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By Dafna Halpern. 2002
A collection of historic Canadian Aboriginal documents. Includes Treaties 1 through 11, The Robinson Huron treaty, and The Indian Act.…
Other documents are "Gathering Strength", which relates to Aboriginal self-government, and the AIS, the CNIB's guidelines on service delivery to the Native community. 2002.By Beth Brant. 1984
By E. Pauline Johnson. 1963
By Duncan Pryde. 1972
When Pryde at the age of eighteen answered an advertisement for the Hudson's Bay company, he took on more than…
a job. Accepted by the Eskimos, he came to share their concerns, joys and hardships. 1972.By Léo-Paul Desrosiers. 1998
By Félix Leclerc. 1989
By Renée Dupuis. 1998
By 1846-1870 Lautréamont. 1963
By Thomas J Lyon. 1999
More than forty selections, most written by twentieth-century authors such as Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Jack Schaefer, N. Scott Momaday,…
Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, Gary Snyder, Louis L'Amour, Rick Bass, William Kittredge, Denise Chavez, Amy Tan, and Sam Shepard. Includes chronology of events and suggested reading. Strong language and some violence. 1999.By John Metcalf, Leon Rooke. 1989
A collection of short stories, poetry, literary criticism, and memoirs by Canadian authors such as Alice Munro, Carol Shields, Patricia…
Young and Al Purdy. Strong language and some descriptions of sex.By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Avrahm Yarmolinsky. 1975
By James Bruce Ross, Mary Martin McLaughlin. 1981
By Kenneth Lincoln, Al Logan Slagle. 1987
An English professor and a group of UCLA students travel through Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska and the Dakotas to discover…
the everyday reality of contemporary Indian life. They witness poverty, alcoholism, despair, and an heroic spirit that has kept ancient traditions alive. Some strong language. 1987.By William Miller Abrahams. 1991
The first-prize story in the 1991 edition of this short-fiction memorial to O. Henry is John Updike's "A Sandstone Farmhouse."…
The anthology contains stories by new writers as well as established ones, all selected from American publications. To mark editor Abraham's twenty-fifth edition, this volume contains a list of authors included during the twenty-five years, plus comments by this year's winners. 1991.By Farley Mowat. 1951
Drawn by his childhood memories, a young Canadian spends two summers west of Hudson's Bay. He becomes the friend and…
indignant partisan of a fast-dying race of Eskimos, the Ihaimuit, better known as the People of the Deer. Followed by "The desperate people". 1968, c1951.By Oscar Wilde, Stephen Calloway, David Colvin. 1997
A collection which showcases Wilde's fabulous verbal dexterity. Based on two books published during his lifetime, The Maxims of Oscar…
Wilde and Oscariana, and organized by subject. Includes many epigrams and sayings which ridiculed the conventional wisdom of Wilde's day and skewered its hypocrisies. 1997.By Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. 2015
Summary of the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system…
for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This volume includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. 2015.By Robin Philpot. 1991
By Arthur Buies. 1994
Il est presque impossible de se procurer en librairie l'oeuvre d'Arthur Buies, même s'il est admis qu'il est l'un des…
plus grands écrivains québécois du XIXe siècle. D'où l'intérêt de la présente anthologie, préparée par Laurent Mailhot et accueillie par un concert de louanges. Les pages et chapitres (chroniques intérieures; histoire, politique, polémique; critique; fragments sous forme de dictionnaire; etc) permettent au lecteur de juger de la vivacité, de la variété et du caractère audacieux d'une oeuvre, d'abord censurée, puis méconnue. Il est grand temps de découvrir cet attachant polémiste dont la seule ambition a été, peut-être, d'étonner ses contemporains par son style. c1978, 1994.By Eldon Yellowhorn, Kathy Lowinger. 2017
Discover the amazing story of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the end of the Ice Age to the…
arrival of the Europeans. You'll learn what people ate, how they expressed themselves through art, and how they adapted to the land. Archaeologists have been able to piece together what life may have been like pre-contact-- and how life changed with the arrival of the Europeans. Grades 5-8. 2017.