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  • Cold Case North The Search for James Brady and

    University of Regina Press Cold Case North The Search for James Brady and

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    £18.04

  • Cold Case North The Search for James Brady and

    University of Regina Press Cold Case North The Search for James Brady and

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    3 in stock

    £58.50

  • Beaver Bison Horse The Traditional Knowledge and

    University of Regina Press Beaver Bison Horse The Traditional Knowledge and

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £23.75

  • Walking Together

    University of Regina Press Walking Together

    7 in stock

    Book SynopsisIndigenous and non-Indigenous scholars forward child welfare issues currently impacting Indigenous children in Canada. Walking Together is the seventh title in the Voices of the Prairies series. Developed by the Prairie Child Welfare Consortium, this edited collection brings together accomplished Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from the prairie provinces to forward critical research about a range of contemporary child welfare issues currently impacting Indigenous children in Canada. Centering Indigenous knowledge and working to decolonize child welfare, contributors address the over-representation of Indigenous children in the child welfare system, the un-met recommendations of the TRC, the connections between colonialism and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, the impact of Bill C-92, and more. Contributors include: Jason Albert, Dorothy Badry, Cindy Blackstock, Elder Mae Louise Campbell, Peter Choate, Linda Dano-Chartrand, Michael Doyle, Koren Lightning Earle, Arlene Eaton Erick

    7 in stock

    £26.60

  • Hernandez S We Are the Stars

    University of Regina Press Hernandez S We Are the Stars

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisAn emerging Lakota scholar's critical interrogation of settler-colonial nations that re-centers Oceti Sakowin (Dakota) women as the tribe's traditional culture keepers and bearers.

    1 in stock

    £23.75

  • The Good Walk

    University of Regina Press The Good Walk

    5 in stock

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    5 in stock

    £17.09

  • Tricky Grounds

    University of Regina Press Tricky Grounds

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £20.89

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indigenous Education and Research

    £123.50

  • Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Resource Exploitation in Native North America

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    Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCompelling. . . . Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals. * Choice *

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    £999.99

  • Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Story of the Chippewa Indians

    1 in stock

    Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Preface Introduction Timeline 1 Chippewa Country—Anishinaabewaki 2 Traditional Foundations of Chippewa Worldview 3 Securing Chippewa Country, 1600–1736 4 Expanding Chippewa Country 5 American Incorporation and Colonization 6 The Nadir of Chippewa Country 7 More Pieces of the Story of the Chippewa 8 Self-Government and Threatened Termination, 1935–1960s 9 Self-Determination and Civil Rights 10 The Story of the Chippewa Continues Bibliography Index About the Author

    1 in stock

    £34.00

  • Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and

    Edinburgh University Press Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with the Warlpiri people of Australia since 1979. Inspired by the art and struggles of different Indigenous people and other discriminated groups, especially women, she delivers a radical anthropology.Trade Review'Indigenising Anthropology is not merely a collection of essays spanning the storied career of Barbara Glowczewski. It is a homage to a philosophical space that grew between Glowczewski’s long and intimate intellectual relationship with Felix Guattari and her equally committed conceptual dialogue with Indigenous Australians. Glowczewski’s thoughts glow with a scholarly originality and political potentiality desperately needed today.' -- Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia University. 'These fascinating essays retrace an engagement over forty years with Anthropology, Australian Indigenous people and the thought of Guattari and Deleuze. By turns anthropological field notes, theoretical essay and personal memoir, they provide a unique perspective on the intersection of these domains. They open a window on to the intellectual and spiritual resources, and politics, of Aboriginality in the contemporary world. Highly recommended to anyone interested in these matters.' -- Paul Patton, UNSW and Wuhan University

    1 in stock

    £94.50

  • Officially Indian: Symbols that Define the United

    University of Minnesota Press Officially Indian: Symbols that Define the United

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisFrom maps, monuments, and architectural features to stamps and currency, images of Native Americans have been used again and again on visual expressions of American national identity since before the country’s founding. In the first in-depth study of this extraordinary archive, Cécile R. Ganteaume argues that these representations are not empty symbols but reflect how official and semi-official government institutions—from the U.S. Army and the Department of the Treasury to the patriotic fraternal society Sons of Liberty—have attempted to define what the country stands for. Seen collectively and studied in detail, American Indian imagery on a wide range of emblems—almost invariably distorted and bearing little relation to the reality of Native American–U.S. government relations—sheds light on the United States’ evolving sense of itself as a democratic nation. Generation after generation, Americans have needed to define anew their relationship with American Indians, whose lands they usurped and whom they long regarded as fundamentally different from themselves. Such images as a Plains Indian buffalo hunter on the 1898 four-cent stamp and Sequoyah’s likeness etched into glass doors at the Library of Congress in 2013 reveal how deeply rooted American Indians are in U.S. national identity. While the meanings embedded in these artifacts can be paradoxical, counterintuitive, and contradictory to their eras’ prevailing attitudes toward actual American Indians, Ganteaume shows how the imagery has been crucial to the ongoing national debate over what it means to be an American. Officially Indian is published in concert with the Americans exhibition, which opens October 26, 2017, at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. American Indians represent less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, yet names and images of Indians are everywhere: military weapons, songs, town names, advertising, and that holiday in November. Americans invites visitors to take a closer look, and to ask why. Featuring nearly 350 objects and images, from a Tomahawk missile to baking powder cans, Americans examines the staying power of four stories (Thanksgiving, Pocahontas, the Trail of Tears, and the Battle of Little Bighorn) that are woven into the fabric of both American history and contemporary life. By highlighting what has been remembered, contested, cherished, and denied about these stories, and why they continue to resonate, this exhibition shows that Americans have always been fascinated, conflicted, and profoundly shaped by their relationship to American Indians.Trade Review"Officially Indian provides unique and seminal images from tribal folk and regional and national societies. Writing is engaging and informative herein. Stories and historical context behind images found on circulated coins, postal stamps, war airplanes, and so much more make this volume captivating for the layman, and provides sources for further inquiry for the aspiring and continuing scholar."—Art Library Society of North America"Ganteaume’s book is a needed and helpful text that can begin to push these dialogues into our classrooms in a more complete, historical, and entangled fashion."—Panorama"Officially Indian moves well beyond the overly simplistic narrative that has dominated Western-oriented academics’ telling of American Indian history."—Tribal College Journal "Officially Indian helps us understand how the abstraction of a culture through the white gaze becomes a tool of intellectual genocide across the centuries." —Global Histories"Beautifully illustrated and produced . . . each image or symbol is accompanied by about two pages of explanatory and analytic text. Officially Indian is a fascinating delight."—Steven Conn, The Public Historian

    1 in stock

    £21.59

  • Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War

    Little, Brown & Company Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA HAYES tells the story of Ira Hamilton Hayes from the perspective of a Native American combat veteran of the Vietnam generation. Hayes, along with five other Marines, was captured in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photograph of raising the stars and stripes on Mount Suribachi during the battle for the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima. The photograph was the inspiration and model for the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington. Between the time he helped raise that flag and his death-and beyond-he was the subject of more newspaper columns than any other Native person. He was hailed as a hero and maligned as a chronic alcoholic unable to take care of himself. IRA HAYES will explore these fluctuating views of Ira Hayes. It will reveal that they were primarily the product of American misconceptions about Native people, the nature of combat, and even alcoholism. Like most surviving veterans of combat, Ira did not think of himself as a heroic figure. There can be no doubt that Ira suffered from PTSD, which is a compound of survivor's guilt, the shock of seeing death, especially of one's friends, and the isolation brought on by feeling that no one could understand what he had been through. Ira's life has been a subject of two motion pictures and a television drama. All these dramas sympathize with him, but ultimately fail to see his binge drinking as his way of temporarily escaping the melancholy, the rage he felt, his sense of betrayal, and the sheer boredom of peacetime. IRA HAYES breaks apart the complexities of Ira's short life in honor of all Native veterans who have been to war in the service of the United States. This is equally their story.

    5 in stock

    £22.50

  • Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the

    Basic Books Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to free Texas from repressive Mexican rule. In Unsettled Land, historian Sam Haynes reveals the reality beneath this powerful creation myth. He shows how the lives of ordinary people-white Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and those of African descent-were upended by extraordinary events over twenty-five years. After the battle of San Jacinto, racial lines snapped taut as a new nation, the Lone Star republic, sought to expel Indians, marginalize Mexicans, and tighten its grip on the enslaved. This is a revelatory and essential new narrative of a major turning point in the history of North America.

    5 in stock

    £25.20

  • Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel

    PublicAffairs Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £27.20

  • Black Rose Books Nation within a Nation: Dependency and the Cree

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £12.34

  • Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants

    Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisAuthor Leigh Joseph, an ethnobotanist and a member of the Squamish Nation, provides a beautifully illustrated essential introduction to Indigenous plant knowledge. Plants can be a great source of healing as well as 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 long traditions of using native plants as medicine as well as for food. Held by the Land honors and shares some of these traditions, offering a guide to: Harvesting herbs and other plants and using them topically North American plants that can treat common ailments, add nutrition to your diet, become part of your beauty regime, and more Stories and traditions about native plants from the author’s Squamish culture Using plant knowledge to strengthen your connection to the land you live on Early chapters introduce you to responsible ways to identify and harvest plants in your area and teach you how to grow a deeper connection with the land you live on through plants. In the plant profiles section, common plants are introduced with: Elegant, line-drawn botanical art for each plant Information on their characteristics and range How to grow and/or harvest them How to use them topically and as food Special features with recipes for food and beauty products along with stories and traditions around the plants This beautiful, full-color guide to Indigenous plants will give you new insights into the power of everyday plants. Trade Review“This will deepen readers’ appreciation for the restorative power of the outdoors.” * Publishers Weekly *“Exceptionally well written, illustrated, and organized, providing the reader with informative insight into the power of everyday plants for good health and medical applications.” * Midwest Book Review *“Generously thorough and lovingly illustrated guidebook to Indigenous plants for the absolute beginner to the seasoned expert. ... This book is the perfect place to begin a lasting friendship with plants!” * Spirit Bound Press *"In this beautifully illustrated herbal guide, Indigenous ethnobotanist Leigh Joseph’s Held by the Land facilitates experiential learning that honors lineage, land, and ways of knowing." * Journal of the American Herbalists Guild *Table of ContentsCONTENTS CHAPTER 1: Building Botanical Relationships CHAPTER 2: Teachings from Plants CHAPTER 3: Identifying Plants to Build Your Home Apothecary CHAPTER 4: The Mindful Harvest CHAPTER 5: Botanical or Land-Based Mindfulness Practices INTRODUCTION Reflections on Indigenous Plant Knowledge & Building Relationships Plant Profiles & Recipes TREES Amabilis Fir Bigleaf Maple Black Poplar or Cottonwood Grand Fir Pacific Crab Apple Spruce Western Hemlock Western Red Cedar SHRUBS Beaked Hazelnut Blackcap Blueberry Bog Cranberry Devil’s Club Highbush Cranberry Labrador Tea Ocean Spray Red Elderberry and Blue Elderberry Red Huckleberry Red-Flowering Currant Salal Salmonberry Saskatoon Berry Soapberry Tall Oregon Grape Thimbleberry Trailing Blackberry Wild Rose FLOWERING HERBS Bare-Stem Desert Parsley or Biscuitroot Broad-Leaved Plantain Camas Cattail Cow Parsnip Fireweed Nodding Onion Northern Rice Root Stinging Nettle Wapato Wild Ginger Wild Strawberry Yarrow FERNS, HORSETAILS, LICHENS & SEAWEEDS Beard Lichen Common Horsetail Licorice Fern Red Laver CONCLUSION Botanical Glossary Appendix References Acknowledgments About the Author About the Recipe Contributors Index

    1 in stock

    £16.14

  • Mending The Broken Pieces: Indigenous Religion

    Africa World Press Mending The Broken Pieces: Indigenous Religion

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisAn exploration of the role of Africa's religio-cultural traditions in the continent's development.

    1 in stock

    £29.71

  • Contesting Identities: The Mijikenda and Their

    Africa World Press Contesting Identities: The Mijikenda and Their

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £29.71

  • Red Nation Rising: From Border Town Violence to

    £15.29

  • American Apartheid: The Native American Struggle

    1 in stock

    £15.29

  • The Beadworkers: Stories

    Counterpoint The Beadworkers: Stories

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £19.79

  • Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and

    Minnesota Historical Society Press Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £17.06

  • My Tidda, My Sister: Stories of Strength and

    Hardie Grant Explore My Tidda, My Sister: Stories of Strength and

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and society has existed on this continent for millennia. It's a culture that manifests itself as the ultimate example of resilience, strength and beauty. It’s also a culture that has consistently been led by its women.My Tidda, My Sister shares the experiences of many Indigenous women and girls, brought together by author and host of the Tiddas 4 Tiddas podcast, Marlee Silva. The voices of First Nations’ women that Marlee weaves through the book provide a rebuttal to the idea that 'you can’t be what you can’t see'. For non-Indigenous women, it demonstrates the diversity of what success can look like and offers an insight into the lives of their Indigenous sisters and peers.Featuring colourful artwork by artist Rachael Sarra, this book is a celebration of the Indigenous female experience through truth-telling. Some stories are heart-warming, while others shine a light on the terrible realities for many Australian Indigenous women, both in the past and in the present. But what they all share is the ability to inspire and empower, creating a sisterhood for all Australian women. Also features foreword by Helpmann and AACTA award-winning actor Leah Purcell.

    5 in stock

    £15.29

  • Hardie Grant Explore Murli la: Songs and Stories of the Tiwi Islands

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    Book SynopsisA joint project with the Indigenous Literary Foundation, Murli la is a beautifully designed gift book that celebrates the culture of the Tiwi Islands through song. The songs presented in this book hold cultural, genealogical, geographical and spiritual knowledge that has been passed down through thousands of years of Tiwi storytelling, ceremony and in the songlines that circle the islands. As custodians of the songs, the Ngarukuruwala Women’s Group in partnership with Dr Genevieve Campbell have recorded over 40 songs in language for the first time – each with an introduction and English translation. A one-of-a-kind map of the islands, with areas marked in language, gives further intimate knowledge into Tiwi culture. Dr Campbell shares beautiful insights into the Tiwi Islands and her words are accompanied by intimate photographs from the time she has spent with the women. Murli la is the essential introduction to the wonderfully rich Tiwi culture and a glimpse into many lifetimes of sung knowledge.

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    £999.99

  • Wayne Quilliam: Culture is Life 2nd edition:

    Hardie Grant Explore Wayne Quilliam: Culture is Life 2nd edition:

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisWayne Quilliam: Culture is Life is the new, large-format edition of this stunning photographic art book that celebrates the diversity of Indigenous Australians.   Pre-eminent Aboriginal photographer Wayne Quilliam has an archive of millions of images and interviews with Indigenous people across the country. The people featured in his photos include many high-profile Indigenous Australians, as well as community members of different ages from Tasmania to the Torres Strait and Tiwi Islands. With various feature sections on significant events such as Sorry Day and the All Stars game, plus extended captions, this book is an accessible gateway to better understand and appreciate the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.  This new edition also includes over 50 new photos taken since the original book was published in 2020. Aurukun man Eric Yunkaporta is featured in the cover photo, for which Wayne received the 2022 National Photographic Portrait Prize.

    5 in stock

    £36.00

  • Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man

    Hardie Grant Books Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man

    Book SynopsisIn this first biography of the man and his music, Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man tells the incredible story of one of Australia’s most acclaimed Aboriginal pop and country music legends and icons, Jimmy Little. At just 16 years of age, Jimmy Little travelled to Sydney to make his radio debut on Australia’s Amateur Hour. The eldest of seven children and born on the Cummeragunja Reserve on the Murray River, Jimmy’s entry into the entertainment industry came at a time when First Nations people were not counted in the census. In the face of indescribable barriers and discrimination, Jimmy would go on to woo the nation. His immense talent, charm and heart saw him become a household name and national treasure. Jimmy’s songs consistently topped the music charts of the 1960s, and he won several of Australia’s most prestigious lifetime achievement awards, including the ARIA Hall of Fame, NAIDOC Person of the Year, and Officer of the Order of Australia. And now his daughter, Frances Peters-Little, tells the full story behind her father’s inspiring ascent to stardom. For though this is a story about a pop star and national celebrity, it is also the story of a gentle man who always stayed true to himself and his cultural identity – a man who believed in the power of living your dreams. Weaving together stories both known and unknown to the public, Jimmy Little: A Yorta Yorta Man will take you on a remarkable journey through a life of music, love and advocacy.

    £22.40

  • Blue Bear Woman

    Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Blue Bear Woman

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    1 in stock

    £10.95

  • The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik)

    Inanna Publications and Education Inc. The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik)

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £14.24

  • Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd On This Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied

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    Book SynopsisParks are importantly fertile places to talk about land. Whether its big national parks, provincial campgrounds, isolated conservation areas, destination parks, or humble urban patches of grass, we tend to speak of parks as unqualified goods. People think of parks as public or common land, and it is a common belief that parks are the best uses of land and are good for everyone.But no park is innocent. Parks are lionized as "natural oases," and urban parks as "pure nature" in the midst of the city - but that's absurd. Parks are as "natural" as the roads or buildings around them, and just as political. Every park in North America is performing modernity and settler colonialism everyday. Furthermore, parks are not private property, but while they are called 'public', they are highly regulated spaces that normatively demand and closely control behaviours. Parks are a certain kind of property, and thus creations of law, and they are subject to all kinds of presumptions about what parks are for, and what kinds of people should be doing what kinds of things in them. Parks - as they are currently constituted - are colonial enterprises.On This Patch of Grass is an investigation into one small urban park - Vancouver's Victoria Park, or Bocce Ball Park - as a way to interrogate the politics of land. The authors grapple with the fact that they are uninvited guests on the occupied and traditional territories of the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh), and Tsleil-Waututh (səliľwətaʔɬ) nations. But Bocce Ball Park is also a wonderful place in many ways, with a startling plurality of users and sovereignties, and all kinds of overlapping activities and all kinds of overlapping people co-existing more-or-less peaceably. It is a living exhibition of the possibilities of sharing land and perhaps offers some clues to a decolonial horizon.The book is a collaborative exercise between one white family and some friends looking at the park from a variety of perspectives, asking what we might say about this patch of grass, and what kinds of occupation might this place imply.

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    £999.99

  • Reconciliation in Practice

    Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Reconciliation in Practice

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    Book SynopsisIn 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report designed to facilitate reconciliation between the Canadian state and Indigenous Peoples. Its call to honour treaty relationships reminds us that we are all treaty people — including immigrants and refugees living in Canada. The contributors to this volume, many of whom are themselves immigrants and refugees, take up the challenge of imagining what it means for immigrants and refugees to live as treaty people. Through essays, personal reflections and poetry, the authors explore what reconciliation is and what it means to live in relationship with Indigenous Peoples. Speaking from their personal experience — whether from the education and health care systems, through research and a community garden, or from experiences of discrimination and marginalization — contributors share their stories of what reconciliation means in practice. They write about building respectful relationships with Indigenous Peoples, respecting Indigenous Treaties, decolonizing our ways of knowing and acting, learning the role of colonized education processes, protecting our land and environment, creating food security and creating an intercultural space for social interactions. Perhaps most importantly, Reconciliation in Practice reminds us that reconciliation is an ongoing process, not an event, and that decolonizing our relationships and building new ones based on understanding and respect is empowering for all of us — Indigenous, settler, immigrant and refugee alike.Table of ContentsPreface • Contributors • Introduction • Reconciliation: Challenges and Possibilities (Ranjan Datta) • Sámi Reconciliation in Practice: A Long and Ongoing Process (Irja Seurujärvi-Kari and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen) • Reconciliation Through Decolonization (Colleen J. Charles) • Reconciliation: A White Settler Learning from the Land (Janet McVittie) • Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Practice and Research: A New Way Forward for the Immigrant Health Professionals (Farzana Ali) • Reconciliation Through Transnational Lenses: An Immigrant Woman’s Learning Journey (Jebunnessa Chapola) • Letter to John A. Macdonald (Chris Scribe) • Reconciliation as Ceremonial Responsibility: An Immigrant’s Story (Ranjan Datta) • Reconciliation via Building Respectful Relationships and Community Engagement in Indigenous Research (Valerie Onyinyechi Umaefulam) • Reconciliation and New Canadians (Ali Abukar) • Holes and Gray (Khodi Dill) • References • Index

    1 in stock

    £18.95

  • Fernwood Publishing Divided Power

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    £999.99

  • ReStorying Education

    Page Two Books, Inc. ReStorying Education

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisAn invaluable resource for educators looking to actively participate in reshaping education to include historically silenced voices in the classroom.Re-Storying Education is a process of dismantling old narratives taught in education and rebuilding new narratives that include all the voices that have created this place known as Canada today. This vital and timely book outlines how colonialism has shaped both the country and the public school system. Re-Storying Education uses an Indigenous lens, offering ways to put Indigenous education, history, and pedagogy into practice. It invites readers into an open dialogue in the pursuit of a more inclusive and just educational landscape.Drawing from her own experiences as an Indigenous student, educator, and administrator, in public and band-operated school systems, Indigenous academic Carolyn Roberts offers a deep understanding of how to support educators with Indigenous education and to create a nurturing and

    1 in stock

    £23.39

  • University of Regina Press Métis Matriarchs

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £26.21

  • Indigenizing Movements in Europe

    Equinox Publishing Ltd Indigenizing Movements in Europe

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisSince the mid-twentieth century, religious movements identifying themselves as Paganism, shamanism, native faiths and others have experimented with two forms of indigeneity. One arises from claims to be reviving or re-presenting previously hidden religious practices from ancestral or pre-Christian times. The other form of indigeneity is found in lessons learnt (directly or indirectly) from Indigenous peoples (especially Native Americans and/or Siberians). In the last decade in particular these two trends have sometimes fused in what we call "indigenizing movements". This book tests the interpretive and methodological value of this. "Indigenizing" was coined by Paul C. Johnson in a discussion of lowland South American and Caribbean religious traditions as the opposite end of a continuum from "universalizing". The continuum recognises tendencies to emphasise resonance with and relevance to local and ancestral traditions (indigenizing) and tendencies to stress universality or global engagement. These need not be dualistically opposed and are most likely to be matters of stress. Those who conceive of themselves and their cultures as maintaining and enhancing discrete ethnic, cultural or religious communities may represent one trajectory. Others not only assert that they have something to say to the rest of the world but may also seek to revise "local ancestral" traditions in the light of more global traditions. We might recognise a tension here between "Indigenous" and "World" religions but the contributors to this volume contest the value of that categorisation of what are, in reality, more dynamic and fluid realities. The chapters test a differently conceived tension: that between indigenizing and universalizing. This experimentation is propelled by examining European originated movements in which engagements with Indigenous animistic, shamanistic or "nature venerating" traditions are employed in self-conceptions and in the discourses of identity formation, maintenance and dissemination. Seven main chapters test aspects of our key theme by focusing on specific movements or phenomena. These are followed by a responsive afterword considering the effects of applying a notion coined for the critical examination of Indigenous South American and Caribbean religions to the different context of European movements. The book aims to enhance understanding and enrich debate not only about evolving European movements but also about the concept and practice of Indigeneity, indigenizing and of scholarly practices in relation to such phenomena.

    1 in stock

    £23.70

  • Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Making Space for Indigenous Feminism

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe majority of scholarly and activist opinion by and about Indigenous women claims that feminism is irrelevant for them. Yet there is also an articulate, theoretically informed and activist constituency that identifies as feminist. This book is by and about Indigenous feminists, whose work demonstrates a powerful and original intellectual and political contribution demonstrating that feminism has much to offer Indignenous women in their struggles against oppression and for equality. Indigenous feminism is international in its scope: the contributors here are from Canada, the USA, Sapmi (Samiland), and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The chapters include theoretical contributions, stories of political activism, and deeply personal accounts of developing political consciousness as Aboriginal feminists.Trade Review‘The book certainly achieves its goal of creating a space for the voices of Indigenous feminists ... is a brilliant piece to use in discussions around the power relations that have forged our common histories and that are present in all societies with an Indigenous presence today' Nadine Charron, Policy Research GroupTable of Contents Introduction: From Symposium to Book - Joyce Green Part I: What is Indigenous Feminism? 1. Taking Account of Indigenous Feminism - Joyce Green 2. Aboriginal Women on Feminism: Exploring Diverse Points of View - Verna St. Denis 3. Metis and Feminist: Reflections from the Margins - Emma Larocque Part II: Aboriginal Feminist Analysis and Theory 4. Sami Women and Feminism: Strategies for Healing and Transformation - Rauna Kuokkanen 5. Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change - Andrea Smith 6. Gender, Essentialism, and Feminism in Samiland - Jurunn Eikjok translated by Gunhild Hoogensen 7. Indigenous Feminism as Resistance to Imperialism - Makere Stewart- Harawira 8. Balancing Strategies: Aboriginal Women and Constitutional Rights in Canada - Joyce Green Part III: Aboriginal Feminist Activists and Sister-Travellers 9. Looking Back, Looking Forward - Shirley Green 10. Maori Women and Leadership in Aotearoa - Kathie Irwin 11. Yes, My Daughter, We Are Cherokee Women - Denise Henning 12. My Home Town Northern Canada South Africa - Emma LaRocque 13. Culturing Politics and Politicizing Culture - Shirley Bear 14. An Aboriginal Feminist on Violence Against Women - Tina Beads with Rauna Kuokkanen 15. Colleen Glenn: A Metis Feminist in Indian Rights for Indian Women - Colleen Glenn with Joyce Green 16. Woman of Action: An Interview with Sharon McIvor - Sharon McIvor with Rauna Kuokkanen

    1 in stock

    £80.75

  • Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on

    C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisOchre and Rust offers a fresh perspective on frontier relations between Australian Aboriginal people and European colonists. Nine museum artefacts take the reader into a fascinating zone of encounter and mutual curiosity between collectors and those indigenous people who piqued or responded to their interest. While colonialism is the broad frame, details gleaned from archives, images and the objects themselves reveal a new picture of interaction between individual Aboriginal people and European collectors. Philip Jones explores and makes sense of particular historical moments in colonial history, when Aboriginal people perceived and expected other, more elusive outcomes. Ochre and Rust, an elegantly written challenge to received wisdom about the colonial frontier, has won Australia's inaugural Prime Minister's Award for Literary Non-Fiction.Trade Review'It displaced all other reading until I reached the very last page. A truly remarkable book.' * Sir David Attenborough *‘[Ochre and Rust is] a compelling and powerful study that addresses a wide range of issues, including the sources of ethnographic knowledge, the premises of museum practices, the impact of missionary endeavors, the roots of artistic innovations, and more. … Engagingly written, meticulously documented, and richly illustrated, it is a work that deserves a broad readership.’ -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History

    5 in stock

    £23.75

  • Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks

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    Book SynopsisThese essays document the struggles against oppression that Aboriginal people face, as well as the success and changes within Aboriginal communities.

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    £15.26

  • Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Journeying Forward: Dreaming First Nations?

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    Book SynopsisQuestioning the ability of political organizations to assist in fully eradicating the oppression of First Nations and their citizens, the author critically reflects on the meaning of "self-government"-and the obstacles as well as solutions to some of its challenges. Concluding that self-government as a goal is too narrow and overly inundated by colonial meanings to be a full solution, Monture-Angus rejects the idea of "self-government" in favor of a much larger idea, independence.

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    £17.06

  • Life In Occupied America

    AK Press Life In Occupied America

    3 in stock

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Sue's stunning photographs demonstrate the spiritual and material value of the Xingu tribes to all mankind; they keep the forest alive and they protect the climate of South America and the rest of the world. Their spiritual connection to their environment and the wider Earth shows us an alternative way to connect to the natural richness of the planet, built on foundations completely different from those of global materialism. During their expedition by boat, the authors followed the course of the Xingu river, a tributary of the Amazon, travelling 2500 km through the heart of Brazil. They visited 48 tribal villages in this remote part of the Amazon, accessible only by small plane or by negotiating the rapids of the Xingu. This is the story of the tribal communities they met; their daily lives, their connection to the land and to the rivers, the threats which pervade each day of their lives. It is also a validation of their importance to the rest of the world; why these small, remote and often secretive indigenous communities are so important to our own lives and to our shared planet. It is a celebration of their vibrant cultures, their rituals and their rites of passage, of cultures very different from each other, but with a shared spiritual basis which respects the trees, the rivers and the rain. And it is a call for the world to protect them, their lands and their forests and rivers from the destruction which our avaricious greed for natural resources drives ever closer and deeper into their realm.Trade ReviewIncredibly it has been almost 30 years since Sue Cunningham and I first shared a visit to the Xingu. We were younger then, and filled with hope for the future of our Kayap friends. We were encouraged by the recently-adopted 1988 Brazilian constitution which explicitly recognised the rights of all of Brazil's indigenous peoples. Great things have been achieved since then. By setting up the Rainforest Foundation we persuaded the Brazilian government to establish the Menkragnoti Indigenous Territory, which is twice the size of Wales, back in 1991. By 2012 deforestation had fallen to its lowest level since records began, and nowadays there are many well-qualified indigenous teachers, nurses, even lawyers and town councillors, all working for their communities. Our indigenous friends are more confident in the strength of their culture and in their own spiritual values. Sue and Patrick have never ceased to fight for the rights of indigenous people by dedicating their time to raise public awareness of the challenges facing them, and working tirelessly to support the Indians at every step. This book charts the changes in the lives and fortunes of these incredible people. It focuses on their humanity and on their individuality. It shows that they are people, just as we are people, and not simply exotic objects. It tells us that they have a fundamental right to our respect, and that we have an obligation to protect their land, their environment and their chosen way of life. But the book is a timely reminder that Brazil's indigenous people live under constant threat. In the last five years deforestation has crept upwards again, reaching dangerous levels which threaten to undermine global efforts to curb climate change, and recently the politics of Brazil has turned against its indigenous peoples. Demarcation of their lands has ground to a halt and there are powerful moves to remove many of the rights recognised in the 1988 constitution.--Sting "This book charts the changes in the lives and fortunes of these incredible people. It focuses on their humanity and on their individuality. It shows that they are people, just as we are people, and not simply exotic objects. It tells us that they have a fundamental right to our respect, and that we have an obligation to protect their land, their environment and their chosen way of life."--Sting As someone who has travelled extensively in the Amazon forest and amongst Its native peoples this book brings back so many memories for me. The Cunningham's journey down the Xingu River was no easy task, but they achieved and recount here an epic journey that so vividly describes their adventures, the Amazon rainforest and particularly the inhabitants with whom they have such a special relationship.--Professor Sir Ghillean Prance FRS Sue and Patrick Cunningham's vision of the indigenous peoples of the Xingu river basin is unique in many ways. They were the first outsiders ever to take six months descending the full length of that mighty Amazon tributary. On that epic and many other journeys, they had permission to visit almost fifty villages, of a wide variety of tribes. They were welcomed as old friends, so could join in everyday life, shamanic rituals, and spectacular festivals. They were accomplished photographers and observers. And they were seeing Brazilian Indians at a fascinating time in their transition from traditional to more modern society.--Dr John Hemming CMG

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    Book SynopsisMembers of the Daimyō Hosokawa family served the shogun from the Muromachi Period (1333–1568) as samurai. But the Hosokawa achieved fame not only for their success as warriors. As patrons of the arts and artists across the centuries, they enlarged and cared for an exclusive collection which this volume presents through exquisite pieces. The Hosokawa name stands not only for military achievements but also for famous poets, scholars and artists whose passion lay in particular in Nō theatre and the tea ceremony. It is a passion that still applies today. Continuing the tradition, Hosokawa Morihiro, a former Prime Minister of Japan, has devoted himself since his retirement from politics to the creation of tea ceramics and calligraphy. Through some 85 magnificent objects, including weapons, splendid armour, China-ink drawings and paintings, ceramics and lacquer work as well as theatre masks and costumes, the volume reveals the glittering panorama of a samurai family between martial elitism and artistry.

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