The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Author: Daniel Rück “As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, two traditions clashed in a bruising series of asymmetrical encounters over land use and ownership. One site of conflict was Kahnawà:ke. The Laws and the Land delineates the establishment of a settler colonial relationship from early contact ways of sharing land; land […]
Indigenous Communities in Canada Mohawk Nation
Author: Delores Nixon “Indigenous Communities in Canada: Mohawk Nation is an elementary level information book about the past and present-day culture and history of the Woodland people known as the Mohawk. They call themselves Kanien’keha:ka, meaning “People of the Flint”. They are part of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and today they reside mainly in Ontario and […]
The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee: Stories of Diabetes and the James Bay Cree
Niawenhkó:wa to Ruth DyckFehderau for donating this book to the Kahanwake Library. By Ruth DyckFehderau (Author), James Bay Cree Storytellers (Author) “In this groundbreaking collection, Ruth DyckFehderau and twenty-seven storytellers offer a rich and timely accounting of contemporary life in Eeyou Istchee, the territory of the James Bay Cree of Northern Quebec. The stories are […]
Residential School Recovery Stories of the James Bay Cree, Volume 1
Niawenhkó:wa to Ruth DyckFehderau for donating this book to the Kahnawake Library. By Ruth DyckFehderau (Author), James Bay Cree Storytellers “In this quietly powerful and deeply human book, Ruth Dyck Fehderau and twenty-one James Bay Cree storytellers put a face to Canada’s Indian Residential School cultural genocide. Through intimate personal stories of trauma, loss, recovery, […]
The Casino Caper: An ill-conceived quest
Niawenhkó:wa to Margaret M. Joyce for donating her novel to the Kahanwake Library. By Margaret M. Joyce (Author) “Father Bob Desjardins is a sympathetic underdog. His actions are quixotic, and draw scorn, pity, and laughter from people in his Ville LaSalle, Quebec community. When, during a blinding, February snowstorm, the car he’s driving slides into […]
Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day
Author: Kaitlin B. Curtice “In an era in which “resistance” has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors’ holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday […]
A Therapeutic Treasure Box
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Let Your Light Shine
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True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change
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Our Missing Hearts
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