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  • Inappropriation

    The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides

    by Paul Hillmer, Ryan Bean ...
    In 1926, Harold Keltner, a YMCA Boys Work secretary from St. Louis, and Joe Friday, a member of the Canadian Ojibwe First Peoples, channeled white middle-class fascination with Native Americans into what became the Y-Indian Guides youth program, engaging over a half million participants across the nation at the height of its 77-year history. Intended to soften the stereotypical stern father, the ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • 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

  • American Indians

    Stereotypes & Realities

    by Devon A. Mihesuah ...
    American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities provides an informative and engaging Indian perspective on common misconceptions concerning American Indians which afflict public and even academic circles to this very day. Written in a highly accessible stereotype/reality format, it includes numerous illustrations and brief bibliographies on each topic PLUS these appendices: * Do's and Don'ts for those ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Creator’s Game

    Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood

    by Allan Downey ...
    A gift from the Creator – that is where it all began. The game of lacrosse has been a central element of many Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation – then reclamation – of Indigenous identities. Focusing on the history of lacrosse in Indigenous communities from the 1860s to the 1990s, The Creator’s Game explores ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power

    by Sherry L. Smith ...
    Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose coalition of hippies, civil rights advocates, Black Panthers, unions, Mexican-Americans, Quakers and other Christians, celebrities, and others joined with Red Power activists to fight for Indian rights. ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Getting Physical

    The Rise of Fitness Culture in America

    by Shelly McKenzie ...
    Series series CultureAmerica
    Winner: John G. Cawelti AwardWinner: Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences AwardFrom Charles Atlas to Jane Fonda, the fitness movement has been a driving force in American culture for more than half a century. What started as a means of Cold War preparedness now sees 45 million Americans spend more than $20 billion a year on gym memberships, running shoes, and other ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Playing With the Boys

    Why Separate is Not Equal in Sports

    by Eileen McDonagh, Laura Pappano ...
    Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by "success." By keeping women from "playing with the boys" on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book, Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano show in vivid detail how women have been unfairly excluded from participating in sports on an equal footing with ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Indian Blues

    American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934

    by John W. Troutman ...
    Series Book 3 - New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music generate fear among government officials and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Red Power Rising

    The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism

    by Bradley G. Shreve ...
    Series series New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?In this groundbreaking book, Bradley G. Shreve sets the record ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Sport and Recreation in Canadian History

    Edited by Carly Adams ...
    Serving as a foundation for critical discussion about the importance of the past, Sport and Recreation in Canadian History covers the historical events, people, and moments that shape Canadian sport in the present and future. While this text focuses on sport and recreation practices on these lands now claimed by Canada, it is set within a larger historical context of interconnecting social and ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Native Activism in Cold War America

    The Struggle for Sovereignty

    by Daniel M. Cobb ...
    Winner: Labriola Center Book AwardThe heyday of American Indian activism is generally seen as bracketed by the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969 and the Longest Walk in 1978; yet Native Americans had long struggled against federal policies that threatened to undermine tribal sovereignty and self-determination. This is the first book-length study of American Indian political activism during its ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Girl and the Game

    A History of Women's Sport in Canada, Second Edition

    by M. Ann Hall ...
    In the second edition of this groundbreaking social history, M. Ann Hall begins with an important new chapter on Aboriginal women and early sport and ends with a new chapter tying today's trends and issues in Canadian women's sport to their origins in the past.Students will appreciate the more descriptive chapter titles and the restructuring of the book into easily digestible sections. Fifty-two ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD