Selected Projects

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Elements of Indigenous Style, 2nd Edition (Parts 1 & 11)

Dr. Gregory Younging; edited by Warren Cariou

Brush Education, Forthcoming

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“This trusted resource offers crucial guidance to anyone who works in words or other media on how to work accurately, collaboratively, and ethically on projects involving Indigenous Peoples.” – Brush Education

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Gather: Richard Van Camp on the Joy of Storytelling

Richard Van Camp

Shortlisted, Saskatoon Public Library Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing Award
University of Regina Press, 2021

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“Stories are medicine. During a time of heightened isolation, bestselling author Richard Van Camp shares what he knows about the power of storytelling—and offers some of his own favourite stories from Elders, friends, and family.” – University of Regina Press

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Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey toward Personal and Ecological Healing

Dr. Jennifer Grenz

National Bestseller

Knopf Canada, 2024

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“In Medicine Wheel for the Planet, building on sacred stories, field observation and personal experience, Dr. Grenz invites readers to share in the teachings of the four directions of the medicine wheel: the North, which draws upon the knowledge and wisdom of elders; the East, where we let go of colonial narratives and see with fresh eyes; the South, where we apply new-old worldviews to envision a way forward; and the West, where a relational approach to land reconciliation is realized.” – Penguin Random House Canada

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Prison Born

Robin F Hansen

University of Regina Press, 2024

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“Prison Born calls attention to the colonial and gendered assumptions that continue to underpin the legal system—assumptions that so frequently lead to the violation of the rights and denial of personhood for children and their mothers.” – University of Regina Press

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Cold Case North: The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett

Michael Nest, Deanna Reder, and Eric Bell
Shortlisted, Crime Writers of Canada Best Nonfiction Crime Book
Shortlisted, American Book Fest’s International Book Awards (True Crime)
Winner, Creative Saskatchewan Publishing Award
University of Regina Press, 2020

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“For fans of true crime, an unsolved mystery of missing persons, police conspiracies, and private investigations in an Indigenous community in northern Canada.” – University of Regina Press

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The Racial Mosaic: A Pre-history of Canadian Multiculturalism

Daniel R. Meister

Finalist, John W. Dafoe Book Prize
Finalist, Wilson Book Prize

McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021

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“On the fiftieth anniversary of Canada’s official policy of multiculturalism, The Racial Mosaic represents the first serious and sustained attempt to detail the policy’s historical antecedents, compelling readers to consider how racism has structured Canada’s settler-colonial society.” – McGill-Queen’s University Press

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Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala

Edited by Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell

Between the Lines, 2021

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“Editors Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell draw on over thirty years of community-based research and direct community support work in Guatemala to expose the ruthless state machinery that benefits the Canadian mining industry.” – Between the Lines

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Points of Interest: In Search of the People, Places, and Stories of B.C.

Edited by David Beers and andrea bennett

Greystone Books, 2024

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“This anthology marking The Tyee’s 20th anniversary includes pieces published over the last two decades and includes the distinct perspectives of some of [British Columbia]’s most celebrated writers, including J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith, Cúagilákv (Jess H̓áust̓i), Arno Kopecky, Harrison Mooney, Michelle Cyca, Christopher Cheung, Andrew Nikiforuk, and many more, as well as illustrations by Nora Kelly. Pull up a chair and get their inside scoops on the places they call home.” – Greystone Books

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Métis Matriarchs: Agents of Transition

Edited by Cheryl Troupe and Doris Jeanne MacKinnon

University of Regina Press, 2024

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“This edited collection provides an opportunity to learn about the significant contributions made by Métis women during a transitional period in Western Canadian history, as the fur trade gave way to a more sedentary, industrialized, and agrarian economy. Challenging how we think about Western Canadian settlement processes that removed Indigenous peoples from the land, this collection of stories delves into the ways Métis matriarchs responded to colonial and settler colonial interventions into their lives and livelihoods to ultimately ensure their communities’ cultural endurance.” – University of Regina Press

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Stitching Our Stories Together: Journeys Into Indigenous Social Work

Edited by Jeannine Carriere & Catherine Richardson

University of Regina Press, Forthcoming

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“Between its covers, Stitching Our Stories Together highlights the research of Indigenous graduate students from universities across Canada. Focusing on their own nations, communities, and individual realities, these academics demonstrate how Indigenous epistemologies can challenge settler ideas and myths around pan-Indigeneity.” – University of Regina Press

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Who We Are: Four Questions for a Life and a Nation

Murray Sinclair

McClelland & Stewart, 2024

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“Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and friend. This is Murray Sinclair’s story—and the story of a nation—in his own words, an oral history that forgoes the trappings of the traditionally written memoir to center Indigenous ways of knowledge and storytelling. As Canada moves forward into the future of Reconciliation, one of its greatest leaders guides us to ask the most important and difficult question we can ask of ourselves: Who are we?” – Penguin Random House Canada

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Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth

Eli Baxter

Winner, Governor General’s Literary Award for English-Language Nonfiction
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021

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“One man’s story of growing up in the hunting and gathering society of the Ojibways and surviving the residential school system, woven together with traditional legends in their original language.” – McGill-Queen’s University Press

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NISHGA

Jordan Abel

Winner, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
McClelland & Stewart, 2021

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“From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada’s residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence.” – Penguin Random House Canada

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White Coal City: A Memoir of Place & Family

Robert Boschman

University of Regina Press, 2021
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“A moving, unflinching exploration of life in Prince Albert on Treaty Six territory, as told through one family’s multigenerational story.” – University of Regina Press

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Opimōtēwina wīna kapagamawāt Wītigōwa / Journeys of The One to Strike the Wetigo

Ken Carriere
Shortlisted, The Hill Times Best Books of 2022

University of Regina Press, 2022

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“Depicting an Indigenous lifestyle that existed in Northern Saskatchewan way past the Fur Trade era, Ken Carriere shares his first-hand account of experiences as a young boy helping his father trapping, fishing, and hunting in the Saskatchewan River Delta.” – University of Regina Press

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One Second at a Time: My Story of Pain and Reclamation

Diane Morrisseau

UBC Press, 2024

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“The story of an Ojibway-Anishinabe woman who, against incredible odds, rescued herself and her children from a life of brutal beatings, sexual servitude, and almost unimaginable hardship.” – UBC Press

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How You Were Born: Stories

Kate Cayley

Winner of the Trillium Book Award

Book*hug Press, 2024 Tenth-anniversary Reissue

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“The stories in How You Were Born, each more incisive and devastating than the last, examine the difficult business of love, loyalty, and memory. Sharing the bizarre and tragi-comic of life—whether in present-day Toronto or in small towns of the early 20th century—Cayley champions the importance of connections, even when missed or mislaid, and the possibility of redemption.” – Book*hug Press

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Last Woman: Stories

Carleigh Baker
McClelland & Stewart, 2024

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“Carleigh Baker’s signature style is irreverent, but her heart is true—these stories delve into fear for the future, intergenerational misunderstandings, and the complexities of belonging with sharp wit and boundless empathy.” – Penguin Random House Canada

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The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction

André Alexis
McClelland & Stewart, 2020

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“Vivid, profound, moving, and with moments of sly humour, the stories in The Night Piece reveal worlds both familiar and deeply strange. … One of Canada’s most extraordinary writers.” – Penguin Random House Canada

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Play: A Novel

Jess Taylor
Book*hug Press, 2024

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“With a unique blend of contemporary storytelling and psychological fiction, Play is a haunting, riveting novel that reminds us of both the beauty and danger of imagination.” – Book*hug Press

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The Kodiaks: Home Ice Advantage

David A. Robertson
Portage & Main Press, 2024

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“Hockey fans will love this action-packed middle grade novel about teamwork, overcoming adversity, and being proud of who you are and where you come from.” – Portage & Main Press

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The Last Secret: A Novel

Maia Caron
Doubleday Canada, 2024

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“A sweeping, dazzling dual-timeline novel centering on two unforgettable women—and their inextricable link to each other decades apart.” – Doubleday Canada