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Using First Peoples' House Library
Any 海角社区 student is welcome to use the Library, but we ask that these rules be followed:
- All students must present their 海角社区 student I.D and provide their address and phone number.
- Loans must not be marked or highlighted. Loans found to be marked or highlighted must be replaced at the expense of the borrower. The same fine will be levied if loans are brought back damaged or in worse condition than when originally taken out.
- Students may take out up to two items at a time for a period of four weeks. Overdue fines are 25 cents per day per loan.
- You may renew your loan by contacting the First Peoples鈥� House. If it is not reserved by anyone else, we will renew.聽
Highly Recommended Books
Was谩se: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom, Taiaiake Alfred, 2005
Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto, Taiaiake Alfred, 2008
Thinking In Indian: Collected Essays of John Mohawk, John Mohawk, 2010
Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations, Leanne Simpson, 2008
Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity, Pamela D. Palmater, 2011
Midnight Sweatlodge, Waubgeshig Rice, 2011
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie, 1993
Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine, Kim Anderson, 2011
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko, 1977
At The Woods Edge: An Anthology of the History of the People of Kanehsat脿:ke, Gabriel-Doxtater & Van den Hende
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet, H. Dressel & D. Suzuki
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
Custer Died for Your Sins, Vine Deloria Jr.
Stolen Continents: the "New World" through Indian Eyes, Robert Wright
These are just a few of the books in our library. Please consult the available books page for a more comprehensive listing.
Looking for books on the Oka/Kanehsat脿:ke Crisis of 1990 or Residential Schools?
Here is a list of books and videos for those of you doing papers, research or interested in learning more about two major historical events in Indigenous communities of Canada.
People of the Pines: The Warriors and the Legacy of Oka, Loreen Pindera & Geoffrey York, 1991
This Land is Our Land: The Mohawk Revolt at Oka, M. Baxendale, C. MacLaine, photos R. Galbraith, 1990
Kanehsat脿:ke: 270 Years of Resistance, by Alanis Obomsawin, National Film Board, 1993
Rocks at Whiskey Trench, by Alanis Obomsawin, National Film Board, 2000
Acts of Defiance, Alex MacLeod, National Film Board, 1993
Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada, Paulette Regan, 2011
Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation & Residential School, Selected by Shelagh Rogers, Mike DeGagne, Johnathan Dewar, Glen Lowry, 2012
海角社区 Humanities and Social Sciences Library
In addition to what can be found at First Peoples' House, the 海角社区 Humanities and Social Sciences Library has a large number of materials concerning Indigenous Peoples. Please visit聽the online catalogue聽to search their extensive database.聽