Book Review: Jean Teillet’s story of the Métis is framed around five resistances, which are set against the backdrop of events leading up to the creation of the Canadian state.
From the archives: A photo essay from 1943 follows the story of Isaiah Clark, a Cree trapper, as he prepares to head into the wilderness in search of valuable furs.
Book Review: The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness is a compelling account of society’s assumptions about disability and the assertion of deaf rights.
Book review: Allyson D. Stevenson is the chair of Métis studies at the University of Saskatchewan, and the book Intimate Integration is based on her 2015 doctoral dissertation. While this is a scholarly work, it is nevertheless very readable and contains a rich trove of history documenting Indigenous and Métis child welfare in Saskatchewan during the last half of the twentieth century.
Book Review: Of the 2,800 Canadian nurses who served during the First World War, very few kept a record of their wartime experience. Thus, Ruth Loggie’s war diary is a treasure.
