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  • Restoring Relations Through Stories

    From Dinétah to Denendeh

    by Renae Watchman ...
    A unique contribution to literary and film analysis of Diné orature, Diné film, and an introduction to Dene literary artsRestoring Relations Through Stories introduces, synthesizes, and analyzes traditional stories by Diné and Dene storytellers in orature and film. The book conceptualizes narrative autonomy as hane’tonomy and visual storytelling from a Diné perspective, offering a map for re ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Restoring Relations Through Stories

    From Dinétah to Denendeh

    by Renae Watchman ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
    This insightful volume delves into land-based Diné and Dene imaginaries as embodied in stories—oral, literary, and visual. Like the dynamism and kinetic facets of hózhǫ́,* Restoring Relations Through Stories takes us through many landscapes, places, and sites. Renae Watchman introduces the book with an overview of stories that bring Tsé Bitʼaʼí, or Shiprock Peak, the sentinel located in what is ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Indianthusiasm

    Indigenous Responses

    Edited by Hartmut Lutz, Florentine Strzelczyk, Renae Watchman ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Indianthusiasm refers to the European fascination with, and fantasies about, Indigenous peoples of North America, and has its roots in nineteenth-century German colonial imagination. Often manifested in romanticized representations of the past, Indianthusiasm has developed into a veritable industry in Germany and other European nations: there are Western and so-called “Indian” theme parks and a ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • 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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  • Bad Indians Book Club

    Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

    by Patty Krawec ...
    In this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized people describe and invite us to inhabit?Patty Krawec doesn’t want to be a “Good Indian.” When a friend asked what books could help them understand Indigenous lives, Patty Krawec gave them a list. This list then exploded into a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Critically Sovereign

    Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

    Edited by Joanne Barker ...
    Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the ... Read more

    $30.99 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

  • Reservation Reelism

    Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film

    by Michelle H. Raheja ...
    In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Troubling Tricksters

    Revisioning Critical Conversations

    Edited by Deanna Reder, Linda M. Morra ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the changing of academic fashion have resulted in few new studies on the trickster. For example, The ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • This Wound is a World

    Kanata Classics Edition

    by Billy-Ray Belcourt ...
    Series series Kanata Classics
    **Now part of the groundbreaking Kanata Classics list, with a new introduction by Audra Simpson, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Prize winning poetry debut catapulted him into a beloved voice of his generation.Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize • Winner of the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize • Winner of the Indigenous Voices Award for Most Significant Work of Poetry in English by an ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America

    Edited by Victoria Levine Lindsay Levine, Dylan Robinson ...
    In this wide-ranging anthology, scholars offer diverse perspectives on ethnomusicology in dialogue with critical Indigenous studies.This volume is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and the United States. The contributors explore the intersections between music, modernity, and Indigeneity in essays addressing topics that range from hip-hop to powwow, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killing the Indian Maiden

    Images of Native American Women in Film

    by M. Elise Marubbio ...
    Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. Through discussion of thirty-four Hollywood films from the silent period to the present, M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role of what she terms the "Celluloid Maiden"—a young Native woman who allies herself with a white male hero and dies as a result of that choice. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD