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Les sept enseignements sacrés: Niizhwaaswi gagiikwewin (PB) (FR)

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Plants, People, and Places : The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights in Canada and Beyond

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Turtle Island (HC)

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n?hiyaw?win aw?si-masinahikanis?A Little Plains Cree Book for Children (Teaching Guide)

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Kuei, je te salue Conversation sur le racisme (Kuei My Friend : A Conversation on Race and Reconciliation) (FR)

SKU: 9782897196967

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Teaching Where You Are : Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies (HC)

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Into the Bright Open : A Secret Garden Remix (PB)

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Saltypie : A Choctaw Journey from Darkness Into Light

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Ani-dagwaagin (Feels Like Fall). Ojibwemowin.

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Gikinoo'amaagozidaa (Let's Go to School). Ojibwemowin.

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Amikogaabawiikwe (Beaver Bev). Ojibwemowin.

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Binaakwe-giizis (Raking Leaves). Ojibwemowin.

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Kunuuksayuukka The Spirit of Winter Storms

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All the Little Monsters : How I Learned to Live with Anxiety (Pre-Order for Jan 21/25)

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Turtle Island (HC)

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Stealing Little Moon : The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools

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Nichemis, petit frère

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Stitches of Tradition (Gashkigwaaso Tradition)

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Stitches of Tradition (Gashkigwaaso Tradition)

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Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage. A Canadian Obligation. 2nd Ed. (HC)

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On y va! haw êkwa! (Let's Go) (FR)

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Wings of an Eagle : The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills (HC)

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Wings of an Eagle : The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills (HC)

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Ziigwebinigewininiwag miinawaa Ziigwebinigewikweg (Garbage Collectors). Ojibwemowin.

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Mashkikiiwininiwag miinawaa Mashkikiiwikweg (Doctors). Ojibwemowin.

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Awakaani-mashkikiiwininiwag miinawaa Awakaani-mashkikiiwikweg (Veterinarians). Ojibwemowin.

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Les croyances, les valeurs, et les ambitions des peuples autochtones Gd'E / Aboriginal Beliefs, Values, and Aspirations TG (FR)

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The Serviceberry : Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

The Serviceberry : Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

SKU: 9781668072240

Author:

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Illustrator:

John Burgoyne

Grade Levels:

Adult Education, College, University

Nation:

Multiple Nations

Book Type:

Hardcover

Pages:

96

Publisher:

Scribner

Copyright Date:

2024

By Robin Wall Kimmerer and illustrated by John Burgoyne. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. John Burgoyne, the illustrator, is a member of the New York Society of Illustrators and an alumni of Massachusetts College of Art.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.

As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution insures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”

As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is “a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world.” The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that “hoarding won’t save us, all flourishing is mutual.” Black and White illustrations throughout.

Author Photo: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Photo Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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Who We Are : Four Questions For a Life and a Nation

SKU: 9780771099106

Author:

The Honourable Murray Sinclair cc

Grade Levels:

Adult Education, College, University

Nation:

Anishinaabe

Book Type:

Hardcover

Pages:

336

Publisher:

McClelland & Stewart

Copyright Date:

2024

Senator Murray Sinclair was a judge for twenty-eight years. He was the first Indigenous judge appointed in Manitoba and Canada’s second. He served as Co-Chair of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry in Manitoba and as Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). As head of the TRC, he participated in hundreds of hearings across Canada, culminating in the issuance of the TRC’s report in 2015.

He served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Manitoba and has won numerous awards, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Manitoba Bar Association’s Equality Award (2001) and its Distinguished Service Award (2016), and has received Honorary Doctorates from 14 Canadian universities. Senator Sinclair was appointed to the Senate on April 2, 2016.

Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and friend. This is Murray Sinclair’s story—and the story of a nation—in his own words, an oral history that forgoes the trappings of the traditional written memoir to center Indigenous ways of knowledge and storytelling. As Canada moves forward into the future of reconciliation, one of its greatest leaders guides us to ask the most important and difficult question we can ask of ourselves: Who are we?

For decades, Senator Sinclair has fearlessly educated Canadians about the painful truths of our history. He was the first Indigenous judge in Manitoba, and only the second Indigenous judge in Canadian history. He was the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and remains one of the foremost voices on Reconciliation. And now, for the first time, he will share his full story—and his full vision for our nation—with readers across Canada.

Drawing on Senator Sinclair’s unique experiences, and his perspectives regarding Indigenous identity, human rights, and justice in Canada, Who We Are will examine the roles of history, resistance, and resilience in the pursuit of finding that path forward, and healing the damaged relationship between Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. And in doing so, it will reveal Senator Sinclair’s life in a new and direct way, exploring how all of these experiences shaped him as an Anishinaabe man, father, and grandfather.

Structured around the four questions that have long shaped Senator Sinclair’s thinking and worldview—Where do I come from? Where am I going? Why am I here? Who am I?—Who We Are will take readers into the story of his remarkable life as never before, while challenging them to embrace an inclusive vision for our shared future.