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Book Review: Eileen Delehanty Pearkes draws on a variety of sources to document the past and present of the Sinixt First People residing along the Upper Columbia River.

Cover story: Remembrance Revitalized: How grassroots groups are bringing veteran's stories to life. Plus: Treasures of the fur trade, landmark auto strike, border business and archaeological reckoning.

Many Canadians have stories that wind back to families with Indigenous heritage in both Africa and what is now Canada.

Book review: This is the first book to document the history of the Indian day school at Curve Lake First Nation, about 25 kilometres northeast of Peterborough, Ontario.

An example of early twentieth-century fashion in a moose-skin dress.

Carrioles allowed trappers to transport supplies and furs throughout the winter. Pulled by dogs, they were sometimes used to transport high-profile people.

Moccasins are among the most abundant articles of clothing housed in Canadian museum collections.

Book Review: Jean Barman’s meticulously researched book about the Iroquois provides a satisfying account of their emergence as a sought-after partner in advancing the fur trade westward.

John Bockstoce’s White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic explores a period from the turn of the last century to the early 1930s, during which a flourishing trade in white fox furs led to economic boom times for trappers and traders in much of the Arctic.

Crooked knife blades were some of the earliest trade goods brought to North America from Europe by the Hudson’s Bay Company.