Native Peoples

Funny, You Don’t Look Like One: Observations from a Blue-Eyed Ojibway

The essays and columns collected in this book by half-Ojibway, half-Caucasian playwright Drew Hayden Taylor are short (the longest runs to three pages), and although he sometimes repeats himself, the narrative style of the three- ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Native People

By Arthur J. Ray

In spite of what its first-person title might lead one to think, I Have Lived Here Since the World Began is not a history of Canada’s native people as told by the native people themselves. ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

The Moons of Goose Island (first Nations Children’s Literary Series)

By Don K. Philpot, Margaret Hessian, illus.

Thoughtful simplicity and an interesting illustrative approach distinguish this quiet but effective story about bereavement, mourning, and healing. Launching an intended four-book series that will portray contemporary First Nations children in their communities, this first ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ Stolen from Our Embrace: The Abduction of First Nations Children and the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities

By Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey

Call it North of 60 syndrome. Contemporary media usually portray aboriginal people as a dour lot, dysfunctional and nasty. This pernicious, one-dimensional typecasting renders aboriginal people as eternal victims unable to take control of their ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women

By Nancy Wachowich,Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak and Sandra Pikujak Katsak

Saqiyuq is the Inuktitut word for a strong wind that suddenly shifts direction. Inuit life has also undergone a sudden shift in the last four decades, from nomadic subsistence hunting to permanent settlement in communities. ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Native Peoples

A Voice Great Within Us

By Charles Lillard & Terry Glavin

A Voice Great Within Us, the seventh title in New Star’s Transmontanus series, is a sensitive, poetic portrait of a language and an author lost to us. As an examination of the language once popular ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

First Nations? Second Thoughts

By Tom Flanagan

Tom Flanagan, a professor of history at the University of Calgary, says First Nations? Second Thoughts “is bound to provoke some hostile reactions.” Declaring one’s martyrdom early – in this case, in the book’s acknowledgements ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Native Peoples

★ Walking on the Land

By Farley Mowat

In 1947 and 1948, Farley Mowat spent time among the Ihalmiut, the inland Inuit whose traditional territory was between Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay, in what is now known as Nunavut. The Ihalmiut were ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood

By Kim Anderson

Women, with few exceptions, once held a great deal of power in aboriginal society. They were in charge of the home, controlled food distribution (at a time when stored food was considered a form of ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State

By Alan C. Cairns

Alan C. Cairns, a professor of political science at the University of Waterloo and a scholar of federalism, the Constitution, and the Charter, has completed a remarkable and well-researched study that adds a measure of ... Read More »