Our Home and (Native?) Land Book Available Now!
I'm excited to announce that A Canadian Shame, In Their Own Words, and the newly released Our Home and (Native?) Land are now available once more through our new publishing partner!
Our Home and Native Land: The Struggle for Indigenous Land Rights in Canada
In Our Home and Native Land: The Struggle for Indigenous Land Rights in Canada, Darren Grimes presents a deeply researched and eye-opening account of the ongoing battle Indigenous communities face in reclaiming their ancestral lands. This book explores the historical context of land dispossession, the role of treaties, and the long-standing legal, political, and social efforts to reclaim what was stolen. Grimes weaves together historical events, contemporary legal cases, and Indigenous resistance movements to provide a compelling narrative about the resilience of Indigenous peoples and their unyielding connection to the land. From the Royal Proclamation of 1763 to modern-day land disputes, Our Home and Native Land highlights the injustices faced by Indigenous communities and outlines pathways toward a future where Indigenous land rights are fully recognized and respected.
Back-of-the-Book:
"The land was not just a resource to be exploited, but a living entity that Indigenous peoples cared for and respected for thousands of years."
For millennia, Indigenous peoples in what is now Canada lived in harmony with their lands. Then came colonization-a campaign of dispossession that severed the deep spiritual and cultural ties Indigenous communities had with their territories. Our Home and Native Land delves into the dark history of land theft, forced treaties, and ongoing struggles to reclaim land rights. This book examines the legal, political, and cultural battles that Indigenous peoples continue to fight, shedding light on the deep-rooted issues that still affect their communities today.
As Canada confronts its colonial past, this book serves as both a reminder and a call to action. Reconciliation cannot be achieved without returning what was unjustly taken: the land.
In Their Own Words - Testimony from the Students of Canada's Indigenous Residential School Program
What is the cost of an education?
Is education an additive process or a reductive one?
How does one weigh the benefits of tradition against the threat of being at odds with the future?
How does one refuse the offer of a better life for their children?
What if the offer is compulsory? What happens when the tree of knowledge bares rotten fruit?
While the history of Canada's Residential School program is only just beginning to be unearthed, there are already enough first hand accounts to begin asking some of these questions. The words of the individuals included in this book offer just a glimpse of the results of the effort of one group of people to educate people who were in many cases not seeking the knowledge being offered. These are tales of lessons learned, languages lost, traditions replaced, & charity corrupted.
A Canadian Shame - The Indian Act and Residential Schools
A Canadian Shame is a disturbing collection of information that forces every reader to meditate on the atrocities of government and institutions. Grimes's heritage and personal experience make him the perfect author for this book, but the superior documentation is what makes it as credible as it is fascinating. Although a light is being shined into a very dark corner of our society, one still walks away with a knowledge that truth and love will bring all of humanity together. An uncomfortable story can be a powerful catalyst for unity. Find out all about the Indian Act, Residential Schools, Indigenous child welfare, unmarked graves and more in the comprehensive, extremely well sourced, overview of the last 150 years of Canada and the Indian Act. Starlight tours, missing and murdered indigenous women, and the charge of genocide are all explored in an informative and concise way (under 200 pages). Filled with quotes, legislation, correspondence, historical information this book is a must have for anyone interested in the relationship between Canada and the Indigenous people for the bibliography alone. From the inception of the Indian Act to residential schools, from the potlach ban to the sixties scoop, right up to the present day. A Canadian Shame is filled with the highlights of atrocities that every Canadian should know, up until the apologies finally offered over the last decade. from the back of the book... In A Canadian Shame, Darren Grimes has collected and presented overwhelming evidence which shows beyond doubt that a monster bent on the complete destruction of the Indigenous peoples of Canada ( First Nations, Inuit, Metis, and all the other Aboriginal inhabitants of the land) has been devouring not only men and women but also children of those cultures, that this monster has been doing so for hundreds of years, that this destruction has been deliberate and systematic rather than accidental or unintended, and that lethal aspects of it continue right up to the present day.
Thanks for your continued support
Darren Grimes