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This coming-of-age story is set in 1920s rural Vermont, and focuses on Robert, a teenage boy who is becoming closer with his father, who is a butcher who slaughters hogs. Robert is given a pet pig, Pinky, from his neighbours after helping their cow…

A negative review on Desbarats's polemic book "Canada Lost, Canada Found". Sheppard describes Desbarats's work as taking a rather cold and bitter analystical mindset whilst probing at the collective conscientiousness of Canadians at first, before…

Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and…

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…

An aerial photograph of University of Western Ontario's campus

This zine was submitted as a reflection for LIS 9370 (Decolonizing LIS Collections) introducing First Nations Public Libraries in Ontario.

Players: 2-5
Playing time: 40-60 minutes
Age: 10 and up

Introduction: Hustle and bustle in the bazaar district of Istanbul: merchants and their assistants are hurrying through the narrow alleys attempting to be more successful that their…

This book follows two protagonists, Gibreel Farishta, a Bollywood superstar who specializes in playing Hindu deities, and Saladin Chamcha, an emigrant who has broken with his Indian identity and works as a voiceover artist in England. The book opens…

Is part of: Atrocities against Indigenous Canadians for dummies.

This zine provides an introduction to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people in Canada. --supplied by cataloger

Is part of: Atrocities against Indigenous Canadians for dummies.

This zine introduces readers to the sixties scoop, when Indigenous children were forcefully removed from their homes by child welfare authorities in Canada. --supplied by cataloger