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The kids book of the Far North (Kids Books Of ...ser.)
Par Jane Drake, Ann Love. 2000
The Far North is a beautiful but fragile world populated by many different plants, animals and people. This book is…
about the Arctic region, which is shared by eight countries. Inside you'll find amazing facts and fascinating stories, as well as ecological alerts. Grades 3-6. 2000.Eyes (Your personal health series)
Par Marvin L Kwitko, Marvin Ross. 1994
We are all treaty people
Par Maurice Switzer. 2011
The Anishinabek Nation includes the Algonquin, Delaware, Mississauga, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi, and this guide provides a brief look at history…
from their perspective. Covers their first contact with white settlers, North American wars, the creation of reserves, land rights issues, the spirit and intent of treaties, the development of legislation called the Indian Act, the creation of residential schools, the 1969 White Paper, the growth of First Nations leadership, and the creation of the Assembly of First Nations. Also deals with the events at Oka, Gustafsen Lake, and Ipperwash. Grades 3-6. c2011.The inconvenient Indian: a curious account of native people in North America
Par Thomas King. 2012
Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular…
tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and articulates a deep and revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2015. Winner of the 2014 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. 2012.The long exile: A True Story Of Deception And Survival Amongst The Inuit Of The Canadian Arctic
Par Melanie McGrath. 2006
1953. A young and inexperienced Irish-Canadian policeman, Ross Gibson, was asked by the Canadian government to draw up a list…
of Inuit who were to be experimentally resettled in the uninhabited polar Arctic and left to fend as best they could. Among them was Joseph Flaherty, the son of Robert Flaherty who had shot the film "Nanook of the North" 30 years earlier. 2006.Vengeance: the true story of an Israeli counter-terrorist mission
Par George Jonas. 2005
The mission of five ordinary Israelis: to hunt down and kill the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of eleven…
Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Details the mechanics, the horror, and the day-by-day suspense, as they changed identities constantly, moved from country to country, and were themselves tracked in turn (and some killed) by PLO assassins. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2005.For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of…
James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace. Nungak relates the inside story of how the young Inuit and Cree "Davids" took action when Québec began construction on the giant James Bay hydro project. They fought in court and at the negotiation table for an accord that effectively became Canada's first land-claims agreement. Nungak's account is accompanied by his essays on Nunavik history. Together they provide a fascinating insight into a virtually unknown chapter of Canadian history. 2017.What lies across the water: the real story of the Cuban Five
Par Stephen Kimber. 2013
“What lies across the water” recounts the events leading up to the 1998 arrest of the Cuban Five, five Cuban…
intelligence agents convicted of conspiring to commit espionage agents the United States. The five agents had been sent to Florida to infiltrate and report on the activities of Miami-based, anti-Cuban terrorist groups, which were carrying out deadly terrorist attacks against Cuba. Cuba passed on information their agents learned about illegal activities to the FBI. But, instead of arresting the terrorists, the FBI arrested the Cuban Five. c2013.Wawahte: Subject: Canadian Indian Residential Schools
Par Robert P Wells. 2012
Racism takes many forms. When it rises from simply being the opinion of a handful of people to becoming widely…
accepted by a nation, it can result in official programs that may to the public be touted as beneficial, but that can actually discriminate against entire ethnic groups. In his book about Canada's Indian Residential Schools, the author has compiled detailed information along with first-hand accounts of individuals affected by the country's former laws toward its original residents. 2012.Veil: the secret wars of the CIA, 1981-1987
Par Bob Woodward. 2005
Based upon interviews with over 250 unidentified sources, various documents, and more than four dozen discussions with then Central Intelligence…
Agency (CIA) Director William J. Casey, the book presents a controversial history of the CIA and its influence on the foreign policy of the Reagan Administration. Also explores CIA-inspired covert wars, clandestine relationships, bribery, and assassinations during this period. Some descriptions of violence, strong language. Bestseller. 2005, c1987.Unsettling Canada: a national wake-up call
Par Naomi Klein, Arthur Manuel, Ronald M Derrickson. 2015
As the son of George Manuel, who served as president of the National Indian Brotherhood and founded the World Council…
of Indigenous Peoples in the 1970s, Arthur Manuel was born into the struggle. From his unique and personal perspective, as a Secwepemc leader and an Indigenous activist who has played a prominent role on the international stage, Manuel describes the victories and failures, the hopes and the fears of a generation of activists fighting for Aboriginal title and rights in Canada. Bestseller. 2015.Une école à la dérive: essai sur le système d'éducation au Nunavik
Par Nicolas Bertrand. 2016
Depuis l'implantation des premières écoles fédérales au milieu du siècle dernier, le système d'éducation au Nunavik n'a cessé d'être en…
crise. Absentéisme fréquent, faibles résultats scolaires, décrochage important des élèves au secondaire. le portrait est, hélas, familier. L'école échoue par ailleurs à enseigner adéquatement la culture inuite, ce qui attise les critiques à son égard. Prenant appui sur son expérience personnelle à titre de suppléant dans le village de Kangirsuk, Nicolas Bertrand dresse le portrait de cette école dont la dérive a des racines profondes et complexes. Il réfléchit aussi à la manière de réformer ce système et démontre la difficulté de cette entreprise. Car tant et aussi longtemps que l'école sera perçue par les Inuits, à tort ou à raison, comme un obstacle et non comme une condition de leur émancipation, sa légitimité sera contestée et sa mission, compromise. De l'éducation de sa jeunesse dépend pourtant l'avenir du Nunavik qui, sans renier son passé, doit aussi accepter pleinement sa modernité. 2016.Twilight: losing sight, gaining insight
Par Henry A Grunwald. 1999
The author chronicles his experience of macular degeneration, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications, and…
the discovery of what medicine can and cannot do. This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight. 1999.In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people – especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg,…
and Cree – travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were they hoping to find? Unearths the stories of Indigenous peoples including Mississauga Methodist missionary and Ojibwa chief Reverend Peter Jones, the Scots-Cherokee officer and interpreter John Norton, Catherine Sutton, a Mississauga woman who advocated for her people with Queen Victoria, E. Pauline Johnson, the Mohawk poet and performer, and many others. 2017.Trail of tears: the rise and fall of the Cherokee nation
Par John Ehle. 2001
This is an honour song: twenty years since the blockades, an anthology of writing on the "Oka crisis"
Par Leanne Simpson, Kiera L Ladner. 2010
A collection of narratives, poetry, and essays exploring the impact of the 1990 resistance at Kanehsatà:ke, otherwise known as the…
“Oka Crisis”. The book is written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, scholars, activists and traditional people, and is sung as an Honour Song celebrating the commitment, sacrifices and achievements of the Kanien’kehaka individuals and communities involved. c2010.They called me number one: secrets and survival at an Indian residential school
Par Bev Sellars. 2013
Like thousands of other Aboriginal children, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a…
church-run residential school. These institutions attempted to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers only, not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves. Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family - from substance abuse to suicide attempts - and articulates her own path to healing. 2013.The white roots of peace: the Iroquois book of life
Par Paul A. W Wallace. 1993
The story of how one man united the five warring Iroquois nations - Mohawks, Senecas, Oneidas, Cayugas and Onandagas -…
into a single confederacy over 500 years ago. Deganawidah, The Peacemaker, became the greatest of all spiritual leaders of the Iroquois. His work is preserved in the Confederacy's traditional constitution, and had a major impact in shaping the American Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. Some descriptions of violence. 1994.The silent game
Par David Stafford. 1988
Stafford compares spy novels to the real world of espionage. With the idea for the CIA's proposed assassination of Fidel…
Castro coming from a novel by William Le Queux, he shows that life imitates art; and, with authors like Graham Greene and John le Carre using their first-hand experiences to write about gentleman spies, shows that art imitates life. 1988.The Shawnees and the war for America
Par Colin G Calloway. 2008
Before the American War for Independence, the Shawnees lived in Ohio, hunted in Kentucky, and ranged as far as Georgia,…
Missouri, and Pennsylvania. With an uncanny ability to form alliances with others, they developed a well-deserved reputation for being loyal friends and formidable foes. Leaders like Blue Jacket, Black Hoof, and Tecumseh defended Shawnee homelands for more than 60 years. But America's westward surge ultimately proved too much. And when Tecumseh fell in battle, the Shawnees' final hope for independence died with him. 2008.