Award-winning Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s collection of writings This Accident of Being Lost is a provocative and relevant adventure of poetry, song and prose. A journey in getting lost, in all kinds of ways, Simpson’s work is incredibly economical, with each word seeming...
Indigenous poetry has always been a place of unearthing, witnessing and healing. Gregory Scofield’s Witness, I Am (Nightwood Editions, 2016), embodies a Cree Sacred Story, revisions Metis identity, and evokes the critical issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women through poetics. Scofield, who is R...
Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America Cover Art Masters of Empire is a masterful work sure to annoy many scholars of early America. Instead of following the tried and ‘true’ narrative of Odawa/Anishiaanbeg dependence on incoming European nations, McDonnell casts the European e...
Boozhoo, Ajidamoo Cover | Image source: Barns and Noble While greeting the sun and various forest friends, the always curious and intelligent Ajidamoo meets Steve, an otherworldly visitor, and takes a trip into space. Such is the setting for Michael Lyons’ wonderfully illustrated book for early Anishina...
Cover of book Candies (a humour composite) by Basil H. Johnston| Image source: anishinabeknews.ca STORY BY MAURICE SWITZER Some people have twinkling eyes. Basil Johnston could write with twinkling words. Those of us who were privileged to meet the legendary Anishinaabe author in person can almost hear...
Cover of the children’s book The Song Within My Heart | Image source: Strong Nations The beginning of May marked Canadian Children’s Book Week where family reading is celebrated and promoted across the country, First Nations Communities Read also announced their shortlisted selections for the 2016...
Calling Down the Sky cover art | Image source: mcnallyrobinson.com April is poetry month and lately Indigenous poets have been front and centre in the news. Halifax just appointed their first Mi’kmaw Poet Laureate, Rebecca Thomas, who is known for her powerful slam poetry. Thomas grew up in Moncto...
Cover photo of Red Power: A Graphic Novel by Brian Wright-McLeod | Image source: Fifth House Publishers Brian Wright- McLeod’s Red Power: A Graphic Novel talks about the responsibility that is felt by many Indigenous peoples to defend Mother Earth from the people who want to destroy the earth by cutting...
Coverphoto for the book Working with Elders and Indigenous Knowledge Systems by Herman J. Michell, Ph.D | Image source: anishinabeknews.ca Working with Elders and Indigenous Knowledge Systems is a small book aimed at students, and faculty, who are both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, that seeks to enable...
Treaty of Niagara Wampum Belt | Image source: parrhesiasite.wordpress.com Lynn Gehl’s inspiring account of the Algonquin land claims process is useful for settler allies like myself, but also for First Nations people who are not closely aware of Algonquin affairs and the land claims process. Gehl’s book...
