First Nations / Indigenous

Dreamcatcher and the Seven Deceivers, the sequel to the Seven Sacred Teachings, warns of voices we can expect to hear in our dreamtime voices that do not represent the Sacred Teachings.

This poetic, evocative book offers the meditations of an Anasazi tribesman at odds with his father and community. As he walks through the desert, he discovers the seven paths of the Anasazi way - each one based on a naturally occurring element in nature - that show him the roots of his conflict and the path towards reconciliation.

Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, The Inconvenient Indian distills the insights gleaned from Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.

Evan Pritchard, a descendant of the Mi’kmaq people, shows us how birds are our strongest allies in the natural world. Revered in Native American spirituality and shamanic traditions around the world, birds are known as teachers, guardians, role models, counselors, healers, clowns, peacemakers, and meteorologists.

Legends of Vancouver was written at the turn of the last century and first published in 1911. The written collection of legends and myths was the result of a meeting, and later the fast friendship, between a Mohawk princess and a West Coast Squamish Chief.

We are living in a time of change; a time that would seem pure fantasy to our forefathers of the early 1900. Along with the modern lifestyle comes the problems of waste; much of which is damaging to the wildlife and their habitat.

In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There he finds the Chief of the Heavens who keeps the light in a box.