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Bevann Fox is a member of Pasqua First Nation, originally from Piapot First Nation. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Arts and Culture and her Master in Business Administration, Leadership from the University of Regina. In 2014 she was honored with the YWCA Women of Distinction Award—Arts, Culture and Heritage. She is the founder, producer, and co-host of Access TV's The Four and also works as Manager for Community-Based Prevention at Yellow Thunderbird Lodge/ YTCCFS (Yorkton Tribal Council Child Family Services).
GENOCIDAL LOVE
A Life After Residential School BEVANN FOX Foreword by MICHELLE COUPAL
A residential school survivor's complicated path toward healing and love
This book delves into the long-term effects of childhood trauma on those who attended residential school and demonstrates the power of story to help in recovery and healing. Presenting herself as “Myrtle,” Bevann Fox recounts her early childhood filled with love and warmth on the First Nation reservation with her grandparents. At the age of seven she was sent to residential school, and her horrific experiences of abuse there left her without a voice, timid and nervous, never sure, never trusting, and always searching. This is the story of Myrtle battling to recover her voice. This is the story of her courage and resilience throughout the arduous process required to make a claim for compensation for the abuse she experienced at residential school—a process that turned out to be yet another trauma at the hands of the colonial power. This is the story of one woman finally standing up to the painful truth of her past and moving beyond it for the sake of her children and grandchildren. In recounting her tumultuous life, Fox weaves truth and fiction together as a means of bringing clarity to the complex emotions and situations she faced as she walked her path toward healing.
September 2020 256 pages • 5 x 7 Paper • 9780889777415 • $17.95T Cloth • 9780889777477 • $89.00X
Literature | Indigenous Studies University of Regina Press
COLD CASE NORTH
The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett MICHAEL NEST with DEANNA REDER and ERIC BELL
A small team uncovers new evidence and exposes police failure in one of Canada's most enduring missing person's cases
Missing persons. Double murder? Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Métis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady’s success made politicians and clergy fear him; he had enemies everywhere. In 1967, while prospecting in Saskatchewan with Cree band councillor and fellow activist, Absolom Halkett, both men vanished from their remote lakeside camp. For 50 years rumors swirled of secret mining interests, political intrigue, and murder. Cold Case North is the story of how a small team, with the help of the Indigenous community, exposed police failure in the original investigation, discovered new clues and testimony, and gathered the pieces of the North’s most enduring missing persons puzzle.
Michael Nest is a freelance researcher and award-winning author whose work focuses on mining and corruption. Michael lives in Montréal. Deanna Reder is a Cree-Métis literary critic and an Associate Professor in English and First Nations Studies at Simon Fraser University. Deanna lives in Vancouver. Eric Bell is a member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and the owner of La Ronge Emergency Medical Services. Eric lives in La Ronge, SK.
"Like too many cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous people, authorities failed to ensure that Brady and Halkett’s deaths were properly investigated. This book helps get to the bottom of the fate of these two men, and demonstrates why investigators should never dismiss the knowledge of Indigenous peoples.” —Darren Prefontaine, author of Gabriel Dumont
November 2020 272 pages • 5 x 7 Paper • 9780889777491 • $19.95T Cloth • 9780889777545 • $89.00X
True Crime | Indigenous Studies University of Regina Press
Heesoon Bai is Professor in Philosophy of Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. David Chang is a teacher educator, and PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Charles Scott is Associate Professor of Education at City University in Canada and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University.
A BOOK OF ECOLOGICAL VIRTUES
Living Well in the Anthropocene Edited by HEESOON BAI, DAVID CHANG, and CHARLES SCOTT
What does living well look like in the Anthropocene?
Despite our brief tenure on planet Earth, Homo sapiens have reached an epoch—the Anthropocene—that is characterized by our species’ uncanny ability to spoil our own nest. In the face of this somber reality of ecological degradation and massive species extinction, the editors ask the critical question, “What does living well look like in the Anthropocene?” It is vitally important that we turn towards the cultivation of eco-virtues, a new set of values by which to live, if there is to be hope for us and other species to continue. These essays inspire readers not just to ponder, but to embody and live the ideals of these timeless ecological virtues. Contributors: Tommy Akulukjuk (Pangnirtung, Nunavut), Heesoon Bai (Vancouver), David Chang (Vancouver), Douglas E. Christie (Los Angeles), Paul Crowe (Vancouver), Nigora Erkaeva (Ypsilanti, Michigan), Thomas Falkenberg (Winnipeg), David Greenwood (Thunder Bay), Mike Hannis (Bath, UK), David W. Jardine (Calgary), Peter H. Kahn, Jr. (Seattle), Dr. Carl Leggo (Vancouver), David Robert Loy (Kamakura, Japan), Rebecca Martusewicz (Ypsilanti, Michigan), Darcy Mathews (Victoria), Margaret McKee (Thunder Bay), Margaret McKeon (Vancouver), Derek Rasmussen (Vancouver), Charles Scott (Vancouver), Nancy J. Turner (Victoria), Jan Zwicky (Quadra Island, BC).
October 2020 304 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 9780889777569 • $36.95A Cloth • 9780889777620 • $89.00X
Environmental Studies University of Regina Press “[For] those of us who are thinking about, and educating for, deep cultural change, . . . for those of us that care about what it means to be good, in the deepest sense; to participants in an earth-system that is failing at human hands, in the context of recognizing the repercussions of the Anthropocene.” —Laura Sewall, author of Sight and Sensibility
CONCRETE
From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future MARY SODERSTROM
Traces the history and impact of this worldchanging material that is all around us
Imagine what the world would be like without concrete: there’d be no high-rises, no grand irrigation projects, no lettuce from southern climes in the winter, no multi-lane highways crisscrossing continents, a shortage of electricity, more mud in some places, more solitude in others. But because of the fossil fuels and other resources required to make concrete, there also would be less CO 2 in the atmosphere and less dramatic climate change. In Concrete, Soderstrom tells the story of concrete’s glorious past, extravagant present, and uncertain future with careful research, lively anecdotes, and thoughtful reflection. The framework for this exploration is one the Romans—famous for concrete structures that are still strong—would understand: the four elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air.
Mary Soderstrom is the award-winning author of more than a dozen fiction and non-fiction books, including her acclaimed Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move, and most recently, Frenemy Nations: Love and Hate between Neighbo(u)ring States.
October 2020 272 pages • 6 x 9 24 black & white illustrations Paper • 9780889777804 • $25.95A Cloth • 9780889777866 • $89.00X
Environmental Studies University of Regina Press
October 2020 72 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 Paper • $16.95T 9780889777729 In Oskana Poetry & Poetics
Poetry University of Regina Press
October 2020 320 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $34.95S 9780889777644 Cloth • $89.00X 9780889777705
Jewish Studies University of Regina Press BURDEN
DOUGLAS BURNET SMITH
The story of a seventeen-year-old British soldier, Private Herbert Burden, who was shot for desertion during World War I
Private Herbert Burden was one of hundreds so executed. It is now understood that many had committed no crime but were suffering from PTSD. Burden’s story is told in the voice of Lance Corporal Reginald Smith, the author’s uncle. The author discovered years later in a box of papers that his uncle, Lance Corporal Smith, had befriended Private Burden but then was ultimately commanded to join in the firing squad that killed his friend. This slim book reaches below standard indictments of war—it shows us that “terrifying,” “senseless,” “horrific” don’t go deep enough. To utter them, the eye must already be closing over. Smith’s account is an object lesson in why poetry matters. It takes us to places even the best journalism can’t reach.
Douglas Burnet Smith is a GG Award–nominated author, and Burden is his seventeenth book of poetry. He divides his time between Atlantic Canada and Athens, Greece. He is currently Writer-in-Residence for the Antikythera Archeological Dive Project on the island of Antikythera, Greece, and teaches in the English Department at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
Human Rights and Genocide Education in the Approaching PostWitness Era Edited by CHARLOTTE SCHALLIÉ, HELGA THORSON, and ANDREA VAN NOORD
Collected voices make clear why Holocaust, genocide, and human rights education are more crucial than ever
The collected voices draw on decades of research on the Holocaust and discuss how it can help us understand and educate about a range of human rights issues throughout history, and, in turn, that local histories of other human rights atrocities can shed light on the way the Holocaust is represented and taught. This book focuses on the Canadian context of antisemitism, the legacy of human rights abuses as well as internment camps, and examines the ways that the Holocaust provided a template for thinking through human rights legislation and memorialization on a global scale after the Holocaust.
Charlotte Schallié is a professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. Helga Thorson is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. Andrea van Noord is a former sessional instructor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria and Experiential Learning Facilitator for UVic’s I-witness Holocaust Field School.
BEAVER, BISON, HORSE
The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains R. GRACE MORGAN Foreword by JAMES DASCHUK and an afterword by CRISTINA EISENBERG
Indigenous Peoples of the North American Plains were ecologists of the highest order—then the horse came and changed everything
This book is an interdisciplinary account of the ecological relationships the Indigenous nations of the Plains had to the beaver, bison, and horse. Morgan's research shows an ecological understanding that sustained Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years, with critical information on how the beaver manage water systems and protect communities from drought in the Northern Great Plains. Morgan’s work is a game-changer. For the first time in print, her research now appears with a foreword by James Daschuk, bestselling author of Clearing the Plains, and an afterword by Cristina Eisenberg.
R. Grace Morgan (1934–2016) was a life-long scholar and researcher. Trained in anthropology, Morgan brought a unique ecological understanding to her field, studying the patterns of sustainability that marked Indigenous Plains First Nations' relationships to beaver and bison resources.
IN MY OWN MOCCASINS
A Memoir of Resilience HELEN KNOTT Long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize
A memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the lasting wounds of sexual violence
Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. This is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption. With gripping moments of withdrawal, times of spiritual awareness, and historical insights going back to the signing of Treaty 8 by her great-great grandfather, Chief Bigfoot, her journey exposes the legacy of colonialism, while reclaiming her spirit.
Helen Knott is a Dane Zaa, Nehiyaw, and mixed Euro-descent woman living in Fort St. John, British Columbia. In 2016 Helen was one of sixteen global change makers featured by the Nobel Women's Initiative for being committed to end gender-based violence. Helen was selected as a 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author. This is her first book. November 2020 292 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • $29.95S 9780889777880 Cloth • $89.00X 9780889777941
Indigenous Studies | Ecology University of Regina Press
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March 2020 304 pages • 4.72 x 7.48 Paper • $18.95A 9780889777316 Cloth • 9780889776449 In The Regina Collection
