"In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the pres…
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The book presents the building traditions of major tribes in nine regional profiles covering North America, including Alaska and the Canadian Arctic.
The book presents the building traditions of major tribes in nine regional profiles covering North America, including Alaska and the Canadian Arctic.
Introduction -- Acculturation through education : the inherent limits of 'assimilationist' policy -- Reading residential school : native literary theory and the survival narrative -- "We have been silent too long" : linguistic play in Anthony Apakark Thrasher's prison writings -…
"The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue in many Native communities. Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous writings i…
First Nations, Inuit, and Metis music in Canada is dynamic and diverse, reflecting continuities with earlier traditions and innovative approaches to creating new musical sounds. Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada narrates a story of resistance and renewal, struggle and succ…
Story of a little ice boy who must learn to live among people and most imporntant of all, learn to love them.
Story of a little ice boy who must learn to live among people and most imporntant of all, learn to love them.
This collection of Canadian Indian and Inuit writing includes poetry, review articles, discussion of the genre and history and criticism of individual authors.