In Distorted Descent, White Claims of Indigenous Identity, Darryl Leroux explores the specifics of a social phenomena - a shifting of identity - where otherwise white, French descendants in Canada identity as Indigenous based on their Indigenous ancestors born between 300 and 375 years ago and representing about 200 000 people.

Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West is edited by Heather Dorries, Robert Henry, David Hugill, Tyler McCreary, and Julie Tomiak, some of whom have ancestral connections to Indigenous communities and others descendent from settlers. In Settler City Limits they discuss anti-Indigenous public policy, how the relationship to territory is shaped by political forces, and how Indigeneity and settler colonialism is interpreted in urban studies.

Injichaag, My Soul in Story is a book of Anishinaabe poetics in art and words by Rene Meshake (Anishinaabe Elder) with Kim Anderson (Cree/ Métis writer and friend). In Injichaag, ‘my soul’, in Anishinaabemowin, Rene Meshake has the power to choose, to desire, and to be angry and so chooses to tell his story through a collection of short pieces of Indigenous literature.

Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue, Labrador Innu cultural and environmental activist, is well known within and beyond the Innu Nation. She is the recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award and has an honorary doctorate from Memorial University. This book began as her diary, written in Innu-aimun, with entries from 1987 to 2016, offering a detailed account of her day-to-day life, as well as reflections on Innu land, politics, culture and history. The diary was also a way for her to prepare speeches, court appearances and interviews.

Honouring the Strength of Indian Women is a combination of many efforts inspired by Vera Manuel. Manuel’s dramatherapy groups generated several scripts and selected poems, plays, photos, short stories were collated by University of Manitoba Press First Voices, First Texts and The People and the Text project, from protected and archived works by Emalene Manuel, Vera’s sister.

Kayanerenko:wa The Great Law of Peace written by Kayanesenh Paul Williams is an important addition to the literature about the Haudenosaunee and their founding principles of governance carried within the Great Law of Peace. Legal scholar, negotiator and historian, Paul Williams brings his personal experiences and legal knowledge and skills to the presentation of the Great Law in a highly accessible written text.

Structures of Difference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City presents an accessible account about the life and death of 45-year old Brian Sinclair and the consequent inquiry into his death in the emergency room of a Winnipeg hospital in 2008. Left untreated and unexamined after 34 hours of waiting, this Ojibwe man required a simple catheter change but due to racism and inherent discrimination hospital staff ignored the patient leaving him to die seated in his wheelchair.

Stories of Oka:: Land, Film, and Literature originally published in French and now available in an English language edition was written by Isabelle St-Amand, an Assistant Professor in the Department of French Studies and the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Queen’s University.

Report to an Inquiry into an Injustice: Begade Shutagot'ine and the Sahtu Treaty by Peter Kulchyski  is part of the Contemporary Studies on the North series published by the University of Manitoba Press. This first-hand account present's the perspective of a small Dene community, Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), on the Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories.  Over two decades, the author presents the attempts of the  Begade Shutagot’ine as they object and boycott of the agreement known as the Sahtu treaty.

Diagnosing the Legacy: The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth is the story of how children from two Oji-Cree communities were identified as having Type 2 Diabetes. Krotz is a writer and filmmaker and his highly readable account makes this book useful for academics, medical professionals, students, and the general reader.