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Sanaaq
An Inuit Novel
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
University of Manitoba Press, 2014

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School of Racism
A Canadian History, 1830–1915
Catherine Larochelle
University of Manitoba Press, 2023

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Seeing Red
A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers
Mark Cronlund Anderson
University of Manitoba Press, 2011

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Settlement, Subsistence, and Change Among the Labrador Inuit
David Natcher
University of Manitoba Press, 2012

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Settler City Limits
Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West
Heather Dorries
University of Manitoba Press, 2019

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Severing the Ties that Bind
Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies
Katherine Pettipas
University of Manitoba Press, 1994
Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing social, economic, and political values. However, missionaries and government officials with ethnocentric attitudes of cultural superiority decreed that Native dances and ceremonies were immoral or un-Christian and an impediment to the integration of the Native population into Canadian society. Beginning in 1885, the Department of Indian Affairs implemented a series of amendments to the Canadian Indian Act, designed to eliminate traditional forms of religious expression and customs, such as the Sun Dance, the Midewiwin, the Sweat Lodge, and giveaway ceremonies.However, the amendments were only partially effective. Aboriginal resistance to the laws took many forms; community leaders challenged the legitimacy of the terms and the manner in which the regulations were implemented, and they altered their ceremonies, the times and locations, the practices, in an attempt both to avoid detection and to placate the agents who enforced the law.Katherine Pettipas views the amendments as part of official support for the destruction of indigenous cultural systems. She presents a critical analysis of the administrative policies and considers the effects of government suppression of traditional religious activities on the whole spectrum of Aboriginal life, focussing on the experiences of the Plains Cree from the mid-1880s to 1951, when the regulations pertaining to religious practices were removed from the Act. She shows how the destructive effects of the legislation are still felt in Aboriginal communities today, and offers insight into current issues of Aboriginal spirituality, including access to and use of religious objects held in museum repositories, protection of sacred lands and sites, and the right to indigenous religious practices in prison.
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Sexual Assault
The Dilemma of Disclosure, The Question of Conviction
Rita F. Gunn
University of Manitoba Press, 1988

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Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future
The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Katherine Graham
University of Manitoba Press, 2021

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The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause
Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko
Orest T. Martynowych
University of Manitoba Press, 2014

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Singing Mennonite
Low German Songs Among the Mennonites
Doreen Helen Klassen
University of Manitoba Press, 1989

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Slytod
Diana Thorneycroft
Serena Keshavjee
University of Manitoba Press, 1998

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Snacks
A Canadian Food Story
Janis Thiessen
University of Manitoba Press, 2017

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Social Democracy in Manitoba
A History of the CCF/NDP
Nelson Wiseman
University of Manitoba Press, 1983
In this volume, Nelson Wiseman skilfully describes the history of the New Democratic Party in Manitoba, tracing the roots of the social democratic movement to the years of mass immigration and social unrest that preceded the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919.Drawing extensively on personal interviews, on the private papers and correspondence of party leaders and activists, and on archival materials, Wiseman portrays clearly the party's philosophy and leadership, its organization and inner workings, its electoral support, and its relations with other parties, with labour, and with farmers.
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Sounding Thunder
The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow
Brian D. McInnes
University of Manitoba Press, 2016

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The Sounds of Ethnicity
Listening to German North America, 1850 - 1914
Barbara Lorenzkowski
University of Manitoba Press, 2010
Sounds of Ethnicity takes us into the linguistic, cultural, and geographical borderlands of German North America in the Great Lakes region between 1850 and 1914. Drawing connections between immigrant groups in Buffalo, New York, and Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, Barbara Lorenzkowski examines the interactions of language and music—specifically German-language education, choral groups, and music festivals—and their roles in creating both an ethnic sense of self and opportunities for cultural exchanges at the local, ethnic, and transnational levels. She exposes the tensions between the self-declared ethnic leadership that extolled the virtues of the German mother tongue as preserver of ethnic identity and gateway to scholarship and high culture, and the hybrid realities of German North America where the lives of migrants were shaped by two languages, English and German. Theirs was a song not of cultural purity, but of cultural fusion that gave meaning to the way German migrants made a home for themselves in North America.Written in lively and elegant prose, Sounds of Ethnicity is a new and exciting approach to the history of immigration and identity in North America.
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St. John's College
Faith and Education in Western Canada
J.M. Bumsted
University of Manitoba Press, 2006
Winnipeg’s St. John’s College is one of the oldest educational institutions in western Canada. Its roots go back to the Red River Settlement in the 1850s when it first began as a school for the English-speaking children of the employees of the Hudson’s Bay Company. By the 1880s, the college had developed into an Anglican institution providing instruction in the liberal arts and theology, and in the same period it became one of the founding colleges of the University of Manitoba. By the 1920s, it was responsible for producing some of the university’s finest students, including the historian W.L. Morton. For much of its 150-year history, St. John’s was closely connected with Manitoba’s Anglo-Celtic financial and political elite, and it often shared both the strengths and shortcomings of that group. Following the college through its many permutations, J.M. Bumsted provides a fascinating history of the birth and growth of post-secondary education in western Canada.
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Stored in the Bones
Safeguarding Indigenous Living Heritages
Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville
University of Manitoba Press, 2023

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Storied Landscapes
Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies
Frances Swyripa
University of Manitoba Press, 2010
Storied Landscapes is a beautifully written, sweeping examination of the evolving identity of major ethno-religious immigrant groups in the Canadian West. Viewed through the lens of attachment to the soil and specific place, and through the eyes of both the immigrant generation and its descendants, the book compares the settlement experiences of Ukrainians, Mennonites, Icelanders, Doukhobors, Germans, Poles, Romanians, Jews, Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes. It reveals how each group’s sense of identity was shaped by a complex interplay of physical and emotional ties to land and place, and how that sense of belonging influenced, and was influenced by, relationships not only within the prairies and the Canadian nation state but also with the homeland and its extended diaspora. Through a close study of myths, symbols, commemorative traditions, and landmarks, Storied Landscapes boldly asserts the inseparability of ethnicity and religion both to defining the prairie region and to understanding the Canadian nation-building project.
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Stories in a New Skin
Approaches to Unuit Literature
Keavy Martin
University of Manitoba Press, 2012

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Stories of Oka
Land, Film, and Literature
Isabelle St-Amand
University of Manitoba Press, 2018

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Stories of the House People
Told by Peter Vandall and Joe Douquette
Freda Ahenakew
University of Manitoba Press, 1987

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Strong Hearts, Native Lands
Anti-Clearcutting Activism at Grassy Narrows First Nation
Anna J. Willow
University of Manitoba Press, 2012

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Structures of Indifference
An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City
Mary Jane Logan McCallum
University of Manitoba Press, 2018


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