Books published by University of Manitoba Press

In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from 1850 to 1990.

A comprehensive review of the Manitoba party system that combines history and contemporary public opinion data to reveal the political and voter trends that have shaped the province of Manitoba over the past 130 years. The book details the histories of the Progressive Conservatives, the Liberals, and the New Democratic Party from 1870 to 2007.

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.

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.