63 items
Format: Book
A collection of twenty short stories told in King’s classic wry, irreverent, and allegorical voice.
Format: Ebook
A powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief.
Format: Book
Life Stages and Native Women explores how life stages and responsibilities of Métis, Cree, and Anishinaabe women were integral to the health and well-being of their communities during the mid- 20th century.
Format: Book
Tells the story of the peoples of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, from thousands of years ago to the present day.
Format: Book
From the earliest settler policies to deal with the “Indian problem,” to contemporary government-run programs ostensibly designed to help Indigenous people, public policy has played a major role in creating the historical trauma that so greatly impacts the lives of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. Taking Back Our Spirits traces the link between Canadian public policies, the injuries they have inflicted on Indigenous people, and Indigenous literature’s ability to heal individuals and communities. Episkenew examines contemporary autobiography, fiction, and drama to reveal how these texts respond to and critique public policy, and how literature functions as “medicine” to help cure the colonial contagion.
Format: Book
How does one define reconciliation in a way that gives meaning to those who have experienced and suffered from colonization and to those who have not? Is it even possible? This books presents a collection of storytellers who have set out to do just that. Their stories draw on personal, family and community experiences, and these experiences illumine what has shaped their lives and relationships.
Format: Book
On a journey to uncover her family's story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land--creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel.
Format: Book
lluminates the relationship between storytelling and the Native North American experience In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling.
Format: Book
Tireless Runners is the multi-generational story of the Sacquilty family, part of the Kwantlen First Nation in southwestern British Columbia.
Format: DVD
For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada and Greenland, development here threatens to upset the delicate balance between their communities, land and wildlife.