Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.
Indigenous Studies
Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising by Brandi Morin
Our Voice of Fire chronicles Morin’s journey to overcome enormous adversity and find her purpose, and her power, through journalism. This compelling, honest book is full of self-compassion and the purifying fire of a pursuit for justice.
Episode 7, The Festivus Edition, December 23, 2021
In this episode, I discuss three recent books I have read that deal with living in Indigenous sovereignty, and a quick look at some upcoming reads.
Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence by Pam Palmater
Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence is the second collection of writings by Palmater. In keeping with her previous works, numerous op-eds, media commentaries, YouTube channel videos and podcasts, Palmater’s work is fiercely anti-colonial, anti-racist, and more crucial than ever before.
The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet
Some books are there to offer the kinds of stories that can light on our …
From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is.
Margaret Atwood, Campobello Island and the Passamoquoddy by Rachel Bryant
The following article was penned by Rachel Bryant, author of The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic. It was originally published on her website on September 21st, 2019 and is reproduced here with her kind permission.
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice
[dropcap]Wilfred [/dropcap]Laurier University Press (WLU Press) publishes an Indigenous Studies series of which I have …
The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic by Rachel Bryant
From Wilfred Laurier University Press’ Indigenous Studies Series comes Rachel Bryant’s The Homing Place, which refuses to be pigeon-holed to any one category.