Category: Guest Posts

Cover Photograph for “Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih”

A photograph by James Jerome appears on the cover of our newest book, Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land. For this post, we invited the book’s co-author Leslie McCartney to tell us about Jerome, his work and importance, and […]

Laws of the Constitution: Consolidated

“A society can be understood by the types of laws that it creates, but it can also be understood by its Constitution.” Donald F. Bur All law is complicated, and constitutional law is particularly complicated. As a result, most people know the Constitution of this country through two documents—the Constitution Act, 1867 and the the Constitution […]

An Image of Violence and Survivance

In this short reflection, Dr. Sandra Styres and Dr. Huia Tomlins-Jahnke discuss the decision process in choosing the cover image for Indigenous Education: New Directions in Theory and Practice, which they co-edited with Spencer Lilley and Dawn Zinga. Senator Murray Sinclair, former Commissioner for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Canada, said it best […]

“One Child Reading”: Extending the Landscape

Margaret Mackey writes: When University of Alberta Press published my book, One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography, in 2016, it marked an important way station in a very long process. To explore the materials of my own childhood literacy, I spent years assembling books from my youth, along with magazines, Sunday-school leaflets, TV shows, radio programs, […]

A Note from Our Intern, Ren Milmine

My name is Ren, and I’m the student intern at the press this year. This past August, I had the unique privilege of sharing my experiences in library school with Librarianship.ca, which has now been posted on their blog. Though most of my experiences have been centered on the library so far, working at the […]