North America local history
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Nawi: una perrita diferenteNawi y su due a reciben un mensaje muy importante que las ayudar a entender de d nde proviene Nawi, una perrita muy diferente a los dem s. Esta historia de amor y aceptaci n nos invita a conocer sobre las leyendas que llenan...
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There Is No Difference: An Argument for the Abolition of the Indian Reserve System and Special Race-based Laws and Entitlements for Canada's IA COMPELLING SOLUTION TO ENDING THE TRAGICALLY HIGH DEGREE OF POVERTY AND SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION AMONG CANADA'S FIRST NATIONS PEOPLES- LEGAL EQUALITY For decades Canada's indigenous and non-indigenous elites have been mindlessly doubling down on the apartheid-like, "separate but equal", dysfunctional status quo that has...
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Inuit Tools of the Western Arctic: English EditionThere are many tools used in the western part of the Arctic Learn about these tools and their different uses, from softening skins to pounding seal fat.Author: Barbara OlsonPublisher: Inhabit Education Books Inc.Published: 05/04/2021Pages: 20Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.80h x 8.80w x 0.20dISBN: 9781774500583Audience:...
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The Geography of the United States and CanadaFrom the depths of the Grand Canyon to the peaks of the mighty Rocky Mountains, this book covers the awe-inspiring landscapes of the United States and Canada. Home to major cities like New York City and Toronto, as well as the Great Plains and...
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Olmecs: A Captivating Guide to the Earliest Known Major Ancient Civilization in MexicoDid you know that the Olmecs might have been the first people to introduce writing?The first people that managed to elevate themselves to civilized life were the Olmecs. But why do they remain relatively unknown, hidden in the long and dark corridors of forgotten...
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Sometimes I Feel Lonely: English EditionPtarmigan feels sad and lonely. She just moved to a new community and doesn't have any friends yet.Follow along as Walrus helps Ptarmigan see how she can be a little less lonely, and see how Walrus and Ptarmigan become good friends in the process...
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One Ulu, Two Kamiik: English EditionLet's count to 10 This book helps children practise counting by showing a different number of objects on each page, from 1 to 10.Author: Inhabit EducationPublisher: Inhabit Education Books Inc.Published: 03/05/2019Pages: 12Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.00h x 7.00w x 0.40dISBN: 9780228701958Audience: Ages 4-8About the...
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My Family: Bilingual Inuktitut and English EditionWho is in your family? This illustrated book helps children learn Inuit kinship terms.Author: Inhabit EducationPublisher: Inhabit Education Books Inc.Published: 02/05/2019Pages: 20Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.30h x 8.30w x 0.40dISBN: 9780228701613Audience: Baby-PreschoolAbout the AuthorEducation, Inhabit: - Inhabit Education is a Nunavut-based educational publishing company...
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Train Beyond the Mountains: Journeys on the Rocky MountaineerA captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world's most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travellers past and present. Rick Antonson...
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Where Is Chichen Itza?Discover more about the amazing Maya by visiting the city of Chichen Itza. Although it's known more as an important tourist attraction today, the city of Chichen Itza was a powerful religious, political, scientific, and artistic center of the Maya people. Readers will learn...
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Texas History Stories: The Alamo, the Goliad Massacre, San Jacinto and Biographies of Sam Houston, David Crockett, Dick Dowling and Other HerThis collection of Texas stories includes the famous defense of the Alamo, great battles such as San Jacinto, plus biographies of famous people like Sam Houston and Dick Dowling.An exciting and swiftly paced set of true stories, dramatic but factual, sobering for their truth...
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Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement ACTReinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the first historical account of Canada's premier corporate restructuring statute. The book adopts a novel research approach that combines legal history, socio-legal theory, ideas...
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Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an EnigmaBorn in Ireland in 1879, W.P.M. Kennedy was a distinguished Canadian academic and the leading Canadian constitutional law scholar for much of the twentieth century. Despite his trailblazing career and intriguing personal life, Kennedy's story is largely a mystery. Weaving together a number of...
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Waves of Courage: A WW2 True Story of Valor, Compassion & SacrificeDedicated to the young recruits and seasoned sailors in need on broken ships and the women and men who came to their rescue. The book tells the true story of a convoy of United States Ships in the North Atlantic 3 months after the...
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Animals of My Land: Animales de mi tierra/NoyolkanyolkejIn this second edition of Animals of My Land, the first trilingual book in English, Spanish and Nahuatl published in the United States, you will find more animals and the same important message: to nourish the important bond between language and culture. This book...
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Yucatan at the Time of the Spanish Encounter: Relacion de Las Cosas de YucatanIn an ambitious new translation of Diego de Landa's Account of the Things of Yucat n (Relaci n de las cosas de Yucat n), the editor revises and updates the language for the contemporary reader of English. In the process he captures the narrative...
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Insurgent Mexico; With Pancho Villa in the Mexican RevolutionIn 1910, Mexican peasant Pancho Villa led a rebellion against the wealthy landowners, and fought to redistribute land to the poor Mexican "peons" who worked it for the absentee owners, in what has been called "the first socialist revolution". Originally published as a series...
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Bittersweet Sands: Twenty-Four Days in Fort McMurrayIn Bittersweet Sands, Rick Ranson recounts a twenty-four-day shift at an oilsands operation undergoing a shutdown, giving us a glimpse at a world most of us only know from the evening news. Along the way, he encounters a group of engaging roughnecks, including a...
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On My SkisSet in the mountains overlooking Vancouver, British Columbia, and its surroundings, this under-five follow-up to the hugely popular On My Walk features a very young child learning to ski. Another delightful collaboration between Kari-Lynn Winters and Christina Leist, On My Skis takes very young...
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The Salmon RunThe Salmon Run follows a salmon on his journey to return to the spawning grounds. Written and illuystrated by Clayton Gauthier, the debut book of talented artis and storyteller.Author: Clayton GauthierPublisher: Theytus BooksPublished: 11/01/2016Pages: 20Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 5.80h x 7.70w x 0.10dISBN: 9781926886442Audience:...
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