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Leaving Iran

Leaving Iran

Between Migration and Exile
by Goldin Farideh
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In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in February of 1979, …

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The Teacher and the Superintendent

The Teacher and the Superintendent

Native Schooling in the Alaskan Interior, 1904-1918
edited by Barbara Grigor-Taylor & George E. Boulter II
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From its inception in 1885, the Alaska School Service was charged with the assimilation of Alaskan Native children into mainstream American values and ways of life. Working in the missions and schools along the Yukon River were George E. Boulter and Alice Green, his future wife. Boulter, a Londoner originally drawn to the Klondike, had begun teach …

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We Are Coming Home

We Are Coming Home

Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence
edited by Gerald T. Conaty, contributions by Robert R. Janes; Allan Pard; Jerry Potts; Frank Weasel Head; Herman Yellow Old Woman; Chris McHugh & John W. Ives
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In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum’s relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to First Nations’ peoples. These efforts drew harsh …

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Xwelíqwiya

Xwelíqwiya

The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch
by Rena Point Bolton & Richard Daly
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Xwelíqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lō matriarch, artist, and craftswoman. Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chapters recount Point Bolton's early years on the banks of the Fraser River during the Depression. While at the time the Stó:lō, or Xwélmexw, as they call themselves today, kept secret t …

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A Metaphoric Mind

A Metaphoric Mind

Selected Writings of Joseph Couture
edited by Ruth Couture & Virginia McGowan, by Joseph Couture
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Dr. Joseph Couture (1930–2007), known affectionately as "Dr. Joe," stood at the centre of some of the greatest political, social, and intellectual struggles of Aboriginal peoples in contemporary Canada. A profound thinker and writer, as well as a gifted orator, he easily walked two paths, as a respected Elder and traditional healer and as an educ …

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The Praying Man

The Praying Man

Henry Bird Steinhauer, Ojibwe and Methodist Minister
by Isaac Mabindisa, with Daniel Johns
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Until he was about nine, Henry Bird Steinhauer was an Ojibwe—born around 1820, in the area of Lake Simcoe, and probably named Sowengisik. In 1828, he was baptized into the Christian faith, and his life changed. Impressed by his quick mind, Methodist missionary William Case arranged for Steinhauer to receive a Western education and religious instr …

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kiyam

kiyam

by Naomi McIlwraith
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Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin. Written to honour her father’s facility in nêhiyawêwin and her mother’s beauty and generosity as an inheritor of Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English, kiyâm articu …

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Goodlands

Goodlands

A Meditation and History on the Great Plains
by Frances W. Kaye
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Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem as it was understood and used by the peoples who originally populated the land. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined premise of deficiency, according to which the Great Plains region was in …

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Musing

Musing

by Jonathan Locke Hart
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Musing is a book of sonnets. Working within the framework of a classic poetic form, Jonathan Locke Hart embarks on an extended meditation on our rootedness in landscape and in the past. As sonnets, the poems are a mixture of tradition and innovation. Throughout, Hart deftly interweaves European culture with North American settings and experience. T …

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The dust of just beginning

The dust of just beginning

by Don Kerr
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Don Kerr knows prairie culture better than most, he knows it from the inside out. He has made us aware of ourselves through his numerous volumes of poetry, his fiction, his many plays, his histories, and his interest in heritage. In this mature, accomplished collection, we can once again admire his unique prairie voice: minimalist, self-effacing, d …

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The West and Beyond

The West and Beyond

New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
edited by Alvin Finkel; Sarah Carter & Peter Fortna
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The West and Beyond explores the state of Western Canadian history, showcasing the research interests of a new generation of scholars while charting new directions for the future and stimulating further interrogation of our past. This dynamic collection encourages dialogue among generations of historians of the West, and among practitioners of dive …

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Trail of Story, Traveller’s Path

Trail of Story, Traveller’s Path

Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape
by Leslie Main Johnson
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Trail of Story examines the meaning of landscape, drawn from Leslie Main Johnson’s rich experience with diverse environments and peoples, including the Gitksan and Witsuwit’en of northwestern British Columbia, the Kaska Dene of the southern Yukon, and the Gwich’in of the Mackenzie Delta.With passion and conviction, Johnson maintains that our …

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Windfall Apples

Windfall Apples

Tanka and Kyoka
by Richard Stevenson
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The venerable tanka and her upstart cousin kyoka mingle with Kerouac’s American pop haiku in five-liner imagist poems and linked sequences. In Windfall Apples, Richard Stevenson mixes east and west with backyard barbecue and rueful reflection.

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Bomb Canada and Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media

Bomb Canada and Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media

by Chantal Allan
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Canada and the United States. Two nations, one border, same continent. Anti-American sentiment in Canada is well documented, but what have Americans had to say about their northern neighbour? Allan examines how the American media has portrayed Canada, from Confederation to Obama’s election. By examining major events that have tested bilateral rel …

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Wild Words

Wild Words

Essays on Alberta Literature
edited by Donna Coates & George Melnyk
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As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. By critically situating and assessing specific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues the work begun with Melnyk's …

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Hot Thespian Action!

Hot Thespian Action!

Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse
edited by Robin C. Whittaker
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In Hot Thespian Action! Robin Whittaker argues that new plays can thrive in amateur theatres, which have freedoms unavailable to professionalized companies. And he proves it with ten relevant, engaging playscripts originally produced by one of Canada’s longest-running theatres, Edmonton’s acclaimed Walterdale Theatre Associates. This collection …

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One Step Over the Line

One Step Over the Line

Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests
edited by Elizabeth Jameson & Sheila McManus
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Grade: 9
tagged : north america, social history, demography, women's studies

This unfamiliar territory is the borderlands of women’s histories traversing the American and Canadian Wests. Specialists in women’s history, settler societies, colonialism, storytelling, education, and native and borderlands studies introduced by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus pool their distinct contributions toward forging the very fir …

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Imagining Head Smashed In

Imagining Head Smashed In

Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
by Jack W. Brink
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Grade: 10 to 12
tagged : archaeology, north america, native american, hunting

At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo …

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Mountain Masculinity

Mountain Masculinity

The Life and Writing of Nello “Tex” Vernon-Wood in the Canadian Rockies, 1906-1938
edited by Andrew Gow & Julie Rak
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In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882–1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of “yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman.” His homespun stories of a vanishing era, in such periodicals as The Sportsman, Hunting and Fishing, and the Canadian Alpine Journal, have much to tell us about the west as envisioned by …

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