Nearly one-third of wildfire evacuations in Canada involve Indigenous communities. While evacuations are carried out to protect people from smoke and flames, deciding to leave brings its own challenges. Based on interviews with evacuees from seven First Nations, this book outlines how Indigenous communities and external organizations can best prepare for the different stages of a wildfire evacuation, including: <ul> <li>deciding when to leave</li> <li>putting a plan in motion</li> <li>troubleshooting transportation</li> <li>finding accommodation</li> <li>caring for evacuees</li> <li>returning home.</li> </ul> With climate change increasing the likelihood of wildfires around the world, this book is an invaluable resource for any community at risk from fire.

First Nations Wildfire Evacuations: A Guide for Communities and External Agencies

Science & Math

McGee, Tara K.

Christianson, Amy Cardinal

First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership

Earth Sciences

Purich Publishing

Making the Case: 2SLGBTQ+ Rights and Religion in Schools

A principal forbids same-sex prom dates. A community group tries to prohibit gender-neutral bathrooms. Despite growing acceptance of 2SLGBTQ+ rights, schools still regularly become battlegrounds in clashes between the expression of gender or sexual identity and a perceived threat to religious identity or values. Making the Case explains the position of Canadian law. It demonstrates that Canadians have rights to both religion and rights to gender expression or sexual orientation. It then provides evidence from case law to show that sexual minority rights do not undermine rights to religious freedom. This book is an important tool for anyone working to create an inclusive school environment or respond to rights-based conflicts within the school system.

Short, Donn

MacDougall, Bruce

Clarke, Paul T.

Constitutional Law

A diverse collection of writings about the resilience of the Métis people.\nA collection of diverse stories from a richly varied people, Métis Rising testifies that there is no single Métis experience, only a shared sense of belonging and commitment to justice. Contributors examine aspects of Métis resilience and identity as they trace ongoing efforts to establish their rights through personal narratives and political activism. Extraordinary in their range, taken together, these works exemplify how contemporary Métis identity evolved into a powerful force of reckoning.\nBook Description\nMétis Rising brings together a vibrant collection of essays on history, politics, and culture that celebrate the resilience of Métis identity.

Métis Rising: Living Our Present Through the Power of Our Past

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Braided Learning: Illuminating Indigenous Presence through Art and Story

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Indigenous activism have made many non-Indigenous Canadians uncomfortably aware of how little they know about First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. In Braided Learning, Susan Dion shares her approach to engaging with Indigenous histories and perspectives. Using the power of stories and artwork, Dion offers respectful ways to learn from and teach about challenging topics including settler-colonialism, treaties, the Indian Act, residential schools, and the Sixties Scoop. Informed by Indigenous pedagogy, Braided Learning draws on Indigenous knowledge to make sense of a difficult past, decode unjust conditions in the present, and work toward a more equitable future.

Dion, Susan D.

Product Description A guide to learning and teaching about Indigenous histories and perspectives in Canada. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Indigenous activism have made many Canadians uncomfortably aware of how little they know about First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. In Braided Learning, Susan Dion shares her approach to learning and teaching about Indigenous histories and perspectives. Using the power of stories and artwork, Dion offers respectful ways to address challenging topics including settler-colonialism, treaties, the Indian Act, residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, and the drive for self-determination. Braided Learning draws on Indigenous knowledge to make sense of a difficult past, decode unjust conditions in the present, and work toward a more equitable future. Review “This book should be in every educator’s library. It serves as a model for educators to learn and teach about the history of Indigenous peoples and settler colonialism without fear or reservation. It is exactly what has been asked for over and over again.” -- Tracey Laverty, First Nations, Inuit and Métis Education, Saskatoon Public Schools About the Author Susan D. Dion is professor in the faculty of education at York University, Canada. She is the author of Braiding Histories: Learning from Aboriginal People’s Experiences and Perspectives.

Canada and Colonialism: An Unfinished History

History

Reynolds, Jim

Americas

Bullied and abused at the Fort Alexander Indian Residential day school, Diane Morrisseau fought back and left school at the age of fifteen. Despite her strength, a childhood of trauma and abuse led her into the arms of Edgar Olson, and by sixteen, the young Ojibway-Anishinabe woman had given birth to her first child and married the man who would become her tormentor for the next eighteen years. Notoriously violent, her abuser was aided and abetted by the systems of colonialism that failed to protect Diane during her childhood. Edgar was able to keep Diane and her children trapped in a cycle of violence for years, without being held accountable by law or society. What could have been a chronicle of unrelenting hardship instead becomes a narrative of how, in horrific circumstances, Diane found the strength to survive, reclaim her life, and eventually thrive. Today she draws meaning from her painful past, counseling women, children and men experiencing similarly difficult circumstances.

One Second at a Time: My Story of Pain and Reclamation

Biographies & Memoirs

Morrisseau, Diane

Community & Culture

In this book, author Brian Goehring introduces the Indigenous Peoples of the world, describing who they are, where they live, looking at similarities in their history and future challenges. Goehring points out how the Indigenous struggle for self-determination, a land base and an economy which allows for participation on their terms is a worldwide phenomenon.Some of the interesting questions answered in this book include: How the debates in 16th century Spain between de Sepulveda and de Las Casas laid the basis for the legal concept of Aboriginal title. How many Bhil and other Indigenous Peoples will be displaced by the Narmada Dam Project? How did Pizarro subjugate the Inca Empire with less than 500 men? Where do the Penan Peoples live?

Indigenous Peoples of the World (Purich's Aboriginal Issues Series)

Goehring, Brian

Canada's criminal justice system has had a troubled relationship with Aboriginal people. This discord can be seen in disproportionally high rates of incarceration and in the limited recognition given by the conventional system to the needs and values of Aboriginal communities. To compound matters, many remote communities are served by fly-in circuit courts, which visit the communities once a month, pronounce judgement on the cases presented to them, and then leave. Ross Green looks at the evolution of the Canadian criminal justice system and the values upon which it is based. He then contrasts those values with Aboriginal concepts of justice. Against this backdrop, he introduces sentencing and mediation alternatives currently being developed in Aboriginal communities, including sentencing circles, elder and community sentencing panels, sentence advisory committees, and community mediation projects. At the heart of the book are case studies of northern communities, which Green uses to analyse the successes of and challenges to the innovative approaches to sentencing currently evolving in Aboriginal communities across the country. He concludes with a discussion of the ways in which the Canadian criminal justice system can facilitate or obstruct such innovations. This book is based on the author's scholarly research; field trips to the communities profiled; interviews with judges, prosecutors, community leaders, and participants in sentencing circles, sentencing panels, and mediation committees; and the author's personal experiences as a defence lawyer in northeastern Saskatchewan. This book is aimed at those concerned with criminal justice as well as practicing lawyers.

Justice in Aboriginal Communities: Sentencing Alternatives

Green, Ross Gordon

Politics & Government

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