ALBERTA BOOKS FOR SCHOOLS

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19 August 2022
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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 2004 English

A historically accurate study that takes no sides, this book is the first complete document of Treaties 8 and 11 between the Canadian government and the Native people at the …


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 2008 English

At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of …


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 2004 English

Blackfoot Ways of Knowing is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of "coming home" to reclaim her identity within that culture, …


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 10 December 2016 English

Arthur Bear Chief suffered both sexual and psychological abuse during his time at Old Sun Residential school in Gleichen on the Siksika Nation. My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime …


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 2012 English

Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin. Written to honour her father’s facility …


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 October 2019 English

M is a bylaw officer, living with two brothers, in their parent's old house. While investigating a suspicious yard sale, M discovers a red chesterfield sitting in a ditch. Looking …


COT: Coteau Books · 1 May 2019 English

Janey, who's almost 15, is forced to spend the holidays with her grandma--and her grandma's new beau, Charlie, who has invited along his German grandson, Max--in Banff, Alberta. Janey can't …


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 October 2017 English

Beginning in Halifax on December 6, 1917 -- the day of the devastating Halifax Explosion -- Dazzle Patterns is an unforgettable novel about war, the transformative power of art, and …


FRHD: Freehand Books · 2018 English

In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria -- just before the Syrian civil war …


COT: Coteau Books · 1 January 2004 English

Janey doesn't want to spend the summer away from her friends in Toronto - and certainly not in Edmonton with the grandmother she hardly knows. But her parents will be …