Barkskins: A Novel (Paperback)

By Annie Proulx

$20.00

In 1693, two indentured French immigrants become woodcutters, or "barkskins," in Canada's lush, coastal wilderness. For the next 300 years, their descendants control or rely upon the burgeoning timber industry, as trees are increasingly seen as an infinite resource, to be possessed and plundered. One family ambitiously develops a logging company. The other, marrying into an Indian tribe, grapples with the loss of traditions, power, and culture. Propelled by greed, opportunism, innovation, and imagination, and enduring difficult, perilous lives, the characters of this brilliantly imagined, fastidiously researched novel move toward a modern-day epiphany; a hopeful ecological reversal of the "taming" of the forest.

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Hardcover)

By Nick Estes

$26.95

The struggle at Standing Rock did not exist in a vacuum. Nick Estes has done something very powerful here by situating that modern moment in a continuous, generations-long indigenous resistance against colonialism, and in doing so lights a path to a world where it will finally cease to exist. It is a rebuke to our common, atomized histories, taking us forwards and backwards from Wounded Knee to the A.I.M. to Standing Rock itself and always with an eye toward the material well being of the land and its inhabitants. This book belongs on every shelf on this continent.