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Toniya Wakanwin is a young girl growing up on the Great Plains many years ago. Every day she sits beside her great-grandmother on the buffalo robe and watches as the old woman takes beads from a bead pot and stitches them onto the moccasins she is making. When the great-grandmoth...

Rock Creek Blues is both a tribute to, and a lament for, a way of life that is fast disappearing from the grasslands of the Canadian prairie. Thelma Poirier writes of the land and its inhabitants - plant, animal, and human - in vivid and loving detail, with deep feeling and authe...

A Voice of Her Own profiles fifty-two ranch women from Western Canada. With this book, the editors have brought to light a little-discussed aspect of ranching: the valuable contributions of women in an industry traditionally thought of as the domain of men. These women range in a...