In this poetic, poignant memoir, Dene artist and social activist Antoine Mountain paints an unforgettable picture of his journey from residential school to art school--and his path to healing. In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the...
Northwest Territories
- Author:Mountain, AntoineSummary:
- Author:Frolick, VernonSummary:
This amazing true life story of Charles Fipke, the mining exploration geologist who discovered the vast diamond fields in Canada's North, reads like spell-binding adventure fiction. Fire into Ice follows Fipke-an Indiana Jones of mining...
- Author:Irlbacher-Fox, StephanieSummary:
Just as dahshaa – a rare type of dried, rotted spruce wood – is essential to the moosehide-tanning process in Dene culture, self-determination and the alleviation of social suffering are necessary to Indigenous survival in Northwest...
- Author:Patterson, R. M.Summary:
The stories in Far Pastures take readers to R.M. Patterson’s homestead in the Peace River country of northern Alberta. To all-night dances that ended as the northern lights faded in the dawn. To escapades on the Fort Nelson, Liard and...
- Author:Mountain, AntoineSummary:
"Antoine Mountain follows up his previous memoir From Bear Rock Mountain with the book Child of Morning Star: Embers of an Ancient Dawn. Child of Morning Star is a poetic collection of stories that draws on Antoine Mountain's travels...
- Author:Jenkins, McKaySummary:
In 1913, two Catholic priests set out to the Canadian Arctic to convert isolated Inuit's. Three days after reaching their destination, the two men were murdered. It took years for Western justice to investigate.
- Author:Harris, JohnSummary:
In May 1936, George Dalziel flew far up the Nahanni River to check on Bill Eppler and Joe Mulholland, who were working one of his traplines. He found their cabin burned to the ground and no sign of them anywhere. What had happened to...
- Author:Kulchyski, PeterSummary:
Part ethnography, part narrative, Like the Sound of a Drum is evocative, confrontational, and poetic. For many years, Peter Kulchyski has travelled to the north, where he has sat in on community meetings, interviewed elders and...