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Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples
"Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors--and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples--the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. Everyone working in words or other media needs…
Tags: Canadian, Indigenous, Non-fiction
Jonny Appleseed: A Novel
"Off the rez and trying to find ways to live, love, and survive in the big city, Jonny has one week before he must return to his home - and his former life - to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The seven days that follow are like a fevered…
Tags: Canadian, Cree, Indigenous, LGBTQ
Wrist
In 1872, dinosaur hunters become embroiled in a battle over the discovery of fossils in Northern Ontario as their excavation crews are driven mad by a bizarre and terrifying illness. Over a hundred years later, Church and his family show signs of the…
Secret Path
Chanie, misnamed Charlie by his teachers, was a young boy who died on October 22, 1966, walking the railroad tracks, trying to escape from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School to return home. Chanie’s home was 400 miles away. He didn’t know…
The Marrow Thieves
This Zine was created as part of London Public Library's 2019 One Book One London program, "Storytelling through Zines", facilitated by Jenna Rose Sands, a Cree Ojibwe artist who lives in London,
Tags: Zine
Introducing... Atrocities Against Indigenous Canadians for Dummies
Issue 2: MMIWGIssue 2 of this zine series introduces the current national crisis of thousands of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Issue 3: The Sixties ScoopIssue 3 of this zine series
Indigeneity in Comics -
Session 1: "The Indian" in Comics
Session 2: " Indigenous Self-Representation in Comics
Session 1: An examination and critique of comic representations of Indigenous peoples by non-Native authors.
Session 2: Reviews of comics by Indigenous authors.
Session 2: Reviews of comics by Indigenous authors.
The Break
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.
In a series of…
In a series of…
Black Water : Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory
The son of a Cree father and a white mother, David A. Robertson grew up with virtually no awareness of his Indigenous roots. His father, Dulas—or Don, as he became known—lived on the trapline in the bush in Manitoba, only to be transplanted…
Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear…
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textures of your pandemic experience
A collaborative zine made about the FIMS community experience with the COVID19 pandemic.