Böcker utgivna av University of Manitoba Press

North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it. This title explores the nature and development of this variety of Icelandic. It details the social and linguistic constraints of one specific feature of North American Icelandic phonology undergoing change.

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities. In Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the teachings of fourteen elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Metis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century.

When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book, Many Tender Ties, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced new areas of inquiry in women's, social, and Aboriginal history. Finding a Way to the Heart illustrates Van Kirk's extensive influence on a generation of feminist scholarship.

Francis Pegahmagabow, an Ojibwe of the Caribou clan, enlisted at the onset of the First World War, served overseas as a scout and sniper, and became Canada's most decorated Indigenous soldier. Brian McInnes provides new perspective on Pegahmagabow and his experience through a unique synthesis of Ojibweoral history, historical record, and Pegahmagabow family stories.

Explores key questions surrounding the power and suppression of indigenous narrative and representation in contemporary indigenous media. The authors examine indigenous language broadcasting; Aboriginal journalism; audience creation; the roles of program scheduling and content acquisition policies; the role of digital video technologies; and the emergence of Aboriginal cyber-communities.

Traces the link between Canadian public policies, the injuries they have inflicted on Indigenous people, and Indigenous literature's ability to heal individuals and communities. Episkenew examines contemporary autobiography, fiction, and drama to reveal how these texts respond to and critique public policy, and how literature functions as "medicine" to help cure the colonial contagion.

Brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, and art, while suggesting significant options for sustained improvement of individual, family, and community well-being.

Presents the first major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system. Magic Weapons examines the ways in which Indigenous survivors of residential school mobilize narrative in their struggles for personal and communal empowerment in the shadow of attempted cultural genocide.

In his groundbreaking new book, Timothy C. Winegard reveals how national and international forces directly influenced the more than 4,000 status Indians who voluntarily served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force between 1914 and 1919, and how subsequent administrative policies profoundly affected their experiences at home, on the battlefield, and as returning veterans.

Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in northern Quebec. Here they live their lives hunting seal, repairing their kayak, and gathering mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. These are ordinary extraordinary lives: marriages are made and unmade, children are born and named, violence appears in the form of a fearful husband or a hungry polar bear. Here the spirit world is alive and relations with non-humans are never taken lightly. And under it all, the growing intrusion of the qallunaat and the battle for souls between the Catholic and Anglican missionaries threatens to forever change the way of life of Sanaaq and her young family.

The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middle Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.