Book review: Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: A Native American Year of Moons
Reviewed by Karl Hele Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: A Native American Year of Moons explores 13 different and highly summarized Indigenous stories from across...
Book review: The Scout: Tommy Prince
Reviewed by Karl Hele The Scout: Tommy Prince is a graphic novel based on the true story of Tommy Prince. The novel is aimed at...
Book review: Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story
By Karl Hele Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story is a graphic novel based on the true story of Cross Lake First Nation Elder, Betty...
Book review: This Place: 150 Years Retold
By Karl Hele Stories by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Jen Storm, Richard Van...
Book review: Men, Masculinity and the Indian Act
Reviewed by Karl Hele Men, Masculinity and the Indian Act is a well-written complex argument about sexism and racialization under Canada’s Indian Act. To follow...
Book review: The Game of Silence
Reviewed by Karl Hele As the sequel to The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence continues the story of Omakayas and her family on Lake...
Book review: The Birchbark House
Reviewed by Karl Hele The Birchbark House, by Anishinaabeg author Louise Erdrich, follows eight-year-old Omakayas though the course of a single year near Sault Ste....
Book review: Storm of Locusts
Reviewed by Karl Hele Storm of Locusts is the second volume in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Sixth World series. The novel picks up Maggie Hoskie’s story about a...
Performance and memory: 1832-1932 Anglican centenary celebrations at Garden River
By Karl Hele During the first week of September 1932, Garden River First Nation undertook a celebration of the 100-year anniversary of William McMurray’s arrival. The...
Book review: The Ojibwa
Reviewed by Karl Hele Michelle Lomberg’s The Ojibwa is part of the American Indian Art and Culture series. This book has plenty of colour illustrations...
Book review: The Ojibwe: The Past and Present of the Anishinaabe
Reviewed by Karl Hele The Ojibwe: The Past and Present of the Anishinaabe is part of the American Indian Life series published under the Fact...
Book review: Ojibwe: History and Culture
Reviewed by Karl Hele Ojibwe: History and Culture by Helen Dwyer and Sierra Adare, is a nicely illustrated work on glossy paper aimed at upper...
Book review: Trail of Lightning
Reviewed by Karl Hele Trail of Lightning is Rebecca Roanhorse’s first novel and the first of a planned series known as the Sixth World. The...
Ojibwe card games fun for the whole family
By Karl Hele Native Teaching Aids, a small business that believes in the vital importance of maintaining and revitalizing Indigenous culture, language, and history for...
Book Review: Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember
Reviewed by Karl Hele It is now 100 years since the opening of the completed Winnipeg aqueduct brought fresh water to a growing city through...