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  • Meet Joe Copper

    Masculinity & Race on Montana's World War II Home Front

    by Matthew L. Basso ...
    "I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun." So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, fields, and mines while their compatriots fought in the battlefields of Europe and on the bloody beaches of the Pacific. The male experience of working and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Men at Work

    Rediscovering Depression-era Stories from the Federal Writers’ Project

    by Matthew Basso ...
    As part of Roosevelt’s New Deal program of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided relief jobs to millions of Americans. One facet of the WPA was the hiring of men and women to document the history and folklore of America so as to capture the “soul” of the nation. While researching at the Montana Historical Society Research Center more than a decade ago, historian Matthew Basso ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Across the Great Divide

    Cultures of Manhood in the American West

    by Matthew Basso, Laura McCall, Dee Garceau ...
    In Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore. ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Acts of Rebellion

    The Ward Churchill Reader

    by Ward Churchill ...
    What could be more American than Columbus Day? Or the Washington Redskins? For Native Americans, they are bitter reminders that they live in a world where their identity is still fodder for white society."The law has always been used as toilet paper by the status quo where American Indians are concerned," writes Ward Churchill in Acts of Rebellion, a collection of his most important writings from ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work."Every Canadian should read [this] book." —Toronto StarSince its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

    by Daniel Heath Justice ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Our History Is the Future

    Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

    by Nick Estes ...
    **Winner of the Oakland “Blue Collar” PEN AwardA work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance that shows how two centuries of Indigenous struggle created the movement proclaiming “Water is Life”**In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Blue Highways

    A Journey into America

    by William Least Heat-Moon ...
    Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Reclaiming Two-Spirits

    Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America

    by Gregory Smithers ...
    Series Book 12 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    **Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay NonfictionA sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.**Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Victims of Benevolence

    The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School

    by Elizabeth Furniss ...
    An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century. The book's focal points are the death of a runaway boy and the suicide of another while they were students at the Williams Lake Indian Residential School during ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 50 Funniest American Writers

    An Anthology from Mark Twain to The Onion

    Edited by Andy Borowitz ...
    **New York Times BestsellerThe creator of The New Yorker’s long running satirical column, and “one of the funniest people in America,” pays tribute to comedic geniuses both past and present, including Mark Twain, George Saunders, Nora Ephron, and more (CBS Sunday Morning).**Library of America’s collection of hilarious stories, essays, and articles is an exclusive Who’s Who of the very best ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Sherman Alexie

    A Collection of Critical Essays

    Edited by Jeff Berglund, Jan Roush ...
    Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world. A literary polymath, Alexie's nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.Now, for the first time, a volume of critical essays is devoted to Alexie's work both in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD