00
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Jordan Wheeler, Christopher Auchter Just a Walk
In Just a Walk, a young boy named Chuck goes for a simple walk that turns into a day of crazy adventure. Chuck encounters animals, fish and birds that lead him on a wild journey through their various habitats.
$12.95
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Kim Rogers, Julie Flett Just Like Grandma
Becca loves spending time with Grandma. Every time Becca says, "Let me try," Grandma shows her how to make something beautiful. Whether they are beading moccasins, dancing like the most beautiful butterflies, or practicing basketball together, Becca knows that, more than anything, she wants to be just like Grandma. And as the two share their favorite activities, Becca discovers something surprising about Grandma.
$24.99
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Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, Christie Belcourt Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
In this book, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at controversial topics such as lateral violence, challenges in working with "tradition," and problematic notions involved in "helping". Through stories of resilience, resistance, and activism, the editors give voice to powerful personal testimony and allow for the creation of knowledge.
$32.99
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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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Katherena Vermette, Irene Kuziw Kode's Quest(ion): A Story of Respect
Kode knows many things, but she doesn't know one thing: What does respect mean? Who will help her figure out the answer? Kode's Quest(ion) is one book in The Seven Teachings Stories series. The Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe-love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth-are revealed in seven stories for children. Set in urban landscapes, Indigenous children tell familiar stories about home, school, and community. Wonderful illustrations by Irene Kuziw. For Grades K-4.
$9.95
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Carleigh Baker Last Woman
From one of the country's most celebrated new writers, a blistering collection of short fiction that is bracingly relevant, playfully irreverent, and absolutely unforgettable. Carleigh Baker's signature style is irreverent, but her heart is true-these stories delve into fear for the future, intergenerational misunderstandings, and the complexities of belonging with sharp wit and boundless empathy. With equal parts compassion and critique, she brings her clear-eyed attention to bear on our world, and the results are hilarious, heartbreaking, and startling in their freshness.
$24.95
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Native Northwest Learn & Play With Northwest Coast Native Art
This fun beautiful fun book teaches basic colors, shapes, counting and letters. Learn the concept of Big (Moose) and Small (Butterflies). Find Salmon, Eagle and Snake as you ride through the mountainous countryside with Bear. Count the Feathers and name their Colors.
$12.00
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Native Northwest Learn from the Animals of the Salish Sea
Coast Salish Native Art Colouring and Learning Book. 8.5" x 11", 24 pages soy-based ink and non-toxic coatings paper sourced from sustainable forests.
$9.00
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Learn the Alphabet Northwest Coast Native Art
Learn the Alphabet is made of heavy cardboard using soy-based inks and non-toxic coatings. Artwork by Northwest Coast Native artists. Partial proceeds from the sale of all of the books in this series go to support Aboriginal early childhood development.
$12.00
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Learn the Colours Northwest Coast Native Art
Brightly colored board book. 10 pages, recycled paper, soy ink with protective coating. Art by various Northwest Coast Native artists.
$12.00
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Learn to Count Northwest Coast Native Art
Learn to count with illustration by various Northwest Coast Native artists. Made of heavy cardboard using soy-based inks and non-toxic coatings.
$12.00
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Learning Shapes: Animal Journey
Sail the rivers and oceans with Raven and his friends. Measures 9.65 in x 5.5 in x 2.65 in. Made from natural pine, non-toxic paints and coatings as well as soy-based inks. Ben Houstie is a Bella Bella artist.
$30.00
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Suzanne Methot Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing
Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions brought on by genocide and colonial control. With passionate logic and chillingly clear prose, author and educator Suzanne Methot uses history, human development, and her own and others' stories to trace the roots of Indigenous cultural dislocation and community breakdown in an original and provocative examination of the long-term effects of colonization. But all is not lost. Methot also shows how we can come back from this with Indigenous ways of knowing lighting the way.
$24.95
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Richard Van Camp Lesser Blessed
20th anniversary edition Internationally praised and the subject of a critically acclaimed film, Richard Van Camp's bestselling novel about coming of age in Canada's North has achieved the status of an Indigenous classic and it was included in CBC's list of 100 novels that make you proud to be Canadian. This special 20th anniversary edition features a new introduction from the author, as well as two short stories that follow the lives of the novel's main characters.
$19.95
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Lessons From Mother Earth Habitats and Nature
Tess has visited her grandmother many times without really being aware of the garden. But today they step outside the door and Tess learns that all of nature can be a garden. And if you take care of the plants that are growing, if you learn about them -- understanding when they flower, when they give fruit, and when to leave them alone -- you will always find something to nourish you. This gentle story demonstrates the First Nations' tradition of taking care of Mother Earth.
$10.99
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Julie Flett Let's Go!
An extraordinary book that celebrates skateboarding, family, and community, from beloved artist and author Julie Flett, winner of The New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book Award. Every day, a little boy watches kids pass by on skateboards, and dreams of joining them. One day, his mother brings a surprise: her old skateboard, just for him! haw ekwa! Let's go! Together, they practice on the sidewalk, at the park, in Auntie's yard - everywhere. But when it comes time to try the skate park, the skateboarders crash down like a waterfall. Can he find the confidence to join them?
$23.95
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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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