Native Peoples

The Comeback: How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power and Influence

John Ralston Saul’s meditation on Canada’s aboriginal communities regaining an authentic political voice proves – among other things – that the line between popular culture and hard-nosed philosophy is not especially blurred. The book presents ... Read More »

November 3, 2014 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

By Thomas King

Novelist Thomas King describes his brilliantly insightful, peevish book about native people in North America as a “a series of conversations and arguments that I’ve been having with myself and others for most of my ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers

By Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson

There is no denying that the new book by University of Regina professors Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson is a valuable and valiant effort. Addressing the way Canada’s native population has historically been ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Native Peoples

One Story, One Song

By Richard Wagamese

“Hopelessness is isotropic,” writes Richard Wagamese in his new collection of personal essays, “the view in every direction is the same. That’s the nut of it. It’s hard to change when everything you see looks ... Read More »

February 22, 2011 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Chee Chee: A Study of Aboriginal Suicide

By Alvin Evans

Ojibwe-Algonquin artist Benjamin Chee Chee committed suicide in 1977, just as he was about to achieve international stardom. Author Alvin Evans, a psychotherapist and an expert in suicide, believes that Chee Chee’s death was a ... Read More »

March 24, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools

By J.R. Miller

J.R. Miller is a highly regarded Saskatchewan historian, but he also has the makings of an outstanding coroner. In Shingwauk’s Vision, he has autopsied the barely cooled corpse of the native residential school system. With ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Native Peoples

Native Canadiana: Songs from the Urban Rez

By Gregory Scofield

Native Canadiana is the second offering from B.C.’s Dorothy Livesay Award-winning poet Gregory Scofield. As a sophomore effort it’s a provocative but somewhat disappointing book, one that leaves me uneasy because I find it almost ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk

By Ingeborg Marshall

I learned a little about the Beothuk while attending public school on the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve. I heard stories of Indians who had been killed by the English a long time ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ Ancient People of the Arctic

By Robert McGhee

When the Inuit arrived in the Canadian Arctic 1,000 years ago, they found the Tunit, a race of strong, peaceful giants who were easily driven from the best hunting grounds and soon disappeared, marking the ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice

By Rupert Ross

In his new book, Rupert Ross, who spent 14 years working as a member of the Canadian mainstream legal system in northwestern Ontario, describes the ongoing struggle in native communities to develop a system of ... Read More »