Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Issues in Canada

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Issues in Canada, Chelsea Vowel's 2016 scholarly guide from Portage and Main Press and HighWater Press, by a Metis lawyer and scholar, is a widely taught guide to First Nations, Metis and Inuit issues; its treatment of pan Indianism names the medicine wheel specifically, distinguishing the Plains stone structures and their community specific teachings from the modern, invented pan Indian four directions teaching diagram, and naming its commercial and New Age misuse. Its strength is that it is squarely the fact's own conceptual distinction, from a widely taught scholar writing within her own communities. Its limit is that it is a general guide across many issues, so any one topic such as the medicine wheel receives a chapter's treatment rather than a monograph's.