Land Acknowledgement

We are located on unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səlí?lwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations

Book Recommendations

Wildlife Books:

  • Craig Childs: The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild. (2009) - ISBN: 978-0316066471
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Plant Books:

  • Suzanne Simard: Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. (2022) - ISBN: 978-0735237773

  • Peter Wohlleben: The Hidden Life of Trees. What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World. (2016) - ISBN: 978-1771642484  


Indigenous Books and Books on Indigenous Matters:

  • Rez Rules: My Indictment of Canada's and America's Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples (Chief Clarence Louie)

  • E. Bradfield et al: Cascadia Field Guide. Art. Ecology. Poetry. 

  • Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass. Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2015) - ISBN: 9781571313560

  • Shawn Wilson: Research is Ceremony. Indigenous Research Methods. (2008) - ISBN: 9781552662816

  • Michelle Good: Truth Telling. Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada. (2023) - ISBN:  9781443467810

  • Annis May Timpson: First Nations, First Thoughts. The Impact of Indigenous Thought in Canada. (2010) - ISBN: 9780774815529

  • Lynda Gray: First Nations 101. Tons of stuff you need to know. (2022) - ISBN: 978-0986964015

  • Aimée Craft, Paulette Regan: Pathways of Recociliation. Indigenous and Settler Approaches to Implementing the TRC's Calls to Action. (2020) - ISBN: 9780887558542

  • Richard Wagamese: One Drum. Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet. (2019) - ISBN:  9781771622295

  • Paulette Regan: Unsettling the Settler within. Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada. (2011) - ISBN: 9780774817783

  • Craig Fortier: Unsettling the Commons. Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism. (2017)  - ISBN: 9781894037976

  • Bob Joseph: 21 Things you may not know about the Indian Act. Healing Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality. (2018) - ISBN: 978-0995266520

  • Jeanette Armstrong, Gerry William: River of Salmon Peoples. (2015) - ISBN:  9781926886411

  • Charlotte Coté: A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other. Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast. (2022) - ISBN: 978029574952

  • Joan Scottie, Warren Bernauer, Jack Hicks: I will Live for Both of Us. A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance. (2022) - ISBN: 9780887552656

  • Heidi Kiiwentinepinesiik Stark et. al.: Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation. (2023) - ISBN: 9781487544607

  • Lorraine Weir, Chief Roger William: Lha yudit'ih We Always Find a Way: Bringing the Tŝilhqot'in Title Case. (2023) - ISBN: 978-1772013825

  • Frank James Tester, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski: Righting Canada's Wrongs: Inuit Relocations. Colonial Policies and Practices, Inuit Resilience and Resistance (2023) - ISBN: 9781459416673

  • Darrell Hillaire, Natasha Frey: Jesintel. Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders. (2023) - ISBN: 9780295748641

  • Sarah Marie Wiebe: Life against States of Emergency. Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat. (2023) - ISBN: 9780774867887

  • Tom Flanagan et al.: Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights. (2011) - ISBN: 978-0773539211

  • Elsie Paul: Written as I Remember it: Teachings from the life of a Sliammon Elder. (2014) - ISBN: 978-0774827119
  • Sarah Carter, Patricia McCormack: Recollecting. Lives of the Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands. (2011) - ISBN: 978-1897425824

 

 Other Books:

The funny side of the "field"

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