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		Accounting for Genocide: Canada’s Bureaucratic Assault on Aboriginal People, by Dean Neu and Richard Therrien. In this remarkable expose the authors demonstrate the ways in which successive Canadian governments have combined accounting techniques and economic rationalizations to deprive Native peoples of their land and natural resources. Fernwood, $19.95
		Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader, by Ward Churchill. Acts of rebellion brings together Churchill’s most important writings on indigenism from the past two decades, covering basic American Indian concerns from land issues to the American Indian Movement, from government repression to their history of genocide. Routledge, $36.95
		Braiding Histories: Learning from Aboriginal Peoples’ Experiences & Perspectives, Susan D. Dion, UBC Press, $85.00. Reflecting on the process of writing a series of stories, Braiding Histories takes up questions of (re)presenting the lived experiences of Aboriginal people in the service of pedagogy. investigating what happened when the stories were taken up in history classrooms Dion illustrates how our investments in particular identities structure how we hear and what we are "willing to know".
	no photo available	Colour of Resistance. Connie Fife edited this groundbreaking anthology of Canadian First Nations women's writing. Poetry, shorts stories, essays, all contributions are powerful and well-written. A classic. Highly recommended. $19.95
		Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Andrea Smith. Brilliantly revolutionary study of the multiple political, cultural and personal violences aimed at Native American women, coupled with radical strategies for eliminating gendered violence. South End Press. $24.50.
		Crisp Blue Edges: Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction, edited by Rasunah Marsden. This is the first anthology of the emerging genre of Indigenous creative non-fiction. The work gathered spans a wide range of formats and style, from essay, biography, story, prose to journalism, making this an important collection that defies convention and established boundaries. Featuring writings by Jeanette Armstrong, Roberta Kennedy, Drew Hayden Taylor and others. $18.95
		Daughters are Forever, by Lee Maracle. Polestar, $21.95
		Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: An Anthology of the American Indian Holocaust, edited by Marijo Moore. In this original anthology, twenty established and up-and-coming American Indian writers from disparate nations and tribes offer stirring reflections on the history of their people. This is not a collection of essays about Native Americans but the story of America's tribal holocaust, as told by survivors. Included are original essays by Vine Deloria, Jr., Paula Gunn Allen, Linda Hogan, and Eduardo Galeano. Thunder's Mouth Press, 21.95
		Face, Sherman Alexie, Hanging Loose Press, $20.75. Face marks the first full poetry collection of celebrated, award-winning First Nations author Sherman Alexie in over nine years. Addressing a variety topics – from colonial violence to his love for his wife, and odes to F. Scott Fitzgerald, porn star Ron Jeremy, and Richard Pryor – Alexie combines humour, irony and audacity to offer forth thought-provoking insight and truly inspiring poetry.
		Flight of the Hummingbird, Michael Nicoll Wahgulanaas. This eloquent and moving story expresses the power of taking small steps to achieve a big goal. With origins among the Quechan people of South America and the Haida of the North Pacific, this story is a talisman for environmentalists and activists throughout the world. Beautifully illustrated, this book inspires all to act on behalf of the world’s limited resources. Greystone Books, $16.00.
		Four Souls by Louise Erdrich. Fleur Pillager, doughty anti-heroine of many of Erdrich's previous novels, is back - and she's looking for revenge. The reservation where she and her family make their life has been stripped by a white lumber baron, but Fleur is not the sort of woman to let sleeping liars dog her steps. Things are never simple, though, and Erdrich again proves herself the mistress of describing the delicate tissue of human inter-relations. Harper $19.95.
	no photo available	A Gathering of Spirit. Beth Brant is a First Nations writer who focuses on First Nations', women's and lesbian (Two Spirited) issues in her writing. Her other works include Writing as Witness, Food & Spirits and I'll sing 'Til the Day I Die. $19.95
		Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing edited by MariJo Moore. A moving and inspiring collection that records the determination of people from over twenty-five different nations to bring the Native American experience into the 21st century. Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, $25.50.
		Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics and Politics, edited by Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart, Duke University Press, $26.25. In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. Together the essays reveal the crucial role of Indigenous media in contemporary media at every level: local, regional, national, and international.
		Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet, Edited by Carol Schaefer. In her introduction to this collection, Winona LaDuke explains, "Within the words of these grandmothers are the words of real experts. There is no way to replace intergenerational knowledge of how to live sustainably, how to reaffirm relationship. The scientific paradigm, a mechanistic methodology, will not show us the way through these challenging times." This collection,then, is a way through the world offered by the International Council ofThirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Author Carol Schaefer might have said more about how she came to this work and practiced what she calls her work hereas a "bridge or translator." The words of the grandmothers as reported by Schaefer form the bulk of the volume, each of them named and with an individual section devoted to their words. Trumpeter Books, $24.95
		Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity & Culture edited by David R. Newhouse, Cora J. Voyageur and Dan Beavon. Hidden in Plain Sight adds a new dimension to the story of Aboriginal people, showing extraordinary contributions that Aboriginal peoples have made, and continue to make, to the Canadian experience. Divided into several main sections, including Treaties, Arts and Media, Literature, Justice, Culture and Identity, Sports, and Military this is a landmark work that will greatly enhance our understanding and appreciation of the heritage of Canada's Aboriginal people. University of Toronto Press, $35.00.
		Holding Yawulyu: White Culture & Black Women’s Law. Zohl dé Ishtar. Zohl dé Ishtar worked for two years with the elders of Wirrimanu to establish and co-ordinate the Kapululangu Women’s Law and Culture Centre, as they worked to pass on Yawulyu (tribal law) to the younger generations in the face of missionary, bureaucratic and art industry influence. One of the last books ever to be published by Australia’s Spinifex Press, “Holding Yawulyu” is both a historical account of the indigenous life and incursions of White culture in Wirrimanu, as told from the perspective of its women elders, and a radical prescription for indigenous sovereignty. Spinifex, $38.95.
		How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V.F. Cordova, edited by Kathleen Dean Moore, Kurt Peters, Ted Jojola & Amber Lacy, University of Arizona Press, $24.95. Viola Cordova was the first Native American woman to receive a PhD in philosophy. Even as she became an expert on canonical works of traditional Western philosophy, she devoted herself to defining a Native American philosophy. Cordova sets out a complete Native American philosophy. First she explains her own understanding of the nature of reality itself, the origins of the world, the relation of matter and spirit, the nature of time, and the roles of culture and language in understanding all of these. She then turns to our role as residents of the Earth, arguing that we become human as we deepen our relation to our people and to our places, and as we understand the responsibilities that grow from those relationships. In the final section, she calls for a new reverence in a world where there is no distinction between the sacred and the mundane.
	no photo available	I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle. An excellent collection of essays by this Canadian First Nations writer. $18.95.
		In Their Own Voices: Building Urban Aboriginal Communities by Jim Silver et al. In Their Own Voices is an examination of the urban Aboriginal experience, based on the voices of Aboriginal people. Set in Winnipeg’s inner city, the book focuses primarily on innovative community-based solutions created and run by and for urban Aboriginal people. Separate chapters examine Aboriginal involvement in community development, adult education and the mainstream political process. Based on in-depth interviews with 26 Aboriginal community workers, the concluding chapter describes a well-defined and sophisticated form of Aboriginal community development that is holistic and is rooted in traditional Aboriginal values of community and sharing. In cities with significant Aboriginal populations, this book offers strategies of a better future, for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people alike. Fernwood, $18.95
		In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women's History in Canada edited by Mary-Ellen Kelm & Lorna Townsend. This history of Aboriginal Women in Canada reminds us how untold the stories of women are. Looking at Aboriginal Women and their relationship, both how they influenced by and it influenced religion, the fur trade, women's work and many other topics this collection of women's histories is a necessary untold and forgotten past. University of Toronto Press, $35.00.
		In the Shadow of Evil by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier. This is the much anticipated new novel by the acclaimed author of In Search of April Raintree. Christine has recently lost her husband and child. Her life unravels as her haunted past comes to the forefront. The mystery of her life slowly unfolds and is brought to a suspenseful and surprising conclusion. $19.95
		Indian Killer, Sherman Alexie, $17.50, Grove Press Alexie’s 1998 novel, reprinted in a new edition, is a riveting murder mystery layered with a critique of the issues facing indigenous communities and individuals that remains equally relevant today, a decade after it was written. A Seattle serial murderer nicknamed “Indian Killer” is hunting and scalping white men and adorning their bodies with owl feathers. Against this backdrop, John Smith, born Indian and raised white, desperately yearns for his lost heritage. As a bigoted radio personality incites whites to seek revenge, Smith fights to rid himself of the anger that engulfs him, and the Indian Killer claims yet another life. Alexie takes an unflinching look at what nurtures rage within peoples colonized and marginalized by a society that neither values nor understands them.
		Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities Eds. Devon Abbott Mihesuah and Angela Cavender Wilson. Native scholars from diverse disciplines and communities offer uncompromising assessments of current scholarship on and by Indigenous peoples and the opportunities that await them in the Ivory Tower. Bison Books. $27.95.
		Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit, Jo-ann Archibald/Q’um Q’um Xiiem, UBC Press, $29.95. Indigenous oral narratives are an important source for, and component of, Coast Salish knowledge systems. Stories are not only to be recounted and passed down; they are also intended as tools for teaching. Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous Storywork is the result of this research, and “it shows how and why Indigenous storywork is important as an analytical and theoretical tool for understanding and transforming contemporary educational challenges.” (Linda Tuhiwai Smith, author of Decolonizing Methodologies)
		Jenneli’s Dance, Elizabeth Denny, Theytus Books, $12.95. Jenneli is a shy little girl who feels that there is nothing special about her, she is not good at sports, she looks different than the other kids at school, and while they all have bread in their lunches, she always has bannock. Then one day Grandma Lucee teaches her the Metis Red River Jig and Jenneli’s life takes a fun but nerve wrecking turn that lands her in the middle of the Lakeside Fair jigging contest! …you’ll have to read it to see what happens!
	no photo available	Journeying Forward: Dreaming First Nations Independence. Patricia Monture-Angus, lawyer and law professor, writes about the possibility of the First Nations peoples becoming independent from the former colony. $19.95
		Just Ask Us: A Conversation with First Nations Teenage Moms by Sylvia Olsen. Addressing the issue of teenage pregnancy in some Coast Salish communities on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia where some seventy percent of new families are started by teenage parents Sylvia Olsen takes the reader inside one community to hear from the mothers themselves their perspective on life. Sononis Press, $19.95.
		Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations, edited by Leanne Simpson, Arbeiter Ring $21.95. This remarkable collection of essays by leading Indigenous scholars focuses on the themes of freedom, liberation and Indigenous resurgence as they relate to the land. They analyze treaties, political culture, governance, environmental issues, economy, and radical social movements from an anti-colonial Indigenous perspective in a Canadian context. Editor Leanne Simpson (Nishnaabekwe) has solicited Indigenous writers who place Indigenous freedom as their highest political goal, while turning to the knowledge, traditions, and culture of specific Indigenous nations to achieve that goal.
		Little Buffalo River, by Frances Beaulieu. $12.95
		Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, Joyce Green. The majority of scholarly and activist opinion by and about Aboriginal women claims that feminism is irrelevant for them. Yet, there is also an articulate, theoretically informed and activist constituency that identifies as feminist. By and about Aboriginal feminists, this book provides a powerful and original intellectual and political contribution demonstrating that feminism has much to offer Aboriginal women in their struggles against oppression. The contributors are from Canada, the USA, Sapmi (Samiland) and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The chapters include theoretical contributions, stories of political activism and deeply personal accounts of developing political consciousness. Fernwood Press, $24.95
		Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex & Sexuality, Drew Hayden Taylor. Is Cree really the sexiest of all languages? Do Native people have less or more pubic hair? Does Inuit sex have a dark side? These are some of the questions answered in this witty, thoughtful collection. Twelve important voices in the Native culture — including Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day Road, and Marissa Crazytrain, a descendant of Chief Sitting Bull — tackle a variety of previously taboo subjects with humor and insight. Noted comic writer and editor Drew Hayden Taylor wraps it up with an original contribution of his own. Douglas & McIntyre, $22.95.
	no photo available	Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, a fabulous new author. This is her first novel which is the story of a sister's search for her missing brother. As the story unfolds we learn through flashbacks a history of racism and violence and oppression. $21.00
	no photo available	My Home as I Remember by Lee Maracle and Sandra Laronde (eds.). A beautiful collection of Canadian First Nations women's art, poetry and short stories. $24.95
		Native Features: Indigenous Films From Around the World, Houston Wood, Green Press Initiative, $30.95. Native Features is the first book to look at feature films made by Indigenous people, one of the world’s newest and fastest growing categories of cinema. The book provides easy to understand guidelines to help viewers appreciate the more than fifty Indigenous features now in circulation. Native Features shows how movies made by native peoples throughout the world often strengthen older cultures while they simultaneously correct stereotypes found in non-indigenous films.
		New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories & Representations. Edited by Sergei A. Kan & Pauline Turner Strong. A wide-ranging review of the ethnography of Native North America, with excellent representation of the specificity of experience of different nations in different historical encounters. All of the writers are students or colleagues of Raymond D. Fogelson, and they continue his legacy: a commitment to investigating power relations, personhood, historical consciousness, identity, alterity and hybridity. Collaborative and reflexive, the essays included here model a twenty-first century ethnography that is deeply engaged in and respectful of the modes of being that it documents. University of Nebraska Press, $43.75.
		Night Train, by Lise Erdrich, Coffee House Press, $14.95 It takes love, fortitude and no small amount of humour to survive the sun-starved winters of the Great Plains. In Night Train, Lisa Erdrich offers a sharp-humoured and powerful primer on life in the small towns and Indian reservations of Minnesota and North Dakota. With striking imagery and insight, her stories play out against backdrops of emergency rooms, supermarket aisles, backwoods, family breakfast tables, and sterile, but emotionally fraught offices. As the pressures of daily life collide with the insidiousness of history, the person struggles and small triumphs of her hardscrabble characters reveal their grace, grit, and determination. In a place where finding reasons to keep going (and keep growing) can be the most profound accomplishment, Erdrich’s lightning-quick stories provide them in cathartic doses, and within the many voices of her tales, all the crazy starts to make sense.
		No Place for Violence: Canadian Aboriginal Alternatives, edited by Jocelyn Proulx and Sharon Perrault. This volume presents a number of studies on the effects of colonization, the need for programming specific to and by Aboriginal people and the efforts made by the Aboriginal community to meet that need. The success and respect that these projects have elicited from the community will build confidence and pave the way for their development and the pursuit of alternative approaches to family violence prevention in the Aboriginal community. $16.95
	no photo available	Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Canons. This highly acclaimed work by First Nations academic Paula Gunn Allen provides an intense scrutiny of the world around us. $27.95
		On Building Solutions for Women’s Equality: Matrimonial Property on Reserve, Community Development and Advisory Councils Co-edited by Marylea MacDonald, Michelle K. Owen. On Building Solutions brings together three timely articles on Canadian issues requiring immediate attention: the lack of matrimonial property law on reserves, the appropriation of women’s unpaid labour and the need for feminist bureaucratic structures. The articles provide the reader with the background to understand the issues and theoretical grounding on which useful and effective solutions for women’s equality can be built. CRIAW, $13.95.
		Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History. Daniel Heath Justice. Once the most powerful indigenous nation in the southeastern United States, the Cherokees survive and thrive as a people nearly two centuries after the Trail of Tears and a hundred years after the allotment of Indian Territory. In Our Fire Survives the Storm, Daniel Heath Justice traces the expression of Cherokee identity in that nation’s literary tradition. Justice’s analysis ultimately locates the Cherokees as a people of many perspectives mingled into a collective sense of nationhood. Just as the oral traditions of the Cherokee people reflect the living realities and concerns of those who share them, Justice concludes, so too is their literary tradition a textual testament to Cherokee endurance and vitality. This is the most recent book from local Toronto writer and professor Justice, author of the Kynship, first in The Way of Thorn and Thunder, an Indigenous epic fantasy trilogy. University of Minnesota Press, $24.95
		Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada’s Past featuring Tantoo Cardinal, Tomson Highway and Lee Maracle. Our story brings together an impressive array of voices and perspective - Cherokee, Cree, Inuit, Mohawk, Ojibway, and Salish to name just a few - from across the country and across the spectrum of First Nations. Together they explore and articulate their peoples’ experience of Canada’s history with insight, imagination, and humour. Inspired by moments that shaped this country and its people, in nine stories of striking beauty and originality, these Aboriginal voices bring to life a new vision of Aboriginal history in ways that are often unexpected - and always moving. Doubleday. $32.95
		Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Globalization, Edited by Jerry Mander & Victoria Tauli-Corpuz. This book, edited by best-selling author Jerry Mander and one of world's most celebrated Indigenous leaders, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, gathers together over twenty-five Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers on the subject of economic globalization and its impact on Indigenous communities. These disturbingly powerful first hand accounts detail the impact of bioprospecting, thefts of cultural property and extractive industries on Indigenous peoples. This collection is as beautiful as it is terrifying. Sierra Club Books, $23.95
		Pocahontas, by Paula Gunn Allen. A bold and daring biography that attempts to tell the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from the Native American perspective. Harper San Francisco, $41.95.
		Reading Native American Women Critical/Creative Representations edited by Ines Hernandez-Avila. Collection of short essays, poetry, fiction and memoirs by Native American women addressing various issues that affect their communities. Altamira Press, $40.50.
		Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America by Eva Marie Garroutte. Garroutte makes the most of published sources and her own interviews and research to analyze methods of defining “Indian-ness” that are rooted in law, blood, cultural practice, and self identification, she also considers the limitations and consequences associated with each method. University of California Press, $29.95
		Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood, by Kim Anderson. This book is not new this month, but highly recommended. Five hundred years of colonial domination have constructed and perpetuated racist visions of Native womanhood. Drawing on their own experiences, Native women describe how they are reclaiming their cultural traditions and creating positives and powerful images of themselves true to their heritage. $24.95
		Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens: Indigenous Recipes & Guide to Diet & Fitness by Devon Abbott Mihesuah. Choctaw scholar Mihesuah combines essays and recipes to argue for an answer to the poor health of many native communities caused by the depredations of colonialism. Health advice, photographs and meals that draw on the traditional foods and medicines of the continent make this the most mouthwatering academic book of the year! University of Nebraska Press, $32.50.
		Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture, edited by Gail Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout, and Eric Guimond, University of Manitoba Press, $27.95. Restoring the Balance brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, and art, while suggesting significant options for sustained improvement of individual, family, and community well-being. Contributors include Kim Anderson, Cynthia C. Wesley-Esquimaux, Jo-Ann Archibald, Cleo Big Eagle, Marlene Brant Castellano, Viviane Gray, and Emma Larocque.
		Roofwalker by Susan Power. Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, Roofwalker, a book of fiction and non-fiction stories and essays where spirits and the living commingle, and Native American culture and modern life collide with disarming power, humor, and joy. Milkweed. $24.95.
		Singing Home the Bones by Gregory Scofield. What Scofield’s “Love Medicine & One Song” did for love poetry, “Singing Home the Bones” does for elegy. Structured as a series of conversations with the absent and the dead, the book is a startlingly honest poetic meditation on the burdens of family, self, love and race as they write themselves on the poet’s body. If this doesn’t get nominated for the Griffin Prize, I will eat my copy in a fit of pique – it’s that accomplished and essential. Polestar, $18.95.
		Sky Woman: Indigenous Women Who Have Shaped, Moved or Inspired Us, edited by Sandra Laronde. Celebrating and remembering Indigenous women from North America and Pacific Asia, 40 writers and visual artists fill the sky with the “fierce respect and reverence for those whose names made history and for the millions whose names did not”. Theytus Books, $24.95.
	no photo available	Sojourners & Sundogs. Lee Maracle is one of the best Canadian First Nations writers. She has written a number of excellent books including Ravensong (a novel), I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology & Feminism and My Home as I Remember. $23.95
		Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Allen & Unwin, $35.95. Indigenous rights in Australia are at a crossroads. Over the past decade, neo-liberal governments have reasserted their claim to land in Australia, and refuse to either negotiate with the Indigenous owners or to make amends for the damage done by dispossession. Many Indigenous communities are in a perilous state, under threat both physically and culturally. In Sovereign Subjects, some of Indigenous Australia's emerging and well-known critical thinkers examine the implications for Indigenous people of continuing to live in a state founded on invasion. They show how for Indigenous people, self-determination, welfare dependency, representation, cultural maintenance, history writing, reconciliation, land ownership and justice are all inextricably linked to the original act of dispossession by white settlers and the ongoing loss of sovereignty.
		Staging Coyote’s Dream, Eds. Monique Mojica and Ric Knowles. The first ever anthology of First Nations plays published in Canada, Staging Coyote’s Dream brings together ten major plays by First Nations playwrights living in North America, including works by Spiderwoman Theatre, Monique Mojica, Yvette Nolan and Marie Clements. Playwright’s Canada Press, $40.00
		Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survivial, Edited by Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence. This book takes a critical look at some core issues and demonstrates how, with hard work and ingenuity, Native women are actively shaping a better world for the future generations. Sumach, $26.95
		The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, Little, Brown, $9.99. Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a good education, Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town. Despite being condemned as a traitor to his people and enduring great tragedies, Junior attacks life with wit and humor and discovers strength inside of himself that he never knew existed. This award-winning young adult novel chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live.
	no photo available	The Circle Game: Shadows & Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada (Revised Edition) by Roland Chrisjohn & Sherri Young with Michael Maraun. Starting from the position that all previous accounts of the residential school experience had avoided critiquing the systemic racism from which the schools emerged (preferring to identify them as a misguided error), this controversial and necessary book examines all the evidence emerging from the schools, from the experience of those who survived them. Rather than simply offering solutions such as remuneration and apology, the authors examine and critique the foundations of EuroWestern thought that underlaid the creation of the schools, and still underlies government policy towards First Nations people. Theytus, $29.95.
		The Colour of Dried Bones, Lesley Belleau, Kegedonce Press, $15.00. This collection of intertwined short stories by Lesley Belleau of the Garden River First Nation in Ontario show the life of a young Ojibway woman as she struggles to find her place in society, within her relationships, and within her own body. In her exploration of different moments in her life, she also explores her relationships with her family, her people, and the people around her. Through observation and intense seeking, she breaks through her confusion and eventually finds a voice that is her own - even if she does not yet recognize it. Ultimately, she discovers that she must look within herself to determine her outcome, and that only by traveling homeward, to her roots at her reserve, can she find the path that leads to healing and rest.
		The Fourth World: An Indigenous Perspective on Feminism and Aboriginal Women’s Activism, by Grace J.M.W. Ouellette. This is not a book about feminism. Rather, feminism is the basis of the discussion, an example of how understanding oppression must consider a number of barriers. Euro-Canadian feminist rarely address the circumstances that are unique to First Nations women, instead working with the assumption that all women are part of a similar struggle, Ouellette attempts to confront these barriers. Fernwood Publishing. $14.95
		The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich. In a masterwork that both deepens and enlarges the world of her previous novels set on the same reservation, Louise Erdrich captures the essence of a time and the spirit of a woman who felt compelled by her beliefs to serve her people as a priest. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is a work of an avid heart, a writer's writer, and a storytelling genius. New in paperback! $19.95
		The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression, and Emancipation, by Bernard Schissel and Terry Wotherspoon. With important terms introduced in boldface type, study questions, recommended readings, an extensive bibliography, annotated Web sites, and relevant appendices, this book will be an invaluable resource for courses in Aboriginal history, sociology, race and ethnicity, and education. Oxford University Press, $28.95
		The New Buffalo: The Struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education in Canada, Blair Stonechild. The "new buffalo" of First Nations communities is education because of its potential to provide food and shelter. Blair Stonechild documents the history of policies, ways in which participation in the education system has and can be increased, and issues around funding to show the ways in which Aboriginal peoples in Canada have been systematically disadvantaged. University of Manitoba Press, $24.95
		The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich, Harper Collins, $27.95. Intertwining lives and intertwining narratives untangle a definining act of racism at the heart of two communities in this novel by National Book Award finalist, Louise Erdrich. As Faulkner says, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” In this case, a lynching in the beginning of the 20th Century haunts the present in Pluto, North Dakota and the nearby Ojibwe reservation.
		The Red Convertible: Selected & New Stories, 1978-2008, Louise Erdrich, Harper Collins, $38.99. Louise Erdrich has selected these short stories — thirty works that first appeared in magazines as well as six unpublished stories — which span three decades. She has ordered them chronologically but also by theme and voice. She has ordered them chronologically but also by theme and voice. Erdrich is a fearless and inventive writer. In her fictional world, the mystical can emerge from the everyday, the comic turn suddenly tragic, and violence and beauty inhabit a single emotional landscape. In The Red Convertible, readers can follow the evolution of narrative styles, the shifts and metamorphoses in Erdrich's fiction, over the past thirty years. Harper Collins, $38.99
		The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings, by Winona Laduke. A charismatic and inspiring speaker and writer, LaDuke possesses a stirring passion that comes through in the 40 speeches, articles and fiction excerpts compiled in this book. This is the first collection of the many political speeches and “think-pieces” that she has written for magazines such as Sierra, Smithsonian’s American Indian, and more. Theytus, $19.95
		The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir, by Linda Hogan. "I sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love" says award-winning Chicksaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. $19.99
	no photo available	This is Not a Peace Pipe: Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy by Dale Turner. Dale Turner argues for the creation of "new kinds of pipe keepers" among indigenous people working and thinking in (often hostile) educational institutions. These he names "word warriors," indigenous intellectuals who navigate the treacherous terrain of North American legal, political and philosophical languages that seek to exclude and deny them. He sets out a framework within which "word warriors" can confront and negotiate with the Canadian government. University of Toronto, $24.95.
		Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden, Penguin Books Canada, $34.00. Winner of the 2008 Giller Prize, Through Black Spruce is a powerful and haunting novel about love, identity, and the struggle with loss of tradition that is central to contemporary indigenous life. Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now lying in a coma in a hospital in his hometown of Moose Factory, Ontario. His niece Annie Bird, beautiful and self-reliant, has returned from her own perilous journey to sit beside his bed. Broken in different ways, the two take silent communion in their unspoken kinship, and the story that unfolds is rife with heartbreak, fierce love, ancient blood feuds, mysterious disappearances, fires, plane crashes, murders, and the bonds that hold a family, and a people, together.
		Thunder Through My Veins: Memories of a Metis Childhood, by Gregory Scofield. This is Gregory Scofield's traumatic, tender and redeeming story of his fight to discover himself-and a young man finally able to harmonize often very disparate voices into one joyful song. Lyrical, powerful and poetic. $16.95
		Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada by Renata Eigenbrod. Eigenbrod, who teaches Aboriginal Literature at the University of Manitoba, offers a thoughtful and instructive theory of 'outsider' reading that enables non-Aboriginal readers to participate as informed allies in ongoing aesthetic and political conversations about Aboriginal literatures, with many detailed examples. University of Manitoba Press $24.95.
		Until Our Hearts Are on the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression,Resistance, & Rebirth, Edited by Lavell-Harvard & Lavell. These powerful stories bring together writings by Aboriginal mothers --the pulse of Indigenous resistance and survival. Centering on the themes ofbirth and renewal, this collection works to resist colonial narratives that seek to insert Aboriginal motherhood within Western paradigms. In this way these essays "demonstrate that words reclaiming memory and kinship can surely heal." - Marlene Brant Castellano, Mohawk Grandmother. Association for Research on Mothering, $29.95
		Visions for the Future: A celebration of Young Native American Artists volume 1, The Native American Rights Fund, Fulcrum Publishing, $18.95. A stunning collection of artwork, Visions for the Future captures the vivid emergence taking shape in the Native American art world as well as writings by the young artists on their perspectives on Native rights, Native art, and the future of Indian Country. Visions for the Future also features an introduction by acclaimed Lakota author Joseph Marshall III. A portion of the book's proceeds will benefit the Native American Rights Fund.
	no photo available	Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom by Taiaiake Alfred. In his highly anticipated new book, Kanienkeha (Mohawk) scholar and journalist Taiaiake offers his vision of Indigenous people living as Onkwehonwe, original people. He offers a route to meaningful change in the quest to transcend colonialism, providing activist strategies and original philosophies in strident, honest prose. Broadview Press, $29.95.
		With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian & Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada, edited by Celia Haig-Brown & David A. Nock. In this collection the goal of the writers is to show the work that took place between Aboriginal people and people of European ancestry at the beginning of colonization in Canada. This text works against the theme that “not all colonizers were bad” by acknowledging that they were very interested in the conversion and civilization of Canada’s First Peoples. The overall goal here is achieved in that it gives depth to the interactions between the two peoples. University of British Columbia Press, $32.95.
		Without Reservation: Indigenous Erotica, Collected and Edited by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm. Yes, erotica is Indigenous! This is about the loving, sexual, 'dirty', outrageous, ribald intimacies of humanity and sexuality that we all crave. Kegedonce Press, $24.50.
		Wom(en) and Bears: The Gifts of Nature, Culture & Gender Revisited, Edited by Kaarina Kailo, Inanna Publications, $34.95. Wo(men) and Bears revisits classical debates in women’s cultural and Native studies regarding nature and culture. As a mixed-genre anthology—academic and poetic, conversational and critical—the book consists of interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches on a widely-circulated ancient myth, story, history, and sacred law (ayaawux) focused on wo(men) co-habiting with bears where women defy dualistic gender roles and relations and interact with nature in a variety of adaptive or transgressive ways. Cross-cultural fragments and stories of Bear receive discursive and conversive attention from Armenian, Finnish, Canadian, American, German, Greenland, Sami, Tsimshian, Tlingit, and Anishnabe scholars, storytellers, poets, and artists. Inanna Publications, $34.95
		how i learned to run, Kinnie Starr, House of Parlance, $22.99. Critically acclaimed Canadian indigenous poet/visual artist/musician Kinnie Starr’s combination of unorthodox performances, edgy visual pieces, and outspoken ideas on race and gender have earned her a devoted fan base. in how i learned to run, her voice translates to the page in a beautifully rendered and haunting collection of poetry.

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