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SYNOPSIS:
Midnight Sweatlodge tells the tale of family members, friends
and strangers who gather together to partake in this ancient
healing ceremony. Each person seeks traditional wisdom and
insight to overcome pain and hardship, and the characters give
us glimpses into their lives that are both tearful and true. Rice
captures the raw emotion and unique challenges of modern
Aboriginal life. It’s a hard-hitting and genuine look at the
struggles First Nations people face.
Naomi, a Native chambermaid in a busy downtown hotel,
amuses herself by imagining the past, present and future lives
of five hotel guests, whom she observed in passing, in the hotel
lobby and through relics left in their rooms. They all check in
for a temporary stay, living out complicated lives in these
simple spaces. Strung together through Naomi’s narration,
the stories in Red Rooms portray a complex and beautiful
urban Native community.
It was my father who stood at the front. From what I knew
of him at that age, he was usually a quiet, peaceful man. His
shotgun was still raised, pointing dead at the line of trucks and
bulldozers in front of him. The cops kept yelling at him. They
even called him by name. He went to high school with some of
these guys. From where I stood, I could see my uncle speaking
quietly behind him, trying to persuade him to lower his gun.
But nothing was getting through. He stood stoic, determined. I
think I could see tears streaking from his eyes.
Author: Waubgeshig Issac Rice
Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
Price: $18.95 CAD | $16.95 USD
ISBN: 978-1-926886-14-5
BISAC: FIC029000
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And I really don’t know what happened next. I don’t know if
my dad was ready to go out in a blaze of glory, or if he had a
nervous twitch of his trigger finger. But he shot his gun. Spraying
the pellets into the blade of the bulldozer right in front of him.
Nowhere close to any of the crew, but close enough to spring
the police into action. And they opened fire.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Waubgeshig Rice is a broadcast journalist and writer who lives in
Ottawa. He grew up in Wasauksing, an Anishinaabe community
on the shores of Georgian Bay. His articles, essays and columns
have been published in national newspapers and magazines,
and as a television journalist he has filed reports from across
Canada. This is his first published work of fiction.
She hated him, this man, and these men: the ones who picked
her up without expression and used her without emotion. The
ones who picked her up with no more regard than they had
for picking lint off the collars of their well-pressed suits. She
preferred the sweaty nervousness of young virgins or the eager
speediness of excited old vets with their knobby fingers and
waxy breath to these cold, hard men. These were the ones
who called her squaw. Who called her half-breed, the ones
who would just as soon slap her than bother to put on the
condom she always handed them. She often wondered why
they didn’t just keep the $80 it cost to be with her and drive
their comfortable, bucket-seated SUVs home to the suburbs.
They could kiss their wives hello and then slip into very hot
showers to jerk off for free.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cherie Dimaline is Ojibway and Métis. She is the writer in
residence for First Nations House at the University of Toronto.
Before taking this job, she spent time working for the Ontario
government, running a Native Friendship Centre, assisting at
a large women’s magazine, curating a police museum, and
as a magician’s assistant. Her first book, Red Rooms, was
published in 2007.
Author: Cherie Dimaline
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Price: $19.95 CAD | $18.95 USD
ISBN: 978-1-894778-38-1
BISAC: FIC019000
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SYNOPSIS:
Brendell Kisêpîsim Meshango is of Métis heritage and a PhD
university professor in Prince George, British Columbia. When
Brendell resigns from the university and retreats to her isolated
cabin to repair her psyche, she is confronted by a masked
intruder. His racial comments lead her to believe she is the
solitary victim of a hate crime. However, is all as it appears?
After two bizarre days inflicting a sadistic captivity, the intruder
mysteriously disappears. Taught by her mother to fear and
distrust the mainstream-based power structures, and with her
stalker possibly linked to a high level of government, Brendell
conceals the incident from the police. But will keeping quiet
keep her safe? Then her beloved daughter, Zoë, is threatened
— and Brendell takes matters into her own hands. To save
Zoë, Brendell searches for the stalker and confronts not just a
depraved madman but her own fears and prejudices.
Accompany Bobbi as she traces back the path of her life; from
her Ojibwa roots to her rejection of her culture following the
horrific abuse she endured during her childhood. She reflects
on her life with sadness and humor recalling her tumultuous
marriage and divorce, her life as a single parent, her battle with
drugs and alcohol and the long road back to her traditions
that took decades. God Don’t Make No Junk will stay in the
reader’s mind long after they finish reading it.
Joylene Butler’s protagonist, Professor Brendell Meshango, is
a complex and uniquely Canadian character. She is a strong
woman, but neither her Aboriginal childhood, her adult
success as an academic, nor her fierce loyalty to her own
child prepare her, or us, for the terror that strikes when she
becomes the victim of a, seemingly random home invasion.
The action in “Broken But Not Dead” is gripping; the
characters are rich and the climax riveting.
Author: Joylene Nowell Butler
Format: Paperback
Pages: 292
Price: $18.95 CAD | $16.95 USD
ISBN: 978-1-926886-16-9
BISAC: FIC022000
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Gail Bowen, author of the Joanne Kilbourn series.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joylene Nowell Butler, Metis, began writing in 1984 after the
death of her father. Her first novel Dead Witness, published
in 2008 is distributed across Canada by Sandhill Books. Her
current works in progress include a political thriller, a children’s
book, a suspense thriller, and the sequel to Broken But Not
Dead. Joylene, her husband, four stray cats and their Siberian
Husky Bandit live in Cluculz Lake in central BC. In her spare
time, she teaches T’chi.
This line represents the Red Path and the other line
represents the Black Path and the whole circle plus these
two paths are known as the Medicine Wheel. When we
choose the Black Path, we are choosing the opposite of
what the Creator knows is good for us. We stop growing.
We do things that are bad for us. When we forget the
Creator, it’s as though we are left in a cold dark cave all
by ourselves.
“Meshomis, I don’t understand you,” I said.
Angekwe, when you came to this world as a little baby,
the Creator gave you what we grown-ups call freedom of
choice. This means that you can do things that are good
for you and for other people or you can do bad things and
get yourself in trouble and hurt yourself and other people.
It’s all up to you to choose which path you are going to
walk. We call the good one the Red Path. The other one
is the Black Path. It’s normal to fall on the Black Path
once in a while, Angekwe, because we are only human
but we can hurry back and get on the Red Path again
where the Creator wants us to be.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author: Peggy MacTaggart
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
Price: $18.95 CAD | $16.95 USD
ISBN: 978-1-926886-12-1
BISAC: FAM000400
Peggy MacTaggart is a Metis with close ties to the Eagle Lake
First Nations of Northern Ont. as well as Wabigoon First
Nation, Ont. She moved to Quebec City in 1991 to take care
of her aging parents. God Don’t Make No Junk is Peggy’s first
published work and her first book with Theytus.
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Taken from her Native birth mother as a baby. Removed
from her adoptive parents’ home at 5 and caught
shoplifting at 11. On the streets prostituting herself
at 14. This is the stark childhood and adolescence
of Tara Lee, the protagonist of As I Remember It. But
she triumphs over rejection and abuse, thanks to her
indomitable spirit and the efforts of a pair of unique
foster parents. Breakdowns in the fostering system
make the headlines, but what is day-to-day life really like
for foster children and teens? What struggles do they
face, and what resources do they draw on? Why are kids
in care more liable to get involved in crime?
Author: Tara Lee Morin
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Price: $18.95 CAD | $16.95 USD
ISBN: 978-1-192-6886-15-2
BISAC: FAM000400
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Aunt May had a long talk with me while we drove to the
small town that I would call home. “You should look at this
as an opportunity for a new life, Tara Lee,” she told me. “Your
new foster parents are very nice to be willing to take you into
their home. You need to give them a chance.” She was silent
for a time, gazing out at the road unwinding ahead of us,
her hands gripping the steering wheel. “Remember, everyone
loves you. Sometimes people just get too old to remember
what it’s like to be a youngster. You’re growing up now—soon
you’ll be a teenager, and you’ll need someone a bit closer
to your own age to relate to.” Aunt May fell silent again. I
suspected that she wasn’t entirely sure either that this was
the right thing for me.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Born in Northern Manitoba, Tara Lee Morin now resides in
Vancouver, British Columbia. She spends most of her time
working on her writings, with a passion for children in foster
care she is currently working on a children’s book and her
second memoir. Tara’s hope for the future is to work directly
with children in high risk situations by helping them to find their
hidden talents through programs and development.
SYNOPSIS:
Diane “Honey” Jacobson’s latest book is an important comment
about First Nations efforts to save the salmon and her personal
youthful journey to find meaning and a sense of place in life.
Like the style in her first book My Life in a Kwagu’l Big House,
Diane’s style in My Life with the Salmon is full of action,
amazing adventures and fascinating connections between land,
water and people.
I was standing beside her and she was calmly telling him
what to do so that our hatchery swimmers inside the fishing
net did not get caught up in the webbing underwater. Sherry
said,
“Whoa, slow down, go back and try again.
You’ve almost got it right. Yes, yes, you’ve almost hit the right
spot, back up and try again. Ohh, go again, back up and
push again,yes, you’ve hit the right spot! Cliff, slow down and
you’ve almost got it in the right spot. Slow down and then go
fast. YES, now you’ve hit the right spot.”
This conversation continued for many minutes and Bert, who
was working in the office on paper work, sauntered out to
have a smoke. He walked towards Sherry and me.
“Who is that talking on the radio?” Bert asked.
“That’s me, Bert, what’s wrong?” Sherry asked.
Bert looked at her, smiled cheekily and said, “You do know
that you guys are on channel seventy-eight.”
That was the channel for the whole fishing fleet, which
every boat could hear in and around Johnstone Strait. I
thought back on Sherry’s end of the conversation on the
radio, and laughed with Bert because it sounded like a porno
commercial.”
Author: Diane Jacobson
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Price: $18.95 CAD | $16.95 USD
ISBN: 978-1-894778-88-6
BISAC: BIO028000
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Diane Jacobson is a member of the ‘Namgis First Nation.
She has family ties to the Mamalilakala of Village Island, the
Mowachaht of the west coast of Vancouver Island and the
Kwagu’. Diane lives in Alert Bay, British Columbia.
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