This book is a guide to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit issues in Canada. It is a comprehensive guide that has become a national bestseller.
This book is essential reading for those interested in Indigenous history and contemporary politics in Canada.
The book is written for a broad, curious, and perhaps, at times, skeptical readership of Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike.
Chelsea Vowel's chapters read like an anticipatory guidebook through and around the myths, misperceptions, and arguments that govern popular understandings of Indigenous peoples and politics.
Vowel's argumentation is saturated with humor and wit, and offers in clear and precise language the material needed to counter dominant (and draining) preconceptions and myths that govern not only scholarship but day-to-day conversations.
This book is bold and has tremendous wit. Her book is counternarrative to the foundational, historical, and living myths most Canadians grew up believing. She punctures the bloated tropes that have frozen Indigenous peoples in time, often to the vanishing point.
This book is like someone is having a conversation with you as you read it. It is a book that is deep and profound yet accessible to all readers. I loved it and will be reading and re-reading it in the future.
Vowel also has an essential blog at www.apihtawikosisan.com/
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