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• This Place Is Who We Are

  Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands

  Gordon, Katherine, 1963-

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  Indigenous communities in central and northern coastal BC are reconnecting to their lands and waters―and growing and thriving through this reconnection.

• Stored in the Bones

  Safeguarding Indigenous Living Heritages

  Pawlowska-Mainville, Agnes,

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  Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville details her work with Anishinaabeg and Inninuwag harvesters, showcasing their cultural heritage and providing a new discourse for promoting and transmitting Indigenous knowledge.

• Held by the Land

  a Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness

  Joseph, Leigh,

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  Plants can be a great source of healing and nourishment, and the practice of growing and harvesting from trees, flowering herbs, and other plants is a powerful way to become more connected to the land. The Indigenous Peoples of North America have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law

  Kinamaadiwin Inaakonigewin and the Treaty Right to Education

  Baskatawang, Leo,

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  This traces the history of the neglected treaty relationship between the Crown and the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 and the Canadian government’s egregious failings to administer effective education policy for Indigenous youth—failures epitomized…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Truth Telling

  Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada

  Good, Michelle

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  A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. Also available in audio and ebook on cloudLibrary.

• You Are the Medicine

  13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection and Animal Spirit Guidance

  Frost, Asha,

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  The Medicine you have been searching for lives within you. Follow the path of the 13 Ojibwe Moons with Animal Spirits and Ancestors as your guides as you unlock your connection to your unique, inherent healing power. Through storytelling,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Di-bayn-di-zi-win : to Own Ourselves

  Embodying Ojibway-Anishinabe Ways

  Fontaine, Jerry, 1955-

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  A collaboration exploring the importance of the Ojibway-Anishinabe worldview, the use of ceremony, and language in living a good life, attaining true reconciliation, and resisting the notions of indigenization and colonialization inherent in Western…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Atiqput

  Inuit Oral History and Project Naming

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  Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites the historical record created by settler societies and challenges a legacy of colonial visualization.

• Spirit Talker

  Indigenous Stories and Teachings From a Mi'kmaq Psychic Medium

  Leonard, Shawn,

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  This teaching memoir by an Indigenous spirit talker includes stories about the author’s reconnection with his Mi’kmaq heritage, along with techniques for connecting to the Spirit and developing your own intuition and psychic abilities.

• Valley of the Birdtail

  An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

  Sniderman, Andrew Michael Stobo, 1983-

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  Divided by a beautiful valley and 150 years of racism, the town of Rossburn and the Waywayseecappo Indian reserve have been neighbours nearly as long as Canada has been a country. Their story reflects much of what has gone wrong in relations between…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings

  Bomgiizhik, 1975-

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  This is a collection of traditional Ojibwe/Anishinaabe stories transcribed directly from Murdoch’s oral storytelling, preserving the style and rhythm of the storyteller’s voice. These stories are of tradition, history, morality and object lessons…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are the Middle of Forever

  Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

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  For the Indigenous people of the world, radical alteration of the planet, and of life itself, is a story that is many generations long. They have had to adapt, persevere, and be courageous and resourceful in the face of genocide and destruction—and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dispersed but Not Destroyed

  a History of the Seventeenth-century Wendat People

  Labelle, Kathryn Magee, 1983-

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  The Wendat Confederacy flourished for two hundred years. However, Wendat society was threatened by European disease and Iroquois attacks by the mid-seventeenth century. Dispersed but Not Destroyed depicts the creation of a powerful Wendat diaspora…Read moreRead more of this annotation