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  • Injuns!

    Native Americans in the Movies

    by Edward Buscombe ...
    Series series Locations
    The indispensable sage, fierce enemy, silent sidekick: the role of Native Americans in film has been largely confined to identities defined by the ‘white’ perspective. Many studies have analysed these simplistic stereotypes of Native American cultures in film, but few have looked beyond the Hollywood Western for further examples. In this incisive study, distinguished film scholar Edward Buscombe ... Read more

    $16.01 CAD

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  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the RBC Taylor PrizeFinalist for Canada ReadsFinalist for Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction**Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King’s critical examination of the history and experience of Native peoples in North America, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

    by Thomas King ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with ... Read more

    $12.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Custer

    by Larry McMurtry ...
    This lavishly illustrated volume reassesses and celebrates the life and legacy of the West’s most legendary figure, George Armstrong Custer, from Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove and “one of America’s great storytellers” (The Wall Street Journal), Larry McMurtry.On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry attacked a large Lakota Cheyenne village on the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Why We Act Like Canadians

    A Personal Exploration of Our National Character

    by Pierre Berton ...
    In this challenging book, written as a series of open letters to an American friend, Pierre Berton reaches into his profound knowledge of the country’s history and geography to dissect, praise, explain and occasionally criticize the national character. He does so, not with abstract opinions but with apt and colourful examples taken from the past and the present: Sam Steele’s gold rush censorship ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • National Dreams

    Myth, Memory, and Canadian History

    by Daniel Francis ...
    As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past--the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National Dreams is an incisive study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history, and how they inform our sense of national identity: the fundamental beliefs that we Canadians hold about ourselves. National Dreams ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen

    Reflections on Sixty and Beyond

    by Larry McMurtry ...
    In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction, Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.Using an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. He praises the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Banker and the Blackfoot

    A Memoir of My Grandfather in Chinook Country

    by J. Edward Chamberlin ...
    In his remarkable and entertaining memoir of his beloved grandfather, Ted Chamberlin conjures up vividly the never-before-told story of a particular time and place not long after Canada was founded. And shows us not only what Canada once—briefly—was, but what it still could be.This is the story of when “Sorreltop Jack” was friends with Crop Eared Wolf; of two decades, 1885 to 1905, when the people ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Nastawgan

    The Canadian North by Canoe & Snowshoe

    Edited by Bruce W. Hodgins, Margaret Hobbs ...
    A rich history of Canadian wilderness travel, "an utterly compelling collection," said The Globe and Mail, and "a gem -- it absolutely sparkles," according to Canadian Geographic. Declared by the Canadian Historical Association to be the best book published of its year on the regional history of Canada's North.With essays by William C. James, C.E.S. Franks, George Luste, Margaret Hobbs, John ... Read more

    $6.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canadian Folk

    Portraits of Remarkable Lives

    by Peter Unwin ...
    A joyous romp through the back pages of Canadian quirkiness, Canadian Folk provides a fresh look at the saints, sinners, oddballs, and outright nutbars who have populated the Canadian landscape.They were perpetually northbound or south; they were inveterate walkers, or world class runners, millionaires in ill-advised Citroen half-tracks. The restless characters who spanned those miles and who fill ... Read more

    $7.28 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recollecting

    Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands

    Edited by Sarah Carter, Patricia A McCormack ...
    Series series The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
    This rich collection of essays illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, women who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West.Some essays focus on individuals—a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. Other essays examine cohorts of women—wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Franklin in the Dark (25th Anniversary Edition)

    by Paulette Bourgeois ...
    Illustrated by Brenda Clark ...
    Series series Classic Franklin Stories
    The first storybook in the beloved series that inspired the TV show Franklin and Friends!In the Franklin Classic Storybook that started it all, poor little Franklin has one of the most common childhood afflictions—he is afraid of the dark. This is particularly difficult for Franklin as he happens to be a turtle, and the darkness he fears is, of course, inside his own shell. Bravely, with shell in ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus