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Isúh áníi/as grandmother said
A singular collection of stories published in Tsuut'ina, a critically endangered language With fewer than 20 speakers, Tsuut’ina is a critically endangered language. Isúh Áníi / As Grandmother Said brings together nine traditional narratives and historical accounts in the Tsuut’ina language, orig...
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Challenge to civilization
Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future. Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a desire to endlessly exploit it and profit from it. Despite being a relatively recent deve...
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Opimotewina wina kapagamawat witigowa / journeys of the one to strike the wetigo
A first-hand account of a Swampy Cree boy’s experiences growing up in the Saskatchewan River Delta, one of the world’s largest inland deltas and one of North America’s most important ecosystems.Depicting an Indigenous lifestyle that existed in Northern Saskatchewan way past the Fur Trade era, Ken...
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Kayās nōhcīn / i come from a long time back
Mary Louise (née Bangs) Rockthunder, wêpanâkit, was an Elder of Cree, Saulteaux, and Nakoda descent. Born in 1913, raised and married at nēhiyawipwātināhk / Piapot First Nation, Mary Louise, a much-loved storyteller, speaks of her memories, stories, and knowledge, revealing her personal humility ...
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(re)pebbling
(re)Pebbling: A Story of Blackness and Curling is a sharp, stylish, and soul-stirring glide through the unspoken rules of curling.Intimate reflections from the life of Richard Norman, brought to life by the art of Jon Olbey, set the stage for the chilly welcome racialized players face at the curl...
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Châhkâpâs
Châhkâpâs: A Naskapi Legend shares the story of Châhkâpâs, a heroic figure in First Nations storytelling, who performs feats of strength and skill in spite of his diminutive size.The book shares this traditional legend as originally recorded in the Naskapi community in northern Quebec in 1967 whe...
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Gehl v canada
A follow-up to Claiming Anishinaabe, Gehl v Canada is the story of Lynn Gehl’s lifelong journey of survival against the nation-state’s constant genocidal assault against her existence. While Canada set up its colonial powers—including the Supreme Court, House of Commons, Senate Chamber, and the R...
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Cold case north
For fans of true crime, an unsolved mystery of missing persons, police conspiracies, and private investigations in an Indigenous community in northern Canada.Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Métis ...
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Nature's broken clocks
The environmental crisis is, in many ways, a crisis of time. From the distress cries of birds that no longer know when to migrate, to the rapid dying of coral reefs, to the quickening pace of extreme weather events, the patterns and timekeeping of the natural world are falling apart. We have brok...
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Organized violence
Official stories say that violence in Latin America is a product of criminal activity and the drug trade. Organized Violence exposes how that narrative serves corporate and state interests and de-politicizes events that have more to do with logistics infrastructure, social control, and the extrac...
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Âhkami-nêhiyawêtân / let's keep speaking cree
An important language resource that helps intermediate nêhiyawêwin learners begin to understand more advanced grammar of the language.Building on mâci-nêhiyawêwin / Beginning Cree, Solomon Ratt’s first influential Cree language resource, âhkami-nêhiyawêtân / Let’s Keep Speaking Cree helps interme...
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This book is full of holes
Holes command attention. They make us giggle, squirm, and wonder. But what do they really mean to us and why are they so often surrounded by surprising discourses of power and control?For millennia, the figure of the hole stood as the cornerstone for idioms and expressions that denote emptiness, ...
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Journeys in community-based research
The goal of community-based research is to develop a deeper understanding of communities and to discover new opportunities for improving quality of life. The nine case studies in this diverse collection provide real life examples of community-based research in Aboriginal, urban, and rural communi...
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Maci-anihšinapemowin / beginning saulteaux
Mācī-Anihšināpēmowin / Beginning Saulteaux is an introductory look at one of the most widely spoken of all North American Indigenous languages, regionally known as Saulteaux, Ojibway, Ottawa (Odawa), Chippewa, and Algonquian. In an easy-to-use and easy-to-read series of lessons, both designed for...
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Defying palliser
After travelling through the Canadian prairies in the 1850s, British adventurer John Palliser deemed a large portion of the region to be a near desert and unfit for agriculture. That reportedly disadvantaged area became known as Palliser's Triangle.In Defying Palliser farmers and ranchers from so...
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Cree: language of the plains
A new edition of a seminal textbook to support Cree language study.Cree: Language of the Plains is a comprehensive educational resource, offering a broad range of learning materials that is easily accessible to Cree language learners. This new edition provides an updated and redesigned language t...
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Gather
WINNER OF THE 2022 NORTHWORDS BOOK AWARDStories are medicine. During a time of heightened isolation, bestselling author Richard Van Camp shares what he knows about the power of storytelling—and offers some of his own favourite stories from Elders, friends, and family.Gathering around a campfire, ...
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Loss of indigenous eden and the fall of spirituality
The follow-up to his award-winning book The Knowledge Seeker, Blair Stonechild’s Loss of Indigenous Eden and the Fall of Spirituality continues to explore the Indigenous spiritual teachings passed down to the author by Elders, examining their relevance in today’s world. Exploring how the rise of ...
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Dark chapters
ONE OF QUILL & QUIRE'S NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025 A singular collection of responses to the still life paintings of acclaimed artist David GarneauDark Chapters brings together 17 poets, fiction writers, curators, and critics to engage with the works of David Garneau, the Governor General’s Award-w...
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Field notes for the self
Following his acclaimed Blackbird Song, Randy Lundy’s fourth collection of poetry modulates the trauma of remembering with the greater spiritual affirmations offered by the natural world.Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a fore...
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Arrows in a quiver
In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report, Arrows in a Quiver provides an overview of Indigenous-settler relations, including how land is central to Indigenous identity and how the Canadian state systematically marginalizes Indigenous people. Illustrating the various “arrows...
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In my own moccasins
An unflinching memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds of sexual assault from a resilient, emerging Indigenous voice.Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an un...
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Manitoba premiers of the 19th and 20th centuries
Manitoba's long history of conflict, and the impact that has had on the rest of Canada, is revealed in these political biographies of the province's first eighteen premiers.Throughout its history, Manitoba has been a province struggling with religious, linguistic, ethnic, and class conflict. Mani...
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620 wild plants of north america
Naturalists, birders, students, teachers, conservationists, environmental consultants, wildlife biologists and botanists--amateur and professional alike--will find this picture book of plant anatomy to be an invaluable reference alongside local floras and field guides.620 Wild Plants of North Ame...
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Passion for action in child and family services
Passion for Action in Child and Family Services: Voices from the Prairies offers a fresh perspective on contemporary issues in child and family services in Canada. These authors passionately share their experiences with new and emerging policies, programs, and initiatives--all of which hold promi...
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Bread & water
2025 SLA One Book, One Province SelectionAwarded Gold at the 2022 Taste Canada AwardThe lyricism of Bread & Water interweaves culinary insights and literary essays to pose fundamental questions about how we live––and how we feed––the larger hungers that motivate our lives.“When I write of hun...
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Payepot and his people
Payepot and His People was first published serially by The Western Producer. In 1957 it was published in book form by the Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society.Abel Watetch was a nephew of Chief Payepot and a veteran of World War I. As noted in the introduction to the 1957 edition, Watetch ha...
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Cry wolf
Turning a blind eye to the dangers of the wild can have deadly consequences.Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to be changing. In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie ...
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Kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân / the way i remember
A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family’s traditional stories.When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his family at the age of six, Ratt was placed into...
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Imagining child welfare in the spirit of reconciliation
Drawing on the expertise of Indigenous scholars and researchers, including voices from the front lines in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, this book examines child welfare practices in kinship care, FASD, homelessness, aging out of the system, and transitions for rural youth leaving care. Them...
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Man of the trees
Includes a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales and an introduction by Jane Goodall Richard St. Barbe Baker was an inspirational visionary and pioneering environmentalist who is credited with saving and planting billions of trees. He saved lives, too, through his ceaseless global campaign to raise...
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Frenemy nations
An in-depth look at places—nation-states, states, and provinces—that are geographically side-by-side but otherwise, worlds apart.In the summer of 1968, Mary Soderstrom and her husband loaded up their VW Beetle and immigrated to Canada from the United States. The contrast between their new home an...
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Blackbird song
An exquisite series of meditations on memory, evanescence and the land. Randy Lundy draws deeply from his Cree heritage and equally from European and Asian traditions. Readers will be reminded by turns of Simon Ortiz, Pӓr Lagerkvist, and Jane Hirshfield. This is the mind of prayer, a seeing and r...
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