Heritage – lisa疯马秀 Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa疯马秀 Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:03:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Miramichi Dictionary /store/miramichi-dictionary.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=miramichi-dictionary Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:19:21 +0000 /store/miramichi-dictionary A one-of-a-kind interpretive guide to the distinct dialect spoken in New Brunswick's Miramichi region. Startin' off with the "Ah, geez" of the letter A, "zacktly" all the way to the letter Z.

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]]> 60219 L’Nu’k: The People /store/lnuk-the-people.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lnuk-the-people Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:40:32 +0000 /store/lnuk-the-people-3 The Mi'kmaq lived in Canada long before the country even got its name. Before Europeans arrived, they lived in homes called wigwams and hunted and fished throughout the Maritime provinces, living off and giving back to the land. They enjoyed storytelling, drumming, and dancing within their tight颅knit communities.

In L'nuk: the Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada, First Nations educator Theresa Meuse traces the incredible lineage of today's Mi'kmaq people, sharing the fascinating details behind their customs, traditions, and history. Discover the proper way to make Luski (Mi'kmaw bread), the technique required for intricate quillwork and canoe颅building, what happens at a powwow, and how North America earned its Indigenous name, Turtle Island.

Includes informative sidebars, highlighted glossary terms, recommended reading, a historic timeline, index, and over 60 full颅colour historical and contemporary images.

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]]> 85672 We Keep a Light – lisa疯马秀 Classic /store/we-keep-a-light-nimbus-classic.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-keep-a-light-nimbus-classic Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:40:16 +0000 /store/we-keep-a-light-nimbus-classic In We Keep A Light, Evelyn M. Richardson describes how she and her husband bought tiny Bon Portage Island and built a happy life there for themselves and their three children. On an isolated lighthouse station off the southern tip of Nova Scotia, the Richardsons shared the responsibilities and pleasures of island living, from carrying water and collecting firewood to making preserves and studying at home. The close-knit family didn't mind their isolation, and found delight in the variety and beauty of island life.

We Keep A Light is much more than a memoir. It is an exquisitely written, engrossing record of family life set against a glowing lighthouse, the enduring shores of Nova Scotia, and the ever-changing sea.

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]]> 82580 Elapultiek (We Are Looking Towards) /store/elapultiek-we-are-looking-towards.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elapultiek-we-are-looking-towards Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:39:55 +0000 http://nimbus.ca/?post_type=product&p=79009 Set in contemporary times, a young Mi'kmaw drum singer and a Euro-Nova Scotian biologist meet at dusk each day to count a population of endangered Chimney Swifts (kaktukopnji'jk). They quickly struggle with their differing views of the world. Through humour and story, the characters must come to terms with their own gifts and challenges as they dedicate efforts to the birds. Each "count night" reveals a deeper complexity of connection to land and history on a personal level.

Inspired by real-life species at risk work, shalan joudry originally wrote this story for an outdoor performance.

Elapultiek calls on all of us to take a step back from our routine lives and question how we may get to understand our past and work better together. The ideal of weaving between Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds involves taking turns to speak and to listen, even through the most painful of stories, in order for us all to heal. We are in a time when sharing cultural, ecological, and personal stories is vital in working towards a peaceful shared territory, co-existing between peoples and nature.

"It's a crucial time to have these conversations," offers joudry. "The power of story can engage audience and readers in ways that moves them to ask more questions about the past and future."

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]]> 79009 Stories From the Six Worlds (2nd edition) /store/stories-from-the-six-worlds-2nd-edition.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stories-from-the-six-worlds-2nd-edition Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:39:43 +0000 /store/stories-from-the-six-worlds-2nd-edition.html/stories-from-the-six-worlds-2nd-edition In Stories from the Six Worlds, it is their stories, passed down by word of mouth, that best preserve and present Mi鈥檏maw culture. For in their tales, the People themselves speak about their world and give us glimpses of how their universe manifests, in all its fascinating otherness. Mi'kmaw stories have many levels: entertainment, instruction, warnings. They might subtly encode maps of the land's important resources, or of the wheeling skies at night. Telling stories, Elders wove humour and stark tragedy, terror and beauty, to teach their listeners how to survive. More importantly, they underlined, over and over again, how their listeners, as humans, must conduct themselves. Their tales resound with the universal themes included in any worldview鈥擮rder and Chaos, Courage and Fear, Change, Revenge and Mercy, Death, Rebirth, and Power鈥攜et are powerfully rooted in Mi'kmaw tradition, Mi'kmaw land. Their voices still speak to us, down the centuries.

Drawing on various sources, Ruth Holmes Whitehead retells the tales in a voice close to that of the original storytellers. This new edition includes an updated design and the original collection of twenty-nine stories. In Stories from the Six Worlds, Mi鈥檏maw legends are offered to all people whose search for meaning draws them again to the ancient cultures.

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]]> 54060 Deportation of the Acadians /store/deportation-of-the-acadians.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deportation-of-the-acadians Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:42:24 +0000 /store/deportation-of-the-acadians.html/deportation-of-the-acadians A condensed account of the deportation of the Acadians.

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]]> 54198 Dykes & Aboiteaux /store/dykes-aboiteaux.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dykes-aboiteaux Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:42:21 +0000 /store/dykes-aboiteaux.html/dykes-aboiteaux Sally Ross studied in France and taught the history and culture of French Canada for ten years and now works as an author, translator, and consultant.

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]]> 54196 Whales of Bay of Fundy /store/whales-of-bay-of-fundy.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whales-of-bay-of-fundy Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:42:16 +0000 /store/whales-of-bay-of-fundy.html/whales-of-bay-of-fundy A concise guide to the various whales of the Bay of Fundy.

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]]> 54141 Blacks /store/blacks.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blacks Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:37:25 +0000 /store/blacks.html/blacks This book documents the experience of the Blacks in the Maritimes, the difficulties they encountered and the institutions that sustained them. It profiles a selection of prominent individuals who overcame the prejudice and discrimination of a dominant culture to become outstanding in their careers while contributing to the greater good of society.

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]]> 56346 Unspoken Truth /store/unspoken-truth.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unspoken-truth Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:34:30 +0000 /store/unspoken-truth With strength and resilience, Africans have persevered through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and were able to rebuild a life after slavery while enduring the inhumane conditions of the civil rights Jim Crow era forced upon them by the African diaspora. The lack of acknowledgement of the generational trauma these events have had on their descendants continues to create further injury. Even today, barriers prevent their healing and transition from survival to a thriving existence.

Unspoken Truth is a bold collection of poetry highlighting the generational pain of Africans living in the diaspora. Through her poems, Bowden creates a panoramic view of the terrible conditions they endured for centuries. Deliberately, with dignity, she brings the trauma stories of African Nova Scotians told around kitchen tables for decades to the homes of readers while restoring the balance of humanity and royalty from which the African journey began. Despite all odds, they were able to preserve their lineage and lean on the resilience buried deep in their souls while passing this pride, culture, and strength on to future generations so they may one day fulfill the hopes and the dreams of the former slaves.

This collection seeks to spark the necessary conversations the larger society needs to engage in around the perseverance of systemic racism, a society now grappling to make the connections between historical trauma and current-day conditions of inequality. It summons the conscience of every reader to acknowledge the truth and reconcile it with their own dissonance. The poems pay homage to the ancestors, honour the elders, and provide inspiration for the youth so they can heal from this historical inheritance and build upon their own narratives.

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