They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
One woman's account of triumph over a childhood spent in an Indian residential school.
View ArticleA Little History of My Forest Life: An Indian-White Autobiography
Written in 1894 and recently recovered from the archives of the University of Minnesota, this incredible autobiography tells the story of a Chippewa-Scots French woman from Madeline Island in Lake...
View ArticleYazoo Mingo: The Journeys of Moncacht-Ape Across North America 1687-1700
100 years before the Lewis and Clark expidition a Yazoo Indian made the same transcontinental journey. Starting from Mississippi Moncacht-Apé travelled as far as southeast Alaska. Maps based on his...
View ArticleA Metaphoric Mind: Selected Writings of Joseph Couture
Dr. Joseph Couture (1930-2007), known affectionately as "Dr. Joe," stood at the centre of some of the greatest political, social, and intellectual struggles of Aboriginal peoples in contemporary...
View ArticleOnward and Upward: Reflections of a Joyful Life
By always testing the limits, a young Michael had a yearning to understand "the secret of life" and began to "see things worth seeing." During the turbulent '60's in San Francisco he makes his first...
View ArticleSun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian, Second Edition
First published in 1942, <I>Sun Chief</I> is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert...
View ArticleXwelíqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lo Matriarch
XwelÃqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lÅ matriarch, artist, and craftswom
View ArticleFree Man Walking
The horror of loneliness. Over 10 years in prison. Hooked on heroin, cocaine and drugs for 23 years. A chronic alcoholic for 27. Homeless. Eating out of garbage bins. Born into a violent alcoholic...
View ArticleThe Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard: Chief of Scouts, U.S.A.
<B>The true story of the one of the most thrilling figures of the Wild West.</B><p>Every army needs its scouts. A good scout knows the enemy and the enemy's terrain as well as his...
View ArticleCanadian Cultural Heritage Bundle: Louis Riel / Harriet Tubman / Simon Girty
<p>Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada's history. In these three books we explore the cultural heritage that is at the roots of...
View ArticleMoose to Moccasins: The Story of Ka Kita Wa Pa No Kwe
Born in a tent on Bear Island, Lake Temagami, in 1908, Madeline Katt Theriault could recall an earlier independent and traditional First Nations lifestyle.
View ArticleOne Native Life
<EM><STRONG>One Native Life</STRONG></EM> is a look back down the road <STRONG>Richard Wagamese</STRONG> has traveled — from childhood abuse to adult...
View ArticleA Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time....
View ArticleAnahareo: A Wilderness Spiri
Canada, conservation, wilderness, Algonquin, aboriginal, native, pioneering women, Whether she was a small town First Nations girl or an international celebrity promoting wilderness conservation,...
View ArticleSimon Girty: Wilderness Warrior
Was the frontiersman Simon Girty a monster as painted by his U.S. enemies in the American Revolution, or was he a hero and benefactor of First Nations people as celebrated by Canadian and American...
View ArticleWhite Mask - A Re-Celebration of My First Nation Heritage, A Memoir
Why are so many Natives, First Nations, Indians, Metis, Inuits, Aboriginals, Indigenous People, and Amerindians ashamed of whom they are? Where does this shame come from? Why does it exist today? These...
View ArticleLife of Mary Jemison: White Woman of the Genesee
Taken captive at the early age of thirteen by Seneca Indians, Mary Jemison was trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian female. Embedded with the sentiments and lifestyle of the...
View ArticleNative Heart
Most lives are lived solely in the present. But some lives are also lived with a spiritual and historical connection to the past. These lives grant us a sense of hope for the future. Native Heart is...
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