November 30, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples, Reference
“Come sit by the fire” has long been an invitation to hear a story, to gather as a community as the light dims to listen and learn together. Two of our master storytellers, Harold R. ... Read More »
“Come sit by the fire” has long been an invitation to hear a story, to gather as a community as the light dims to listen and learn together. Two of our master storytellers, Harold R. ... Read More »
November 30, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples, Reference
“The naming of a child for Inuit is ceremonial,” writes Norma Dunning in her new nonfiction work Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother. She describes how ... Read More »
October 26, 2022 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Race & Ethnic Relations
A balm for despair, Rehearsals for Living is an epistolary dialogue between Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that takes stock of our collapsing society and imagines what we might build from the wreckage. Over ... Read More »
May 31, 2022 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Social Sciences
Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Permanent Astonishment is playwright and novelist Tomson Highway’s brilliant, funny, beautiful account of his childhood in both Canada’s remote North and at the Guy Hill ... Read More »
October 29, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Reviews
Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s Fighting for a Hand to Hold explores how a policy in Quebec disallowing Indigenous parents to accompany their sick children on medevac flights resulted in significant, actively constructed barriers to care. These barriers ... Read More »
December 14, 2020 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
In his highly anticipated memoir, Billy-Ray Belcourt – the youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize – proves yet again his astonishing linguistic precision and beauty. Reimagining the form and structure of a conventional memoir, ... Read More »
September 24, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Reviews
Jesse Thistle has lived a hard life. A descendent of Saskatchewan’s Michif “road allowance” people (who lived on small strips of land between homesteads that were unused by the Crown), his parents were not able ... Read More »
July 29, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Reviews
Settler or Indigenous, it’s impossible to approach Kent Roach’s Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case without baggage. As an Indigenous person, this might include still-fresh traumas – including the injury ... Read More »
February 25, 2019 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve no doubt encountered ongoing public conversations about Indigenous writing and storytelling. What is it? Whom should we read? And perhaps the most contentious debate: who gets to ... Read More »
May 3, 2018 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs