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Our Long Struggle for Home
Most Canadians know only a tiny part of the Ipperwash story – the 1995 police shooting of Dudley George. In Our Long Struggle for Home, George’s sister, cousins, and others from the Stoney Point Reserve tell of the decades-long battle to reclaim their ancestral homeland, Aazhoodena, both before and after the police action culminating in George’s death. Offering insights into Nishnaabeg lifeways and historical treaties, this compelling account conveys how government decisions affected lives, livelihoods, and identity. We hear of the devastation wrought when Nishnaabeg territory was re-purposed as an army training camp in 1942, with assurances that it would be returned. By 1993, five elders had waited long enough. They reclaimed the reserve, sparking a cultural and social revival that was ultimately quashed as an illegal occupation. Our Long Struggle for Home also shows what can be accomplished through perseverance and undiminished belief in a better future. This is a necessary lesson on colonialism and the power of resistance.
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Meeting My Treaty Kin
Can Indigenous and non-Indigenous people live in a treaty relationship despite over 200 years of social, cultural, and political alienation? This is the challenge of reconciliation – and its beautiful promise. Twenty-five years after the Ipperwash crisis, writer and social activist Heather Menzies showed up in Nishnaabe territory in Southwestern Ontario, near where her forebears settled, hoping to meet her would-be treaty kin. She was invited to help document the broken-treaty story behind the crisis, as remembered by Nishnaabe Elders and other community members involved in reclaiming their homeland at Stoney Point. But she soon realized that even the most sincere intentions can be steeped in a colonial mindset that hinders understanding, reconciliation, and healing. In this thoughtful, sensitive, nuanced account, Heather Menzies shares her own decolonizing journey. Her story shows how a settler, through respectful listening, can learn what being in a treaty relationship might mean, and what changes – personal and institutional – are needed to embrace genuine reconciliation.
Full Circle
This book examines both traditional and contemporary aboriginal societies in Canada reflecting the diversity of First Nation's voices. Through discussions of aboriginal languages, oral tradition, writers, and individuals, the content touches on several issues such as colonialism, education, health, justice and social action.
Dictionnaire multilingue des gentilés du Canada
Le Dictionnaire multilingue des gentilés du Canada recense des centaines de gentilés canadiens de langues française, anglaise, et parfois inuktitute ou amérindiennes. D’Abbotsfordian à Yukonais en passant par Kuujjuamiut et Paulatukmiut, les Québécois et les Canadiens découvriront avec ravissement une série de désignations insoupçonnées, parfois très anciennes, qui occupent leur florilège onomastique.
Front-Wave Boomers
Boomers are heading into (very) old age following a pandemic, a time of overt ageism and shamefully deficient eldercare. The front wave, now in their seventies, are on the brink of life changes that will be challenging for everyone – family, friends, and for the health care system too. Recognizing the dire need to tackle these changes, journalist and sociologist Gillian Ranson, a front-wave boomer herself, investigates what they are doing to prepare for old age. Whether an “elder orphan” living in subsidized housing, a busy grandparent doing daycare pickups, a small business owner phasing into retirement, or a wife learning to cope with a husband’s dementia, they all share one thing – they need intimate, caring social ties to other people. Just as the baby boomer generation transformed life for teenagers and youth in the 1960s, they now have a chance to create a better way to grow old. Their stories hold lessons for us all.
The Birds of Vancouver Island's West Coast
Now in paperback, the definitive guide to birding in Vancouver. The rugged physical beauty of the west coast of Vancouver Island has long been a major attraction, but its distinctive avian population has also made it a major birdwatching destination. The Birds of Vancouver Island's West Coast presents accounts of all of the species thus far recorded as occurring in the region - 360 in total - and updates the 231 species recorded up to 1978. Each account includes a brief introduction to the species and an overview of its total range. The essential guide to the birds of the region, this book will inform, delight, and surprise amateur and professional birders alike.
Governing Canada
Have you ever wondered how the day-to-day business of government actually works? What do prime ministers and ministers do when away from the spotlight of Question Period? How does a government stay on track, and how can a career be derailed? How can a new minister balance the conflicting demands of their chief of staff, their department, their constituency office, and their family at home? In this practical handbook, Michael Wernick, a career public servant with decades of experience in the highest levels of Canadian government, shares candid advice and information that is usually only provided behind closed doors. From cautioning against common pitfalls for neophyte ministers to outlining the learnable skills that are needed to succeed, Wernick lays the business of governance bare. It’s a first-time look behind the curtain at how government functions, and essential reading for anyone interested in the business of Canadian politics.
Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry
Report of the provincial inquiry into the 1995 incident where Dudley George was shot and died of his wounds during a land claim occupation and protest by Aboriginal people in the Ipperwash Provincial Park.
From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation
Canada is a country founded on relationships and agreements between Indigenous peoples and newcomers. Although recent court cases have upheld Aboriginal title rights, the cooperative spirit of the treaties is being lost as Canadians engage in endless arguments about First Nations “issues.” Each new court decision adds fuel to the debate raging between those who want to see an end to special Aboriginal rights and those who demand a return to Aboriginal sovereignty. Greg Poelzer and Ken Coates breathe new life into these debates by looking at approaches that have failed and succeeded in the past and offering all Canadians – from policy makers to concerned citizens – realistic steps forward. Rather than getting bogged down in debates on Aboriginal rights, they highlight Aboriginal success stories and redirect the conversation to a place of common ground. Upholding equality of economic opportunity as a guiding principle, they argue that the road ahead is clear: if all Canadians take up their responsibilities as treaty peoples, Canada will become a leader among treaty nations.
