<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[keyword results for indigenous perspectives]]></title><description><![CDATA[keyword results for indigenous perspectives]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/yourlibrary/rss/search?query=indigenous%20perspectives&amp;searchType=keyword&amp;f_AUDIENCE=adult&amp;page=2&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:05:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[From the Ashes]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the Ashes is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, but their tough-love attitudes meant conflicts became commonplace. And the ghost of Jesse's drug-addicted father haunted the halls of the house and the memories of every family member. Struggling, Jesse succumbed to a self-destructive cycle of drug and alcohol addiction and petty crime, spending more than a decade on and off the streets, often homeless. One day, he finally realized he would die unless he turned his life around. In this heartwarming and heartbreaking memoir, Jesse Thistle writes honestly and fearlessly about his painful experiences with abuse, uncovering the truth about his parents, and how he found his way back into the circle of his Indigenous culture and family through education. An eloquent exploration of what it means to live in a world surrounded by prejudice and racism and to be cast adrift, From the Ashes is, in the end, about how love and support can help one find happiness despite the odds."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1327600</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1327600</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Thistle, Jesse]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1327600101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982101213/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starlight]]></title><description><![CDATA["The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge and then redemption on a farm run by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A radiant novel about the redemptive power of love, mercy, and compassion--and the land's ability to heal us. Franklin Starlight had long settled into a quiet and predictable life working his remote farm. But his contemplative existence is turned upside down by the sudden arrival of Emmy, a woman who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a harrowing life of violence. After Emmy has a run-in with the law, Starlight agrees to take in her and her daughter to help them get back on their feet. Over time, he introduces them to the land and patiently teaches them the skills that have allowed him not only to survive but to find communion with the world, and, gradually, this accidental family changes Starlight and Emmy in ways they never imagined. But Emmy's abusive ex isn't content to just let her go. He wants revenge and is hunting her down. Starlight was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagamese's death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights that are as hard-earned as they are beautiful. With astonishing scenes set in the rugged backcountry of the B.C. Interior, and characters whose scars cut deep even as their journey toward healing and forgiveness lifts us, Starlight is a last gift to readers from a writer who believed in the power of stories to save us."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1305679</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1305679</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wagamese, Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1305679101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Unfinished Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780771070846/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[There There]]></title><description><![CDATA["Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honour his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow with darker intentions. Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious, unforgettable debut."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1291759</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1291759</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orange, Tommy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1291759101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780771073014/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cold Skies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he's living out his retirement as a fine-arts photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn't great, and he could use a new stove, but as long as he's got his cat and a halfway decent plate of eggs, life is good. All that changes when a body turns up on the eve of a major water conference and the understaffed sheriff's department turns to Thumps for help. Thumps wants none of it, but even he is intrigued when he learns the deceased was developing a new technology that could revolutionize water and oil drilling ... and that could also lose some very powerful people a lot of money. As strangers begin to pour into Chinook for the conference, Thumps finds himself sinking deeper and deeper into a conflict between secretive players who will kill to get what they want.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1291499</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1291499</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[King, Thomas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1291499101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781443457064/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Our Relations]]></title><description><![CDATA["Every single year in Canada, one-third of all deaths among Indigenous youth are due to suicide. Studies indicate youth between the ages of ten and nineteen, living on reserve, are five to six times more likely to commit suicide than their peers in the rest of the population. Suicide is a new behaviour for First Nations people. There is no record of any suicide epidemics prior to the establishment of the 130 residential schools across Canada. Bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga argues that the aftershocks of cultural genocide have resulted in a disturbing rise in youth suicides in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. She examinees the tragic reality of children feeling so hopeless they want to die, of kids perishing in clusters, forming suicide pacts, or becoming romanced by the notion of dying - a phenomenon that experts call "suicidal ideation." She also looks at the rising global crisis, as evidenced by the high suicide rates among the Inuit of Greenland and Aboriginal youth in Australia. Finally, she documents suicide prevention strategies in Nunavut, Seabird Island, and Greenland; Facebook's development of AI software to actively link kids in crisis with mental health providers; and the push by First Nations leadership in Northern Ontario for a new national health strategy that could ultimately lead communities towards healing from the pain of suicide. Based on her Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy series, Tanya Talaga's 2018 Massey Lectures is a powerful call for action and justice for Indigenous communities and youth."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1303650</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1303650</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Talaga, Tanya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1303650101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Finding the Path Forward</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781487005733/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mamaskatch]]></title><description><![CDATA["A powerful story of resilience-a must-read for all Canadians. Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree family's history. In shifting and unpredictable stories, his mother, Bertha, shared narratives of their culture, their family and the cruelty that she and her sisters endured in residential school. Darrel was comforted by her presence and that of his many siblings and cousins, the smells of moose stew and wild peppermint tea, and his deep love of the landscape. Bertha taught him to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that would return to watch over and guide him at key junctures of his life. However, in a spiral of events, Darrel's mother turned wild and unstable, and their home life became chaotic. Sweet and innocent by nature, Darrel struggled to maintain his grades and pursue an interest in music while changing homes many times, witnessing violence, caring for his younger siblings and suffering abuse at the hands of his surrogate father. Meanwhile, his older brother's gender transition provoked Darrel to deeply question his own sexual identity. The fractured narrative of Mamaskatch mirrors Bertha's attempts to reckon with the trauma and abuse she faced in her own life, and captures an intensely moving portrait of a family of strong personalities, deep ties and the shared history that both binds and haunts them. Beautifully written, honest, and thought-provoking, Mamaskatch-named for the Cree word used as a response to dreams shared-is ultimately an uplifting account of overcoming personal and societal obstacles. In spite of the traumas of Darrel's childhood, deep and mysterious forces handed down by his mother helped him survive and thrive: her love and strength stay with him to build the foundation of what would come to be a very fulfilling and adventurous life."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1300759</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1300759</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McLeod, Darrel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1300759101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Cree Coming of Age</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771622004/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Otter's Journey Through Indigenous Language and Law]]></title><description><![CDATA["Otter's Journey employs the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. Indigenous languages and laws need bodies to live in. Learning an endangered language or a suppressed legal system are similar experiences. When we bring language back to life, it becomes a medium for developing human relationships. Likewise, when laws are written on people's hearts, rather than merely on paper, true revitalization has occurred. Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes--to go beyond argumentation and theoretical exposition. Within this paradigm, Otter, the clan figure of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, journeys across Anishinaabe, Inuit, Maori, Coast Salish, and Abenaki territories to learn how Indigenous struggles toward self-determination compare. While Otter's Journey is guided by a literal truth, it also splices and recombines real-world events and characters. Through her engaging protagonist, Lindsay Keegitah Borrows reveals that the processes, philosophies, and standards of decision making held within Indigenous languages and laws can emerge from the layers of contemporary settler nation-state laws, policies, and language to guide us in the twenty-first century. We need the best of all people's teachings to lead us into the future."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1309206</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1309206</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Borrows, Lindsay Keegitah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1309206101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780774836586/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart Berries]]></title><description><![CDATA["Guileless and refreshingly honest, Terese Mailhot's debut memoir chronicles her struggle to balance the beauty of her Native heritage with the often desperate and chaotic reality of life on the reservation. Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Bipolar II; Terese Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father--an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist--who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Mailhot "trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain and what we can bring ourselves to accept." Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people and to her place in the world."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1285489</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1285489</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mailhot, Terese]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1285489101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385691147/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residential Schools and Reconciliation]]></title><description><![CDATA["Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling, including official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award winning author J.R. Miller tackles and explains these institutional responses to Canada's residential school legacy. Analysing archival material and interviews with former students, politicians, bureaucrats, church officials, and the Chief Commissioner of the TRC, Miller reveals a major obstacle to achieving reconciliation--the inability of Canadians at large to overcome their flawed, overly positive understanding of their country's history. This unique, timely, and provocative work asks Canadians to accept that the root of the problem was Canadians like them in the past who acquiesced to aggressively  assimilative policies."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1295500</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1295500</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miller, J. R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1295500101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Canada Confronts Its History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781487502188/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indigenous Writes]]></title><description><![CDATA["In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel initiates myriad conversations about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada. An advocate for Indigenous worldviews, the author discusses the fundamental issues--the terminology of relationships; culture and identity; myth-busting; state violence; and land, learning, law and treaties--along with wider social beliefs about these issues. She answers the questions that many people have on these topics to spark further conversations at home, in the classroom, and in the larger community."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1258209</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1258209</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vowel, Chelsea]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1258209101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781553796800/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written as I Remember It]]></title><description><![CDATA["Long before vacationers and boaters discovered BC's Sunshine Coast, the Sliammon, a Coast Salish people, called it and surrounding regions home. In this remarkable book, Elsie Paul, one of the last surviving mother-tongue speakers of the Sliammon language, collaborates with a scholar, Paige Raibmon, and her granddaughter, Harmony Johnson, to tell her life story and the history of her people, in her own words and storytelling style"--Publishers website.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1193196</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1193196</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul, Elsie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1193196101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Teachings (þ̃ms Taþaw) From the Life of A Sliammon Elder</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780774827119/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Back of the Turtle]]></title><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1209848</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1209848</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[King, Thomas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1209848101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781443446464/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing on Our Turtle's Back]]></title><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1258273</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1258273</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Simpson, Leanne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1258273101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and A New Emergence</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781894037501/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Edward Curtis Project]]></title><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1289628</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1289628</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Clements, Marie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1289628101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Modern Picture Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780889226425/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gathering Moss]]></title><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1466851</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1466851</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimmerer, Robin Wall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1466851101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780870714993/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the Ashes]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is.   If I can just make it to the next minute...then I might have a chance to live; I might have a chance to be something more than just a struggling crackhead.     From the Ashes  is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up.   Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, whose tough-love attitudes quickly resulted in conflicts. Throughout it all, the ghost of Jesse's drug-addicted father haunted the halls of the house and the memories of every family member. Struggling with all that had happened, Jesse succumbed to a self-destructive cycle of drug and alcohol addiction and petty crime, spending more than a decade on and off the streets, often homeless. Finally, he realized he would die unless he turned his life around.   In this heart-warming and heart-wrenching memoir, Jesse Thistle writes honestly and fearlessly about his painful past, the abuse he endured, and how he uncovered the truth about his parents. Through sheer perseverance and education—and newfound love—he found his way back into the circle of his Indigenous culture and family.   An eloquent exploration of the impact of prejudice and racism,  From the Ashes  is, in the end, about how love and support can help us find happiness despite the odds.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1334121</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1334121</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Thistle, Jesse]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1334121101</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982101237/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Namwayut]]></title><description><![CDATA[We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one. Reconciliation belongs to everyone. In this profound book, Chief Robert Joseph, globally recognized peacebuilder and Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk People, traces his journey from his childhood surviving residential school to his present-day role as a leader who inspires individual hope, collective change, and global transformation. Before we get to know where we are going, we need to know where we came from. Reconciliation represents a long way forward, but it is a pathway toward our higher humanity, our highest selves, and an understanding that everybody matters. In Namwayut, Chief Joseph teaches us to transform our relationships with ourselves and each other. As we learn about, honour, and respect the truth of the stories we tell, we can also discover how to dismantle the walls of discrimination, hatred, and racism in our society. Chief Joseph is known as one of the leading voices on peacebuilding in our time, and his dedication to reconciliation has been recognized with multiple honorary degrees and awards. As one of the remaining first-language speakers of Kwak'wala, his wisdom is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing while making space for something bigger and better for all of us.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1481954</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1481954</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph, Robert]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1481954101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>We Are All One : A Pathway to Reconciliation : Book Club Set -10 Copies</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781774580059/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kinauvit?]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System. In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the process, she was faced with a question she could not answer, tied to a colonial institution retired decades ago: "What was your disc number?" Still haunted by this question years later, Dunning took it upon herself to reach out to Inuit community members who experienced the Eskimo Identification Tag System first-hand, providing vital perspective and nuance to the scant records available on the subject. Written with incisive detail and passion, Dunning provides readers with a comprehensive look into a bureaucracy sustained by the Canadian government for over thirty years, neglected by history books but with lasting echoes revealed in Dunning's intimate interviews with affected community members. Not one government has taken responsibility or apologized for the E-number system to date--a symbol of the blatant dehumanizing treatment of the smallest Indigenous population in Canada. A necessary and timely offering, Kinauvit provides a critical record and response to a significant piece of Canadian history, collecting years of research, interviews."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1439707</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1439707</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dunning, Norma]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1439707101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>What&apos;s your Name? : the Eskimo Disc System and A Daughter&apos;s Search for Her Grandmother</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771623391/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Only Good Indians]]></title><description><![CDATA["Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1348013</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1348013</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jones, Stephen Graham]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1348013101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982136451/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moccasin Square Gardens]]></title><description><![CDATA["The characters of Moccasin Square Gardens inhabit Denendeh, the land of the people north of the sixtieth parallel. These stories are filled with in-laws, outlaws and common-laws. Get ready for illegal wrestling moves ("The Camel Clutch"), pinky promises, a doctored casino, extraterrestrials or "Sky People," love, lust and prayers for peace. While this is Van Camp's most hilarious short story collection, it's also haunted by the lurking presence of the Wheetago, human-devouring monsters of legend that have returned due to global warming and the greed of humanity. The stories in Moccasin Square Gardens show that medicine power always comes with a price. To counteract this darkness, Van Camp weaves a funny and loving portrayal of the Tł̜ıch̜o Dene and other communities of the North, drawing from oral history techniques to perfectly capture the character and texture of everyday small-town life. "Moccasin Square Gardens" is the nickname of a dance hall in the town of Fort Smith that serves as a meeting place for a small but diverse community. In the same way, the collection functions as a meeting place for an assortment of characters, from shamans and time-travelling goddess warriors to pop-culture-obsessed pencil pushers, to con artists, archivists and men who just need to grow up, all seeking some form of connection."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1331685</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1331685</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Van Camp, Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1331685101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Short Stories : A Novel, Book Club Set - 10 Copies</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771622165/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad Judgment]]></title><description><![CDATA["John Reilly's second book, Bad Judgment, details the author's battle with the Canadian justice system and the difficulties he faced trying to adapt Eurocentric Canadian law for the benefit of First Nations people across the country. This revised and updated edition looks at the future of the Canadian legal and political systems as they relate to this country's indigenous communities. Judge John Reilly, now retired, was, at age 30, the youngest jurist ever named to the Provincial Court of Alberta. For most of his 33 years on the bench he was the circuit judge for the Stoney Indian Reserve at Morley, Alberta. During his career he became interested in aboriginal justice. He saw the failure of the "white" legal system to do justice for aboriginal people, the harm caused to them by Canadian colonialism, and the failure of all levels of government, including tribal government, to alleviate their suffering and deal with the conflicting natures of European-style law and indigenous tradition and circumstance. As a result of these realizations, Judge Reilly vowed to improve the delivery of justice to the aboriginal people in his community and used his perceived power as a jurist to make changes to improve the lives of the people in his jurisdiction. Along the way, he came into direct conflict with Canadian judicial administration and various questionable leaders among the echelons of both Canadian and First Nation governments."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1323144</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1323144</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reilly, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1323144101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Myths of First Nations Equality and Judicial Independence in Canada</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771601962/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Science of the Sacred]]></title><description><![CDATA["Based on current medical research, Native American and naturopathic doctor Nicole Redvers identifies traditional healing methods developed centuries ago that address modern ailments and medical processes"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1323151</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1323151</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Redvers, Nicole]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1323151101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781623173364/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stories From the Magic Canoe of Wa'xaid]]></title><description><![CDATA[A remarkable and profound collection of reflections by one of North America's most important Indigenous leaders. Who better to tell the narrative of our times about the restoration of land and culture than Wa'xaid (the good river), or Cecil Paul, a Xenaksiala elder who pursued both in his ancestral home, the Kitlope - now the largest protected unlogged temperate rainforest left on the planet. Paul's cultural teachings are more relevant today than ever in the face of environmental threats, climate change and social unrest, while his personal stories of loss from residential schools, industrialization and theft of cultural property (the world-renowned Gps'golox pole) put a human face to the survivors of this particular brand of genocide.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1323135</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1323135</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul, Cecil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1323135101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781771602952/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beau Dick]]></title><description><![CDATA["Accompanying an exhibition of Beau Dick's work, this beautifully illustrated volume distills his powerful argument against our unsustainable way of living."-- From publisher's website.]]></description><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1329202</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1329202</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dick, Beau]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1329202101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Devoured by Consumerism</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781773270869/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[77 Fragments of A Familiar Ruin]]></title><link>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1332605</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S101C1332605</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[King, Thomas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1332605101</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781443459440/MC.GIF&amp;client=richmondpl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>