"Dawn Quigley (Ojibwe) tells the story of urban Native kids who find strength in connection with those who came before and in the hope that lets them take flight"--Provided by publisher.

In Australia, during the era of the Stolen Generations, thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian Government. SERVANT OR SLAVE follows the lives of five such women, stolen from their families and trained to be domestic servants and later forced into slave labour where they endured immense hardship, rape and even torture - coerced into remaining silent or even punished for reporting...

"In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the...

Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well-being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the range of factors that actually contribute to these problems in the first place. The authors in “Medicine Ways” examine the ways people from a multitude of indigenous...

"It comes as a great shock to discover that the country which is your birthplace and to which you owe your life and your identity, has not, in its whole system of reality, evolved any place for you". James Baldwin was one of America's most powerful analysts of the psychology of white supremacy. In this speech, delivered in 1965 at the Cambridge Union Society, he offers a devastating, but also strikingly empathetic, account of the role played by racism...

In a hovel, a mother needs to watch his sick son for love and fear... A cowboy decides to persecute one by one the killers who flayed his brother skin... In Africa, a boy realize that he was sold by his father to slavery.These short stories were told around the campfire. They will be true, false or just exaggerated?

Cet ouvrage se penche sur la manière dont les autrices autochtones contemporaines, qui écrivent majoritairement en anglais ou en français, négocient avec le langage en créant une alternative critique à la dépossession et à l'invisibilisation qui ont marqué l'histoire de leurs peuples. Il montre comment, de cette littérature produite à la croisée des espaces linguistiques et appuyée sur une imagination poétique et narrative foisonnante,...

A vivid and comprehensive history of the City of Prince Rupert, from its ancient roots as a rich, multicultural trading hub between different Indigenous Nations to its current state as an ethnically diverse community set against the stunning natural backdrop of the Great Bear Rainforest. Since time immemorial, rain has defined life on Kaien Island, now known as the townsite of Prince Rupert. As the rainiest and cloudiest city in Canada, Prince...

Native Hawaiians have long been confused by the history they learn at school, which doesn't match up with the family stories they have heard so often from their elders. Drawing on oral histories and personal interviews with elderly Hawaiians, author Jack Kelly presents this first essay in a series of modern treatments of Hawaiian history, reflecting the truth as it was lived, told and retold by the people of the Islands. This grassroots history of...

Alaska, a land of breathtaking natural beauty and cultural diversity, has been witness to a historical journey of treaties and agreements that have profoundly shaped the lives and rights of its Inuit inhabitants. From millennia of Inuit sovereignty in the pre-territorial era to the challenges brought by U.S. governance in the 19th century, the Inuit of Alaska have traversed a complex path towards self-determination and cultural preservation. This...