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"Lynda Gray (Ts'msyen Nation) provides an accessible primer on Indigenous peoples' past and present geared towards both non-Indigenous and Indigenous readers. See the free resources page for downloadable resources. ​​First Nations 101 provides a broad overview of the day-to-day lives of…
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Calling Down the Sky is a poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal Residential School confinements in the 1950''s when thousands of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were placed in these schools against their parents'…
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This nonfiction book, illustrated with photographs , tells the story of the making fo the Witness Blanket, a work by Indigenous artist Carey Newman that includes items from every residential school in Canada and stories from the Survivors who donated them. -- Provided by publisher.
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Rediscovering the stories of the past serves as a healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. Anderson shares the teachings of elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Métis, Cree, and Anishinaabe…
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Contents:; 1. The Complexity of Measuring Indigenous Welbeing; 2. Understanding Wellbeing; Part I: Physical Wellbeing; 3. Health and Physical Wellbeing of the Sami People; 4. Chronic Disease among Native North Americans; 5. Changing Concepts of Wellness among the Swahili of Lamu Town, Kenya; 6. Phy…
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"In this unprecedented collection of botanical information, over 140 plants are categorized within their broad botanical groupings: algae and seaweeds, lichens, fungi and mushrooms, mosses and liverworts, ferns and fern-allies, coniferous trees, deciduous trees, shrubs and vines, and herbaceous flo…
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Contents:; Introduction. "Art for Life's Sake": Approaches to Indigenous Arts, Health, and Well-Being -- Part 1. Material Culture, Embodiment, and Well-Being -- Chapter 1. What This Pouch Holds -- Chapter 2. Baskets, Birchbark Scrolls, and Maps of Land: Indigenous Making Practices as Oral Hisoriogr…
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"[This book] examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. In September 2008, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabe resident of Winnipeg, arrived in the emergency room of a major downtown hospital. Over a thirt…
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"Jon loves his life in the North. But when he feels a pain that won't go away, he must go to a children's hospital in the south to find out what is wrong. A doctor there tells Jon he has cancer and will have to stay at the hospital for a while. Suddenly Jon's life is upside down! But with a handful…
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"In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption. With gripping moments of withdrawal, times of spirit…
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