University of Manitoba Press is dedicated to publishing books that combine important new scholarship with a deep engagement in the issues and events that affect the lives of Canadians.

UMP is committed to working closely with its authors and to the wide dissemination of scholarly research.

Highlights

In the Footsteps of the Traveller

In the Footsteps of the Traveller, the first in-depth study on Northern Dene astronomy, reveals the significance of the sky and its contents to Northern Dene life, language, and culture through collaboration with more than 65 Dene Elders and culture bearers across 34 communities in Alaska and Canada.

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Beyond the Rink

Beyond the Rink recontextualizes and repatriates photos from the 1951 Sioux Lookout Black Hawks hockey team's promotional tour, bringing together Indigenous studies, history, and visual sociology to reveal the complicated role of sports in residential school histories.

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By Strength, We Are Still Here

In this ground-breaking book, Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Gwich'in concepts of individual and collective fortitude to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools. Led by survivor testimony, Fraser shows how both students and their parents played a role in changing the system to protect and empower their communities.

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Notable Series

Critical Studies in Native History:

Books committed to new ways of thinking and writing about the historical experience of Indigenous people.

First Voices, First Texts:

Re-connecting contemporary readers with some of the most important Indigenous literature of the past, much of which has been unavailable for decades.

Studies in Immigration and Culture:

Historical works that illuminate the Canadian and transnational immigrant experience, in both urban and rural contexts.

Human Rights and Social Justice Series:

Works that explore the quest for social justice and the basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, including civil, political, economic, social, collective and cultural rights.

Contemporary Studies on the North:

Books that expand our understanding of Canada’s North and its position within the circumpolar region. Focusing on new research, this series incorporates multidisciplinary studies on northern peoples, cultures, geographies, histories, politics, religions, and economies.

University of Manitoba Press is dedicated to publishing books that combine important new scholarship with a deep engagement in the issues and events that affect the lives of Canadians.

UMP is committed to working closely with its authors and to the wide dissemination of scholarly research.

Highlights

In the Footsteps of the Traveller

Beyond the Rink

By Strength, We Are Still Here

Notable Series

Critical Studies in Native History:

Books committed to new ways of thinking and writing about the historical experience of Indigenous people.

First Voices, First Texts:

Re-connecting contemporary readers with some of the most important Indigenous literature of the past, much of which has been unavailable for decades.

Studies in Immigration and Culture:

Historical works that illuminate the Canadian and transnational immigrant experience, in both urban and rural contexts.

Human Rights and Social Justice Series:

Works that explore the quest for social justice and the basic rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled, including civil, political, economic, social, collective and cultural rights.

Contemporary Studies on the North:

Books that expand our understanding of Canada’s North and its position within the circumpolar region. Focusing on new research, this series incorporates multidisciplinary studies on northern peoples, cultures, geographies, histories, politics, religions, and economies.

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