Strong Nations
An online Indigenous focused bookstore featuring many insightful and helpful books focused on Indigenous education and other Indigenous focused topics.
A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online
by Jennifer Wemigwans
A Digital Bundle frames digital technology as an important tool for self-determination and idea sharing, ultimately contributing to Indigenous resurgence and nation building.
Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians
By Hilary Stewart
This book explores the tools and techniques used, as well as the superbly crafted objects and their uses, all in the context of daily and ceremonial life. Anecdotes, oral history and the accounts of early explorers, traders, missionaries, and native elders highlight the text.
Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit
by Marie Battiste
Battiste documents the impacts of Canada’s Eurocentric education model on Indigenous knowledge and suggests a new approach to education.
Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast
by Hilary Stewart
An assemblage of tools, techniques and knowledge, the culmination of thousands of years of evolutionary development. Indian Fishing is more than a bare account of the technology of fishing; it is about fish and fishing in the total lives of the Northwest Coast people.
Learning and Teaching Together: Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education
by Michele TD Tanaka
This book opens a path for teachers to nurture indigenist cross-cultural understanding in their classrooms.
Learning by Designing Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian Art, Volume 1
by Jim Gilbert and Karin Clark
A reference and instruction manual with a detailed, thoroughly analyzed, well-supported comparison of four Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations art styles.
Learning by Designing Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian Art, Volume 2
by Jim Gilbert and Karin Clark
This companion manual to Volume 1 puts First Nations Northwest Coast art into deeper cultural context, providing Indigenous philosophy, knowledge, and skills foundation, a code of ethics, and interviews with First Nations community members.
Learning by Doing Northwest Coast Native Indian Art
by Karin Clark and Jim Gilbert
Contains step-by-step instructions and illustrations on the basics of drawing, designing, painting, and carving in the Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indigenous art style
Pacific Northwest Coast Native Art in Marquetry
by Paul R. Dean
This book serves as an introduction to people interested in using marquetry to recreate Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indigenous art style designs.
Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry
by Alexander Dawkins
Providing a step-by-step overview of various techniques, the book also introduces the specifics of formline design, highlights the traits of the most common animal symbols used, offers tips for identification, and features biographies and works from over fifty of the Coast’s best-known jewelers. Finally, it delves into the history of the art form, from the earliest horn and copper cuff bracelets to cutting-edge contemporary works and everything in between.