Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall takes us on a dreamlike voyage into nature at that secret moment when fall turns into winter. We find ourselves in a kind of paradise, which humans may be part of but which they have not despoiled. A father and son lead us through forests, down rivers, over lakes […]
Samuel Gill, un jeune garçon anglais enlevé, puis adopté par les Abénakis vers l’an 1700, s’est bien adapté à sa nouvelle vie, très différente de ses origines. Un jour, il rencontre Rosalie James, elle aussi récemment enlevée, dont il tombe follement amoureux. Mais les deux adolescents doivent cacher leurs sentiments, contraires aux coutumes abénakises, qui […]
Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history, recounting the little known story of the first white man to champion the voiceless Native American cause.Son of a Scottish trader and a quarter-Cherokee woman, Ross was educated in white schools and was only one-eighth Indian by blood. […]
Pontiac, or Ponteach, was a Native American leader who made war upon the British in what became known as Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763 to 1766). One of the earliest accounts of Pontiac is a play, written in 1766 by the famous frontier soldier Robert Rogers, of the Rangers. Ponteach, or the Savages of America is one […]
Chuck and his mom are heading to the city. Chuck has an exciting escapade as he befriends and provokes some furry, fourlegged city critters, dodges skaters, gets lost and then uses his wiles to find his way back home.
Referencing a classic Haida oral narrative, this stunning full-colour graphic novel documents the tragic story of a leader so blinded by revenge that he leads his community to the brink of war and destruction. Consisting of 108 pages of hand-painted illustrations, Red is a groundbreaking mix of Haida imagery and Japanese manga. Now available in […]
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance. In Before the Country, Stephanie McKenzie explores the extent to which this growing body of literature influenced non-Native Canadian writers and has been fundamental in […]
Céperou vieillit, ses ancêtres l’anaconda et le jaguar viennent à tour de rôle le conseiller dans ses rêves. Cépérou a deux fils, Bourda et Caïenne. L’un est un farouche guerrier qui chasse inlassablement avec un jaguar dans la forêt, il ne pense qu’à conquérir et soumettre les autres tribus. L’autre est un rêveur qui navigue […]
In this richly illustrated picture book, young Gray Wolf lives on the Pacific Northwest coast with the other members of the Wolf Clan. His uncle, the clan shaman, tells Gray Wolf that his future success depends on completing an important task—he must find a very important person and get to know him well. In his […]
Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century. John L. Steckley explores a range of topics, including: the construction of longhouses and wooden armour; the use of words for trees in village names; the social anthropological […]