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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."--

"If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, sooner or later Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the fragile social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive obscure the truth: Moreau's achievements were, at every turn, predicated upon the work of enslaved and free people of color. Their labor amassed the wealth that afforded him the leisure to research, think, and write. Their rich intellectual and linguistic cultures filled the pages of his most applauded works. They set the type, dried the paper, and folded the pages that created his legacy. Every beautiful book Moreau designed contains an embedded story of hidden violence. Sara Johnson's arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Moreau with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travelers who strove to create their own social and political lives. Built from archival fragments, creative speculation, and audacious intellectual courage, Encyclopédie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau's world"--

"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."--

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.