Social Science - Indigenous Studies

What if learning about plants meant learning how to relate to land, language, and living knowledge? Plant Teachings from My Auntie offers a rare opportunity to engage with Snuneymuxw (Coast Salish) plant knowledge as it is meant to be shared: through relationship, respect, and...

Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming...

Red Nation Rising is the first book ever to investigate and explain the violent dynamics of bordertowns. Bordertowns are white-dominated towns and cities that operate according to the same political and spatial logics as all other American towns and cities. The difference is that...

An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe...

Articulating abolitionist and anti-colonial presents and futures, Rehearsals for Living asks what it means to get free.Author: Robyn Maynard,Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 06/28/2022Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00dISBN: 9781642596892About the AuthorRobyn Maynard is a Toronto-based Black feminist activist and...

Renewal, the second book in the Footbridge series, guides K-12 educators in bringing Indigenous voices and the philosophy, principles, and practices of Indigenous land-based education into their teaching. This text encourages educators to: respectfully renew their own relationships with land directly engage students with...

From the author of Indian Horse and Embers, here is a new curated collection of Richard Wagamese's short writings.Richard Wagamese, one of North America's most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better,...

Continuing the work of the award-winning Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta casts an Indigenous lens on contemporary society, challenging us to face conflict and embrace conversation to find our way onto the right track. With Right Story, Wrong Story, Apalech Clan member Tyson Yunkaporta, from...

Continuing the work of the award-winning Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta casts an Indigenous lens on contemporary society, challenging us to face conflict and embrace conversation to find our way onto the right track. With Right Story, Wrong Story, Apalech Clan member Tyson Yunkaporta, from...

A "profound and inspiring" collection of Indigenous wisdom for "anyone wanting the healing of self, society, and of our shared planet" (Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma). Penobscot leader, lawyer, and activist Sherri Mitchell offers enduring lessons rooted in powerful First...

Sag̱aytg̱awdi (a Sm'algyax word meaning "gathering together") helps educators support equity and well-being in their classroom through practical strategies that ground assessment practices in Indigenous knowledges. Accomplished authors and educators Jo Chrona (Wayi Wah! Indigenous Pedagogies) and Brooke Moore (Sorting it Out) provide educators...

A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability--and offers a new template for living.As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique...

Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for...

Severalty begins in a garden and moves through ancestral and contemporary hometowns that shimmer between wholeness and severing. In these poems, river currents tick with the intrusion of the clock's lavish precincts. From powerfully compressed lyrical fragments to pulsing narrative sequences, Severalty shifts perspectives...

Indigenous relations are often described in anthropological terms, or as expressions of timeless, unchanging kinship ties. In Speculative Relations, Joseph M. Pierce challenges this view, considering the potential of these relations as a means of repairing the damages of history. Pierce approaches Indigenous art...

The forgotten history of the US war against the Cherokee offers a crucial reframing of America's origin story.Americans remember 1776 as the year liberty was declared, the moment they cast off tyranny and proclaimed the self-evident truths of equality and freedom. But that same...

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland. Assumptions that Indigenous peoples have disappeared altogether, or that Indigenous identities are fixed, persist in the popular imagination. This is far from...

The Hidden Ancestral Identity of the American Negro is the introduction to a series of books for black American people to learn the omitted facts about their Heritage history. The books are intended to give a balanced overview of the true dynamics that is...

A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States "A genre-bending work of reportage, memoir, and history" --The New Yorker "Candid, unflinching . . . Her thorough excavation of the painful history...

A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States "A genre-bending work of reportage, memoir, and history" --The New Yorker "Candid, unflinching . . . Her thorough excavation of the painful history...