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  • Permanent Astonishment

    Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky

    by Tomson Highway ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERCapricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performersTomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Laughing with the Trickster

    On Sex, Death, and Accordions

    by Tomson Highway ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators.Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have a blast and to laugh ourselves silly.Celebrated author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pulp Literature Summer 2020

    by Tomson Highway, Mel Anastasiou, JM Landels ...
    In this issueSavoury short fiction from Tomson Highway, Jakob Drud, Kim Harbridge, Hannah Van Didden, Dave Gregory, NRM Roshak and R Daniel Lester. Poetry from Erin Kirsh and Peter Norman. Further adventures of Frankie Ray in The Extra from Mel Anastasiou and a brand new Allaigna novella f... ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kiss of the Fur Queen

    by Tomson Highway ...
    Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by priests.As young men, estranged from their own people and alienated from the culture imposed ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Rez Sisters

    by Tomson Highway ...
    Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play and nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award when first published in 1988, The Rez Sisters has gone on to become an internationally critically acclaimed play, included in all major anthologies of Canadian literature world-wide. Now, in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, the play is being published in its original language: Cree ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Grand Chief Salamoo Cook is Coming to Town!

    by Tomson Highway ...
    Illustrated by Delphine Renon ...
    Once upon a magical time, a young rabbit named Weeskits hurried home to Kisoos—a town known as the Earth's belly button—to deliver some thrilling news. Salamoo Cook, the Grand Chief of all rabbits in the world, was on his way to announce a mysterious contest. The prize? A year's supply of all-healing waaskee-choos juice fresh from spruce cones that have just fallen. Would Weeskits be able to help ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout

    by Tomson Highway ...
    Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their language without their agreement or consent, and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance

    Imagining Multilingualism

    by Tomson Highway ...
    Series series CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    “Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only...” From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist of the world, playwright, pianist, polyglot, storyteller, and irreverent disciple of the Trickster, Tomson Highway rides roughshod through the languages and communities that have shaped him. Cree, Dene, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Permanent Astonishment

    Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky

    by Tomson Highway ...
    Narrated by Jimmy Blais ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 39 min

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERCapricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performersTomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a night sky ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Our Story

    Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past

    by Tantoo Cardinal, Tomson Highway ...
    Inspired by history, Our Story is a beautifully illustrated collection of original stories exploring seminal moments in Canadian history from Indigenous perspectives.Drawing on their skills as gifted storytellers, the contributors to this collection offer wonderfully imaginative accounts of what it's like to participate in history. From a tale of Viking raiders to a story set during the Oka crisis ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • My Name Is Seepeetza

    30th Anniversary Edition

    by Shirley Sterling, Tomson Highway ...
    An honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it — 30th anniversary edition.Seepeetza loves living on Joyaska Ranch with her family. But when she is six years old, she is driven to the town of Kalamak, in the interior of British Columbia. Seepeetza will spend the next several years of her life at an Indian residential school. The ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The (Post) Mistress eBook

    by Tomson Highway ...
    Canada’s most famous Indigenous playwright, Tomson Highway, sets his latest theatrical achievement, The (Post) Mistress, in a not-so-distant past, when sending letters through the mail was still vital to communicating with friends and loved ones, and the small-town post office was often the only connection to faraway places longed-for or imagined.Born and raised in Lovely, Ontario, a small French ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD