This is part 2 of a week-long series featuring Arthur Bear Chief’s memoir My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell. This post features an excerpt from Honouring the Truth,…
This is part 5 of a week-long series featuring Arthur Bear Chief’s memoir My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell. This post features an excerpt from the preface written…
Here it is. The first instalment of Open Book Bites, the audio portion of the Open Book Blog. Episode 1 is a casual conversation with Shannon Stettner, editor of Without…
In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and…
National Aboriginal Day is tomorrow, June 21, and Edmonton will be bustling with activities and events that celebrate our indigenous population. You will want to get out to Borden Park…
At AU Press’ most recent editorial committee meeting, the discussion turned to Indigenous scholarship and a committee member noted that she had recently read a number of interesting articles that…
If your New Year’s resolution is to be more informed about our world, you should start the New Year by reviewing what happened in 2015. We have rounded up four…
November is National Life Writing Month and to celebrate, AU Press presents a few of our favourite memoirs from our back list. Life writing is a process by which the…
In December 1994, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that August 9th would be recognized as the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. A theme is chosen each year to draw attention to the problems faced by indigenous people around the world. This year the theme is “Ensuring Indigenous peoples’ health and well-being.”