Bøger udgivet af University of Manitoba Press

Founding Folks is a testament to the vitality of prairie arts and culture. More than ninety photographs capture the spirit and enthusiasm of those early festival days and preserve this legacy for festival goers, students of culture and history, music enthusiasts, and folkies everywhere.

Once described as Louis Riel's alter ego, Manitoba Premier John Norquay skirmished with John A. Macdonald and endured racist taunts while championing the interests of the Prairie West. This biography of an Indigenous political leader sheds welcome light on a neglected historical figure and a tumultuous time for Canada and Manitoba.

Aboriginal(TM) explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term "Aboriginal" and its displacement by the word "Indigenous." More than legal vernacular, the term has had real-world consequences for the people it defined. Adese offers insight into Indigenous-Canada relations, and current discussions of Indigenous identity, authenticity, and agency.

Looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging into the vibrant social life of these spaces, Barbour challenges narratives that pollution and industrialization destroyed the relationship between Torontonians and their rivers and waterfront.

Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, this book addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the 'good life', or mino-pimatisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being.

The follow-up to Chantal Fiola's award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her groundbreaking examination of Metis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as 'all Metis people are Catholic', and 'Metis people do not go to ceremonies'.

Dadibaajim narratives are of and from the land, born from experience and observation. Invoking this critical Anishinaabe methodology for teaching and learning, Helen Agger documents and reclaims the history, identity, and inherent entitlement of the Namegosibii Anishinaabeg to the care, use, and occupation of their Trout Lake homelands.

Presents essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people. The book questions and critiques the whitestream concept of celebrity and the very juxtaposition of 'Indigenous' and 'celebrity' and casts a critical lens on celebrity culture's impact on Indigenous people.