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• Nirjutit Imaani

  Edible Animals of the Sea : Recipes and Stories From Across Nunavut

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  This is a collection of seal and fish recipes collected from across Nunavut. The recipes are printed in English and the Inuktitut dialect of the community represented. It also includes specific techniques for preparing seal and arctic fish.

• Niqiliurniq

  a Cookbook From Igloolik

  Arreak, Micah,

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  Brings together healthy traditional country foods—like seal, Arctic char, and caribou—with store-bought produce to create delicious meals. Includes details on food safety and storage, as well as information on how to build a healthy,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• tawâw

  Progressive Indigenous Cuisine

  Chartrand, Shane,

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  Containing over seventy-five recipes along with personal stories, interviews with Chartrand's culinary influences and family members, and contemporary and archival photographs of his journey, Tawâw is part cookbook, part exploration of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Held by the Land

  a Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness = Wa Ch'ích'istway Ta Temíxw : Spén̓em Txwnam̓ta Ha7lh Sḵwálwen

  Joseph, Leigh,

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  Author 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Medicine Wheel for the Planet

  a Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing

  Grenz, Jennifer,

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  Restoration ecology is grounded in an idea that we must return the natural world to an untouched, pristine state, - a notion at odds with Indigenous histories of purposeful, reciprocal interaction with the environment. Dr. Jennifer Grenz…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Plants, People, and Places

  the Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights in Canada and Beyond

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  For millennia, plants and their habitats have been fundamental to the lives of Indigenous Peoples--as sources of food and nutrition, medicines, and technological materials--and central to ceremonial traditions, spiritual beliefs,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Transformation of Spirits

  The Story of the Welcome Totem Pole Raised at Foundry Sea to Sky in Squamish

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  A visual narrative that follows the 18 month long journey of a red cedar log, transformed into a welcome totem pole. Commisioned by the Sea to Sky Community Services, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) artist See-Appl-tun (Art Harry)…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Volume One

  a True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island

  Monkman, Kent,

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  For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character--an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Echoes of the Supernatural

  the Graphic Art of Robert Davidson

  Wyatt, Gary, 1958-

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  An exhilarating tour of a half-century of mastery and innovation of Haida formline by the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation.

• Glory and Exile

  Haida History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson

  Wilson, Hazel, 1941-2016,

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  On 51 large blankets, Wilson uses painted and appliquéd imagery to combine traditional stories, autobiography, and commentary on events such as smallpox epidemics and environmental destruction into a grand narrative that celebrates the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Coexistence

  Stories

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray,

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  A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from a Giller-longlisted author and one of contemporary literature's most boundless minds. Across the prairies and Canada's west coast, on reservations and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Grandmother Begins the Story

  a Novel

  Porter, Michelle (Poet),

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  Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel. Carter is a young mother, recently…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Place Is Who We Are

  Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands

  Gordon, Katherine, 1963-

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  Indigenous peoples and cultures are integrally connected to the land. Wellbeing in every sense - physical, social, environmental, economic, spiritual and cultural - depends on that connection, which is based on a fundamental concept: when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  Stories

  Vowel, Chelsea,

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  Powerful stories of "Metis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. "Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Talking to the Story Keepers

  Tales From the Chilcotin Plateau

  Birchwater, Sage

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  Birchwater gathers dozens of stories spanning decades in the Cariboo Chilcotin from those who hold onto stories passed through generations. These stories reflect on the story keepers themselves as well as our collective humanity, tying…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kwanlin Dün

  Dǎ Kwǎndur Ghày Ghàkwadîndur = Kwanlin Dün : Our Story in Our Words

  Kwanlin Dün First Nation,

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  Tells the story of the peoples of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, from thousands of years ago to the present day. This richly illustrated book includes traditional stories from long ago, told by Elders, about the origins of the world and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love After the End

  An Anthology of Two-spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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  This fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. Readers will discover bioengineered AI rats, transplanted trees in space, the rise of a 2SQ resistance…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Town Sleeps

  a Novel

  Staples, Dennis E.,

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  On a reservation in a small northern Minnesota town, an Ojibwe man named Marion Lafournier begins a sexual relationship with a deeply closeted white man named Shannon Harstad, who insists he is straight. An element of magic realism enters…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Power Is

  Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art

  Duffek, Karen, 1956-

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  A landmark volume that brings together over eighty contemporary Indigenous knowledge holders with extraordinary works of historical Northwest Coast art, ranging from ancient stone tools to woven baskets to carved masks and poles to silver…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tiná7 Cht Ti Temíxw

  We Come From This Land : a Walk Through the History of the Squamish People

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  From the watersheds of the Squamish and Mamquam Rivers and Howe Sound in the north to English Bay, False Creek, and Burrard Inlet in the south, Sk1wx1wú7meshulh Aysáy̓ch (Squamish Territory) encompasses saltwater and rushing rivers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation