November 15, 2017 | Filed under: History, Native Peoples
On March 15, 1920, Robert Janes was shot and killed on Baffin Island. The man who killed him was Nuqallaq, an Inuk. Neither Nuqallaq nor the witnesses to the killing ever denied these basic facts. ... Read More »
The theme of healing is present in two recent non-fiction books by indigenous authors. But each author approaches the process of healing, and the question of what needs to be healed in the first place, ... Read More »
January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples
The theme of healing is present in two recent non-fiction books by indigenous authors. But each author approaches the process of healing, and the question of what needs to be healed in the first place, ... Read More »
January 24, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs
Many activists, writers, and communities are addressing the nexus of race, sexuality, and gender, and the ways these things combine to form a person’s identity. Indigenous Men and Masculinities accomplishes this by discussing aboriginal masculinity ... Read More »
November 17, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs
Reflecting on a girlhood spent in the Arctic town of Kuujjuaq, Sheila Watt-Cloutier describes herself as “a cautious child who didn’t like taking big risks.” That characterization may seem surprising coming from an Inuk woman ... Read More »
June 22, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment
Books by indigenous writers serve a special function in Canada. Not only do they preserve stories from within their originating communities, they help to disseminate ideas and opinions to the larger Canadian populace, thereby aiding ... Read More »
June 3, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples
Books by indigenous writers serve a special function in Canada. Not only do they preserve stories from within their originating communities, they help to disseminate ideas and opinions to the larger Canadian populace, thereby aiding ... Read More »
June 3, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples
Every few years, Canadian complacency is punctured by potent wake-up calls about unresolved indigenous rights issues, from the tense standoff over expansion of a Quebec golf course on traditional burial grounds at Oka to the ... Read More »
May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs
The seminal political scientist Benedict Anderson coined the term “imagined communities” to describe modern nations – political entities so large and diffuse that they are held together not by direct personal ties but by shared ... Read More »
May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs
Marilyn Dumont, celebrated Métis poet and author of A Really Good Brown Girl, which won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, returns to her roots with The Pemmican Eaters. Though other books have been written ... Read More »
April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Poetry