Bøger udgivet af University of Manitoba Press

Confronted with an embarrassment of riches that resist survey, Magdalene Redekop opts for the use of case studies to raise questions about Mennonites and art. Part criticism, part memoir, Making Believe argues that there is no such thing as Mennonite art.

Examines abuse of the civil rights and liberties of tens of thousands of Canadians and Canadian residents via internment from 1914 to the present day. This ongoing story spans both war and peacetime and has affected people from a wide variety of political backgrounds and ethno-cultural communities.

Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Organized around the notion of 'generations,' this collection brings into conversation new voices of Indigenous feminist theory, knowledge, and experience.

Nestor Makhno has been called a revolutionary anarchist, a peasant rebel, the Ukrainian Robin Hood, a mass-murderer, a pogromist, and a devil. Drawing on theories of collective memory and narrative analysis, this book brings a vast array of Makhnovist and Mennonite sources into dialogue, including memoirs, histories, diaries, and newspapers.

Shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin ""word bundles"" that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics. The material is organized thematically around a series of Meshake's paintings. It is framed by Kim Anderson, Rene's Odaanisan (adopted daughter), a scholar of oral history.

Examines a twenty-first century social phenomenon in which white, French descendant settlers in Canada shift into a self-defined 'Indigenous' identity, bringing to light to how these claims are then used politically to oppose actual, living Indigenous peoples.

Reveals United Grain Growers' central role in the growth and transformation of the western grain industry at a critical period, and includesh meticulous research supplemented by interviews with many of the key players.

Uses Ubuntu oratures as tools to address the impacts of Euro-colonialism, while regenerating relational Ubuntu governance structures, drawing on anti-racist, African feminist, and Ubuntu theories.

Jim Ka-Nipitehtew was a respected Cree Elder from Onion Lake, Saskatchewan, who spoke only Cree and provided these original counselling discourses. The book offers the speeches in Cree syllabics and in Roman Orthography as well as an English translation and commentary.

Investigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of nationalist narratives, and examines an eclectic range of both state-sponsored social memory projects and counter-memorial projects.

Labrador Innu cultural and environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue is well known both within and far beyond the Innu Nation. This book began as a diary written in Innu-aimun, in which Tshaukuesh recorded day-to-day experiences as well as speeches, court appearances, and interviews with reporters.

The third instalment in Blanchard's popular history of early Winnipeg, A Diminished Roar presents a city in the midst of enormous change. Beginning with the opening of the magnificent new provincial Legislature Building in 1920, A Diminished Roar guides readers through this decade of political and social turmoil.

Looks at the development of Winnipeg's Jewish community and the network of institutions and organisations they established to provide income assistance, health care, institutional care for children and the elderly, and immigrant aid to reunite families.

This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel.

Since 1970, Manitoba artist Don Proch has built an astonishing body of work evoking a semi-mythical Prairie past and an unsettled and unresolved modernity. Richly illustrated with over 80 pieces, this book includes rare excerpts from Proch's notebooks which reveal his intricate working process.

Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their over incarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected. This book explores how judges navigate these issues in sentencing by examining related discourses in selected judgments from a review of 175 decisions.

The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. This collection of ten essays explores a more contemporary prairie identity, and reconfigures "the prairie" as a construct that is non-linear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political currents.

Presents a wide collection of first and second generation Icelandic-Canadian authors. The stories, first published between 1895 and 1930, are set mainly in North America (especially Manitoba). They reflect a wealth of literary activity, from the numerous Western Icelandic newspapers and journals, to the reading circles and cultural and literary societies that supported them.

A collection of 20 stories, dictated in 1941 to Bloomfield's linguistics class, edited from manuscripts now in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, and published for the first time. In Ojibwe, with English translations by Bloomfield. Ojibwe-English glossary and other linguistic study aids.

Examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. This story tells us about indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through one man's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death.

First published in French in 2006, Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth contains an in-depth, paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of stories on womb memories, birth, namesaking, and reincarnation. This new English edition introduces this material to a broader audience and contains a new afterword by Saladin d'Anglure.

Explores how Cold War Czechoslovakian migrants to Canada joined or formed ethnocultural organisations to help in their attempts to affect developments in Czechoslovakia and Canadian foreign policy towards their homeland.

Documents the story of a community rooted in kinship, culture, and historical circumstance, whose residents existed unoally in the cracks of municipal bureaucracy, while navigating the legacy of settler colonialism and the demands of modernity and urbanization.

Paul Williams, counsel to Indigenous nations for forty years, with a law practice based in the Grand River Territory of the Six Nations, brings the sum of his experience and expertise to this analysis of Kayanerenko:wa as a living, principled legal system. In doing so, he puts a powerful tool in the hands of Indigenous and settler communities.

In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters from two First Nations in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with type 1 (or insulin-dependent diabetes), but with what looked like type 2 diabetes, until then a condition that was restricted to people much older. Investigation led the doctors to learn that something similar had become a medical issue among young people of the Pima Indian Nation in Arizona though, to their knowledge, nobody else. But these youth were just the tip of the iceberg. Over the next few decades more children would confront what was turning into not only a medical but also a social and community challenge. "e;Diagnosing the Legacy"e; is the story of communities, researchers, and doctors who faced-and continue to face-something never seen before: type 2 diabetes in younger and younger people. Through dozens of interviews, Krotz shows the impact of the disease on the lives of individuals and families as well as the challenges caregivers faced diagnosing and then responding to the complex and perplexing disease, especially in communities far removed from the medical personnel a facilities available in the city.

Examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. This volume argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected missionaries' changing interests and agendas.

Drawing on recent work in diaspora studies, Rewriting the Break Event offers a historicization of Mennonite literary studies in Canada, followed by close readings of five novels that rewrite the Mennonite break event through specific strains of emphasis, including a religious narrative, ethnic narrative, trauma narrative, and meta-narrative.

Offers a detailed analysis of the role of Elder Brother stories in historical and contemporary kinship practices in Cowessess First Nation, located in southeastern Saskatchewan. Robert Innes reveals how these tradition-inspired practices act to undermine legal and scholarly definitions of "Indian" and counter the perception that First Nations people have internalized such classifications.

John Werner was a Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German-speaking Mennonite community in Siberia. The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine, and war.