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Okanagan Women’s Voices

The writing and relations between Syilx women and settler women, largely of European descent, who came to inhabit the British Columbia southern interior from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth ...

Memories of a Metis Settlement

Edited by Constance Brissenden
Categories: History

An endearing historical text that brings you to the center of the East Prairie Metis community. Experiences shared by the firsthand accounts of Elders and settlers are supplemented with personal photographs ...

River of Salmon Peoples

An expression of the people, culture, ceremony and songs along the Fraser, River of Salmon Peoples captures what the Fraser River, and its most valuable resource, the salmon, means to First Nations communities ...

Following Nimishoomis

By Helen Agger
Categories: History
Series: Following Nimishoomis

Following Nimishoomis provides a detailed history of the Namegosibiing Trout Lake community in northwestern Ontario through the life story of Dedibaayaanimanook Sarah Keesick Olsen as told by her daughter. ...

Behind Closed Doors

Edited by Jack Agnes
Categories: History
Series: Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors features written testimonials from thirty-two individuals who attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The school was one of many infamous residential schools that operated ...

The Circle Game

Was the residential school era a misguided feature of Canada's generous humanitarian inclinations toward Aboriginal peoples? Were the notorious brutal acts of the operators of these schools the sporadic ...

Tapwe

By Doug Cuthand
Categories: History
Series: Tapwe

Doug Cuthand has his finger on the rapid pulse of the First Nations from the politics to the pop culture. His columns are brimming with his dry-as-a-stick humour and cutting wit. His natural world insights ...

Q'Sapi

By Shirley Louis
Categories: History

Q'sapi, meaning "long time ago," is a book that traces the history of the Okanagan People. The People of the Okanagan Nation are located in the interior valley of British Columbia and all the way down ...

Nk'Mip Chronicles

Edited by Andrea Walsh
Categories: History
Series: Nk'Mip Chronicles

This is a refreshing historical document about identity and education in a Native community in the time of residential schools. Anthony Walsh arrived at the Inkameep Day School in 1932 and started teaching. ...