Books

A re-examination of the relationship between mobility and Iroquois power in the pre-contact era.

A modern history of Indigenous labour in the Canadian workforce.

A critical edition of the 1970s bestselling autobiography, My Life with Grey Owl.

The untold story of the founding and subsequent destruction of a Finnish socialist community in the Soviet Union.

Based on over two decades of extensive interviews, Mind’s Eye documents the stories told by eighteen Cree elders in Whapmagoostui. From testimonies about battles with the Inuit and early contact with Europeans, to simple descriptions of playing games and making caribou-skin coats, these stories record the history of the James Bay Cree.

An entirely new way of viewing Aboriginal cultural indentity on the northern plains.

Drawing on recent work in diaspora studies, Rewriting the Break Event offers a historicization of Mennonite literary studies in Canada, followed by close readings of five novels that rewrite the Mennonite break event through specific strains of emphasis, including a religious narrative, ethnic narrative, trauma narrative, and meta-narrative.

A multidisciplinary analysis of the Canadian West.

One man, four identities, and a son's quest to reconcile the public and private lives of his Mennonite father in WWII.

The remarkable story of the farmer-led coalition that defeated the introduction of GM wheat in Canada.

This groundbreaking anthology features twenty-four contributors who utilize creative and critical approaches to propose that this people’s stories carry dynamic answers to questions posed within Anishinaabeg communities, nations, and the world at large.

Capturing the complexity and nuance of relations between French and Indians in the heart of North America from 1630 to 1815, this collection examines a number of thematic areas that provide a broader assessment of the historical bridge-building process.

In Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity, Aya Fujiwara examines the roles of Japanese, Ukrainian, and Scottish elites during the transition of Canadian identity from Anglo-conformity to ethnic pluralism, placing the emergence of Canadian multiculturalism within a transnational context.

In an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) rose to become the city’s pre-eminent commercial photographer. In Imagining Winnipeg, historian Esyllt W. Jones takes us beyond the iconic to reveal the complex artist behind the lens.

In December 2002 members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation blocked a logging road to impede the movement of timber industry trucks and equipment within their traditional territory. The Grassy Narrows blockade went on to become the longest-standing protest of its type in Canadian history. The story of the blockade is a story of convergences.