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People of the Deer
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People of the Deer (Death of a People)
Author: Farley Mowat  
ISBN: 0786714786   /   Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press   /   2004-12-20
List Price: $14.95
In 1886, the Ihalmiut people of northern Canada numbered seven thousand; by 1946, when Farley Mowat began his two-year stay in the Arctic, the population had fallen to just forty. With them, he observed for the first time the phenomenon that wou ... Read more
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This Land Is My Land
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This Land Is My Land
ISBN: 0892391847   /   Paperback
Publisher: Children's Book Press   /   2003-03
List Price: $7.95
In his own words and paintings, acclaimed Native American artist George Littlechild takes young readers back in time to the first meeting between his Plains Cree ancestors and the first European settlers in North America. Through inspiring autob ... Read more
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No Man's River
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No Man's River
Author: Farley Mowat  
ISBN: 0786716924   /   Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press   /   2006-01-05
List Price: $14.95
With No Man's River, Farley Mowat has penned his best Arctic tale in years. This book chronicles his life among Metis trappers and native people as they struggle to eke out a living in a brutal environment.In the spring of 1947, p ... Read more
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The Last Gentleman Adventurer
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The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic
Author: Edward Beauclerk Maurice  
ISBN: 0618773584   /   Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books   /   2006-11-01
List Price: $14.95
At sixteen, Edward Beauclerk Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company -- the company of Gentleman Adventurers -- and ended up at an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where there was no communication with the outside wor ... Read more
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The Truth About Stories
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The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Indigenous Americas)
Author: Thomas King  
ISBN: 0816646260   /   Hardcover
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press   /   2005-03-02
List Price: $60.00
"Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous." In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to pe ... Read more
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Stones
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Stones, Bones and Stitches: Storytelling through Inuit Art (A Lord Museum Book)
Author: Shelley Falconer  Shawna White  
ISBN: 0887768547   /   Hardcover
Publisher: Tundra Books   /   2007-10-09
List Price: $22.95
Did you know?-Cape Dorset boasts the largest number of artists per capita in Canada (22.7 percent — almost one-quarter of the labor force and thirty times the national average!)-The word Eskimo is a derogatory term meaning “eaters ... Read more
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Halfbreed
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Halfbreed
Author: Maria Campbell  
ISBN: 0803263112   /   Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press   /   1982-11-01
List Price: $11.95
"I write this for all of you, to tell you what it is like to be a Halfbreed woman in our country. I want to tell you about the joys and sorrows, the oppressing poverty, the frustration and the dreams. . . . I am not bitter. I have passed that st ... Read more
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As Long as the Rivers Flow
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As Long as the Rivers Flow
Author: Larry Loyie  
ISBN: 0888996969   /   Paperback
Publisher: Groundwood Books   /   2005-10-12
List Price: $8.95
Starting in the 1800s and continuing into the 20th century, First Nations children were forcibly taken to government-sponsored residential schools to erase their traditional languages and cultures. This moving book tells of one such child, autho ... Read more
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First Crossing
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First Crossing: Alexander Mackenzie, His Expedition Across North America, and the Opening of the Continent
Author: Derek Hayes  
ISBN: 1570613087   /   Hardcover
Publisher: Sasquatch Books   /   2002-01-07
List Price: $40.00
Timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition is this remarkable account of Alexander Mackenzie--the explorer who beat Lewis and Clark across the North American continent. Mackenzie accomplished this feat an astounding twel ... Read more
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Klee Wyck
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Klee Wyck
Author: Emily Carr  
ISBN: 1553650255   /   Paperback
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre   /   2004-03-11
List Price: $11.95
The title of artist, writer, and rebel Emily Carr's first book means "Laughing One," the nickname given her by the Native people of Canada's west coast. She returned the favor with Klee Wyck, a collection of 21 "word portraits" of their l ... Read more
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