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"Moving the museum : indigenous & Canadian Art at the AGO documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO's Indigenous art collection. The volume reflects the nation to nation treaty relationship that is the foundation of Canada, asking questions, discovering truths, and leading conversations that address the weight of history. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 reproductions, Indigenous & Canadian Art at the AGO features the work of First Nations artists--including Carl Beam, Rebecca Belmore, and Kent Monkman--along with work by Inuit artists like Shuvinai Ashoona and Annie Pootoogook. Canadian artists include Lawren Harris, Kazuo Nakamura, Joyce Wieland, and many others. Drawing from stories about our origins and identities, the featured artists and essayists invite readers to engage with issues of land, water, transformation, and sovereignty and to contemplate the historic representation of Indigenous and Canadian art in museums. Contains a list of works at the back."--

"Members of Eli Baxter's generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin. Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life on Miss-koh-tay-sih Minis (Turtle Island) to the present day. Baxter writes about Anishinaabay life before European contact, his childhood memories of trapping, hunting, and fishing with his family on traditional lands in Treaty 9 territory, and his personal experience surviving the residential school system. Examining how Anishinaabay Kih-kayn-daa-soh-win (knowledge) is an elemental concept embedded in the Anishinaabay language, Aki-wayn-zih explores history, science, math, education, philosophy, law, and spiritual teachings, outlining the cultural significance of language to Anishinaabay identity. Recounting traditional Ojibway legends in their original language, fables in which moral virtues double as survival techniques, and detailed guidelines for expertly trapping or ensnaring animals, Baxter reveals how the residential school system shaped him as an individual, transformed his family, and forever disrupted his reserve community and those like it. Through spiritual teachings, historical accounts, and autobiographical anecdotes, Aki-wayn-zih offers a new form of storytelling from the Anishinaabay point of view."--

"The crusading movements provoked a vast and diverse mass of reactions in the medieval West. While Latin sources provide official versions of its preaching, organisation and events, the vernacular lyrics of the troubadours and trouvères present a secular perspective, through a cornucopia of on-the-spot responses in France, Occitania, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Cyprus, Syria and Greece. This book constitutes the first comprehensive, modern analysis of Old French and Occitan lyric texts relating to the crusades. It brings out their full range, from propaganda for the crusades, to criticisms of crusading and crusaders through vituperation, humour or cynicism, to their use as a pretext for political or personal wrangling. It also shows how they shed light on many aspects of medieval life, among them chivalric and courtly values (often in tension with clerical ones), regional politics, sexual behaviour, personal experiences of crusading and captivity, the complex interaction of Christians, Greeks and Muslims, and bafflement in the face of failure and God's imponderable purposes"--Back cover image

"Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. These two registers are a valuable new source for the economic, linguistic, and transportation history of medieval France, offering a window onto the commercial life of Tarascon, a fortified town on the east bank of the Rhône between Avignon and Arles. William D. Paden discusses the developing fiscal policy of the counts of Provence, for whom the tolls were collected, and the practice and vocabulary of medieval toll-keeping. An afterword considers the toll registers in relation to the poetry of troubadours, arguing that the realism of the registers and the idealism of troubadour poetry overlapped in the world of medieval Tarascon. "--

GchiMiighwech --Chapter 1.Nishnaabeg Resurgence: Stories from within --Gaawiin Nda-gajsii, We Are Not Shameful --A Flourishment of the Indigenous Inside --Aanji Maajitaawin, the Art of Starting Over --Chapter 2.Theorizing Resurgence from within Nishnaabeg Thought --Gwiinmaagemi Gdi-dbaajimowinaanin, We Tell Stories --Grandmother Teachings --Our Theory is Personal --Embodied Knowledge, Unlimited Intelligence --Chapter 3.Gdi-Nweninnaa: Our Sound, Our Voice --Biskaabiiyang --Aanjigone --Naakgonige --Debwewin --Gdi-nweninaa --Chapter 4.Niimtoowaad Mikinaag Gijiying Bakonaan (Dancing on Our Turtle's Back): Aandisokaanan and Resurgence --Chibimoodaywin --Re-creation: Niimtoowaad Mikinaag Gijiying Bakonaan (Dancing on Our Turtle's Back) --Waynabozhoo and the Great Flood --Resurgence, Wiindigo and Gezhizhwazh --Nanabush Stories --Ninaatigoog --Chapter 5.Building Like a Beating Heart: A Society of Presence --Transmotion, Emergence and Mobilization --Nishnaabeg Society: A Society of Presence --Bubbling Like a Beating Heart --Creating Decolonized Time and Space --Chapter 6.Resurgence in Our Political Relationships --Echoes from the Past --Breastfeeding and Treaties --Gchi-dbaakgonigewin --Dewe'igan, the Heartbeat of the Nation --Gdoo-naaganinaa, Our Dish --Gdoo-naaganinaa in Contemporary Times --Chapter 7.Protecting the First Hill: Nurturing Eniigaanzid in Children --Aabawaadiziiwin --The Four Hills of Life --Kokum Dibaajimowinan --Leading by Following: The Seven Stages of Life --Protecting the First Hills of Life --Nengaajgchigewin in Parenting --Zhinoomoowin: Modeling and Learning by Doing --Aanjigone in Parenting --Nurturing Leaders for Resurgence --Chapter 8.Shi-Kiin: New Worlds --Stone's Throw --Shki-kiin: New Worlds --Grounding Resurgence in Our Hearts --Index.