University Of Manitoba Press imprint: 74 books
Creating Space
My Life and Work in Indigenous Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Verna J. Kirkness grew up on the Fisher River Indian reserve in Manitoba. Her childhood dream to be a teacher set her on a lifelong journey in education as a teacher, counsellor, consultant, and professor. Her simple quest to teach "in a Native way" revolutionized Canadian education policy...
Thrashing Seasons
Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Horseback wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, glima; long before the advent of today’s WWE, forms of wrestling were practised by virtually every cultural group. C. Nathan Hatton’s "Thrashing Seasons" tells the story of wrestling in Manitoba from its earliest documented origins in the eighteenth...
by Angela Failler, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural...
Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood
1525 to 1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and...
The Constructed Mennonite
History, Memory, and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life.John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik...
Diagnosing the Legacy
The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters from two First Nations in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with type 1...
Winnipeg Beach
Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
During the first half of the twentieth century, Winnipeg Beach proudly marketed itself as the Coney Island of the West. Located just north of Manitoba’s bustling capital, it drew 40,000 visitors a day and served as an important intersection between classes, ethnic communities, and perhaps most importantly,...
Rooster Town
The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901–1961
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Coule. These were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961....
Piecing the Puzzle
The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg...
Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau
Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
"Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau" examines the complex identities assigned to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. Was he an uneducated artist plagued by alcoholism and homelessness? Was Morrisseau a shaman artist who tapped a deep spiritual force? Or was he simply one of Canada’s most...
Rekindling the Sacred Fire
Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Why don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Métis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical...
Indians Don't Cry
Gaawiin Mawisiiwag Anishinaabeg
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
George Kenny is an Anishinaabe poet and playwright who learned traditional ways from his parents before being sent to residential school in 1958. When Kenny published his first book, 1982’s Indians Don’t Cry, he joined the ranks of Indigenous writers such as Maria Campbell, Basil Johnston, and...
by Eddy Weetaltuk
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
“My name is Weetaltuk; Eddy Weetaltuk. My Eskimo tag name is E9-422.” So begins From the "Tundra to the Trenches." Weetaltuk means “innocent eyes” in Inuktitut, but to the Canadian government, he was known as E9-422: E for Eskimo, 9 for his community, 422 to identify Eddy. In 1951,...
Farmland Preservation
Land for Future Generations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
As land is lost to urban sprawl and other non-farm activity, our ability to produce food is diminished and options for future food production are limited. Farmland preservation speaks to the need to preserve the agricultural land base for future generations. The need for protection is driven by uncertainty...