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This marks MMM... MANITOBA's eighth week on McNally Robinson's Bestsellers list 🎉 Congratulations to authors Kimberley Moore and Janis Thiessen!
If you haven't already, pick up a copy of this delicious read and sign up for the Free Press Book Club to join Kim and Janice on August 27: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/book-club
"Above all, LETTERS WITH SMOKIE is an empathetic work of imagination, a rare quality for an academic book."
Start your weekend by reading Merlijn Barkema's rave review of LETTERS WITH SMOKIE by Rod Michalko and Dan Goodley (with Smokie) published on H-Environment!
https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60431
Check out Canada's History's 2024 Summer Reading Guide featuring Gerald Friesen's THE HONOURABLE JOHN NORQUAY alongside other top recommendations for your TBR list!
https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/books/2024-summer-reading-guide
Dallas Hunt calls LEGENDS OF THE CAPILANO by E. Pauline Johnson, Joe Capilano, and Mary Agnes Capilano, edited by Alix Shield, "comprehensive and enlightening" in his review published in BC Studies.
Read the review here: https://bcstudies.com/book_film_review/legends-of-the-capilano/
Thrilled to see MMM...MANITOBA on McNally Robinson's Bestsellers list for another week!
You'll have a chance to ask Kimberley Moore and Janis Thiessen all about their bestselling book and the fascinating stories and recipes that fill it at the next Free Press Book Club! Join host Eva Wasney and the Manitoba Food History authors online Tuesday, August 27, at 7:00pm.
Sign up here: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/book-club
In his review for JACANZS, Richard Scully writes that LAUGHING BACK AT EMPIRE by Angie Wong gives "new life" to the prose, poetry, images, and ads of The Asianadian, "one of Canada’s most groundbreaking publications you have probably never heard of."
Read the review here: https://shorturl.at/JfRoq
Please join Laura Forsythe, Jennifer Markides, Lucy Fowler, and Amanda Lavallee on Wednesday, August 21, at 7pm for the Victoria launch of AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE at Russell Books! Celebrating the scholarship of Métis women academics, artists, storytellers, and community leaders, this event will feature conversation, readings, an audience Q&A, and a book signing.
More information here: https://www.facebook.com/share/6uADbzuWFTDrM99S/
Claire Grenier calls STORED IN THE BONES by Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville "a necessary read" in her glowing review published in JACANZS.
Read the review here: https://acnzsn.org/journal/jacanzs-volume-4-august-2024/agnieszka-pawlowska-mainville-stored-in-the-bones-safeguarding-indigenous-living-heritages/
In her review for Galleries West, Katherine Ylitalo calls BEAD TALK a "power-packed collection of interviews, stories and philosophical explorations" that "hits the mark."
Edited by Carmen L. Robertson, Judy Anderson, and Katherine Boyer, BEAD TALK demonstrates how Indigenous prairie artists tell stories and reclaim cultural identity through beads.
https://shorturl.at/P7K6v
Gerald Friesen, author of THE HONOURABLE JOHN NORQUAY, spoke with Greg Marchildon on the latest episode of Witness to Yesterday, the Champlain Society Canadian history podcast. Listen to learn more about Canada's first Indigenous Premier—his insights into policy, his genius yearly delegations to Ottawa, and his tumultuous relationship with John A MacDonald.
https://bit.ly/WTYa224
We are heading into the long weekend with MMM...MANITOBA on the McNally Robinson Bestsellers List for the FIFTH week in a row!
Hope your long weekend is full of great reads!
Read more about Rebecca Beausaert's upcoming PURSUING PLAY, arriving this September, in Elora Fergus Today!
PURSUING PLAY highlights the complexity of small-town culture through a lively examination of women’s efforts to negotiate space for themselves and their leisure pursuits.
https://www.elorafergustoday.com/local-news/what-did-elora-women-used-to-do-for-fun-u-of-g-prof-tells-us-in-her-new-book-9288833
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For , Longleaf Presses curated a catalog of paperback originals where you can find your next great read! including ten UMP books! Che k out the full list here: https://www.edelweiss.plus/ =5065140&page=1
Leo Baskatawang, author of RECLAIMING ANISHINAABE LAW, is the chrr.manitoba rights researcher of the week!
A few of his primary research interests include: the history of Indigenous peoples (with particular attention to the Anishinaabe); Indigenous law and Canadian policy; treaty interpretation and implementation; and Indigenous education.
To learn more about Dr. Baskatawang's work, visit CHRR's website through their Linktree.
For the fourth week in a row, MMM...MANITOBA is back on the Bestseller List!
Don't forget to pick up a copy of this delicious book at McNally before the August 27th book club meeting.
“As Métis women, we’ve often been expected to mediate and negotiate, but we don’t necessarily get credit for what we bring and know and do. And so we needed to make space for us. So this is the first sort of Métis book of this kind, in this way,” says Markides.
Read more about AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE, edited by Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides at prairiebooksnow.ca.
Indigenous Religious Traditions calls POLITICS OF THE CANOE a "compelling anthology."
A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices, and multicultural goals.
Read the rest of the review here: https://journal.equinoxpub.com/IRT/article/view/29224
MMM...MANITOBA has been chosen for the Winnipeg Free Press Book Club! Authors Kimberley Moore and Janis Thiessen will be discussing the book at the next virtual meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m.
In the meantime, read more about this delicious read:
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/2024/07/13/local-food-lore-on-book-club-menu
We are very proud included LETTERS WITH SMOKIE on their Reading List!
This book is a lively exploration of human-animal relationships and an interrogation of disability as disruption, disturbance, and art. Smokie's canine observations of human experience provide an avenue into some of the ways blindness might be reconceptualized and “befriended.”
Check out the rest of these awesome books here: https://www.edelweiss.plus/ =4906862&g=4400
Open Rivers calls IN OUR BACKYARD "powerful" and "compelling" in their review from their 2024 Spring Issue.
IN OUR BACKYARD tells the story of the Keeyask dam and accompanying development on the Nelson River from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, academics, scientists, and regulators.
Read the full review here:
https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/stories-to-the-surface/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEDiQZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSuYXRs29N5wBOa8vkhNcuWP5PB9q4rVSLAhPuFbA2nJjv6hYKkyBGORzA_aem_J5nIdhtkVZZ745IP0NI65Q
MMM...MANITOBA is back on McNally Robinson's Bestsellers list!
The story of Kimberley Moore and Janis Thiessen's delicious journey around Manitoba is the Free Press Book Club's pick for July/August!
The authors will be chatting with readers August 27 at 7:00pm!
Read the feature on AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE in the latest issue of Prairie Books NOW! Plus, see Nikki Ferland's Her Roots Go Deep on the cover.
https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/multidimensional-collection-shows-metis-womens-work-is-everywhere
UMP authors, Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Robert Alexander Innes, and Susan M. Hill are on the managing board of the Indigenous history website Shekon Neechie. Read more about the e-community dedicated to sharing Indigenous historians ideas and works in progress on The Conversation.
https://theconversation.com/looking-for-indigenous-history-shekon-neechie-website-recentres-indigenous-perspectives-233056
This Friday, we're celebrating THE HONOURABLE JOHN NORQUAY's 11th straight week on McNally Robinson's Bestsellers list and MMM...MANITOBA's return to the list.
Hope you get some great reading done this weekend!
Read Crystal Gail Fraser's piece about the disturbing movement of residential school denialism in The Conversation.
Fraser's forthcoming book, BY STRENGTH WE ARE STILL HERE, centres student experiences in northern residential schools, revealing the many ways Indigenous communities resisted the institutionalization of their children.
https://theconversation.com/residential-school-denialism-is-an-attack-on-the-truth-233318
Frank Tester calls I WILL LIVE FOR BOTH OF US an engaging, eye-opening account of life in the arctic in his latest review for Canadian Journal of Health History!
Read the rest below:
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/928236/pdf
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Gerald Friesen, author of THE HONOURABLE JOHN NORQUAY, spoke with Greg Marchildon on the latest episode of Witness to Yesterday, the Champlain Society Canadian history podcast. Listen to learn more about Canada's first Indigenous Premier—his insights into policy, his genius yearly delegations to Ottawa, and his tumultuous relationship with John A MacDonald. https://bit.ly/WTYa224
Catherine Larochelle, author of SCHOOL OF RACISM, spoke with Sean Graham from What's Old is News Podcast. Listen to hear them discuss how colonialism influences curricula, how colonial ideas shape classroom programming, and the difficulty in confronting deeply engrained ideas. https://activehistory.ca/blog/2024/06/27/school-of-racism-whats-old-is-news/
Janis Thiessen talks with New Books Network about gender roles, BBQ, and much more while promoting the new book, MMM...MANITOBA ! Listen now: https://newbooksnetwork.com/mmm-manitoba
If you missed last night's live recording of CBC The Current, you can listen online now! Janis Thiessen, one of the authors of the upcoming MMM...MANITOBA, chats with Matt Galloway about her adventures in a food truck turned mobile history lab. MMM...MANITOBA hits shelves in April, but you can pre-order on our website now. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/16042399-matt-galloway-hosts-live-show-winnipeg-exploring-issues
Janis Thiessen discussed the impending closure of the Nutty Club with Faith Fundal on Up To Speed! You can learn more about Canadian food history with her book SNACKS, which is 30% off now! Keep an eye out for her next book MMM... MANITOBA, available this spring.
Listen to Catherine Larochelle speak about her upcoming book SCHOOL OF RACISM on the Society for the History of Children and Youth podcast with host Kristine Alexander and author Mahshid Mayar. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/school-of-racism-and-citizens-and-rulers-of-the-world/id1437327295?i=1000633262314
Rod Michalko discussing one of the many lessons his guide dog Smokie taught him on the AMI Audiobook Review! Listen to the entire episode here: https://ami-audiobook-review.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-185-letters-with-smokie LETTERS WITH SMOKIE launches tomorrow at Imperial Pub, Toronto at 7:30pm!
Listen to Molly P. Rozum, author of GRASSLANDS GROWN, on the Writing Westward podcast! She talks about regional identity and how growing up on the prairie has influenced how people see themselves.
Angie Wong discusses Asian Canadian, or Asianadian, identity with Sean Graham from the What's Old is News podcast! LAUGHING BACK AT EMPIRE launches Wednesday, September 27 at 7:00 at Shelf Life Books. Listen to the full episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-asianadian/id1655990941?i=1000627814905
Molly P. Rozum wants you to take a hike this weekend to explore your neighbourhood and see what you can learn. In her book, GRASSLANDS GROWN, she explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American ecological region: the U.S. Great Plains and the Canadian Prairie Provinces Get this title now for 40% off, as part of our summer reading list.
UNDRESSED TORONTO author Dale Barbour explains why you should pick up a copy of his book before your next trip to the beach! Get your next beach read for 40% off all summer long on our website! https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/undressed-toronto
“Examines how performance-based genres expose the myths of Canadian innocence and peaceful settlement. Committed to truth-telling, it strives to decolonize Eurocentric binaries between public and private, mind and body, theory and practice, and research and activism.” – Sylvie Vranckx, Canadian Literature UNBECOMING NATIONALISM is 40% off for the rest of summer! Dive into your next read at a great price with our summer reading list.
Please join us for the virtual launch of The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being. Editors Nancy Van Styvendale, J.D. McDougall, Robert Henry, and Robert Alexander Innes will be joined by a panel of contributing authors.
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