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Empowering Indigenous Students in the Classroom and Beyond
A Collection of Essays by Instructors at the University College of the North
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Empowering Indigenous Students in the Classroom and Beyond brings together scholarly essays from faculty at the University College of the North (UCN), where the majority of students identify as Indigenous. Written from a wide range of...
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Evaluating Education Through Community Voice
An Action Research Study in a First Nations School
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The Community leaders of one band-operated school, this study's focus, did not consider the external evaluations mandated by the federal Department of Indian Affairs to be helpful in resolving student high dropout rates and low academic...
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An Odyssey
My Seven Years as a First Nations Chief
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Bill Tooshkenig became Chief of Walpole Island First Nation at a young age, beginning a journey that would shape his life and community. In An Odyssey: My Seven Years as a First Nations Chief, he shares the stories that led him to leadership and...
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Our Home and Treaty Land
Revised and Expanded Edition
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Our Home and Treaty Land addresses the critical need for non-Indigenous peoples to face their past with honesty in order to navigate a harmonious way forward. In this revised edition, co-authors Ray Aldred and Matthew Anderson take you on an...
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Project Opikihiwawin and the Sixties Scoop
How White Parents Helped Their Adopted Children Connect With Their Indigenous Heritage
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For decades, Indigenous children in Canada were taken from their families and placed in foster care or adopted into non-Indigenous homes—a practice most well-known as the Sixties Scoop but one that began years before and continues long after....
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My Mother's Legacy
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A survival story and celebration of one woman’s life, My Mother's Legacy is also a glimpse of the spirit, culture, and history of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. From life on the trapline in the Far North to meeting the Pope at the Vatican, this is...
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Sacred Bundles Unborn (Second Edition)
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Medical malpractice and systemic racism are as interwoven as a spider's web. Should a dragline break, the spider spins its silk and the web is easily rewoven, like systemic racism, it is all linked. Sterilizations, forced or coerced, without...
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North Star
The Legacy of Jean-Marie Mouchet
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“He was a man who had a purpose when he came among our people. He was very gentle with his purpose. He had a vision. He saw we had something that nobody else did. He gave us gifts which we remember to this day and still use. He changed us. He...
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Indigenous Reconciliation and Environmental Resilience
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There are two themes: Indigenous reconciliation and environmental resilience. The purpose is to inform and inspire action – to quicken the pace of reconciliation and lessen the pace of global warming. The chapters, loosely held together by...
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Do You Eat the Red Ones Last?
Canada's Not-so-Clandestine War to Expropriate Indigenous Lands and Resources: An Anthropologist's Curious Journey Through the Mind-Fields of Indigenous Knowledge, Rights, and Culture
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Part exposé, part memoir, part reference manual for reconciling Indigenous and non-Indigenous rights in Canada, Do You Eat the Red Ones Last? takes the reader on one anthropologist’s journey through the turbulent waters of Canada’s contested...
