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By Bernard Pierre. 1983
En suivant les 3,750 km du Mississippi, de sa source à la frontière canadienne jusqu'à son delta dans le golfe…
du Mexique, l'auteur fait vivre et parler le père des eaux comme un être humain. 1983.By Gilbert Prouteau. 1978
Voici le roman d'un jeune homme qui porte en lui un amour malheureux et le désir immodéré d'un théâtre dont…
Alexandre Dumas lui ouvre les portes. Ce jeune homme, Jules Verne, accomplit ses rêves dans un 19e siècle secoué de problèmes sociaux et donne un siècle d'avance aux découvertes de son temps. 1978.By David Treuer. 2014
C'est un écrivain qui nous entraîne à la rencontre de l'une des faces cachées de l'Amérique contemporaine : celle des…
réserves indiennes, plus de trois cents aux Etats-Unis. Certaines ne font que quelques hectares, d'autres sont immenses, mais la plupart d'entre elles sont d'une extrême pauvreté. D'origine ojibwé, David Treuer a grandi sur une réserve au nord du Minnesota, et il nous permet de découvrir ce monde de l'intérieur toutes ses facettes : crime et misère, casinos et richesses, sauvegarde des langues et de la culture autochtones. Voyage à travers le continent américain mais aussi dans le passé, Indian Roads est une histoire que nous n'avions encore jamais entendue racontée ainsi, un récit passionnant et un formidable exemple de résilience. 2014.By Sylvain Tesson. 2004
Il y a cinquante ans, quelques hommes innocents, condamnés à une vie de détention, ont refusé le destin d'esclaves que…
leur promettait Staline et se sont évadés. Ils préféraient les dangers de la traque à l'indignité du servage. Pour recouvrer la liberté, ils n'avaient d'autre choix que de faire route vers le sud. Sans vivres, sans cartes, sans assistance, ils devaient franchir à pied les taïgas, les steppes mongoles, le désert de Gobi, le Tibet, l'Himalaya, les jungles du Bengale. 6000 kilomètres d'étendues hostiles. Le plus sublime itinéraire qui puisse se concevoir pour un géographe, le plus cauchemardesque qui puisse se présenter devant les pas d'un voyageur. Mais tous avançaient, aimantés par le plus beau des motifs de voyage: la reconquête de la liberté. 2004.By Douglas Adams. 1990
Popular science fiction humourist Douglas Adams teams up with zoologist Mark Carwardine to seek out some of the world's rarest…
and most endangered animals. Part travelogue, part natural history, they relate their unusual and hilarious adventures. 1990.By Melissa Fay Greene. 2003
One October evening in 1958, 174 miners did not come out when the deepest coal mine in North America "bumped".…
For days, rescue workers brought out dead miners while families waited above-ground for their loved ones to appear. Rescuers then miraculously stumbled across a broken pipe leading to a cave containing survivors. 2003.By Lorri Neilsen Glenn. 2017
Glenn first discovered her great-grandmother's tragic death in a passing comment from an aunt. Startled, she began to search out…
the history of her family, to understand the life of this woman she knew nothing about. Along the way Glenn works to unravel the issues of racism, sexism and colonial nation building that haunt us still. In elegant prose and poetry she has created a story of pieces, bringing to life what she could find in newspaper reports and museums. Through these fragments and portraits she gives the reader a glimpse of the lives lived by her ancestors and by women like them. 'Following the River' is a lyric reflection on women that have been erased from our history and what that means for today. 2017.By Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail. 2016
This collection of essays from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada welcomes readers into a timely, healing conversation.…
They come from journalists, writers, academics, visual artists, filmmakers, city planners, and lawyers, all of whom share their personal light-bulb moments regarding when and how they grappled with the harsh reality of colonization in Canada, and its harmful legacy. Without flinching, they look deeply and honestly at their own experiences and assumptions about race and racial divides in Canada in hopes that the rest of the country will do the same. 2016.By John Reilly. 2010
Judge John Reilly's jurisdiction included a First Nations community plagued by suicide, addiction, poverty, violence and corruption. Early in his…
career, he steadily handed out prison sentences with little regard for long-term consequences and even less knowledge as to why crime was so rampant on the reserve in the first place. In an unprecedented move, Judge Reilly ordered an investigation into the tragic and corrupt conditions on the reserve. Then some labelled him a racist; others thought he should be removed from his post. But many on the Stoney Reserve hailed him a hero as he attempted to uncover the dark challenges and difficult history many First Nations communities face. 2010.By Pamela D Palmater. 2011
Palmater argues that the Indian Act's registration provisions will lead to the extinguishment of First Nations as legal and constitutional…
entities, as the current status criteria contain descent-based rules that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants. Beginning with an historic overview of legislative enactments defining Indian status and their impact on First Nations, the author examines contemporary court rulings dealing with Aboriginal rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in relation to Indigenous identity, and band membership codes. She offers suggestions for a better way of determining Indigenous identity and citizenship. 2011.When residential schools opened in the 1830's, First Nations envisioned their children learning in nurturing environments, staffed with their own…
teachers, ministers and interpreters. Instead, students were taught by outsiders, regularly forced to renounce their cultures and languages, and some were subjected to abuse that left emotional scars for generations. Fourteen Aboriginal women who attended these schools reflect on their experiences, describing how they overcame tremendous obstacles to become strong and independent members of Aboriginal cultures. 2004.An historical account of the development of Winnipeg's municipal water supply as an example of the history of settler colonialism.…
Tells of the construction of the Winnipeg/Shoal Lake Aqueduct, completed in 1919. It examines the cultural, social, political, and legal mechanisms that allowed the rapidly growing city of Winnipeg to obtain its water supply by dispossessing the Anishinaabe people of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation of their land, and ultimately depriving them of the very same commodity--clean drinking water--that the city secured for itself. It incorporates archival images that document the expensive and ambitious construction process and addresses these issues within the larger context of colonialism in Canada. 2016.By Clive Holland. 1994
The story of man's attempt to reach the North Pole is told using excerpts from sailors' journals, ships' log and…
other primary sources combined with the author's narrative. The adventurers' successes, failures, and the challenges they faced are recounted in these testimonies which cover over 400 years worth of adventure. 1994.By Alex Wilson, Kim Anderson, Madeleine Dion Stout, Maria Campbell, Robert Alexander Innes, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Michelle Good, Laura Harjo, Sarah Hunt, Beverly Jacobson, Tanya Kappo, Tara Kappo, Lyla Kinoshameg, Erin Konsmo, Helen Knott, Sandra Lamouche, Jo-Anne Lawless, Kelsey T. Leonard, Ann-Marie Livingston, Brenda MacDougall, Sylvia Maracle, Jenell Navarro, Darlene R. Okemaysim-Sicotte, Pahan Pte San Win, Ramona Reece, Christi Belcourt, Kimberly Robertson, Christine Sy, Downtown Eastside Power Of Women Group, Debra G. Leonard, Beatrice Starr, Madeleine Kétéskwew Dion Stout, Waaseyaa'Sin Christine Sy, Tracy Bear, Brenda Macdougall, Robyn Bourgeois, Rita Bouvier, Maya Ode'Amik Chacaby, Susan Gingell. 2018
The tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the book contributors look at the roots…
of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at controversial topics such as lateral violence, challenges in working with “tradition,” and problematic notions involved in “helping.” Through stories of resilience, resistance, and activism, the editors give voice to powerful personal testimony and allow for the creation of knowledge. 2018.By Maria Coffey, Debora Pearson. 2000
Join Maria on her kayaking trip though the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. She paddles to remote villages…
which haven't seem outsiders in years, visits the Skull Island burial ground, confronts a ferocious crocodile, sleeps in a leaf hut, and explores the jungle. Learn what it's like to visit a coral reef 'garden', where the bathrooms are in the jungle, and what kids love about life in the Solomons. Grades 3-6. 2000.By Glyndwr Williams. 2004
In this course, University of London history professor Glyndwr Williams will discuss one of the most dramatic periods in world…
history, the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century to the voyages of James Cook in the eighteenth century. 2004.By Larry Frolick. 2016
For over 50,000 years, the Great Hunt has shaped human existence, creating a vital spiritual reality where people, animals, and…
the land share intimate bonds. This book takes the reader deep into one of the last refuges of hunting society: Canada's far north. The author travelled five years with First Nations Elders in remote communities across the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut, experiencing the raw power of their ancient traditions. His vivid narrative combines accounts of daily life, unpublished archival records, current scientific research, First Nations myths, and personal observation to illuminate the northern wilderness, its people, and their complex relationships. 2016.By Tomson Highway. 2017
If as recently as forty years ago there was no recognizable body of work by Canadian writers, as recently as…
thirty years ago there was no Native literature in this country. Perhaps a few books had made a dent on the national consciousness, but now, Native people have a literature that paints them in colours that are psychologically complex and sophisticated, that validates their existence, that gives them dignity, that tells them that they and their culture, their ideas, their languages, are important if not downright essential to the long-term survival of the planet. A study of Native literature published in Canada between 1980 and 2010, a catalogue of amazing books that sparked the embers of a dormant voice. 2017.By Norman Hallendy. 2016
Arctic researcher, author, and photographer Norman Hallendy’s journey to the far north began in 1958, when many Inuit, who traditionally…
lived on the land, were moving to permanent settlements created by the Canadian government. In this unique memoir, Hallendy writes of his adventures, experiences with strange Arctic phenomena, encounters with wildlife, and deep friendships with Inuit elders. Very few have worked so closely with the Inuit to document their traditions, and in this book, Hallendy preserves their voices and paints an incomparable portrait of a vibrant culture in a remote landscape. 2016.By Stephen R Bown. 2017
The Great Northern Expedition was the most ambitious and well-financed scientific expedition in history, lasting nearly ten years and spanning…
three continents. Conceived by Peter the Great in the 1730s and led by Danish mariner Vitus Bering, the enterprise involved a cavalcade of nearly three thousand scientists, secretaries, interpreters, artists, surveyors, naval officers, mariners, soldiers and labourers, all of whom had to be brought across five thousand miles of roadless forests, swamps and tundra, along with tools, supplies, libraries and scientific implements--as well as the clavichord belonging to Bering's wife, Anna. Scientific objectives included investigating flora, fauna and minerals as well as outlandish rumours about the Siberian peoples. After the expedition reached the eastern coast of Asia, Bering oversaw the construction of two ships, the St. Peter and St. Paul, and sailed for America with one hundred and fifty men. The voyage was plagued by ill fortune--a supply ship failed to arrive, officers quarrelled and the ships were separated in a storm. While St. Paul reached Alaska and reported back to Russia, Bering's ship, St. Peter, was wrecked on a desolate island in the Aleutian Chain inhabited by feral foxes. A true-life adventure story of personal and cultural animosities, unimaginable Gothic horrors and ingenuity in the face of adversity. Winner of the 2018 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction. 2017.