Aboriginal Canada

Canada is known all over the world due to its undying commitment to multiculturalism and its social and ethnic diversity. In a time when these values were unspoken of, Canada was the first country to embrace an official multiculturalism policy. Nevertheless, the path that Canada followed to become the powerful nation it is today was like a labyrinth, filled with challenges and obstacles.

Winner of the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year and the Aboriginal Fiction Book of the Year—a collection of twenty short stories told in Thomas King's classic, wry, irreverent, and allegorical voice.

When your first day in a new city starts with murder, there’s no easing in slowly. Margie Patenaude is brand new to Calgary—still helping her daughter settle into school—when she’s called to her very first crime scene. The murder is brutal. The setting? One of Calgary’s most beautiful parks. With a killer loose in the city’s green spaces, park-goers don’t feel safe, and Margie doesn’t have time to win over her skeptical coworkers before she proves she belongs on this team. Margie is Métis, tough, and determined to prove she’s more than just a “diversity hire.” To ...

In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing, and representation.

Every case leaves its mark. This one could cut too close. When Detective Margie Patenaude is called to another homicide in Calgary’s parks, the details feel chillingly familiar. The crime scene echoes the Fish Creek murder—but as Margie digs deeper, the evidence points somewhere far more personal. Her instincts tell her this case may be connected to her own life. Could her family be in danger? Or is stress clouding her judgment? With her colleagues watching closely, Margie can’t afford to get this wrong. Time is running out, and each step closer to the truth puts Margie further up a ...

Parks Pat Could Be in Over Her Head… Detective Margie “Parks” Pat has earned her reputation solving murders at Fish Creek and Glenbow Ranch—but Ralph Klein Park might be her toughest case yet. When a body turns up in the water, Parks is forced to confront her greatest fear: the very thing she must master to solve the crime. She’ll need to get over that if she is going to be able to investigate this case properly. Preferably before the rest of the department figures out her weakness. There is a killer out there to be caught. Somehow she’ll have to get past her block to find him. ...

All Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life and his own addictions. When he wakes up naked, dangerously dehydrated and confused in the basement of his mom's old house in Kitimat, some of the people he loves - the ones who don't see the magic he attracts - just think he fell off the wagon after a tough year of sobriety. The truth for Jared is so much worse.