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• The Winter We Danced

  Voices From the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement

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  An inspiring collection of essays, poetry, photographs and visual arts, The Winter we Danced draws upon diverse Indigenous voices to document the past, present and future of the Idle No More movement.

• As We Have Always Done

  Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance

  Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971-

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  Renowned scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg) authors this activist work of Indigenous intellectualism, illustrating the empowering ways in which Indigenous worldviews and practices inform contemporary Indigenous peoples'…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book

  Hill, Gord,

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  This accessible and historically accurate graphic novel by artist, activist and author Gord Hill (Kwakwaka'wakw) documents the fierce and ongoing Indigenous peoples' resistance to colonialism across the continent and beyond.

• Unreconciled

  Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

  Wente, Jesse,

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  Described as 'part memoir and part manifesto', journalist and Indigenous arts advocate Jesse Wente (Serpent River Ojibwe) identifies the problematic concept of 'reconciliation' and calls on Indigenous peoples to focus on 'truth' expressed through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unjust Society

  Cardinal, Harold, 1945-

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  Cree leader Harold Cardinal wrote this book as a critical rebuttal of the 1969 White Paper introduced by Jean Chretien, which sought too assimilate Indigenous people through the abolishment of not only the Indian Act, but also any treaties and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kanehsatake

  270 Years of Resistance

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  Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin was in Montreal working on a different documentary in 1990 when she learned of the Oka conflict. She went directly to the NFB and requested help in documenting the historic conflict from the inside. Her film bears…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Right to Be Cold

  One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic, and the Whole Planet

  Watt-Cloutier, Sheila,

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  Inuk activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier is among the most influential global climate activists. In this incredible work she explores climate change as an urgent human rights issue, elucidating the connection between the health of Arctic ecosystems, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gehl V Canada

  Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act

  Gehl, Lynn, 1962-

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  In her follow-up to the book Claiming Anishinaabe - Decolonizing the Human Spirit, Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe Lynn Gehl brings traditional wisdom together with her own story of fighting sexism in the Indian Act.

• Disinherited Generations

  Our Struggle to Reclaim Treaty Rights for First Nations Women and Their Descendants

  Carlson, Nellie,

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  Disinherited Generations is the oral autobiography of two heroic Cree women, Nellie Carlson and Kathleen Steinhauer, of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation. Together, they helped to organize the Indian Rights for Indian Women movement in western Canada in…Read moreRead more of this annotation