Tragedies and Discoveries

Before you zip up that suitcase, you might want to pack a few of these books to keep you company while you’re on the road or at a weekend getaway.

Book Review: In John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Year Canada was Cool, author and historian Greg Marquis captures a seminal moment in Canada’s socio-cultural development.

Open Book: In Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation, Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashi) trace the historical and continuing reasons why the prospects and outcomes for young people growing up in the two adjacent communities have been and remain so different.

Book review: Allyson D. Stevenson is the chair of Métis studies at the University of Saskatchewan, and the book Intimate Integration is based on her 2015 doctoral dissertation. While this is a scholarly work, it is nevertheless very readable and contains a rich trove of history documenting Indigenous and Métis child welfare in Saskatchewan during the last half of the twentieth century.