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This book takes its title from the phrase for "I work" in Lunaape, the traditional language of Munsee Delaware people, and was inspired by the work of the Munsee Delaware Language and History Group. Written for the descendants and communities of children who attended Mount Elgin and intended as a resource for all Canadians, Nii Ndahlohke tells the story of student life at Mount Elgin Industrial School between 1890 and 1915. Like the school its...

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Examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. This story tells us about indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through one man's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death.

Presents case studies of Indigenous domestic servants, hairdressers, community health representatives, and nurses working in "modern Native ways” between 1940 and 1980. Based on a range of sources, Mary Jane Logan McCallum shows how state-run education and placement programmes were part of Canada's larger vision of assimilation and extinguishment of treaty obligations.