Echo Maker is the portrait of a memorable personality, an insight into his unusual family life and his career in the outdoors, and, almost as a bonus, a detailed account of adventure expeditions based on traditional Aboriginal routes and techniques.
It is, for a lack of a better term, a living explanation, one which comes to the reader in images and feelings, delivered with a logic that is not static but flowing. For me, it was an exhausting but beautiful reading experience, intense and unforgettable.
There is so much to learn here, so many starting points for dialogue, so many opportunities to clear space and grow.
[…] learn about what Indigenous self-government can be, even after hundreds of years of colonialism in North America and the necessary healing and repair that needs to be done.
Featuring Halina St. James, Giles Blunt, John Brady McDonald, and A. Jamali Rad
The REDress project documents the comprehensive use of art installation to bear witness to the rippling pain of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people.
Amazing storytelling from a First Nations perspective of the Dogrib and the Chipewyan peoples, with the Crane family in the middle of a treaty that makes for such a creative and fascinating plot.
Those relationships are described in two treaties, represented in wampum belts and oral stories: the Two Row Wampum and the Covenant Chain. Those treaties, and much else, are the subject of this important, even necessary book.
This is a remarkable book about a remarkable — and ongoing — project.
September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in so-called-Canada.
Indigiqueerness is a lean, skinny book full of meat. At just under 100 pages, it is a comprehensive dive into who is Joshua Whitehead. And, through this vessel, what makes a storyteller?
June is Pride month AND Indigenous History Month. We’ll be spotlighting excellent queer and Indigenous titles all month. First up: some ~double feature~ Indigiqueer books, recommended from our editors!
The Angel of Indian Lake is the third book of the Indian Lake Trilogy, and we can tell that Jones had definite plans for his final installment to go out with a bang.
There’s a gentle humility in persisting and insisting in the poem to build a better world.
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