VPL - Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools - VPL Book Recommendations for PuSH International Performing Arts Festival (Jan. 17th - Feb. 3rd, 2019)Like this list

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• The Right to Be Cold

  One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic, and the Whole Planet

  Watt-Cloutier, Sheila

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  Sheila Watt-Cloutier explores the parallels between the Arctic and the survival of Inuit culture in this story of resilience, commitment, and survival told from the point of view of an Inuk woman.

• From the Tundra to the Trenches

  Weetaltuk, Eddy, 1932-2005

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  In 1951 Eddy Weetaltuk, referred to by the government as E9-422, changed his name so that he could enlist in the Canadian Forces and fight in the Korean war. This compelling memoir traces an Inuk's experiences of world travel and military…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wrestling With Colonialism on Steroids

  Quebec Inuit Fight for Their Homeland

  Nungak, Zebedee, 1950-

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  Zebedee Nungak gives a concise lively account of the legal fight that occurred in James Bay 1971-1975 when the James Bay Hydroelectric Project was announced in what was to become Canada's first land-claims agreement.

• Annie Muktuk and Other Stories

  Dunning, Norma

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  Norma Dunning began exploring her Inukness through writing. Her stories challenge southern perceptions of Inuit life through voices including Inuktitut words and symbolism.

• The Reconciliation Manifesto

  Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

  Manuel, Arthur

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  Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson challenge everything non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous Peoples and shows how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous Peoples without…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Power Through Testimony

  Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation

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  Power Through Testimony reveals how survivors are unsettling colonial narratives about residential schools and reframing our understanding of residential schools in the wake of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.

• Unsettling the Commons

  Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism

  Fortier, Craig

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  Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers, this book investigates the radical left and examines how they come into conflict with Indigenous practices of sovereignty and self-determination.

• Indigenous Peoples and Colonialism

  Global Perspectives

  Samson, Colin

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  Indigenous peoples throughout the world are affected by similar patterns of colonial dispossession and violence. This book brings indigenous peoples issues and voices to the forefront as it highlights colonial patterns of domination and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Learn, Teach, Challenge

  Approaching Indigenous Literatures

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  A collection of new and classic essays about the study of Indigenous literature with contributing scholars from some of the most venerable Indigenous theorists.