Open Book: Janice Forsyth’s book is not so much about rehabilitating Longboat’s own reputation as it is about charting the history of the awards given in his name and the effects they have had for their recipients and other Indigenous people.
Open Book: In Brittany Luby's multiple-award-winning book Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory, she writes that the Anishinabeg have “since time immemorial” lived and fished along the waterways of the Winnipeg River drainage basin that includes the lake and that extends into parts of Manitoba and Minnesota.
The fever of the Klondike gold rush has long passed. But the legacy of those wild-eyed fortune seekers still lives large in the land of the midnight sun.
Tobacco in Alberta? The nomadic Blackfoot people cultivated it in this unlikely place long before European contact. Curiously, the beaver played a role.
Nancy Payne speaks with Maureen Nevins, about a song from a wildly popular musical comedy, and a beloved British tune performed by one of Canada’s most famous ensembles.
Open Book: A new book records the stories and experiences of some of the many Indigenous people who travelled to Britain and other parts of the world in the late eighteenth century and during the nineteenth century.
