WInner of the Best First Book from the Native American and Indigenous Studies AssociationWinner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book AwardWinner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre ResearchReimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experienceHungry Listening is the first book to consider listening from both Indigenous and settler colonial pe...

Lent is when we intentionally set aside distractionsand our own desires in order to more closelyunderstand the suffering of Jesus on our way torenewal and redemption. When we use the Lentenseason to reorient our lives to be in closer alignmentwith Christ, we experience a fresh perspective on ourrelationship with the God who sacrifi ced everythingfor our sake. Journey through Lent with yourcommunity this year by using the daily scriptures andrefl ections in Reset to ponder your own life of ...

In Against the Ropes: Developing grit in the spiritual fight, you will learn what it means to have grit with whatever life throws at you. As a boxer finds himself "against the ropes" in the ring, he knows he has a decision to make. Does he lay down and take it, or does he decide to get back up and keep fighting. The same is true for life, especially the Christian life. The enemy, or just life in general, will throw things at you, but it is what you do in response that truly matters. It is ...

Coming from a life of brokenness and abuse, Dylan came to a crossroads in his life and had to choose between going down the path set before him or to accept the hope and love of Jesus Christ. Once he experienced Jesus for the first time, he knew it was what he had always been looking for. Life didn't get easier after accepting Christ, but the purpose and fulfillment that came with living in Christ was a life he never thought was possible. This book is about how God took a broken kid, born ...

In this wide-ranging anthology, scholars offer diverse perspectives on ethnomusicology in dialogue with critical Indigenous studies.This volume is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and the United States. The contributors explore the intersections between music, modernity, and Indigeneity in essays addressing topics that range from hip-hop to powwow, and television soundtracks of Native Classical and experimental music.Wo...

Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history, at TRC national and community events, and in artwork and exhibitions not affiliated with the TRC. Using the framework of “aesthetic action,” the essays expand the frame of aesthetics ...

The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse relationships between opera and First Nations and Indigenous cultures, however, have received far less attention. Opera Indigene takes this subject as its focus, addressing the changing historical depictions of Indigenous cultures in opera and the more contemporary practices of Indigenous and First Nations artists. The use of 're/presenting' in the title signals an ...

In 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and pain. In Fragments of Truth Naomi Angel analyzes the visual culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to this complex and painful history. In her analyses of archival photographs from the residential school system, representat...

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).Drawing on her life as ...

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick! A Printz Medal AND Morris Award Winner!Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.“One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels.” —Good Morning AmericaWith four starred reviews, Angeline Boulley's debut novel, Fireke...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability to dream.**Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of No...

Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film—Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and cultural position of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. While lauding improvements made in the past decades, the contributors draw attention to the systemic problems that continue to marginalize Aboriginal people within Canadian society.From the Introduction: “[This collection helps] to highlight areas whe...