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Brick Books classics volume 4
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Winner of 1997 Gerald Lampert Award for first book of poetry (League of Canadian Poets), Globe 100 book 1997 and Honourable Mention in the 1997 VanCity Book Prize Marilyn Dumont's Metis heritage offers her challenges that few of us welcome. Here she turns them to opportunities: in a voice that is fierce, direct, and true, she explores and transcends the multiple boundaries imposed by society of the self. She mocks, with exasperation and sly humour,...
2) Métis
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This atlas includes details on many aspects of Inuit in Canada with contemporary and historical photography, maps, art and a timeline.
3) The Métis
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Provides information on the Métis with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
7) The circle
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"From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Strangers comes a poignant and unflinching epic told from a constellation of Métis voices that explores the fallout when one person who connects them all goes missing in Winnipeg. The day that Cedar Sage Stranger has been both dreading and longing for has finally come: her sister Phoenix is getting out of prison. Phoenix's release causes a ripple effect through the community. M, the young girl...
10) Probably Ruby
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"When we first meet Ruby, a Métis woman in her 30s, she's a mess. She's angling to sleep with her therapist while also rekindling an old relationship with a man who was -- let's just say -- a mistake. As we will soon learn, however, Ruby's story is far broader and deeper than its rollicking, somewhat lighthearted first chapter. This is the story of a woman in search of herself, in every sense. Given up for adoption as an infant, Ruby was raised by...
11) Métis Community
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Approximately 1.4 million Indigenous people live in Canada today. They come from a large number of communities, each with its own history, language, and cultural practices. Indigenous Canadian Communities in Canada will explore the lives of Indigenous people, both in the past and in current times.
12) The Métis
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Celebrates the rich history and colourful heritage of the Métis and highlights the contributions they have made to Canada.
15) The break
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When a Métis woman sees a possible crime she telephones the police. Told from the perspectives of various people connected to this violence in a Metis community, we hear their stories leading up to that fateful night.
18) Les Métis
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Documentaire permettant aux élèves de l'élémentaire de se familiariser avec la culture inuite d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. On y brosse l'histoire ancienne des premiers peuples nomades ayant transité par le détroit de Bering, puis celle de différents peuples des Premières nations au mode de vie traditionnel, subsistant alors de la chasse et de la traite des fourrures. On découvre ensuite le métissage traditionnel ayant eu cours entre les nations,...
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"Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens means. Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from...
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